TOLEDO BLADE PRAISES PEPPER’S PLAN TO SPEED UP RAPE KIT TESTING
CINCINNATI – Data released just before the July 4th holiday revealed that the backlog of untested rape kits sitting in the Attorney General’s Office has grown for the ninth straight month and now stands at a record high of 3,893 untested kits. Thousands more kits from around the state have yet to be submitted to the Attorney General for testing.
Ohio Republican Party spokesman: Drug treatment funding is nothing more than “more money for government”
Columbus – Today, a $20 million shortfall in local government substance abuse treatment takes affect under a new Kasich Administration policy in how it handles federal grant money for treatment. [Source: Toledo Blade, (5/30/2014)] In addition, recent budgetary changes by the Kasich Administration will redirect funding ordinarily given to local mental health and drug treatment boards and reallocate it for State spending. [Source: Toledo Blade (6/30/2014), “Risky Budget.”]
Kasich Proposed Cutting Funding for 13 Veterans Organizations His First Year in Office
Today, Governor Kasich will tout his efforts to improve higher education and job opportunities for Ohio’s veterans at a bill signing at the University of Cincinnati. Here’s why that’s just pure electioneering: in his first state budget, Governor Kasich proposed weakening access to state jobs for veterans, and sought to cut funding for thirteen different veteran organizations.
Democratic gubernatorial nominee and Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald released the following statements on recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
FitzGerald Campaign Press Secretary Lauren Hitt released the following statement on the Benjamin Suarez trial.
