OhioDailyBlog has news about Josh Mandel and his planned visit to the Akron Press Club:
....Mandel has caved:
He'll be speaking to the group on March 1....
.....The event takes place at 11:45 a.m. at the Martin University Center on the University of Akron campus. It's $15 for members, $20 for non-members, which includes lunch. RSVP by Tuesday February 28. To make reservations, go here:
Wouldn't you love to be there and see if he actually answers any questions about his own agenda?What question would you like to ask Josh Mandel???
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* It is too bad that once again Ohio Republicans are playing games with road construction. People in various parts of the state of Ohio have seen their desperately needed road construction pushed aside because of claims of budget problems by the Kasich administration. In an article in the Plain Dealer, officials in Cleveland are shocked that their project is going to be delayed for more than a decade:
A dozen projects, including a highway upgrade in downtown Dayton and the widening of Pearl Road in Strongsville, will see money for construction years before the second Inner Belt Bridge is funded.....
....Officials at the Ohio Department of Transportation insist they're not giving Cleveland the shaft.
They're just following policy: Major road and bridge projects that are ready for bid get the money first...
If you think that politics are not involved, you are very naive. Kasich's ODOT saying that only "....projects that are ready for bid get the money first..." is a bunch of baloney. Why are Republican represented parts of the state getting their road/bridge construction approved?
Ohio's Republicans have often played political games with bids and road/bridge construction. How do you think that the Austin-Pike interchange got built when it wasn't even on the original list for funding? Which politician pushed, demanded, and screamed until the Austin-Pike interchange project was moved to the front of the line? The former state senator that got his pet project, Austin-Pike, moved to a top priority and got the funding was Jon Husted. Even today, one of Jon Husted's largest contributors, Oberer, owns property being developed along the corridor. How do you think that happened?
Cleveland's elected officials need to get on the phone, and talk to every reporter, media outlet, and anyone that will listen about this kind of political payback that is being used by the Kasich administration. (When the teachers did not not support Kasich in the 2010 election, do you recall how he went after them, demanded a full page ad of apology, and then targeted them in SB5?)
If you need more information about the state of our infrastructure, check out the Transportation for America website and plug in the address of the bridges/roads in Ohio that need repairs. You can get the complete background on the traffic, year built, last inspection, and problems associated with each bridge or road in need of repairs.