Kasich's impact on Ohio - questions

[silverchair]

Hello everyone,

I don't post here very often, but I've been a member for a while. I just wanted to ask the experts on here about how Kasich will impact the future of Ohio. I voted for Strickland by the way. Also, a friend of mine leans right and he's employed with the State Highway Patrol. How will Kasich's policies affect state employees like him? Just curious. Thanks.

[samplegirl]

1. Nothing he will do will be good..............

being a Census year he will first work to redistrict Ohio and cut us up in small areas and democrats will have little chance to win again.
He will also work to privatize the turn pike.
Kasich will DESTORY OHIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He will also vote against any infastructure to create jobs. He joked yesterday that his communications strategy will include using Fox, whose owner gave more than $1 million to elect him.

So whats that tell ya?

[Deep13]

2. "Impact" is the right word.

He will hit us like the meteor that killed the dinosaurs.

[silverchair]

3. Anybody else?

Anybody else? I'd like to hear more.

[femrap]

5. Anyone who has

a 'small' voice like children, the elderly, abused women...all their funding will be gone. He's all for Big Biz....I, for the life of me, cannot understand why people elected him. He's a Wall Street Thief.

He'll probably reduce the minimum wage so to bring in jobs....I wouldn't put it past him.

[ladym55]

4. I'm scared spitless

It's not just Kasich ... it's an ALL Rethuglican State Supreme Court (people? rights? What????), Mike DeWine as AG (the fox guarding the hen house), a Republican State Senate, and Republican House. Good, hard-working Dems tossed out of office, including two from Summit County who had worked SO hard to get education funding straightened out.

Let's see. The last 16 years of Rethuglican rule in Ohio sent the state into a tailspin educationally and economically. Ted Strickland, especially given the disaster on the federal level, couldn't pull it out in 4 years. Ohio is in deep doo-doo. Personally, I can't see how the very wealthy in Ohio benefit from a state going down for the count, but what would I know?

Look for us to lose AT LEAST one Democrat seat in the U.S. and perhaps two.

[OhioBlue]

6. He has already said

he would trash the high speed rail project.
(great.... glad our ancestors decided to save money instead of investing in infrastructure like paved roads and highways)
Education - he's ditching Governor Strickland's plan to bring school funding into line with actually being Constitutional.
I think he already said he would ditch funding for all day kindergarten
He will privatize the Ohio Department of Development... you know the agency that attracts business to OHio and provides assistance for existing companies to expand and create JOBS...

He's all about privatization which means taking government/tax payer funded services and turning them over to a crony so they can skim money from the taxpayers and deliver crap service.

He and the all Republican House, Senate, Auditor, AG, Treas, SOS, will take Ohio backwards. We only had 4 years to try and clean up their last mess.... this will be worse.

[NEOBuckeye]

7. Watch out for Mary Taylor

I dreaded Kasich choosing Mary Taylor for his running mate. She might have been a logical choice given that she was state auditor and the highest elected Republican in the state, but she's also a student of Alex Arshinkoff, the Chairman of the Akron/Summit County Republican Party. No joke: Arshinkoff is so crooked and corrupt, he's the guy Karl Rove calls for advice.

With Taylor as Lt. Governor, Arshinkoff's clout and influence in Columbus has just been magnified times 100. That doesn't bode well for anyone in this state. My hope is that with the GOPers now firmly in control of the entire state government, they will overreach big time. Corruption through their own hubris will be their undoing. The upshot is that when they go down, they will likely take the entire state government down with them.

[Kolesar]

10. interesting! eom

[realisticphish]

8. Everyone in the library field, where I work

is preparing for massive cuts. I think that we'll probably see many, many closed doors for public libraries if he gets what he implies he wants.

Hell, Strickland only reduced insane cuts to the PLF due to massive public outcry. And if STRICKLAND was willing to do it...

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[RazBerryBeret]

9. Hi silverchair!

fellow Buckeye, not happy w/Kasich. He'd from my little town of Westerville, in Franklin County and he didn't win Franklin County, if that tells you anything. Here is an interview/article from the day after the election:

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20101103/NEWS0108/11040330/Kasich-Passenger-rail-is-dead-

I thought he comment to the school unions was pretty arrogant. I'd be nervous if I was a union public employee.

[Kolesar]

12. Watch for entry fees to the state parks

New York State Parks had entry fees. Then they determined that having people at the gates did not pay for itself, so they quit the around the year staffing. I go to NY every winter.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has this odd budget that is tied in with an irrigation district in western Ohio. Ohio needs to fix that and then parks funding should be adequate.

Edgewater Park, Wildwood, and Huntington Beach were owned by the cities and then taken over by Ohio government when Cleveland went into bankruptcy. It would be ridiculous if Clevelanders had to pay to visit the beach that is in their neighborhood.

A tax on soft drinks could be used to replace general fees to run the Ohio parks.

[silverchair]

13. thanks guys

i sure appreciate all the responses. i wonder how this will affect obama in 2012.

[votesparks]

14. We MUST stand up

because the first thing Kasich is going to gut is the education system. He wants a dumb populace.