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    John Kasich's top 5 failed defenses of his Obamacare expansion

    By Philip Klein(@philipaklein) • 7/21/15 11:04 AM

    As he announces his presidential ambitions on Tuesday, Ohio Gov. John Kasich will be greeted with well-deserved criticism from conservatives over his expansion of Obamacare.

    To recap, in 2010 Kasich was elected as an opponent of Obamacare, but in 2013, under pressure from hospital lobbyists, he embraced the program's expansion of Medicaid, framing his cynical move in the language of Christianity, and attacking conservative opponents for being "heart-hearted." When the Republican legislature rightfully rejected the expansion, Kasich bypassed lawmakers and rammed it through a separate panel.

    Now that he's running for president, he'll try to portray himself as an opponent of Obamacare, and he's likely to offer a number of defenses of his policy choice (several defenses were collected in a video put together by Ohio native Jason Hart of Watchdog.org, who has doggedly chronicled Kasich's compulsive dishonesty on this topic). Below I've listed five of Kasich's most common defenses to conservatives, and explained why none of them excuse his actions.

    Kasich Defense 1: The Medicaid expansion and Obamacare are totally different

    "When people try to tie Medicaid to Obamacare, I don't see the connection," Kasich has said. "Medicaid is Medicaid, Obamacare is Obamacare. They're two different things, and I don't see that they're really connected."

    Reality:

    There are 393 appearances of the word "Medicaid" in the legislative text of Obamacare. The expansion of Medicaid itself is authorized in Title II, Subtitle A of Obamacare -- a section called, "Improved Access to Medicaid." The Medicaid expansion is one of the main two ways through which Obamacare expands insurance coverage. By 2025, the Congressional Budget Office projects that Obamacare will add 14 million people to Medicaid. The Medicaid expansion will account for $824 billion (or slightly more than half) of Obamacare spending over the next decade, according to the CBO.

    It's also worth noting that Medicaid is the one aspect of Obamacare that both left and right agree is explicitly a single-payer system. The logical implication of Kasich's position of boasting about rejecting setting up a state-based exchange while expanding Medicaid is that Obamacare would have been better if it simply expanded single-payer healthcare in the U.S. instead of monkeying around with regulated exchanges that featured private insurers.

    Kasich Defense 2: I just wanted to bring back Ohio money

    "I don't support Obamacare," Kasich has insisted to CNN's Jake Tapper. "I want to repeal it, but I did expand Medicaid, because I was able to bring Ohio money back home to treat the mentally ill, the drug addicted, and to help the working poor get healthcare, but I am opposed to Obamacare."

    Reality:

    To start, it's worth reiterating that repealing Obamacare would repeal the Medicaid expansion, as demonstrated by the CBO report issued last month, which noted, "A repeal of the ACA would include a repeal of…an expansion of eligibility for Medicaid." Thus, it is directly contradictory for Kasich to hold these two views simultaneously – that he supports expanding Medicaid and repealing Obamacare.

    As for bringing back money to Ohio, that argument could theoretically pass muster if it were a situation in which money not spent by Ohio were automatically funneled to other states and spent anyway, as with the economic stimulus bill. But that isn't the situation with Medicaid, the funding for which is only authorized to be spent in states that agree to participate in the expansion.

    It's also worth noting that although the federal government picks up the full tab for the expansion in its first three years, starting in 2017, states will have to start pitching in and by 2020 will have to cover 10 percent of the costs. As it is, Medicaid is crippling state budgets and is among the largest state expenditures.

    Kasich Defense 3: Expanding Medicaid was about asserting states' rights

    In a statement released last fall, Kasich argued that, "[T]he Supreme Court split expansion from the rest of the ACA and left it to the states to decide."

    Reality:

    The Supreme Court didn't "split" Medicaid expansion from Obamacare. In fact, it did the opposite -- it split existing Medicaid from the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. To refresh everybody, what was at issue in the Supreme Court case was that as written, Obamacare was threatening to withhold existing Medicaid funding to states that refused to participate in the expansion. But in the majority decision, the Court ruled that the changes to Medicaid in Obamacare represented, "a shift in kind, not merely degree."

