1. a still undisclosed amount of money spent to beef up security at the Kasich private estate in Westerville (see NewsHerald).
2. the overuse of state owned planes by Gov. Kasich and staff (DaytonDailyNews).
3. the higher than normal salaries of the governor's staff (Plunderbund).
4. the $23,000 charges for cell phones for the Kasich staff in one year (see Plunderbund).
5. how hundreds of thousands of dollars has been spent on the governor's official mansion that is currently vacant (see Sandusky Register).
Yet Kasich and his Republican Party love to make cuts to schools, the elderly, and the poor. This is what you get when people voted for a former vice president at Lehman Brothers.
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*There are some people that say we don't need regulations from the EPA. Would those people like to see dead birds and fish everywhere? Do anti-regulation people like polluted drinking water?Dispatch:
Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. has agreed to plead guilty to charges in federal court and pay $4.5 m illion in fines in two incidents that date to 2008.
That year, the company recalled packages of wild birdseed coated with pesticides that were toxic to birds....
....Also in 2008, Federal EPA officials discovered that Scotts was selling lawn and garden products with falsified pesticide registrations. Court documents list a Scotts lawn service fertilizer, a garden “weed preventer and plant food” and another product called Southern Max Fire Ant Killer....
Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.