* Here is a tweet from twitter.com/rosebud:
Stivers was tagged by his Dem. opponent during the campaign as "bank lobbyist Steve Stivers,"
Duh! Stivers was a "top" bank lobbyist for Bank One (now Chase) for seven years.
*** Mediamatters has some facts related to Kasich:
.....After leaving Congress in 2001, Kasich openly considered running for higher public office and joined Fox News to keep himself in public view. A former Kasich pollster told the Columbus Dispatch in 2002 that Kasich was "leaving himself in a position so that if something happens, he is as well-situated as somebody else."
On March 27, 2008, the Dispatch reported that Kasich announced "he is paving the way now for a gubernatorial bid" and quoted Kasich stating: "I'm going to go forward even more aggressively, and we're going to continue to ramp it up (for a gubernatorial run)." But Fox News didn't take him off the air -- presumably because he still hadn't "officially" announced his candidacy -- and by the time he formally announced his bid on June 1, 2009, Kasich had logged more than 100 Fox News segments as a guest host or contributor.....
Think of all that money he saved by not having to pay for political ads for those 100 appearances.
* Parts of Ohio government might be up for sale when Kasich becomes governor. Plain Dealer:
...And the incoming governor again on Friday talked about leasing the Ohio Turnpike, making it sound like a done deal -- if he can get the right price.
"If we look at the turnpike and find out we're in a bad market and we're not going to get the number we want -- and I have a number in my head as to what will work -- if we don't get the number," Kasich said, "then we're not going to do it."
Why does Kasich himself have to set a price? What does he know about property value? (Did he learn about it at Lehman Brothers?) Shouldn't objective outsiders be able to come up with a fair price instead of Kasich? The Turnpike does not belong to him. Our tax money paid for it.
