We need to prepare a documented release on John Kasich that lets everyone know this guy is bad news. Please post any links and materials here that could help me to prepare tomorrow's release.
William Gheen
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We need to prepare a documented release on John Kasich that lets everyone know this guy is bad news. Please post any links and materials here that could help me to prepare tomorrow's release.
William Gheen
www.alipac.us
Kasich voted for NAFTA when he was in Congress. Trump didn't know until late in the race which is why he says he needed another couple of days in Ohio or he would have won Ohio.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...ill-lose-ohio/
Kind of minor but.....
Sheriff David Clarke Posts Video of John Kasich Calling Cop an Idiot
March 17, 2016
Young Conservatives
A video from a few years back featuring Ohio Gov. John Kasich calling a law enforcement officer an idiot is resurfacing, and boy, oh boy, is it making this guy even more unpopular than he already is.
Yes, that’s actually possible.
Outspoken Sheriff David Clarke is none too happy with Kasich over the video as he made clear in a recent tweet.
https://t.co/LXDIrZtj3r @JohnKasich is anti gun and anti cop and people,say Trump is not conservative? Seriously? https://t.co/IHR5wLWIev
— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) March 17, 2016
Police officers have had a rough go of things over the last year or so, thanks to race baiting liberals who have done their best to keep people divided through false narratives designed to make cops look like evil racists bent on murder and oppression.
Treating law enforcement with respect has been one of many themes popping up during this presidential election, and this video is likely to finish putting the final nail in the coffin for Kasich’s campaign.
Not like it needed much help. It was pretty much dead already.
http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines...8p5wnyi9xasxqm
WATCH: Video Catches SICK Thing Kasich Did to Honest Cop Who Stopped Him
Now that the powers that be in the GOP establishment have thrown their weight behind Ohio Gov. John Kasich, the one remaining “status quo big government” Republican in the presidential race, he is actually garnering attention for some things he has said and done in the past — and they aren’t all good.
A police dash cam video dating from 2008 was recently posted to social media by outspoken Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke showing Kasich being pulled over by a Columbus, Ohio, police officer, along with Kasich’s commentary regarding the stop some 10 days later, according to Young Conservatives.
Kasich had been pulled over and ticketed for not yielding sufficient room to another police officer that had someone else pulled over on the shoulder of a busy highway.
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Speaking to a group of Ohio EPA workers just 10 days later, Kasich referred to the officer as an “idiot” numerous times, revealing his disrespectful attitude towards not just that officer, but law enforcement in general, as well as the laws of his own state — which he, as a member of the state legislature, had helped write.https://t.co/LXDIrZtj3r @JohnKasich is anti gun and anti cop and people,say Trump is not conservative? Seriously? https://t.co/IHR5wLWIevKasich asked the group, “Have you ever been stopped by a policeman who was an idiot?”
— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) March 17, 2016
“I had this idiot pull me over on 315,” Kasich continued, relating the story of how the officer explained that he had failed to move over or slow down as he passed an emergency vehicle with its lights on, as is required in Ohio.
He proceeded to explain how the cop told him that the court date was mandatory and a warrant would be issued for his arrest if he failed to appear. Kasich then angrily spewed, “He’s an idiot!”
However, the dash-cam video of the officer that pulled him over showed a different story, as he remained calm and professional throughout the incident and exchange.
The video also clearly showed Kasich driving past a police car stopped on the shoulder with its lights on without slowing down or moving to the center lane, as is required.
John Kasich is already not particularly popular with the voting base of the GOP, hence his single-digit finishes in most state primaries that have occurred outside of Ohio and the Rust Belt.
This glimpse into the mind of Kasich just eight years ago shows a lack of respect for an officer of the law who was simply doing his job, something that certainly won’t help him gain any additional popularity going forward.
https://youtu.be/nTf_qyRXhxk
http://conservativetribune.com/video...ent=2016-03-21
Sheriff David Clarke Posts Video of John Kasich Calling Cop an Idiot
March 17, 2016
Young Conservatives
A video from a few years back featuring Ohio Gov. John Kasich calling a law enforcement officer an idiot is resurfacing, and boy, oh boy, is it making this guy even more unpopular than he already is.