    The majority determined that, "the original program was designed to cover medical services for four particular categories of the needy...Under the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid is transformed into a program to meet the health care needs of the entire nonelderly population with income below 133 percent of the poverty level. It is no longer a program to care for the neediest among us, but rather an element of a comprehensive national plan to provide universal health insurance coverage."

    In other words, the Supreme Court decided that traditional Medicaid was different from Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, and thus funds from the existing program couldn't be withheld to coerce states into participating in the new program.

    The ruling gave states the ability to reject an expansion of one of the central components of Obamacare — to limit the imposition of the law on their states. But instead of exercising this right to stand for conservative principles and fiscal sanity, Kasich instead chose to bypass the legislature to facilitate the growth of Obamacare and dependence on government.

    The phony invocation of "states rights" is a tactic often employed by state-level Republicans with national ambitions to frame a big government policy as a manifestation of conservative principles. The idea is to blur the distinction between having the freedom to pursue certain policies at the state level, and the actual policies themselves.

    One close parallel is how Mitt Romney attempted to invoke the states' rights argument to defend his Massachusetts healthcare law, which mandated the purchase of insurance, expanded Medicaid and provided subsidies to individuals to purchase government-designed insurance on a government-run exchange.

    Kasich Defense 4: Medicaid expansion saved lives

    "What we've seen as a result of this? Saved lives, there's no question about it," Kasich has said in defending the Medicaid expansion.

    Reality:

    There is no serious research to support the conclusion that the Medicaid expansion in Ohio has saved lives, and in fact, what academic evidence we do have on the program more broadly has suggested there is no link between expanding Medicaid and decreased mortality. A landmark study done on a pre-Obamacare expansion of Medicaid in Oregon found, "no significant improvements in measured health outcomes" among those who gained coverage through the program as compared with those who did not.

    Kasich Defense 5: Reagan expanded Medicaid, too

    "Ronald Reagan expanded Medicaid," Kasich has said on multiple occasions when pressed on his support.

    Reality:

    This is the one defense that has some grounding in the truth, but it still is a shaky argument that shouldn't get Kasich off of the hook.
    Republican politicians often try to invoke the iconic conservative president to excuse all of their deviations from conservatism.

    It cannot be stated enough that despite Reagan's rhetoric and many genuine accomplishments, he was far from perfect when it came to limiting government, and one of the areas where he particularly disappointed conservatives was when it came to the growth of entitlements. Two wrongs do not make a right.

    Having said that, it's also worth noting that there are several key differences between Reagan's Medicaid action and Kasich's, as articulated by former Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese and Buckeye Institute President Robert Alt in the National Review.

    Reagan's expansion was limited to giving the states an option to extend Medicaid benefits to children and pregnant women in poverty, which the authors noted, "assured that pregnant women would not be financially worse off carrying their children to term than they would be if they chose to have an abortion."

    This isn't a free market argument, to be sure, but at the same time, it's important to remember that Reagan was working with a Democratic-controlled House of Representatives. In contrast, Kasich has a Republican legislature he bypassed that legislature to ram through the Medicaid expansion over lawmakers' strong objections.

    Note: portions of this post have appeared in previous articles I have written about Kasich's dishonesty when it comes to defending his expansion of Obamacare.


    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/john-kasichs-top-5-failed-defenses-of-his-obamacare-expansion/article/2568656

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    Kasich Plan Would Rob Retirement Benefits From ‘Boomer Generation’

    By John Michael Spinelli
    On August 12, 2015

    Continuing to campaign in New Hampshire, the early primary state he’s betting his presidential run on, Ohio Gov. John Kasich revealed his plan to fix Social Security, the most important social safety net program in the nation’s history that is celebrating its 80th birthday.

    Trying to sell himself as a budget balancer, compassionate conservative, military expert and man of faith to Granite State voters who don’t know him like Ohioans do, recent polls show that after spending $3 million in TV ads to introduce himself, the Ohio governor has moved up in state polls. Mr. Kasich is now in third place, a point behind second place candidate Jeb! Bush, who trails state poll leader Donald Trump.

