Brrrrrrr!

We are experiencing record wind chill temperatures here in central Ohio. The bone chilling temperatures have forced nearly every school district to cancel classes.

*** When Republicans are complaining about Ohio Gov. John Kasich's budget cuts, people notice.

SpringfieldNewsSun:

Darke County Sheriff Toby Spencer, a Republican, sent a sharply-worded letter to Gov. John Kasich’s top cop, criticizing state funding cuts to local governments as well as the Ohio Highway Patrol’s efforts to curb drug use in high schools....

....Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer, also a Republican, said he supports the patrol’s anti-drug efforts.....

....Plummer acknowledges that county sheriffs have been watching the patrol expand its footprint and personnel in recent years while local governments have sustained big budget cuts...

.....Under the Kasich administration, funding to the Local Government Fund dropped 32 percent between fiscal year 2011 and fiscal year 2014, diverting hundreds of millions of dollars away from local schools, cities and counties......

Cuts to local governments have resulted in layoffs to police and fire departments, and job cuts in school districts.  If citizens complain about the slow response time of fire and police personnel, those calls should be relayed to the governor's office.  Kasich and the GOP have pushed through a 3rd grade reading guarantee at the same time they've cut funding to schools. That makes absolutely no sense. Then again, nothing that comes from Ohio's Republican governor and his GOP twerps makes sense.