I'm disgusted by Democratic disloyalty doing the Koch Brother's job for them

[greatlaurel]

139. Thanks for the GOP talking points, they sound like something from Rob Portman's campaign

Ted Strickland had appointed a great director of the OhioEPA who was working very hard to overcome the massive damage to the regulatory structures in Ohio from the last two GOP governors and GOP controlled legislatures. The GOP took away the authority to regulate factory farm waste from the OhioEPA and put it under the authority of the Ohio Department of Agriculture, which is the classic fox guarding the hen house scenario, before Ted Strickland took office. To remedy that disaster would take the legislature to undo their handiwork which the GOP run Senate was not going to do. Blaming Ted Strickland for the algae bloom in Lake Erie is pure Kasich/GOP propaganda, especially since it had been nearly 4 years since Strickland had left office.

The Green Energy bill Strickland got passed was going to bring tremendous economic development to Ohio and add thousands of decent jobs for ordinary working people. That has now been dismantled by Kasich and the GOP legislature.

I think you are not at all familiar with the great strides Ted Strickland made in his 4 years as governor to undo the damage 16 years of GOP governors had done to the state. Ted Strickland did not fail Ohio.

Yes, failing to get a drivers license renewed by Ed FitzGerald is so much worse than all the outrageous acts from John Kasich. From helping Lehman Brothers steal $400 million in Ohio pension funds to the unconstitutional hirings for JobsOhio and the Ohio Health Department, Kasich has managed to minimize his actions that have cost Ohioans billions of public tax dollars. His active theft of local public tax funds to give to his campaign contributors that run the very profitable charter schools is a disgrace that no one except teachers and a very few parents are talking about. Let us be sure to pick apart every defect of any Democratic candidate while the Republican thugs rob us blind, allowing people to go without proper food, medicine or housing. Let us make sure here in Ohio that the wealthy are protected and comforted while the disabled. the mentally ill and veterans are given nothing to aid and comfort them.

Every person who failed to vote in this election should be ashamed of themselves. We had great candidates running for AG, SOS and for the Ohio Supreme Court. The gentleman who ran for US Rep in my district is a great and intelligent man. Furthermore, the canard about not running good enough candidates is absurd when the GOP office holders are dismantling the public sphere for the benefit and profit of themselves and their wealthy donors. It is safe to say that every Democratic candidate running this past election would be better than the GOP thugs who won the election.

The Democratic Party structure in Ohio leaves much to be desired. However, it is not like it is any secret that the Ohio GOP is working to take away the voting rights of tens of thousands of minorites in this state. They are not even trying to be subtle about wanting to stop minorities from voting in Ohio. For that reason alone, we should have had massive voter turnout just to make sure people retain the right to vote in this state.

FitzGerald released his key card parking information, John Kasich has never released his parking information, so the public has no idea when or if Kasich ever shows up for work.

Finally, it is no ones' business what people do in their private lives. I am not interested in whether Kasich had a long standing homosexual affair any more than any affairs that FitzGerald may have had. Although, the lady completely denies anything untoward happened and was quite adamant about that in a public statement that basically was not covered in the GOP owned media here in Ohio. John Kasich's personal demons, either just an all around mean spirited jerk or being a deeply closeted and in denial gay man, are none of anyone's business, either.