    Robber Baron Kasich

    The governor’s upbeat, positive message about his vision for a new day in America almost never includes actual plans to achieve what he would do were he to be elected president next year. Based on what Gov. Kasich said to a group of New Hampshire voters yesterday, his recipe going forward has changed little from what he’s advocated over the course of his long and lucrative career in politics, which relies more on tearing down than building up.

    Speaking on the topic of entitlements, Gov. Kasich, said, “On entitlements, they all need to be—so let me give you my basic feeling on it. If you’re on it, we don’t want to take it away. The baby boomers are going to have to give some on it. Not sure what it’s going to be yet, because I gotta go back and do all the numbers again. And for the younger people I still like the idea of giving them an opportunity to earn money through the strength of our American economy, with Social Security included in that.”

    Kasich’s comments could be very problematic for him, since he voted for the 1983 Social Security tax hike that was supposed to put a surplus in place to secure Baby Boomer retirements. As one political watcher said, “It takes a special sort of Chutzpa to vote a big tax hike on a generation’s entire working life and then steal the benefit at the last minute.”

    Gov. Kasich, whose value on FEC financial disclosure documents could be as high as $22 million, wants the Baby Boom generation [1946-1964] to give up some of its hard-earned Social Security benefits, while he privatizes the system for future generations. In the past, Congressman Kasich has proposed cutting Social Security benefits and been a supporter of privatizing Social Security since his days in Congress. Sources say he introduced legislation that would implement a new retirement program that has been called “stealth privatization.”

    President George W. Bush, who forced Kasich out of the race for president in 2000, also wanted to privatize the program created in 1935 by then President Franklin D. Roosevelt. But Bush’s effort to tamper with the so-called third-rail of politics went no where.

    Kath Allen of Peterborough asked Kasich how it’s fair that Americans earning over $118,500 are only taxed up to that amount for Social Security, Benji Rosen of the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript reported. Kasich said he wasn’t for raising taxes, and instead spoke about his 1998 plan as a U.S. representative to fix Social Security. Gov. Kasich doesn’t count raising use taxes as raising taxes. It’s true he has cut Ohio’s income tax rates, but it’s also true he has raised other taxes in order to amass the funds he gives back to his wealthiest donor base in state subsidies.

    Kasich Wants Wall Street In Charge

    Asked to comment on Gov. Kasich’s plan, Brad Wright of the The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare said, “Privatizing Social Security means handing it over to Wall St. And it’s just another way to cut the benefits of the American men and women who contribute to social security. It is perhaps the most successful of all government programs which and pays for itself. It has never contributed a dime to the national debt.

    Ohio senior U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, a strong voice for Social Security, said on its birthday, “For the better part of a century, Social Security has been crucial to the financial security of millions of Americans of all income levels – including retirees, workers with disabilities, and children whose parents can no longer provide for them because of death or disability. While its benefits remain relatively modest, some in Washington are calling for cuts to Social Security.”

    With fewer defined pensions and more seniors relying on Social Security for the majority of their incomes, Brown said “we should be expanding Social Security instead of cutting it.” He added, “Social Security’s continued success relies on Congress’s ability to work together. We must take steps to ensure that it remains strong for another eight decades and beyond.”

    DNC National Press Secretary Holly Shulman didn’t let any dust settle on Kasich’s candid comments. “Asking baby boomers to face cuts on the Social Security benefits they’ve earned over their entire lives is the exact opposite of what they need to hear from a White House contender,” she said via email Wednesday. “We need to be doing more to protect our seniors who are so close to retirement and counting on a system they’ve paid into. Instead of doing the time warp on Social Security, Republicans should join Democrats and fight to protect and preserve this promise to our seniors.”

    “The Governor better look again at the numbers,” said Robert Borosage, founder and current president of Campaign for America’s Future, a Washington based progressive advocacy group. “He [Kasich] seems to think the US has an entitlements crisis,” Mr. Borosage, an Ohioan by birth, told me via email today.

    Social Security was never in crisis, Mr. Bososage argues. In fact, it contributes virtually nothing to the “scary long-range projections about deficits … and even on its own bottom, only minor reforms are needed to sustain it.” For Mr. Borosage, who played a large role in hammering out a People’s Platform that more aligns with Bernie Sanders than Hillary Clinton now, a larger concern is handling the demographic change as Baby Boomers retire out of the workforce.

