Ohio voted in a former Lehman Brothers banker as their next governor

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio-news/kasich-beats-strickland-in-ohio-governors-race-993642.html

By JULIE CARR SMYTH, The Associated Press

Updated 10:58 AM Wednesday, November 3, 2010

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio voters put the state back in Republican hands on Tuesday, electing John Kasich, the former congressman and Lehman Brothers banker, as the next governor.

Kasich, 58, beat Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland with attacks over the loss of 400,000 jobs. The Democratic governor pointed to national economic factors and declining unemployment — without success.

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Can't fix stupid.

[realisticphish]

1. We're screwed

because our voters are morons. At least Franklin county voted blue, but it always does.

Strickland has been a lump of clay, and has done little, but he wasn't actively damaging, and he is certainly not responsible for job losses. Now we can look forward to Kasich slashing public service budgets, especially libraries.

The people will realize what they did far too late to do anything about it.

[EnviroBat]

10. These stupid fuckers won't realize a God Damn thing.

Ohio is populated with stupid-ass bigots who are too retarded to piss on their own leg if it was on fire. I hate this fucking state, and why I've continued to live here all my life astounds me sometimes. If I didn't have a good job here, I wouldn't stay. I have a feeling that this asshole Kasich will take care of that soon enough though. More jobs are going to leave Ohio with this stupid fuck at the helm. More homes are going to be foreclosed on, and more cities are going to look like ghost towns. But at least these morons will feel like they've "Won" something. I'm done with this state, and I'm starting to look at other places to live outside of the U.S. as well...

[realisticphish]

16. the thing is

I LIKE Ohio. I like the people, and the scenery, and the culture. But not the politics, or the politicians.

We're a bastard mix of upper midwest quiet liberalness, and middle-south rednecky single-issue voters, and that combo means an impotent mass of scared sheep voting.

It doesn't help that our state dems didn't exactly do a good job in the election. I'm still pissed that they didn't back Brunner in the primaries...

[we can do it]

19. How Bout You Buy My House So I Can Get The Fuck Out of Here

Really - I hate the bigottry, stupidity, religious insanity and the ever increasing snow which the idiots deny. I have had it. Idiots who work in unions or public sector voting repub? wtf? Hey lets just throw our pensions away now and get it over with. It will never be pretty enough here to make up for the stupid ugly people. NEVER - the smart ones have left.

[AlinPA]

2. John Kasich. Holy Christ. A Fox "news" announcer wins a governorship. The U.S. has

a lot of stupid people. Ohio is in trouble now.

[gmoney]

5. Ohio has been in trouble...

Strickland was kind of a fluke, coming in on the heels of Bob Taft and his chickenshit little scandals and general overall failure to improve things in Ohio.

[AlinPA]

9. It is going to get worse with that asshole as governor. nt

[YankeeLeft7x]

3. Ohio Voters are Fickle

Ohio Voters will remain unhappy under John Kasich too.

In the words of then-Presidential Candidate John McCain: "Jobs are not coming back."

Remember that Ohio Voters as your jobs do not come back.....Being fickle gets you nowhere.

Tell me where these supposed "new" jobs are coming from? Have the GOP answer that question.

[gmoney]

6. Jobs are coming from lower taxes! Duh!

Because now the hard-working entrepreneurs of America will be able to open more Subway sandwich shops and unsustainable retail developments, creating plenty of 25 hour a week minimum wage jobs!

Happy days are here again!

:sarcasm:

[IndyPragmatist]

4. ...

That's a little misleading to make it seem as if he was a part of the decision making of Lehman Brothers.

