Kasich is a Bizarre Guy

Too Cool for the Governorship
by Max J

John Kasich is strange. Jon Stewart did a great routine about the Ohio Governor in March. But in watching Kasich everyday, he seems exceedingly arrogant and completely self centered. He speaks without a written script, which is a huge problem. His inauguration speech was full of messianic references.

"I am a servant of the Lord. I am a servant of the Lord.
[APPLAUSE]

He has opened doors all of my life. The Lord has. He has pushed me over the mountain this time. I don't know why, but I have no doubt that he has. I've spent a large amount of my life trying to figure out how he works.

I got a message one day driving up—over by the Hoover Reservoir. It wasn't a telegram. It wasn't a phone call. It wasn't a voice. But it was clear. 'Stop trying to figure it out, I'm not going to tell you.' "

This was a little unnerving that the Governor takes office by saying that his election had divine intervention. What was God's problem with the minister Governor Ted Strickland? It seems strange that God would get involved in the election in Ohio. What happens if Kasich does not get re-elected? Will that mean that God had second thoughts?

Then in his state of the state address, he distorted a conversation with the Cleveland Mayor over the movement of the mental health hospital out of the County along with all the jobs. He really needs to stick to a script, because he sounds so fake otherwise. We are lowering the boom on Cleveland, but at least while I was doing it, I went sledding at the stadium...so don't be mad at me.

"And she went up to see the mayor. You know, I know Frank Jackson and I at some point are going to have some big blow-up, but I’ve got to tell you, he’s a terrific man. He’s got a great heart. He’s an executive. I’ve taken my kids to see him. I want him to go sled riding down there in Cleveland stadium. He didn’t have the guts for that one, but that’s okay. (Laughter) But Tracy had to go see the mayor. And I had to call the mayor and say, 'Mayor, I can’t do the building because I’ve got to put the
mentally ill first.' The mayor said, 'I understand,' but there’s other things that we do for Cleveland because we want to rebuild it. So in this case, we reduce operating expenses, we save money on capital improvements and the people who are mentally ill are better taken care of."

Also, it needs to be noted that the Mayor denied that this was the tenor of the conversation. The Mayor may have politely said, "I understand," but he certainly did not agree. This speech made it sound like the Mayor knelt down and kissed Kasich's ring. This left a false impression, and discounts the near universal condemnation by leaders from northeast Ohio. This was a stab in the back from Ohio leaders who had promised a new hospital. This was the governor lying in the state of the state address.

Kasich is just a strange guy who seems to protect his rich friends and is out to punish his enemies. He is proposing that his budget chief be allowed to privatize any department that he wants, and will not even acknowledge staff that worked for the previous administration. Kasich is delaying the additional jobs created by the casino because he does not like the constitutional amendment passed by voters. It is no wonder that Ohioans want a do-over in the November 2010 election.