    “The real question is the retirement crisis we’re headed into, with too many Americans without pensions or savings, suggesting that we ought to be planning ways to expand Social Security not cut it,” he said. Mr. Borosage said the driver of long-term deficits is and has been health care costs. “Obamacare — and the recession — has had greater effects in slowing the rise of health care costs than any expected,” he said, adding, “But much more needs to be done, starting with repealing the absurd ban on Medicare negotiating bulk discounts on prescription drugs.”

    To Mr. Borosage, Ohio’s go-go CEO governor sounds like someone who thinks the question is how to cut entitlements. “The question is how to get the economy growing — and cutting Social Security would be truly counterproductive towards that end.”

    Does Kasich Understand Social Security?

    As Chairman of the House Budget Committee in the late 1990s, Gov. Kasich is claiming near sole credit for balancing the federal budget, even though he voted against the 1993 Clinton budget that made it all possible. Before he declared for president, Ohio’s term-limited governor was out peddling a federal balanced budget amendment that budget experts say is a bad idea at best and a disaster of an idea at worst. Gov. Kasich is a signatory to Grover Norquist’s no new tax pledge, which means the obvious and easy solution to shoring up Social Security’s solvency to the end of the century, raising the income cap on paying into Social Security, is a non-starter for him.

    He would rather spend billions on bulking up American military might, even sending more boots on the ground to Iraq and Syria, then balance the budget by taking benefits from retirees’ earned benefits when they are just ready to start to enjoy them. If that’s not a bait and switch recipe, then Gov. Kasich needs to explain the madness of his method clearly for everyone to understand.

    Democratic candidates, on the other hand, are campaigning to strengthen and boost programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Talking first and thinking later, Gov. Kasich will have an uphill climb to convince the majority of Americans who want social safety net programs they pay into to be around when they need them that his recipe to whittle them down and privatize them is the absolute wrong policy.

    When St. Peter asks John Kasich what he did for the poor, his answer better not be that he took programs that keep them alive, fed and healthy down in order to balance budgets out of whack from his costly military spending and crony capitalism.

    http://plunderbund.com/2015/08/12/kasich-plan-would-rob-retirement-benefits-from-boomer-generation/

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    Kasich Administration Quietly Reduces Medicaid Services 50% for Developmentally Disabled

    While Governor Kasich talks of renewing Medicaid expansion for abled bodied adults, his Department of Developmental Disabilities (DODD) is quietly reducing
    Medicaid services for Ohio’s developmentally disabled population.

    The DODD released its Final Report of the Strategic Planning Leadership Group in late December which calls for a 50 percent reduction in beds for Intermediate
    Care Facility homes that provide skilled nursing and personal care as well as community access to school, day services, and recreation for Ohio’s most
    developmentally disabled and medically fragile citizens. Affected families across Ohio are deeply concerned about the welfare of their severely disabled
    loved ones now that this vital support system is being eliminated.


    DODD’s plan is to move intellectually disabled citizens who require complex care into small homes throughout Ohio called “community-based settings,” despite
    outcry from families who made their sentiments known at a December 18th public meeting held by the DODD in Columbus. Families are well aware that the skilled
    nursing and behavioral supports vital to the health of these fragile citizens are not reliable in these so-called “community” settings which depend on the home
    health care system.


    In December, the Columbus Dispatch published a series of articles on the crisis in home health care in Ohio. See here, here, and here. The Dispatch found poorly
    paid, low-skilled aides, rampant billing fraud, theft in homes, aides not reporting to work, a lack of regulation, and a lack of information for families to properly
    evaluate agencies.


    And a Dispatch story from November further highlights family fears, “Home health worker charged with rape had record in North Carolina”.


    The Dispatch reports that the Ohio departments of Medicaid, Health, and Developmental Disabilities declined repeated requests for interviews for The Dispatch’s
    series on home care. That these departments should decline interviews on Ohio’s crisis in home care after proposing to transfer intellectually disabled and
    medically fragile citizens into the system is outrageous.


