From the monthly archives: June 2010
John Kasich really seems to have a problem with Ohio. He and his campaign (including the carpet blogger) produce a constant stream of bitching and moaning that covers nearly everyone and everything in the state.
Up until recently this has been the primary tactic of his campaign strategy: whine about the incumbent and try to tie him to every bad thing that is happening, or ever did happen, in the state while saying absolutely nothing about how John would do things differently.
As John slowly ventures out of his secure campaign bunker it’s becoming very clear why his highly-paid [...]
Full Story... →Where to even begin? First, if you’re going to have an ad about unemployment, why feature two Johnny Lunchpails driving in their work truck from . . . work? Is this some kind of ham handed attempt by Republicans to appeal to blue collar workers ? It strikes me as an odd choice because the fictitious “messengers” don’t really mesh with the message.
Second, the acting and dialogue is just cheesy. The guy say “bad Governor” in the same tone one says to a puppy that isn’t housebroken. The pace of the dialogue almost lulls me to sleep. Third, [...]
Full Story... →From TeaParty-Apparel.com:
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Here’s the “artistic rendering” mentioned above:
Yep. That’s the Statue of Liberty nailed to a cross like Jesus.
It’s basically this cartoon again with more Jesus and less racism:
Classy bunch [...]
Full Story... →I missed this video last month from Ohio Capital Blog and, even though it’s related to the now-cancelled inmate work program at the Governor’s residence, I still thought it was worth posting because it basically shows Seitz comparing the people who oversaw the inmates – Highway Patrol and Department of Corrections Officers – to Sergeant Schultz from Hogan’s Heroes.
FYI:
This is Shultz…
This is the OHP…
Not sure I see the similarity. And pretty fucking offensive to Ohio’s Highway Patrol and Corrections Officers if you ask me.
Full Story... →Remember the Dream. Remember November. from Republican Governors Association on Vimeo.
Wow. Now if they could just give John Kasich something to stand for.
Apparently, the RGA also single handedly won WWII, ended communism, and brought us Teddy Roosevelt (despite not existing at the time.)
Nothing like showing a bunch of Gulf Coast state governors dependent on the federal government to respond to the oil spill to demonstrate great leadership.
This video is just as vapid as Kasich’s campaign. All unjustified fluff, no substance. Maybe it’ll help them raise some dough? But it’s not going to win [...]
Full Story... →The busy summer continues – I’m off on another trip abroad for work tomorrow, and my county council campaign is heating up – we may break the 10 candidate mark by filing day next week! So here’s the obligatory light posting alert, with a little Lee Fisher love.
Finally, Lee showed up with President Obama at a visit to Ohio, and it looks like he’s found a new campaign manager from the LGBT community, Lynne Bowman. Both are very good signs for Lee – but it may be a first for the LGBT community in Ohio to have someone of [...]
Full Story... →Start listening at the 2:08 mark. Kasich says, again on video, that he favors repealing the income tax (which is still a weird way to talk about… your own proposal).
KASICH: “The fastest growing States in the country, job creating States, are like places like Tennessee, Florida, and Texas and…. and…. Nevadah [sic in original.]
These are the States that John Kasich repeatedly has said he, as Governor, would turn Ohio into to emulate.
Nevada is a no income tax State, and it leads the nation alright. It leads the nation in unemployment, the first time any [...]
Full Story... →While not as great as Ohio’s April jobs report, the report for May is still very good news… unless you’re John Kasich and you based your entire campaign on betting that the economy wouldn’t show signs of improving in Ohio well before the election.
Ohio reduced unemployment by .2% point reducing Ohio’s unemployment rate in May to 10.7%, thus returning Ohio to an unemployment rate it hasn’t seen in six months. For the second month in a row, Ohio was one of the top States in monthly job growth.
Although the reduction in unemployment was partially [...]
Full Story... →It seems that the PERS office is in full damage control mode from a public relations standpoint. They’ve now publicly declared “Ohio Public Employees Retirement System Chief Executive Chris DeRose said today that advice offered via e-mail by a campaign operative for Republican candidate John Kasich to a pension executive was neither solicited nor followed.”
But the statement by PERS’ Chief Executive doesn’t in there. It then states, “[Kasich’s campaign spokeman’s e-mail] offered suggestions on explaining the losses to reporters.”
Kasich’s campaign contacted ex-Taft aides working within the highest levels of the state pension funds and pushed them [...]
Full Story... →Budget Watch