Yes, that’s actually possible.
Outspoken Sheriff David Clarke is none too happy with Kasich over the video as he made clear in a recent tweet.https://t.co/LXDIrZtj3r @JohnKasich is anti gun and anti cop and people,say Trump is not conservative? Seriously? https://t.co/IHR5wLWIev
— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) March 17, 2016
Police officers have had a rough go of things over the last year or so, thanks to race baiting liberals who have done their best to keep people divided through false narratives designed to make cops look like evil racists bent on murder and oppression.
Treating law enforcement with respect has been one of many themes popping up during this presidential election, and this video is likely to finish putting the final nail in the coffin for Kasich’s campaign.
Not like it needed much help. It was pretty much dead already.
http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines...8p5wnyi9xasxqm
Kasich supports TPP which he calls PTT. He supports these free trade treason agreements:
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...ptt-trade-deal
Click here for 11 full quotes on Immigration OR other candidates on Immigration OR background on Immigration.
It's a silly argument to ship 11M illegals back to Mexico. (Nov 2015)
Focus of immigration should be to keep families together. (Sep 2015)
Latino immigrants will continue to play critical role in US. (Sep 2015)
Focus on border & guest workers, not birthright citizenship. (Sep 2015)
1993: end birthright citizenship; 2015: not part of approach. (Aug 2015)
Seal the border with Mexico, support legal immigrants. (Jul 2015)
Open to pathway to citizenship, but doesn't like it. (Feb 2015)
Post-Sept-11 open-door melting-pot is essentially intact. (May 2006)
Limit the number of legal immigrants, and their benefits. (Nov 1996)
Voted YES on more immigrant visas for skilled workers. (Sep 1998)
Declared English the official language of the US. (Jan 1999)
http://www.ontheissues.org/John_Kasich.htm
Kasich's words contradict his trade deal backing........excerpt
In tonight’s debate, Kasich similarly adopted talking points that seem to contradict his support for Obama’s trade agenda. Kasich told Tapper:
I grew up in a blue collar family. And the simple fact of the matter is that of course we’re sensitive about trade… my position has always been we want to have free trade, but fair trade. And I’ve been arguing all along that it is absolutely critical that when other countries break those agreements, we don’t turn the process over to some international bureaucrat who comes back a couple years later and says, “Oh, America was right,” and people are out of work. The fact of the matter is we have to have an expedited process. When people cheat, when countries cheat and they take advantage of us, we need to blow the whistle. And as president of the United States, I absolutely will blow the whistle and begin to stand up for the American worker. But we don’t want to lock the doors and pull down the blinds and leave the world. Because frankly, if we do that, prices will go up. People will buy less. Other people will be out of work. And we don’t want to see that happen. Trade, though, has to be balanced and we have to make sure that when we see a violation, like some country dumping their products into this country, believe me as president, I will stand up and I will shut down those imports because they’re a violation of the agreement we have and the American worker expects us to stand up.However, Kasich has similarly been a supporter of Obama’s trade agenda, which economists say could have a significant impact on the nation’s manufacturing core. According to analysis from the Economic Policy Institute, in 2015 Kasich’s home state of Ohio lost 112,500 jobs due to the nation’s trade deficit with TPP countries.
In particular, the Wall Street Journal writes that TPP would harm the U.S. automobile industry. Citing a study by Peter Petri, a professor of international finance at Brandeis University, the WSJ writes that, “the TPP could boost imports by an extra $30.8 billion by 2025, compared with an exports gain of $7.8 billion.” While the Japanese auto industry has “hailed” the TPP agreement, American automakers including Ford —recognizing the unfair advantage it will give their foreign competitors — have come out against it.
This could have a detrimental impact on Ohio in particular, as “Ohio is at the center of the motor vehicle industry with 72.2 percent of [North] American light vehicle production either in Ohio or within 500 miles (805 kilometers) of its borders,” according to a Ohio government report. “Seventy-five of Ohio’s 88 counties have at least one motor vehicle industry establishment,” the report states.