    And taxpayers need to demand answers as well because the Dispatch also reported that,
    “…nearly 60 percent of cases handled by the state’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit each year involve home health-care providers. The unit has 100 full-time
    employees, nearly double the 55 it had four years ago.”
    Medicaid began as a program to help our most vulnerable citizens – low income children, pregnant woman, and elderly citizens, and the disabled. By extending
    Medicaid beyond its original purpose, Governor Kasich has made an already stressed safety net even more unsound.


    Kasich talks a lot about his faith and helping citizens in the shadows, but when it comes to arguably our most vulnerable citizens – intellectually disabled and
    medically fragile individuals – Governor Kasich remains quiet and takes away services.

    http://www.ohiolibertycoalition.org/kasich-administration-reduces-medicaid-services-for-developmentally-disabled/

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    CLEVELAND - A News Channel 5 Investigation found 27% homicide increase in five of Ohio’s largest cities increased in 2015.

    Sarah Buduson 4:37 PM, Dec 23, 2015
    6:03 AM, Dec 24, 2015

    LEVELAND - A NewsChannel 5 Investigation found the numbers of homicides in many U.S. cities, including five of Ohio’s largest cities increased in 2015.

    “We see changes in the dynamics of things, like organized gang activities, and when we see increases in rivalries among organized gangs, like we've seen in Cleveland, Chicago, and Baltimore this year those are often behind increases in lethal violence,” said Wendy Regoeczi, a criminologist at Cleveland State University.

    For example, Cleveland police detectives said the death of 3-year-old Major Howard in a drive-by shooting in September was gang-related.

    A total of 118 homicides have been reported in Cleveland in 2015, a 16 percent increase from 2014.
    27 homicides have been report in Akron, a 17 percent increase from 2014.

    Cincinnati, Parma, and Youngstown also experienced increased rising homicide rates this year.

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    Percent change
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    2327

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    6171

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    [COLOR=rgba(70, 70, 70, 0.7)]2015[/COLOR]

    NewsChannel 5 Investigators also found several other U.S. cities have experienced startling surges in their homicide rates.

    Milwaukee has seen a 65 percent spike in homicides. 142 homicides have been reported so far this year. There were 86 in 2014.

    Washington D.C. has seen a 60 percent increase in homicides. 155 have been reported in 2015. There were 97 in 2014.

    Baltimore has also experienced a 65 percent increase in the number of homicides. 332 murders have been reported so far this year. There were 201 in 2014.
    Cleveland resident Benjie Alatise’s oldest son is among Baltimore's many victims.

    Police said Troy Midder was in a car with another man when both were shot outside a Baltimore gas station in September.

    "For some reason, that night, I was uneasy," Alatise recalled. "My phone rang, and it was my baby sister. She said 'Benjie,' and for some reason, I felt it."

    Alatise immediately got in her car and left for Baltimore. "On the way there, my sister called back. She said 'I want you to say goodbye to [Troy].' I just told him
    how much I love him and that I was on my way,” she said.

    Midder passed away hours later. His murder remains unsolved.

    “He was the apple of everyone's eye,” said Alatise.

    “Going beyond the call of duty to assist people; taking the shirt off his back to give to somebody else to be warm, that's the type of person Troy was,” she said.

    Alatise said she is determined to bring her son’s murderer to justice.

    "I hear him saying 'Mom, you're a trooper, and if anybody can find my killer, you can,' " Alatise said.

    Pundits and some law enforcement officials have attributed the rising murder rates to the so-called ‘Ferguson effect.’

    It is the theory police officers fear taking action after the shooting death of an unarmed black man in the St. Louis suburb sparked national protests in 2014.

    Regoeczi said there is no proof the effect is real.

    “I do not believe the homicides that are happening here are the result of the so-called ‘Ferguson effect,' ” she said.

    “The few studies that have been done that have tried to empirically address whether a ‘Ferguson effect’ is behind increases in homicides in Los Angeles, New York City, and St. Louis have not found any evidence of such an effect there,” she said.

    However, Regoeczi said strained relations between police and citizens can impact officers’ ability to put murderers behind bars.

    “There’s a fair amount of empirical evidence which shows strong police community relations are a very significant factor in police being able to solve homicides,” she said.

