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Yesterday, GONGWER reported Ohio House Minority Leader Batchelder said this in response to questions about John Kasich’s income tax proposal:
“It was never his major proposal,” Mr. Batchelder said. “It was something he had discussed at one point, and very frankly I think that it’s very clear that with the economy where it is now, that kind of a change cannot be made.”
“When he originally said it he said very carefully that it depends on the economy,” he said.
If I were still a reporter, I would have turned off my digital recorder and politely told the House Minority [...]
Full Story... →When you can’t even get John Kasich’s hometown newspaper to unflinchingly peddle your crap, Game Over, man.
‘Member yesterday how DeWhine attacked the Strickland Administration for giving $6 billion in bond work to Lehman Brothers? Turns out that Lehman’s role in that bond was, well, as insignificant as Kasich’s and Lehman Brothers’ roles were in launching Google.
The Strickland administration also said Lehman Brothers and Barclays played a minor role in the bond deals highlighted by the GOP. For example, Lehman was one of 18 co-managers on a $5.5 billion bond sale in 2007, and the [...]
Full Story... →The Columbus Dispatch’s Daily Briefing blog shows just how twisted the NRCC has to get to attack Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy’s role in passing comprehensive Wall Street reform passed:
The committee, which backs Republican challenger Steve Stivers, said provisions in the bill will benefit trial lawyers and unions, which happen to be among Kilroy’s most stalwart financial supporters.
Lawyers will benefit from lawsuits that result from disputes over “ambiguous language” in the bill as well as provisions that allow whistleblowers to be anonymous and hire lawyers to represent them, the GOP committee said.
The group [...]
Full Story... →After Tim read my post yesterday about Keeling’s rushed eagerness to push a poll in the Auditor’s race that was clearly questionable on its face, let alone when you did a cursory review of the pollster’s “credentials,” Tim said something I hinted at the beginning of my post. Yesterday’s post by Keeling was even hackish even for the Carpetblogger (I’d note that Matt Naugle and other conservative bloggers didn’t rush to tout this poll.) So, Tim asked, why did Keeling?
I’ll tell you why. Keeling, and by extension, Camp Kasich have been very nervous about the Auditor’s race. [...]
Full Story... →The Columbus Dispatch reported that in response to Governor Strickland blaming the Senate (mostly Republicans) for filibustering extending unemployment benefits John Kasich agreed with Strickland.
John Kasich agreed that the Republicans are wrong to oppose extending unemployment.
JOHN KASICH OPPOSES FELLOW OHIO GOPer/HOUSE MINORITY LEADER JOHN BOEHNER’s VOTE TO EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT FURTHER.
Asked whether Kasich opposes or supports an extension of unemployment benefits, Rob Nichols, campaign spokesman, said in an email that "John believes that it needs to be extended." He offered no further explanation.
In other news, John Kasich’s campaign will walkback unemployment statement in 3…. [...]
Full Story... →The good thing about a statewide poll where you have two largely unknown candidates is that it demonstrates the partisan barometer. And the Quinnipiac shows that Ohioans aren’t as crazy about Republicans and the Tea Party as Old Media has led you to believe.
The Quinnipiac poll has been the only poll to test Ohio voters attitudes on such things and here’s what it found:
While voters are generally split on their opinion of the Democratic Party, Ohioans have a net negative six point opinion of the Republican Party. Male voters are split on the Republican Party, but have a [...]
Full Story... →This was Kasich on Toledo television earlier this month:
Here’s John Kasich’s campaign’s response yesterday to protests by Youngstown city officials over how Kasich’s tax plans will bankrupt Ohio’s cities and local governments and force them to raise taxes:
But a spokesman for the candidate tells us the measure being discussed was proposed by a state lawmaker — and has never been part of Kasich’s campaign.
The spokesman adds the income tax measure itself was defeated months ago, and is no longer even being considered.
John Kasich just threw the entire Ohio GOP legislative caucus under his [...]
Full Story... →I’m sure you all saw this clip of Carly Fiorina, GOP candidate for Senate in California, but here it is with a little message from a friend of mine.
Funny and cringe-worthy. All in under 30 seconds.
Full Story... →Well, this should end well.
Jim Heath over at ONN just tweeted:
“Ohio Republicans dropping NRA memberships. Encouraging others to join gun owners of America.”
Yes, the Ohio Republicans should drop their membership to the NRA and join yet another gun rights group that positively will not be endorsing John Kasich in the fall after his multiple anti-gun votes.
By all means, Ohio Republican Party Chairman Kevin DeWine, please, please, PLEASE declare war on the NRA during a critical election season.
Tell every sportsman and gun owner in Ohio that if they stand with the NRA for supporting [...]
Full Story... →So, this morning I saw this ad twice during the “Today” show:
Not a bad ad.? And I was impressed that it manages to run twice during a highly watched “broadcast” national morning news show as well which gives it already more market penetration than I saw in the earlier Strickland campaign ad or the RGA’s response.
Of course, any time a union weighs in on a political campaign, there has to be a Republican screaming bloody murder.
This time it’s Ohio Republican Chairman Kevin DeWhine who accuses Governor Strickland of money laundering:
The $448,000 in negative [...]
Full Story... →The Carpetblogger is amazed at the “trend” that a bunch of Republican lawmakers from across Ohio all today issued separate press releases from different regions of Ohio today to discuss the economy. Keeling wrote four posts about these releases, each one, more amazed at the coincidence that these lawmakers were saying the same thing at the same time.
It’s almost like these lawmakers didn’t actually release these press releases at all, but they were all issued in a coordinated fashion by the some central organization like… the Ohio Republican House Caucus, [...]
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