I believe Strickland when he says that Kasich worked for Lehman Brothers. Kasich disappeared for a while from the state political scene, at about the right time. Since WOSU-AM & NPR affirm it, I trust it as more than just political mudslinging.
Back in the early 1990's when I was new to Ohio, I lived in the 12th Congressional district, and Kasich's name showed up on my ballot every 2 years. There was one issue that came up (although now I can't recall what it was) that I felt strong enough about at the time to call my representative's office.
The person who answered the phone at Kasich's office, when they found out that I lived in the OSU campus district, obnoxiously insisted that Kasich could not possibly be my representative. They absolutely refused to take my message, refused to take my voting address, and insisted that I had to live in the 15th district, and was stupid for wasting their time.
When I called Deborah Pryce's office, the Representative for District 15, her telephone answerer was a lot more polite, and apologized gently for having to turn me away, but because of my street address, I really did live in Kasich's district instead of Ms. Pryce's.
If you look in the map of Ohio's districts, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oh_districts_map.PNG) you'll see how districts 15 & 12 both spiral in to the heart of Columbus (back then, it was worse: a third district snaked in there too). Nevertheless, you would think that political workers would thereby take pains to pin down precisely where their district's borders were. Instead, Kasich's instructions to his office staff yielded that attitude of "if you can't do something for me politically, you OSU student slime, why should I care what you think on an issue? Go crawl away and die!"
And guess what: next biannual Election Day, whose name is on my ballot? Why, Kasich's, of course. And the biannum after that, and the biannum after that.
And be careful of the Ohio libertarian candidate, who says that his state taxes are rising, so that his platform says that the state income tax will be eliminated. Last year, any Ohioan who calculated their own taxes with a State of Ohio Tax Table learned that they were receiving and had received, in fact, several tax cuts in the past several years. I heard lots & lots of conservative p*ssing and moaning about how high the taxes had risen, and I knew those people had fobbed the job off to some accountant or software, just so they could stay willfully ignorant and preserve their unjustified right to b*tch.
Kasich is a snob; he was one to me.
Back in the early 1990's when I was new to Ohio, I lived in the 12th Congressional district, and Kasich's name showed up on my ballot every 2 years. There was one issue that came up (although now I can't recall what it was) that I felt strong enough about at the time to call my representative's office.
The person who answered the phone at Kasich's office, when they found out that I lived in the OSU campus district, obnoxiously insisted that Kasich could not possibly be my representative. They absolutely refused to take my message, refused to take my voting address, and insisted that I had to live in the 15th district, and was stupid for wasting their time.
When I called Deborah Pryce's office, the Representative for District 15, her telephone answerer was a lot more polite, and apologized gently for having to turn me away, but because of my street address, I really did live in Kasich's district instead of Ms. Pryce's.
If you look in the map of Ohio's districts, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oh_districts_map.PNG) you'll see how districts 15 & 12 both spiral in to the heart of Columbus (back then, it was worse: a third district snaked in there too). Nevertheless, you would think that political workers would thereby take pains to pin down precisely where their district's borders were. Instead, Kasich's instructions to his office staff yielded that attitude of "if you can't do something for me politically, you OSU student slime, why should I care what you think on an issue? Go crawl away and die!"
And guess what: next biannual Election Day, whose name is on my ballot? Why, Kasich's, of course. And the biannum after that, and the biannum after that.
And be careful of the Ohio libertarian candidate, who says that his state taxes are rising, so that his platform says that the state income tax will be eliminated.
Last year, any Ohioan who calculated their own taxes with a State of Ohio Tax Table learned that they were receiving and had received, in fact, several tax cuts in the past several years. I heard lots & lots of conservative p*ssing and moaning about how high the taxes had risen, and I knew those people had fobbed the job off to some accountant or software, just so they could stay willfully ignorant and preserve their unjustified right to b*tch.