    Alatise said communities need to stop accepting violence and share information with police.

    “Tell what you know. You need to get those persons off the street,” she said.

    “If you can protest about a police officer killing a black person then you need to protest about a black person killing a black person,” she said. “A life is a life is a life."

    http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/investigations/homicides-rates-up-in-many-cities-in-oh-and-us-in-2015

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    Lorrie!! Great research on Kasich!! KABOOM!! These should help W a lot with his release!
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    Cincinnati, Ohio - A Top 10 US Murder Capital -FBI

    Cincinnati Is A Dump - Black Crime In Cincinnati







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    This year has been one of the Bloodiest in recent memory in Cincinnati. By early this month more than 320 people had been shot this year within the city limits, with nearly 50 dying from
    those wounds. And while the city’s homicide rate has remained steady compared with 2014, the overall shooting totals
    are 30 percent higher than at this point last year.





    A Cincinnati Youngster ie (Future gang yoof) gets schooled on the finer points of
    ‘No Snitching’ by an elder baby momma welfare leech.


    This City, like many, is 1 police shooting away from another Burn dis bitch down
    ie Full Scale Riot-A Full scale Smash and Grab, as seen in 2001, when 130+ Whites
    were pulled out of their cars and beaten, and police officer shot.

    Remember, white folk. Black Lives Matter. And No Snitching!



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    John Kasich backs legal status for illegal immigrants



    By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times - Tuesday, October 6, 2015


    Ohio Gov. John Kasich said non-violent illegal immigrants are here to stay, that trying to deport them would cause “sheer panic” among Hispanics, and that the U.S. must find a way of legalizing them.


    Toeing a more liberal line on immigration than some of his rivals in the 2016 GOP presidential race, Mr. Kasich vowed during an appearance Tuesday before the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce that he would not lead an aggressive crackdown on illegal immigrants.


    “The idea that we are going to pick these folks up and ship them out, I mean that is just unbelievable,” Mr. Kasich told Javier Palomarez, the group’s president in a question-and-answer session at the Newseum in Washington. “What are we going to do, ride into neighborhoods and announce ‘Come on out, now you are going to the border’?”

    Mr. Kasich embraced a three-pronged approach to immigration, saying the nation must secure the border, strengthen guest worker programs and then grant a pathway to legal status for illegal immigrants.
    “The public would accept this as a reasonable proposal and I think it would pass the Congress,” he said.


    Mr. Kasich’s views on immigration have changed over time, and he firmly disavowed his support as a member of Congress for a bill that would have rescinded automatic birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrant mothers.


    “If you are born here, you are a citizen — period,” he said at the forum on Tuesday where he also softened his previous calls for completing a wall along the U.S. Mexico border.


    “There are technologies today that can be just as effective as a physical wall,” he said. “I mean, with the ability to have sensors and drones and things like that, I think it is just imperative that we control our border.”


    President Obama outperformed Mitt Romney by a 71 percent to 27 percent margin among Hispanics in the 2012 presidential election and the Republican National Committee afterward called for the party to soften stances on illegal immigration as part of a broad effort to woo Hispanics, who made up 10 percent of the electorate.

    But GOP voters are still divided on the issue.


    Indeed, a Pew Research poll released last month found that 43 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters are more likely to support a candidate who “wants to deport all immigrants now living in the U.S. illegally,” while 29 percent said it would make them less likely to support a candidate and 24 percent said it is not a major factor for them.


    Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner in polls, has helped push immigration to the forefront of the presidential race by calling for the deportation of all illegal immigrants, as well as for more border fencing and ending the policy of granting automatic citizenship to almost everyone born in the U.S., including to illegal immigrant mothers.

    Mr. Trump also opposes Mr. Obama’s executive amnesties and recently pulled out of appearing before the Hispanic Chamber, which has responded by warning that the decision “only deepens our community’s already negative perceptions of him.”


    In introducing Mr. Kasich on Tuesday, Mr. Palomarez took another veiled shot at Mr. Trump over his cancellation, noting that there was another “fellow who chickened out” and thanking Mr. Kasich for “keeping your word and coming to talk to the Hispanic community — unlike others in your party.”