Yet despite the impact the TPP could have on Ohio auto industry and its workers, in November, Kasich said that “The trade agreement – the TPP – it’s critical to us not only for economic reasons and for jobs because there’s so many people who are connected to getting jobs because of trade, but it allows us to create not only economic alliances, but also potentially strategic alliances against the Chinese.”
For full story......
http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...-miami-debate/
Kasich is not "Presidential". He talks alike a bumpkin and rolls in his speech in such a way that he gives me motion sickness. He doesn't think right on immigration or trade and unless you're on target with those 2 issues, it doesn't matter what you think on anything else.
Saving our country begins and ends with addressing these two issues in a proper way and the proper way is to demand a stop to all illegal immigration, removal of all illegal aliens from the country, a pause to new immigration until we figure out what exactly if any additional population we need if and when we need it, building the wall, enforcing the law, making as many changes to existing law that are needed to expedite the removal of all illegal aliens, reversing this absurd and insane practice of allowing illegal aliens to breed citizen of a country they aren't even supposed to be in, and reversing these disastrous trade deals so we have balanced or hopefully surplus trade balances not these horrible trade deficits.
Protecting and governing the United States is not a "We are the world" exercise, we are not a Coca-Cola commercial. We are a nation, and that's serious business, our leaders are supposed to operate with a fiduciary obligation to protect the American interest, the American nation, the American worker, the American citizen, and the American taxpayer. And not one of them in decades has done so. They've done the opposite. They've all protected and served the foreign interest at the expense of the American interest.
Kasich is just more of the same o, same o, and he's got to go! But he won't go, he's in there to spoil this race for Donald Trump because he knows Trump will turn this around and fix our country. And Cruz is no different than Kasich, he just lies about it, in my opinion.
I mean Kasich is such a weenie, he thinks he can fix terrorism with hugs at a Town Hall. No, it takes hard line policies to fix this mess. Policies that are hard for some Americans to even grasp because they've been educated by Coca-Cola commercials instead of a solid educational system.
We are not the world. We are the United States, being devoured by foreign interests, foreign governments and foreign businesses like an Elephant tied to a tree in a jungle of hungry lions. Kasich is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
One point we need to make is he is clearly just in this race to try to play the spoiler to stop Trump which is a really shitty reason to run for office.
W
It's the epitome of the insiders establishment goal of trying to reverse the will of the people when the will of the people doesn't suit them. They're scared to death of Trump because he's going to rock their world on immigration and trade, and while they spew from one side of their mouths "it can't be done", "he won't really do it", "the laws don't allow it", blah, blah, blah they spew from the other side in their secret meetings their fear and knowledge that he will do exactly what he says which is why Romney and all that dumb crowd started the STOP TRUMP, NEVER TRUMP, ANYONE BUT TRUMP campaign and Kasich is part of that if you ask me. Kasich is their new monkey.
Every time I think about this Romney, Ryan, Kasich, Cruz (oh yes he's in which is why Romney is making a big splash about voting for him) Establishment, I think of that Office Max commercial where the monkeys took over the office building and wreck it. That's what they've done to the United States, the same as taking a wrecking ball to everything our people worked centuries to build and achieve.
How Ohio Gov. John Kasich Is Making Life Hell for Women Seeking Abortions
The newest GOP candidate has signed every single restriction on abortion and family planning that has landed in front of him.
By Allie Gross
Mon Jul. 27, 2015 6:10 AM EDT
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Gov. John Kasich signs Ohio's 2016-17 budget, which contains new anti-abortion measures. Jay LaPrete/AP
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, the latest Republican to step into the presidential fray, has widely been labeled the moderate in a GOP field that tilts sharply to the right. Climate change? It's real. Common Core educational standards? He'll take it. Medicaid expansion? Sure. Immigration reform? He's open to the possibilities. But his celebrated moderation disappears when it comes to reproductive rights. The religious * former congressman and two-term governor is a hardliner on abortion: As governor he's signed and supported some of the most stringent anti-abortion legislation in the country.
"Kasich is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He's going out there trying to sell himself as a moderate, he's no moderate. He is an extremist," says Kellie Copeland, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, an abortion rights advocacy group. "He is—if not the worst—among the worst of anti-choice governors in this country's history."
