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>>>>>  If Gov. John Kasich is such a genius (only in his own mind!), then why has Ohio's unemployment gone up?  Plunderbund has the details.

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* If you are familiar with Ohio politics, then you'll remember Republican Rep. Don "Buz" Lukens. TPM has uncovered some absolutely disgusting behavior that Lukens was involved with during his careeer:

....It was 1990. Lukens was in his second term in Congress. The year before, the 58-year-old congressman had been caught on a television network's hidden camera in a McDonald's restaurant speaking with the mother of a 16-year-old girl he was allegedly sleeping with.

Lukens was soon convicted of paying the teen $40 to have sex with him and wound up serving nine days in prison and paying a $500 fine. That would be his first of two stays in prison, and his second of three sex offense allegations.....

.....His FBI file also notes a 1954 arrest for "investigation of molesting." Lukens had just graduated and was working at Procter & Gamble when he allegedly went to an ex-girlfriend's home while she wasn't there. Her two small children were, however, and he was detained the next day. All charges were dropped eight hours later, after cops found "no case."...

Read the entire posting at TPM.

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There is more info on the domestic violence incident at the home of Republican State Sen. Kris Jordan @ ColumbusLocalNews.

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Ohio Republicans would never admit it, but President Obama's healthcare legislation, the Affordable Care Act, has saved them big, big money.

TheOtherPaper:

...How awkward for Kasich that one year later, his hired guns are using parts of it to draw down federal dollars that will save Ohio money. They are also using it as a tool, according to Affordable Care Act proponents, to better coordinate care and make Ohio's Medicaid program a smoother-running, less-expensive program that provides better health outcomes for Ohio folk.

Obamacare is a hero that you're never going to hear about or understand. And with Frances Strickland gone, there will be no folk songs written about it. Or put another way, the storied ACA will never get the credit it deserves in the "Kasich reforms Ohio" narrative, according to Cathy Levine, director of the Universal Health Care Action Network of Ohio, because the governor instead would prefer to bash it with the rest of his party.....

You'll never see Kasich thanking anyone but himself.  It is amazing that the rest of us can actually fit inside the state of Ohio, given Kasich's huge ego.