    Mr. Kasich responded, “My pleasure. Why wouldn’t I come?”


    Mr. Trump has received an “A-” grade from Numbers USA, which wants to crack down on immigration, while Mr. Kasich has received a “D” from the group.


    Still, the Democratic National Committee said Mr. Kasich and Mr. Trump are similar on immigration.


    “Like his fellow Republicans running for president, Kasich only peddles the same failed policies that already left too many Americans behind during the last two Republican administrations,” said Pablo Manriquez, director of Hispanic media for the DNC.


    Mr. Kasich is running seventh in national polls, and is focusing much of his attention on a strong showing in New Hampshire, where he is running in fifth place.

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...lleg/?page=all






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    Can John Kasich be the 'Trump killer'?
    Softly spoken Ohio governor hopes his centrist credentials make him the candidate best placed to
    defeat Donald Trump and then claim the White House for a shell-shocked Republican party




    publican presidential candidate and Ohio Governor John Katich Photo: Getty Images

    By Nick Allen, Washington

    7:54PM GMT 19 Mar 2016

    Slight of build and soft of voice, he is the polar opposite of his brash billionaire opponent. But as mainstream Republicans try desperately to steer their party away from meltdown, John Kasich, the governor of Ohio, has acquired the unlikely title of "Trump Killer".

    The 63-year-old career politician has emerged as a possible final hope for the party establishment after a stunning victory over Mr Trump last week in his home state, where his 11 percentage point victory margin exceeded all expectations. As one Kasich aide said: "We absolutely crushed it."

    Millions of dollars are now pouring into the campaign of a man who had previously barely registered in the race.

    Mr Kasich has no chance of overhauling Mr Trump at the ballot box, as he is already simply too far behind.

    Instead, party grandees hopes he will slow the Trump juggernaut, particularly in "rust belt" states like Pennsylvania where Mr Kasich, a postman's son, appeals to the same working class voters who might otherwise vote for Mr Trump.

    During the endless series of televised Republican debates in recent months he was a peripheral figure, perched at the edge of the stage where moderators rarely asked him a question.

    He didn't complain, politely waiting his turn and ignoring the bickering and fear-mongering of other candidates. Then he would speak optimistically about "hope" and "decency" and outline his long record of public service.
    That kept him out the headlines - but also spared him the brutal personal maulings meted by Mr Trump to rivals such as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, who dropped out of the race last week.

    With the race thinning, Republican voters seeking memories of the party's past days of greatness have finally started listening to Mr Kasich. Especially two weeks ago when he evoked the memory of Ronald Reagan, the man considered by Republicans of all shades to be their last real leader in the Oval Office.

    "I was there when Ronald Reagan rebuilt the military, when Ronald Reagan rebuilt the economy," Mr Kasich said. "I knew Ronald Reagan, I worked with him. I'll leave it there...you can figure the rest out."

    Last week, that also led to an important breakthrough for Mr Kasich in the form an endorsement from Michael Reagan, the late president's son, who said the Ohio governor was the man to "continue my father's great legacy".

    "You see many Republicans claiming the label of 'Reagan conservative' but not many who truly embody my father's principles and spirit," Mr Reagan said. "John Kasich is a noteworthy exception."

    So what is the life story of the "Trump killer"? As a young man, Mr Kasich, who was the grandson of poor Czech and Croatian immigrants, was something of a political prodigy.

    Born in a small town near Pittsburgh, he wrote a letter about his ideas to President Richard Nixon when he was 18 years old. Nixon read it and was impressed, inviting the teenager to the Oval Office and listening to him for 20 minutes one to one. Mr Kasich was elected a US congressman aged 30.

    He soon hit the headlines for the wrong reasons, however, when he was ejected from a Grateful Dead concert in Washington after trying to get on the stage. He remains a rock fan and has vowed to make Pink Floyd reunite if he becomes president.

    In Congress, he became chairman of the Budget Committee, and by 2010, he was governor of Ohio, where he gained plaudits for turning the state's $8 billion deficit into a $2 billion surplus while adding 450,000 jobs.

