* If you look at some of the ratings put up at Project Vote Smart, Kasich had some very low ratings in some very important areas.
Project Vote Smart:
Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
2000 Kasich supported the interests of the American Civil Liberties Union 20 percent in 2000.
1999-2000 Kasich supported the interests of the Home School Legal Defense Association 60 percent in 1999-2000.
1999-2000 Kasich supported the interests of the Human Rights Campaign 10 percent in 1999-2000.
1999 Kasich supported the interests of the American Civil Liberties Union 22 percent in 1999.
1999 Kasich supported the interests of the Human Rights Campaign 9 percent in 1999.
1999 Kasich supported the interests of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 9 percent in 1999.
1999 Kasich supported the interests of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda 0 percent in 1999.
1997-1998 Kasich supported the interests of the American Civil Liberties Union 6 percent in 1997-1998.
1997-1998 Kasich supported the interests of the Campaign for a Color Blind America 100* percent in 1997-1998.
1997-1998 Kasich supported the interests of the Home School Legal Defense Association 80 percent in 1997-1998.
1997-1998 Kasich supported the interests of the Human Rights Campaign 12 percent in 1997-1998.
1997-1998 Kasich supported the interests of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights 16 percent in 1997-1998.
1997-1998 Kasich supported the interests of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 16.7 percent in 1997-1998.
1997-1998 Kasich supported the interests of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda 17 percent in 1997-1998.
1997 Kasich supported the interests of the American Civil Liberties Union 0 percent in 1997.
1996 Kasich supported the interests of the American Civil Liberties Union 6 percent in 1996.
1995-1996 Kasich supported the interests of the Human Rights Campaign 22 percent in 1995-1996.
1995-1996 Kasich supported the interests of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights 20 percent in 1995-1996.
1995-1996 Kasich supported the interests of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 18 percent in 1995-1996.
1995-1996 Kasich supported the interests of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda 10 percent in 1995-1996.
NOTE: * The "Campaign for a Color Blind America" is actually a right wing, conservative group opposed to affirmative action.
** On Guns
For some reason, John Kasich has gone out of his way to make it seem like he has some endorsement from gun owners. He doesn't. The Kasich campaign has made such a spectacle of themselves over the gun issue, that the campaign looks just plain foolish.
The DailyBellwether blog has another screw up by the Kasich campaign related to gun issues:
The pro-gun Buckeye Firearms Association says John Kasich, Republican candidate for Ohio governor, has stooped to using a photo of a fake Ohio hunter in his campaign literature. It calls him a gun-rights phony. Or, as Ken Hanson, the group's legislative chair put it today, "Kasich is finding religion like a nervous whore in church on Sunday." Hanson said the picture of a hunter in a recent mailer wasn't from Ohio -- the hunter depicted is aiming a scoped rifle. But hunting with such weapons is illegal in Ohio. Rifle slugs can travel too far from open fields and stray into populated areas. So the scene was staged. Or it was purloined from some other state. Either way, it proves that Kasich knows nearly nothing about hunting or guns. In other ads this year, Kasich has used a fake steelworker and a fake journalist....
...Strickland talks about the days when his family had to hunt for food when times were hard. The Buckeye Firearms Association says Kasich's mailer has another distortion -- it claims Kasich has NRA support....
UPDATE: 2:10 pm -- At Ohio Daily Blog, which has linked to The Daily Bellwether, Kasich's hunter photo is being compared to a golfer teeing off with a putter. Only idiots would try to play like that. And only the Kasich campaign would try to fool sportsmen with an idiotic photo. Says Ohio Daily: "There are numerous reasons why Ohio sportsmen reject John Kasich. First, is his F rating from the NRA. That's right. I said it. F! F! F! The Ohio Elections Commission today dismissed Kasich's claim that somehow he didn't receive an F. He did. And we're repeating it in case you skimmed over it. F! Second, Kasich forgets that many of Ohio's sportsmen and sportswomen are hard-working, blue collar, union-workers. And John Kasich just called those people 'thugs' earlier in the week. Third, Kasich forgets that many of Ohio's sportsmen and sportswomen are residents of rural areas. They don't go hunting as part of some junket paid for by some lobbyist that starts with mimosas & eggs benedict and ends with strippers & cigars. They go hunting to provide for their families. And John Kasich's campaign mocked those same Ohioans, with humble, rural roots, in a statement a few months ago."
OMG! That is a real smackdown by gun owners.