Since Kasich entered office in 2011, he has enacted 16 anti-abortion measures.Some directly restrict abortion access, such as the 20-week late-term ban that he signed six months after entering office. Others limit the work of abortion providers.For example, in 2013 he signed the state's budget bill, which included one provision that prohibits state-funded rape crisis counselors from referring women to abortion services and another that stripped Planned Parenthood of an estimated $1.4 million in federal family-planning dollars. The measures have had drastic consequences for access to abortion and medical care for Ohio women: During Kasich's time in office, the number of abortion providers in the state has dropped from 16 to eight.
"Kasich is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He's going out there trying to sell himself as a moderate, he's no moderate. He is an extremist."
Ohio has long been a leader in imposing anti-abortion laws. According to Elizabeth Nash, a policy analyst at the Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit that supports abortion rights, the state has been viewed as an incubator for new anti-abortion legislation for decades. In 1995, the Ohio legislature passed the country's first state ban on "partial birth" abortions, a rare late-term procedure used nationally in only about 2,200 abortions a year in extreme instances when there are severe health complications for either the mother or the child. While the bill was struck down in federal court and the Supreme Court later denied an appeal, Ohio's initial move set off a wave of copycat bills throughout the country that culminated in President George W. Bush signing the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act in 2003, which outlawed the procedure nationally. "Ohio is a testing ground for abortion restrictions," says Nash.
During his first term as governor, Kasich was outspoken in his anti-abortion rhetoric. In 2011, after signing the Late-Term Abortion Ban, a bill that required physicians to test the viability of an unborn child if the mother sought an abortion at 20 weeks or later in her pregnancy, Kasich released a statement saying, "Life is a gift from God and one way that we express our ongoing gratitude for it is by respecting it. This bill does that in a very fundamental way and I'm proud to have signed it into law." In October 2012, Kasich appointed Michael Gonidakis, the Ohio Right to Life President, to the state medical board.
He is no longer so direct. Abortion limitations have been slipped into larger budget bills. "Now the major vehicle in Ohio is the budget bill," explains Nash. "In most states we see standalone restrictions become law, but in Ohio we see restrictions become law through the budget bill."
In July 2013, before he signed the state budget, Kasich vetoed 22 amendments, including one that would have blocked him from expanding Medicaid. But hidden within the final budget were a number of provisions that would drastically limit a women's right to choose. In addition to cutting Planned Parenthood funds and threatening to cut funding to rape crisis centers that offered advice on terminating pregnancies, the budget included provisions that greatly affect how abortion clinics operate today. In clinics that receive state funding, women seeking abortions are now required to pay for and receive a medically unnecessary ultrasound to check for a fetal heartbeat. Physicians are also required to read a script, written by conservative Ohio legislators, about the "fetal heartbeat" to any woman seeking the procedure.
The provision in that package that had the greatest impact on abortion providers may have been one that dealt with Ohio's controversial transfer agreement laws. Since 1996, all abortion clinics in Ohio have had to enter into an "transfer" agreement with a local hospital, in which a woman would be transferred to a specific hospital if an emergency occurred during an abortion procedure. A 2013 budget provision prohibited public hospitals from entering into these agreements, something they had been doing for years. While only 18 of the state's 220 hospitals are public, this mandate placed a crunch on clinics that were unable to find other hospitals once their public partnerships were suddenly voided. Since the 2013 budget was passed, five abortion clinics have closed because they couldn't retain hospital emergency-care affiliations.
"I think the thing that makes this surprising to people is he never talks about this," says Copeland of NARAL Ohio. "All you'll ever find is he says, 'I'm pro-life.' That's it. He wants do this on the down-low."
"Why was it important to have a piece of legislation that literally imposed a gag rule on rape crisis counselors?"
When Kasich was ran for re-election in 2014, he and his opponent Ed FitzGerald participated in a taped interview with the Cleveland Plain Dealer. FitzGerald asked the governor about the 2013 budget provision that prevented rape crisis counselors from letting victims know they have a legal right to an abortion. "Why was it important to have a piece of legislation that literally imposed a gag rule on rape crisis counselors?"