    In stark contrast to Mr Trump
    , he supports legal status for those among Americas 12 million illegal immigrants who have obeyed the law, saying many have "contributed a lot to the United States".

    In Ohio, he favours rehabilitation over prison for drug offences and, most controversially among Republicans, used Obamacare to expand health coverage to hundreds of thousands of people in his state. He also declared years ago that climate change was real.

    On foreign policy, he opposes admitting Syrian refugees, saying they cannot be properly screened, but has repeatedly called for US ground troops to be sent to defeat Isis .

    But much as Mr Kasich says the kind of things that please moderate Republicans, the maths in the race for the party nomination - which award delegates to each candidate based on the popular vote - do not favour him.

    To win outright, Mr Trump would have to reach 1,237 delegates, which would make him the automatic nominee when delegates gather at the Republican national convention in July. He currently has 678, Texas senator Ted Cruz 423, and Mr Kasich 143.

    However, if Mr Trump fails to reach the magic number then the delegates, who are often long-time party officials and activists, will be able to vote for whoever they like at the convention. That effectively gives the Stop Trump movement a second chance to derail him, and has already led to delegates receiving behind the-scenes lobbying calls.

    In such a scenario, the maths also swing slightly more in Mr Kasich's favour. Polls show him performing much better than Mr Trump or rival candidate Senator Ted Cruz in a general election match-up against Hillary Clinton.

    Mr Kasich believes delegates' loathing of Mrs Clinton will persuade them to choose him over Mr Trump and Mr Cruz.

    "I’m the only one who can win a general election," he said. "These other folks aren’t going to."

    However, some senior party figures remain unconvinced of Mr Kasich, and are instead pinning their hopes on Mr Cruz, whose firebrand conservative views they found unpalatable until recently.

    Mitt Romney, the party's 2012 presidential nominee, said at the weekend that he "liked" Mr Kasich but would be voting for Mr Cruz because he believed the senator had a better chance of defeating Mr Trump.

    One thing is certain: whichever candidate ends up in a final battle against Mr Trump can expect a bruising encounter. As Sam Clovis, co-chairman of Mr Trump's campaign, put it: "What we have here is a bunch of sore losers."


    • 15 March 2016

      Kasich finally wins a primary

      Although it would have been a massive disappointment if he did not win, Mr Kasich wins the primary in Ohio, where he is governor.
    • 1 March 2016

      Super Tuesday

      Kasich fails to pick up a single state in the biggest night of voting so far. He's expected to withdraw if he fails to beat Trump in his own home state of Ohio on 15 March.
    • 23 February 2016

      Nevada caucus

      Although he remains trailing the other Republican candidates, Kasich appears committed to staying in the running until the very end.
    • 20 February 2016

      South Carolina primary

      Kasich places fifth in South Carolina. As competitor Jeb Bush drops out, Kasich is now the only governor left in the running.
    • 9 February 2016

      New Hampshire breakthrough

      After focusing on the Granite State – with 186 events before polling day, second only to Chris Christie - he finishes as runner-up, the strongest showing of any of the establishment candidates.
    • 30 January 2016

      Grey lady endorsement
    • 19 December 2015

      “Make Tyranny Great Again”



      Further underlined his credentials as one of the candidates willing to take on Donald Trump when his campaign produced a website for a spoof Trump-Putin 2016 ticket.
    • 10 November 2015

      “Look, I hate to crash the party...”

      Having failed to make an impact in early TV debates and struggling in the polls, Mr Kasich displays a more muscular approach, interrupting his way into the spotlight and taking on Donald Trump, winning decidedly mixed reviews.
    • 21 July 2015

      Kasich for America

      The Ohio governor – with a reputation for liberal positions on immigration and gay marriage - becomes the 16th serious Republican to launch a presidential bid, with a rambling 43-minute speech.
    • 8 July 2015

      New Hampshire or bust

      Gambles early on the crucial primary state of New Hampshire, buying $1.5 million in TV advertising spots before any other candidate and before he has even declared a run for the White House.

    • The New York Times endorses Mr Kasich as the “only plausible” choice in a brutish Republican race – something of a mixed blessing for a candidate frequently attacked for not being conservative enough.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...mp-killer.html
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