The Public is Against It

The Ohio Republicans must have some crazy notion to do everything that Ohioans don't want.

1. First they passed SB 5, then voters defeated it. 

2. Then Kasich proposed selling the state prisons, even though Ohioans were against it. Of course, Kasich did not get his over-hyped money and not all the prisons were sold.

3. Kasich wants to sell off/lease the Ohio Turnpike like Indiana did. Kasich and his staff are working hard to get this done, even though Ohioans are against it. Kasich believes he'll get something close to the $3 billion that Indiana's Gov. Daniels got for his state's toll road. (According to the HeraldTimes, Daniels admitted that the "....foreign investors "overpaid" for the Indiana Toll Road five years ago....") In an article in Businessweek, the Indiana Toll Road investors are upset. 

Businessweek:
...Now five years old, the Indiana deal has yet to turn a profit, or break even. Two overseas companies—Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, a unit of Madrid-based Ferrovial, and Macquarie Infrastructure Partners, an investment fund managed by Macquarie Group (MQG) of Sydney, won the right to run the road with a daring $3.8 billion bid—$1 billion more than the next-highest offer.....

.....The private investors haven’t made out so well. Had the road been profitable, they stood to make millions per year over the life of the 75-year project. As it is, they have not been able to get past the debt they incurred winning the bid. They have met their annual debt payments only by borrowing money and may default before loans mature in 2015, according to disclosure documents from Macquarie Atlas Roads, one of the investors.....

Truckers and drivers are staying off the Indiana toll road because of huge increases in tolls.

4. Republicans now want to raise the speed limit on the Ohio Turnpike, but the public is against it (see WTRF).

Ohio's GOP members should just keep going against what the public wants.  It will only help the Democrats.

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**** Ohioans would like to know how much time Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel (Republican) actually spends working in his elected position. Mandel has traveled to Denver, Hawaii, Florida, Texas, Washington, DC , Aspen (Dec. 28), New York, etc. to raise money for his run for U.S. Senate.  Meanwhile, Josh Mandel said he was too busy to talk to the media.  With his weak legislative background, Mandel would just be a puppet for the right wingers. 

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After an extremely long break, the Congress will be back in DC.  I wonder what they won't accomplish this time.  Where are the jobs, Mr. Boehner?  Where are the jobs, Mr. Cantor?

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I'm wondering if the Ohio Farm Bureau has a position on imported vegetables being sold at Anderson's?  A company called Woodstock Farms has frozen vegetables in the freezers at Anderson's with packages clearly marked as being from China.  With our farmers working so hard to make profits, why is Anderson's not supporting the American farmers?  Importing "fresh" vegetables from China makes me wonder how safe such a product would be for American consumers. If you shop at Anderson's, make it a point to question their choice of imported frozen vegetables.