FitzGerald asked. "Do you have a question?" Kasich replied. After some coaxing from the Plain Dealer, Kasich said he was pro-life except in instances of rape or incest, but refused to address the provision's effect on rape victims. Following the taping, Kasich's team tried to get the Plain Dealer to take the video down, saying the governor was unaware that he was being recorded.
The 2015 budget Kasich signed this summer included still more reproductive rights restrictions. It once again targeted the transfer agreements, this time requiring that transfer hospital be located within 30 miles of the clinic (previous bills just said the hospital had to be "local"). While a judge recently ruled that Toledo's one remaining clinic could stay open—the Ohio Department of Health tried to shut it down saying its transfer agreement with the University of Michigan System wasn't "local" enough—the new budget language once again puts the clinic at risk since the Ann Arbor hospital is about 50 miles away from the clinic.
Copeland, of NARAL Ohio, says the likelihood of a complication requiring emergency care during a first-term abortion is less than half of one percent. If an ambulance is actually called, transfer agreements are unnecessary because all hospitals are federally mandated to see an emergency patient. "This has nothing to do with patient safety," she says. "This is about abusing the regulatory process to effectively outlaw abortion in communities, because they can't outlaw it outright."
In June, the Ohio Senate passed a standalone bill called the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act—a 20-week abortion ban similar to one Congress considered but withdrew in January. State Sen. Charleta Tavares, a Democrat from Columbus, described the measure to the Plain Dealer as "one of the most extreme abortion bans in the country." If it passes in the House and makes it to Kasich's desk, he is expected to sign it.
Correction: This story originally stated that John Kasich is Catholic. While he grew up practicing Catholicism—describing his childhood as a "a card-carrying Catholic"—today Kasich is a member of the Anglican Church in North America.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/wolf-sheeps-clothing-gov-kasichs-reproductive-rights-record
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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
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.
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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-timeMedicaid began as a program to help our most vulnerable citizens – low income children, pregnant woman, and elderly citizens, and the disabled. By extending
employees, nearly double the 55 it had four years ago.”
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.
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CLEVELAND - A News Channel 5 Investigation found 27% homicide increase in five of Ohio’s largest cities increased in 2015.
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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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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
Lorrie!! Great research on Kasich!! KABOOM!! These should help W a lot with his release!
Cincinnati, Ohio - A Top 10 US Murder Capital -FBI
Cincinnati Is A Dump - Black Crime In Cincinnati
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Surge In 2015 ‘Nati Violent Crime Baffles Clueless
Experts & City Officials
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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.
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A Cincinnati Youngster ie (Future gang yoof) gets schooled on the finer points of
‘No Snitching’ by an elder baby momma welfare leech.
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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
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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.
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GO LORRIE GO!!! WOW! GREAT STUFF!!
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
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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.
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Kasich responds to anti-Trump 'split the map' strategy
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Kasich: Here’s How I’ll Win the Nomination – and the Election
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Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Sunday laid out his strategy for overtaking frontrunner Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to win the GOP presidential nomination this summer, and it pretty much hinges on a political wing and a prayer.
During appearances on several Sunday talk shows, Kasich -- who has thus far won just a single primary contest in his home state of Ohio – was adamant that Trump will come up short in the delegate count prior to the July national convention in Cleveland. Kasich predicted he will eventually garner the nomination in an open convention on the basis of his broad government experience and electability in a general election against Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Unfazed by billionaire businessman Trump’s warnings of rioting by his supporters if he is denied the nomination, Kasich voiced boundless optimism that his experience in the House balancing the budget and reforming the Pentagon in the 1990s and as a successful governor of a major Midwestern industrial state will help him win.
“I think when they take a look at my record, both in Washington and Ohio with the job growth, the wage growth, reforming the Pentagon, and can understand I have the cross-over appeal, I think I will be picked,” Kasich said during an appearance on CBS News’ Face the Nation. “So, I don’t think anybody is going to get there with the delegates that they need to win.”
Kasich was highly dismissive of calls by both arch-conservatives and more establishment Republicans to drop out of the race so that Cruz, who has more delegates than Kasich, would have a better chance of overtaking Trump. For instance, Cruz would have a much better chance of winning Utah’s 40 delegates on Tuesday with Kasich out of the picture.
