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From flickr.com/photos/40646519@N00/2532218082/: These Ohio and U.S.A. flags are flying in proper display somewhere in the Buckeye State. But in a state that has a mascot of a worthless nut, how in the dickens did the Democratic Party vet two of its top l
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It's such hypocrisy - almost bordering on evil - to avidly go after
attracting an industry - like big oil and gas - to your state, showing the smile
of a friend and an ally, and then you turn around once they've started up ventures and subsequently evolve into a rapacious tax collector, bleeding the living dickens out of them.
This is nothing short of political robbery. - Don't get me wrong, I'm not a big advocate for fracking anywhere, but Kasich, who so
far seems to be making political tracks to run Ohio with the iron hand that Jopip
Broz Tito ruled the former Yugoslavia, is also a manipulator, and equivocator and yes, I'll say it, a con-man. This is not good business. It's just not - it's treachery.
Ohioans or no Ohioans working on oil and
rigging sites, Kasich may turn into a rogue - if big oil and gas pulls up
stakes and leaves Ohio because of harsh and unreasonable taxing practices.
Then, state regulators will have to face environmental nightmares associated
with having a plethora of orphaned wells laying around throughout the Buckeye
State. Orphaned wells are a threat to the environment, to wildlife, and even pose risks to human life. Not to mention, nobody wants them littering the landscape. They're ugly. Trees look much nicer.
What made me really dislike this governor, however, was a YouTube video I saw. It surfaced on the Internet shortly after Kasich took office in January, 2011, and this clip was taken by a member of the Ohio EPA, of which Kasich was speaking in front of -- and the clip shows a very mean-spirited, arrogant, ranting Kasich blasting a police officer for writing him a ticket for illegally passing an emergency vehicle on Ohio's Route 315. (See the clip here: http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2011/02/ohio_gov_john_kasich_calls_pol.html)
And if you don't want to view the video, here are Kasich's words, verbatim, in front of this Ohio EPA officials' audience: "Have you ever been stopped by a policeman who is an idiot? I have. This idiot pulled me over on (Route) 315 -- Listen to this story -- He says to me, he says, you passed this emergency vehicle on the side of the road and you didn't yield. So I said, 'Officer, are you kidding? I didn't see -- Where the heck was it? The last thing I would ever do would be to pass an emergency vehicle . . . Are you kidding me?' (So the officer says - ) 'I understand that, give me your license.' So he goes back to the car, then he comes back and gives me a ticket and says, 'You must report to court, and if you don't report to court, we're putting a warrant out for your arrest. HE'S AN IDIOT! You just can't act that way, and when people in government don't treat the client with respect, that's what we have to do. Think about it, right?" (http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2011/02/ohio_gov_john_kasich_calls_pol.html)
"Wow!" - I thought after first seeing this video.
The law applies to everyone else except Gov. Kasich. What rationalization! What distorted justification! What a ranting mess of anger and delusion!
After all was said and done, Kasich paid an $85 fine. But if the governor of Ohio is calling police officers idiots, and thinking all the time that he can just whiz by some emergency vehicle with flashers flashing, what are the folks in the Happy Acres Trailer Park supposed to do? How's about those of us who are living in the Brentwood Commons Tenements? How's about the farmer driving his pickup past an ambulance? Because he's late for milking, can he just barrel through at top speed, risking the lives of others and even himself? New in office at the time the video surfaced, many must have asked themselves, "Is this governor going to do away with traffic laws related to emergency vehicles?" - I still see a very rabid, ranting, cocky and conceited ruler who thinks he's above the law. Yes, this video still infuriates me.
Kasich also became unpopular, even amongst
his own party, for not holding State of the State addresses in Columbus, but in
Medina (on Feb. 24, 2014), in Lima (in January, 2013), in Steubenville (Feb. 7,
2012), but in March of 2011, Kasich delivered his State of the State Speech at
the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. It's a gubernatorial tradition to hold the Ohio State of the State address in Columbus. To be even more specific, in the stately Statehouse. And since Columbus is such a Republican stronghold, I feel it was politically a lame-brained thing to do, for Gov. Kasich to seek out little cities throughout the state, in which to give his winter song and dance routine. He'd be better off to follow the example of his fellow Republican, Mike DeWine, who travels throughout the state often and visits county fairs, city carnivals, little ma and pa restaurants, and gets his smiling face, usually with his favorite dining companion, wife Fran, in the local papers and on regional TV news in these areas. DeWine enjoys this and even does it during times when there isn't an upcoming election.
Of this 2011 address, which appears on an op-ed on the Internet magazine Plunderbund titled "Kasich's State of His Mind Speech", the March 8, 2011 editorial sums up Kasich's saturnine, depressive, and oftentimes ranting self: "The State of the State address, especially for a first-term Governor, is normally the moment in which the person ceases to be the candidate and starts to assume the mantle of leadership. It's supposed to be the bully pulpit moment. Kasich didn't deliver a State of the State address so much as he delivered a 'State of his Mind' speech. And he seemed downright depressed throughout the speech. (See: click here)
"There are so many layers of FAIL in Kasich's speech, that I cannot possibly cover them all. The main problem was this: despite immersed in all the trappings of incumbency, Kasich didn't look, act, or sound like a Governor. He talked in exacerbated tones--how the past seven weeks of his fledging Administration felt, to him, like seven years. His rambling, disorganized speech made him appear to be a man overwhelmed by the challenges of his office. He spent most of the speech detailing the problems in Ohio, as if nobody else in the State had realized there were any. Seriously, it doesn't read any better in the official transcript, either." (See ibid: http://www.plunderbund.com/2011/03/08/kasichs-state-of-his-mind-speech/)
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