Kasich Refuses To Endorse DeWine For Ohio Governor Over Medicaid Fears

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By Alice Ollstein | May 10, 2018 10:42 am

Following Tuesday night’s primary in the Buckeye State, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) is withholding his endorsement of the GOP nominee for his seat, Attorney General Mike DeWine, over fears DeWine will dismantle the state’s Medicaid expansion that Kasich broke with his party to champion and implement.

Kasich’s spokesman, Chris Schrimpf, said this week that the governor “looks forward to meeting with Mike and discussing the concerns,” including the state’s Medicaid expansion “and other efforts to make sure that no Ohioan is left behind.”

Kasich himself conspicuously dodged endorsing DeWine in a press conference on Wednesday, saying flatly about the primary: “It was held and some people won.”

Asked directly about the results of Tuesday’s GOP contest, he emphasized that he feels “very, very strongly about the issue of Medicaid expansion.”

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kasich-refuses-to-endorse-dewine-for-ohio-governor-over-medicaid-fears

[not fooled]

1. A rewrite

"Kasich Refuses to Endorse DeWine Over Fears for his Chance at the Presidency"

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Good for Kasich. He might have a bit of decency in him.

I really want to see DeWine lose, and lose decisively.

[still_one]

6. I agree. While ideologically I disagree with most everything from Kasich on the issues, he

has consistently opposed trump and the most extreme members in his party, and I say good for him

[Botany]

3. Kasich thinks that Jesus walked on earth so he could be POTUS someday

I haven't seen him in years but I do know John and in person he is very nice but
he is just as sleazy as any of them. When he was with Lehmann Brothers he sold
the State of OH's public employee retirement fund $480,000,000* of securities that
turned out to be junk ..... but Kasich got his cut.



* I think that was the amount.

[Ohiogal]

4. I actually give Kasich credit

for bucking his party on the Medicaid expansion. That's the only decent thing about him.

I despise De Wine. He's an old school backwards thinker whose TV ads bragged that he "Opposed Medicaid Expansion!" and "A Champion of the Right to Life"! (which seems counterproductive, doesn't it?)

But De Wine is a Republican and he has name recognition among the Deplorables living here, it's going to be a nail biter of an election this fall.

I would love to ask any Republican what exactly would they replace Medicaid with, if they are so against it? The never seem to have an answer for that. I guess they just want to go back to the Bush years when poor people had .... nothing.

[Gothmog]

5. This is good news