* An article in the Washington Monthly asks how hard John Kasich looked for his picks for his administration since they are all white.
Washington Monthly:
.....Kasich, a former congressman, Wall Street executive, and Fox News personality, has hired 20 full-time agency directors to make up his cabinet. Of the 20, 16 are white men, four are white women. No African Americans, no Hispanics, no Asians.
Keep in mind, in the last half-century, Ohio has had 10 governors, most of whom have been Republicans. All of them had at least some racial diversity in their cabinet -- until Kasich, who's the first Ohio governor since 1962 to have so far picked an all-white cabinet.
It's always best to be cautious before throwing around casual accusations of racism. That said, Kasich's move is hard to understand, especially given the size and diversity of a state like Ohio.....
People are talking about Kasich's lack of diversity. Did he interview any other candidates?
Did he even think about diversity?
* Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Republican, has his pay priorities all wrong, according to an article by Connie Schultz in the Plain Dealer:
....One administrative assistant's pay, for example, is dropping from $35,000 to $30,000; another's will decrease from $33,000 to $32,000. In one of the more dramatic instances, an administrative assistant's salary plummets from $35,000 to $23,000....
.....David Rothstein is a researcher for Policy Matters Ohio, a nonprofit organization dedicated to recasting economic policies to benefit everyone, including workers and their families. It took him all of 30 seconds to explain what these pay cuts could mean for someone already barely getting by.
"If these women were sole providers with one child, they'd qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit," he said, referring to a federal refund for low-wage earners...
As Ms. Schultz said in words from Kasich's own book, "If you're a boss, the people who work for you are watching you at every turn. They're looking at how you treat your employees, how you accommodate their family emergencies and financial hardships, how you reward their loyalty."
Kasich continues to shrug off the criticism because he just doesn't care what anyone says. As long as he has his arrogant, rich white guy attitude, his "staff" that are unwilling to offer suggestions, and his Republican "tax cut" sheeple who are willing to destroy education, medicaid, libraries, working people, and the state's natural resources so they don't have to pay any taxes, we will all be left digging out of the mess he created.