He worked in a field office in Ohio. I don't know much about him, so I won't make a statement on whether or not I think he is a good choice or not. But as he put it "Blaming him for the Lehman Brothers collapse is like blaming a local dealership for the GM bankruptcy"

[Botany]

7. I know John and he is a sleeze bucket

In Congress he worked to weaken controls over wall street and banking ....
after his failed 2000 Presidential run he went to work for Lehman Brothers
for 1/2 a million per year ...... and he worked plenty in NYC too ..... he got
the Republican administration of Ohio to invest $480 million of Ohio government
workers pension funds into Lehman Brothers which then went belly up and
that lost just about every penny of the money ...... John walked from that deal
w/ a big commission check of @ least 2.5 million but he has refused to say just
how much he was paid.

He will be a nightmare for the State of Ohio.

[gmoney]

11. Lehman started him at "only" $500,000 a year?

Seems a little low rent by today's standards.

[Botany]

13. The story is that he got some real nice commission checks too

But Kasich refused to disclose how much he really earned.

[bulloney]

8. Ohio voters expected Strickland to fix in four years the mess from 14 straight years of Repub rule,

We had 16 straight years of Republican governors - 8 years of Voinovich followed by 8 more of Taft.

In 14 of those 16 years, the Repubs controlled the state House and Senate and every elected cabinet office. Ohio was an economical wreck before the nation plunged into the Great Recession, which dragged the state down farther.

Ohio voters essentially fired Strickland and the Democrats for not fixing things fast enough and gave Republicans the keys back to the governor's mansion, state House and cabinet last night, even though their policies created the mess in the first place.

You can trace most of today's economic problems to three things: Trade agreements that have outsourced our jobs, lack of regulation over our financial markets, and tax policies that target the benefits to persons that stimulate the economy the least. Kasich, Portman and others are champions of that ideology.

These next few years in Ohio will be interesting.

[Mkap]

12. More tax breaks for the wealthy

Strickland actually had a strong showing for someone who was more then 10 points down in September. I fear for anyone who wants to go to college in Ohio, they are now stuck with paying what will soon be the highest tuition in the US as it was during Taft's reign of terror. Besides education he really have a lot to campaign on though and except for the metro areas Ohio is filled with pick up truck driving red neck bigots who think Obama is the devil. You can't expect anything less from the home of the Jerry Springer show (yea i know Jerry is a dem)

[realisticphish]

14. incidentally, cincy voted pub

where Springer was mayor...

[realisticphish]

15. Our politicians have been impotent morons for decades

regardless of party. We spend so much time mucking around with stupid, pointless shit that we let huge issues get by.

People always say that Ohio is a decent mirror for the American electorate in general, and I fear what the implications of that are for 2012. Lost jobs, Obama hasn't magically fixed the economy after 8 years of wasted spending and deficit creation...

[mod mom]

17. I hoped provisionals would come through for us (Strickland down by 97K)

but looking at the number of provisionals, isn't likely:

http://vote.sos.state.oh.us/pls/enrpublic/f?p=130:11:0

[YankeeLeft7x]

18. When McCainTold Ohio Citizens to go to hell

McCain says Ohio steel jobs not coming back

By Steve Holland
April 22, 2008
The Boston Globe

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain told an economically ailing Ohio city on Tuesday that lost steel jobs are not coming back but with proper training, workers can rebound just like his once-dead campaign….."I can't tell you that these jobs are ever coming back to this magnificent part of the country," McCain said at Youngstown State University. "But I will commit to giving these workers a second chance. They need it, they deserve it."….McCain came to Ohio, a key battleground state that is important to both parties in November's presidential election, while Democrats Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton were busy with Pennsylvania's primary on….

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/04/22/mccain_to_say_ohio_city_can_rebound_just_as_he_did/

[Doctor_J]

20. And huge fan of outsourcing and "Free" trade

His tv commercials blasted Strickland for outsourcing. this was on a level of hypocrisy that rivals Gingrinch talking about restoring family values.

[indepat]

21. I remember Kasich as pre-eminently among the most loathsome ever to

grace the halls of Congress. ;)

[NNN0LHI]

22. His standard line of crap was, "My daddy was a letter carrier."

And the voters fell for it? Jeebuz.

Don