Tag: John Kasich
Kasich Developing World View in Prep for Prez Run
You will not solve this problem with only air power. There needs to be a coalition of NATO, Arab states, and ultimately some boots on the ground to stop the advancement of that group. … The Western world and the Arab world need to get serious about stopping this kind of radicalism. If not, it will continue to spread and just bombing is imposing the status quo at best.
— Ohio Gov. John R. Kasich (R) said Tuesday he is studying up on foreign policy and beginning to outline his worldview, which includes support for sending U.S. ground forces to fight the Islamic State, the Washington Post reports.
Kasich Explains the Sin of Helping
It’s a sin not to help people who need help. But it’s also a sin to help people who need to learn how to help themselves.
— Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), in an interview on KTVN.
Poor Does Not Equate with Lazy
As Americans, we need to beat back this notion that when somebody’s poor, somehow they are lazy.
— Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), quoted by the Columbus Dispatch, urging state lawmakers to extend tax-funded health coverage to tens of thousands poor, uninsured Ohioans.
Ohio Republican Governor Rescinded Regulation That Would Have Prevented Slaughter of Dozens of Exotic Animals
Headline of the day:
Order that Kasich rejected would have barred man from having exotic animals
Mukingum County farm owner had animal-cruelty conviction from six years ago
Weigel:
The story is true: [Ohio’s Democratic] Gov. Ted Strickland had signed an executive order restricting animal ownership to people without certain blemishes on their records. Gov. John Kasich, the Republican who beat him, judged this to be an overreach, so he scrapped it. The Columbus Dispatch finds that the issue, once ignored, stayed ignored:
Bill Damschroder, chief legal counsel for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources… said legislation was not in place that empowered the agency to do the things required by Strickland’s order. In addition, it allocated no resources to do the statewide enforcement job.
This is, in microcosm, the reality of the world Republicans yearn for — a world unfettered by government regulation in which, for example, convicted animal abusers are free to keep dozens of wild animals in captivity. After all, what business does the government have telling a felon convicted animal cruelty that he is unfit to keep wild animals?
