FitzGerald Campaign Communications Director Daniel McElhatton released the following statement on Governor Kasich’s refusal to obey a subpoena requiring him to testify in the Benjamin Suarez trial. Suarez is on trial for a pay-to-play campaign finance scheme involving Governor Kasich, Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel, and U.S. Congressman Jim Rennaci.
Thomas Suddes, a member of the editorial board, writes from Athens
Republicans grabbed control of the state Senate 30 years ago this November by pledging to cut Ohio’s income tax. They, and House Republicans, have vowed the same ever since.
So, last week, no surprise, Republican Gov. John Kasich signed House Bill 483, a “mid-biennium review” that includes an array of tax cuts he sought, including doubling the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income Ohioans.
Ohio has fifth largest jobs deficit, has not returned to pre-recession levels like other states
This morning, the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services released the May jobs report figures for Ohio. Ohio’s unemployment rate dropped in May, but only because 14,000 Ohioans dropped out of the labor market. The survey of Ohio households in May actually showed the number of employed Ohioans actually dropped by 4,000.
John Michael Spinelli | Columbus Government Examiner
On a clear, hot, 90-degree day in Columbus, Ed FitzGerald, the Democratic Party’s endorsed candidate for governor this midterm election year, unveiled the College Affordability Plan, a major higher education proposal that includes vocational training and is designed to return Ohio to quality, affordable higher education.
John Michael Spinelli | Columbus Government Examiner
Ohio Gov. John Kasich has a remarkably selective memory, especially when it comes to when Ohio’s recovery from the worst recession in the nation’s history really started, which a monthly financial report issued by his own budget director shows started in early 2009, nearly two years before he was sworn-in as Ohio’s 69th Governor in early January of 2011.