“Right now, every vote for John Kasich is a vote for Donald Trump,” Cruz told reporters over the weekend during intense campaigning in Arizona and Utah ahead of Tuesday’s primaries.
“Wait a minute. Why don’t they drop out?” Kasich snapped. “I’m the one who can win in the fall.”
Kasich said that it was both “inappropriate” and “outrageous” for Trump to suggest there would be riots if the party denied him the nomination this summer if he falls just shy of the 1,237 delegates needed to claim the nomination. “Leaders don't imply violence," Kasich told John Dickerson, host of Face the Nation.
“While we have our differences and disagreements, we're Americans,” Kasich said in response to a question about whether he thought Trump was actually fomenting violence. “Americans don't say, 'Let's take to the streets and have violence.'"
Trump was at it again on Sunday, downplaying any culpability he had in recent fist-fights at his campaign rallies and trying to explain why many of his supporters – including newcomers to the party attracted by his angry populist themes – might be motivated to riot if they thought he was being cheated out of the nomination.
“If you’re going to disenfranchise all of those people, some of whom have never voted before … I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I can say this, we’re going to have a lot of very unhappy people,” Trump told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week.
Trump so far has won 18 of the 30 GOP primary and caucus contests this year and has racked up 678 delegates – or little more than half of the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination. Cruz, the tea party conservative from Texas, has won eight contests and claimed 413 delegates. And Kasich is bringing up the rear with just one victory to his name and 143 delegates.
Trump warned that Republicans would almost certainly lose in November if the GOP “disenfranchises” all the people he has brought into the party during the primary contests.
But many in the party – including some mounting an “anybody but Trump” campaign or are contemplating supporting an independent, third-party candidate in the fall – hotly dispute Trump’s claim that he would be entitled to the nomination, even if he arrives at the convention several hundred delegates short of a majority.
Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus, who has remained neutral on the contest as Trump has exerted more influence over the party’s direction, said Sunday that the real estate magnate was not entitled to the nomination unless he can win a majority of the delegates.
“You to have a majority of the delegates in order to be the nominee,” Priebus said in an interview on This Week. “There’s nothing magical about the number. It’s 50 percent plus one.”
He added that “no one is disenfranchised” by the process, even if Trump ultimately loses the contest in a convention that goes beyond the first ballot. Voters are enfranchised because they are electing delegates to the national convention who are bound to their candidates on the first ballot. “That’s all it is,” he said.
When asked whether he can guarantee that the party’s nominee will be one of the three remaining candidates running now, Priebus replied: “I think it would be somewhat very unusual [if someone else ultimately was nominated], but I can’t 100 percent guarantee that.”
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Kasich on getting out of race: 'That's nuts'
Says it isn't likely any GOP candidate will get required 1,237 delegates
By David Wright CNN
Posted: 11:45 AM, March 21, 2016
Updated: 11:45 AM, March 21, 2016
John Kasich rejected the suggestion that he is helping Donald Trump win the Republican presidential nomination by staying in the primary race, arguing that he should stay because he is the only GOP candidate who can beat Democrat Hillary Clinton in a general election.
"Am I a spoiler? Of course I'm not a spoiler," Kasich laughed in an interview on CNN's "New Day" on Monday morning.
"If I'm the only one that can beat Hillary in the fall, why would anybody say I should leave? I mean that's just -- that's nuts!"
Kasich was pressed by host Alisyn Camerota to explain his path to the Republican nomination, since it is mathematically impossible for him to reach the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination outright -- a fact that supporters of GOP opponent Ted Cruz eagerly point out.
As he has in the past, Kasich countered that it wasn't likely that any of the candidates would end up with the required 1,237 delegates, and that he expected to win nomination at a contested convention because of his electability and record.
"We are probably going to go to a convention, nobody will have enough delegates," he said. "There's not going to be enough delegates for anybody."
"The fact is what we are looking forward to is an extension of this primary process," the Ohio governor continued, "which ultimately will be a convention and there delegates will make a choice. I believe I will be selected because of electability and because of the other thing that we seem to lose sight of: who can be a good president."
