The Kasich Governorship – News & Updates

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Kasich agenda creating GOP rift
Medicaid expansion, new taxes face fights
Mar 23, 2013
Written by Paul E. Kostyu – The Cincinnati Enquirer

COLUMBUS — As he did two years ago in the battle over Senate Bill 5, Gov. John R. Kasich finds himself the target of protests, insults and legislative resistance. This time, however, it’s coming from Republicans.

READ MORE: http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20130322/NEWS01/303220020/Kasich-agenda-creating-GOP-rift

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Ohio Chamber opposes Kasich tax plan, but still says income tax cut possible
Mar 20, 2013, 1:05pm EDT
Jeff Bell
Staff reporter-Business First

The Ohio Chamber of Commerce opposes two cornerstones of Gov. John Kasich’s budget proposal but wants state lawmakers to be cautious in finding alternatives.

READ MORE: http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2013/03/20/ohio-chamber-opposes-kasich-tax-plan.html

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Kasich Gets Second-Straight Positive Approval Rating
April 18, 2013
by Steve Brown
89.7 NPR News Morning Anchor

A new independent poll says Governor John Kasich holds a commanding lead over the likely Democratic challengers for next year’s race for governor.

READ MORE: http://wosu.org/2012/news/2013/04/18/kasich-gets-second-straight-positive-approval-rating/

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Kasich hopes surplus dollars will end up in taxpayer pockets
on June 18, 2013 at 7:00 PM
Thomas Ondrey, The Plain Dealer

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio’s tax revenues for the current fiscal year are greater than expected and should give legislators a multimillion surplus to draw on as they finish work on the state’s two-year budget, according to Gov. John Kasich’s administration.

READ MORE: http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2013/06/kasich_hopes_surplus_dollars_w.html

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Poll: Ohio Governor Approval Best Since Taking Office
Tuesday June 25, 2013 10:19 AM

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A recent poll finds Gov. John Kasich’s job approval has hit its highest rating since he took office in 2011.

READ MORE: http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2013/06/25/oh–kasich-poll-approval.html

[Coremodels]

Interesting take on the importance of low or no state taxes:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2013/08/state-tax-cuts-is-arthur-laffe.html

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[Chris Sunami]

So, things are looking pretty good for Kasich right now. I’m thinking the only chance of getting him out of office is a major scandal –which is probably unlikely since he seems to have somehow made investigating him and all his usages of public money illegal.

I can’t actually hope for things to go downhill on his watch just for spite, but it’s lousy that he’s getting credit for a recovery that he had nothing to do with.

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Governor says he will not waver
Aug. 19, 2013 8:42 PM
Written by Chrissie Thompson
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Approaching the one-year mark before his re-election bid, Gov. John Kasich has no plans to back down from controversial stances such as expanding Medicaid and leveraging sales taxes to cut income taxes.

READ MORE: http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20130819/NEWS01/308190006/Governor-says-he-will-not-waver

[dirtgirl]

New poll on Kasich out today from Public Policy Polling showing some weakening for Kasich. Approve 42 / Disapprove 47 and loses to Democrat Ed FitzGerald 38-35. More good news for FitzGerald: 62 percent of Ohioans don’t know him.

http://images.politico.com/global/2013/08/19/ohiostatewideresults.html

[BuckeyeShadow]

ChrisSunami said:
So, things are looking pretty good for Kasich right now. I’m thinking the only chance of getting him out of office is a major scandal –which is probably unlikely since he seems to have somehow made investigating him and all his usages of public money illegal.

I can’t actually hope for things to go downhill on his watch just for spite, but it’s lousy that he’s getting credit for a recovery that he had nothing to do with.

If JobsOhio ever gets more attention and blows up into a huge scandal, it will not only derail Kasich’s re-election hopes but maybe even land him in court for corruption. Governors fortunately don’t seem to be as protected in this regard as Presidents and Vice Presidents do (i.e. Dick Cheney).

FitzGerald seems like yet another weak candidate put up by the Ohio Dems when they should have been recruiting one of their most successful big city mayors in Mike Coleman. But the lack of statewide awareness about who he is could work to his advantage if Kasich has to spend more time and money on protecting his own image.

[Schoolboy]

Did I miss something with JobsOhio? Wasn’t sure how it would go into “scandal” category. Not saying it couldn’t, just not in the loop.

Thing is, Kasich’s “controversial” stances in my opinion will greatly help him. Not really with the core team R voters, but who cares. Team R is going to vote Team R no matter what. Not as if they’ll ever vote D. Ohio is growing into a very large independant state, and if he wants to keep his job he needs to respect that. Which outside of a couple of early missteps, and a mediocre job of sticking it to the frackers, I think he’s done quite well at doing.

[Walker Evans]

Schoolboy said:
Did I miss something with JobsOhio? Wasn’t sure how it would go into “scandal” category. Not saying it couldn’t, just not in the loop.

Check out the most recent three pages of this thread:

JobsOhio / Ohio Department of Development – News & Updates

[Schoolboy]

Walker said:
Check out the most recent three pages of this thread:

JobsOhio / Ohio Department of Development – News & Updates

Gotcha. Guess I was looking for something new that I hadn’t heard about yet.

After the Bush/Cheney/Halliburton years, I didn’t think this type of behavior from our politicians even mattered anymore.

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