Don't expect anything major to be decided in Congress before the November election.
That's a message U.S. Rep. Steve Stivers presented to a group of farmers Thursday....
....Stivers doesn't represent Fairfield County, but he is running for a newly formed district that will represent the county starting in 2013.....
I didn't see Steve Stivers mention that he voted for the Paul Ryan budget bill that would end all farm subsidies. It is curious that he didn't mention that little item.
Here is what the Huffington Post has about the cuts made to agriculture in the Paul Ryan budget that Steve Stivers voted for in 2012:
...This year, under pressure from conservatives to cut even more, Ryan increased cuts to food stamps, student loans, welfare, farm subsidies and other programs whose budgets now mostly run on autopilot. A cut of $33 billion over 10 years to farm subsidies would be larger than a bipartisan plan hatched last year and would be difficult for farm state lawmakers to choke down....
I guess Steve Stivers believes that he should only provide as little information as possible to the farmers. Ohio farmers that support Romney will get the Paul Ryan budget and the cuts.
>>>> Josh Mandel is learning that when you run for the U.S. Senate, there are more questions, and more people interested in what kind of people you've hired. If a person hires incompetent, unqualified, friends and buddies to high positions with huge salaries, it indicates a person that will reward friends before citizens. Even as Mandel criticized his predecessor, we see that cronyism is alive and well in the Ohio Treasurer's office. In sending himself and others in his office to beginning "seminars" to learn how to do their jobs, we see that Josh Mandel has poorly qualified hires in his office.
By the way, why is Mandel so willing to criticize Sen. Sherrod Brown's work when we know that Josh Mandel has yet to reveal his own agenda? Mandel has refused to give us details. It is like someone trying to distract the voter from their own record. Sen. Sherrod Brown has worked tirelessly for the average Ohio worker, farmer, teacher, firefigther, police officer, nurse, miner, and regular people. Josh Mandel has no record of any legislative experience and it is clear to see that his neoconservative view is only for his corporate, pollution-making contributors.