Kasich also dismissed his delegate math problem, pointing to favorable Western and Northern states coming up on the primary calendar and joking, "Everything is mathematically -- how many times can we float around the moon or something, mathematically -- who cares about that? (Trump) will not have enough delegates. He's going to go there without enough delegates."
And in a sign of the contentious path forward for the Republican nominating contest, Kasich fired a parting shot at Cruz, who has been among the loudest voices calling on Kasich to drop out and thereby set up a one-on-one contest between the Texas senator and Trump for the GOP nomination.
"People are beginning to look at the three candidates, and they're saying, 'Who can win?'" Kasich said. "Who has the experience? We spent the last seven years saying, 'How could we have elected a first-term United States senator?'"
"I don't think amnesia has totally set in. Maybe it has. We'll wake them up."
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He's a spoiler alright and look how he tries to hang on to the successes of other people. I was there when Reagan did this and Reagan did that. He claims he balanced the budget, but it was Clinton who balanced the budget. He went somewhere in Congress after 9/11, yeah, right everyone went somewhere after 9/11, but guess what, you didn't solve the problem or prevent it. Kasich was in Congress before 9/11 and we still had 9/11. Reagan signed amnesty and look where that got us, I bet Kasich was there standing behind Reagan as he signed the bill. Kasich was there when Congress passed NAFTA and voted for it, look where that got us. Now he supports the TPP.
Kasich is wrong on the two key issues of this election: immigration and trade.
And when you're wrong on those two, then you can't be right about anything else, because it's all linked to those two.
Put him to bed, UTAH and ARIZONA. Bring it home for Trump!
Politics 373105761 Kasich, hanging on in GOP presidential race, says he's most electable
By Patrick Condon Star Tribune
March 22, 2016 — 4:11pm
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Video (02:34) : Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich responds to Brussels
terror attacks while speaking at the Minneapolis Club in downtown Minneapolis.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, one of the Republican Party’s last two alternatives to Donald Trump in the presidential race, stopped in Minneapolis briefly on Tuesday to raise money for his campaign.
Kasich also used the stop to comment on the bomb attacks in Brussels that left at least 31 dead on Tuesday.
“Today is a sad day for the civilized world,” Kasich said in a press conference at the Minneapolis Club, the site of his fundraiser.
Kasich criticized President Obama for not returning his trip to Cuba in response, and said as president he would put a greater priority on eliminating the Islamic State group, which has claimed responsibility.
Kasich’s Minneapolis visit included no public events or stops, and was limited to the fundraiser. It was hosted by Tom Horner, a former Minnesota Republican operative and public relations executive who was the Independence Party candidate for governor in 2010.
A number of familiar faces from Republican political circles and the business world were at the fundraiser. The Republican race is down to Trump, Kasich and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, and Kasich said he believed none would get enough delegates to prevent a contested Republican national convention.
We’re going to go forward and compete in all the remaining states and the convention will be nothing but an extension of this political process,” Kasich said. He also touted a message of electability.
“I’m the only candidate according to all the polls who can beat Hillary Clinton in the polls which I think is what our purpose was,” Kasich said.
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The only reason at this early stage that Kasich beats Clinton is because he's more Clinton than she is. Same with those polls awhile back on Cruz and Rubio.
A lot of Democrats like people who welcome Muslims, Illegal Aliens and Open Borders and Hugs. Democrats like people who perpetuate our problems rather than solving them. Democrats like amnesty, instate tuition for illegals, endless foreign student visas that steal seats from American Kids, mountains of new immigrants to steal jobs from American Workers. They love public schools costing more than any in the world with the poorest results because there's 87 languages being spoken in a school system like the Nashville, TN school system. They love everything that dumbs us down, makes us stupid and broke because it all grows government through the welfare poverty state.
So sure, they love candidates like Kasich who supports all their crap and reduces their taxes on top of it. In other words, they love the BoomBahs that created this mess to maintain the status quo and its downward projectory.
Sure, Kasich is the man alright, if you're looking to elect the last President of the United States because we won't be a country any more, just a big blob in the map of the Western Hemisphere governed by the UN and the WTO.
No thanks!
It's Trump for me.
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