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Friday, December 18, 2009
Kasich rips budget deal; Dem chairman Redfern rips Kasich
The battle of the budget still rages in Columbus, despite the agreement reached on Thursday, Dec. 17, on filling an $851 million budget hole.
Former U.S. Rep. John Kasich, the likely GOP candidate for governor in 2010, ripped the deal and Democratic State Chairman Chris Redfern ripped into Kasich.
The plan postpones for two years a 4. 2 percent state income tax cut.
“Today’s agreement is strictly stopgap and turns a blind eye to the massive shortfalls we will be facing during the next budget cycle,” Kasich said in a Thursday press release. “We better have new leadership and new ideas in place by then. Our state’s future depends on it.”
Kasich said “it has been clear to me that the people of Ohio understand that raising taxes is counter-productive to job creation and economic growth.”
In a Friday press release, state Democratic Chairman Redfern referred to Kasich as a “former Lehman Brothers Managing Director.”
“John Kasich has no relationship with the truth, Redfern said. “Once again, Kasich is offering attacks on Gov. Strickland’s leadership while failing to propose any alternative of his own. Shockingly, he also criticized his own party, since the Republican-controlled Senate supported the budget.”
Republicans provided five of the 17 votes needed for Senate approval; Democrats provided the other 12.
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State prisons director retiring
Terry Collins, director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, is retiring, effective, Jan. 31.
Gov. Ted Strickland, who formerly worked as a prison psychologist, said in a press release on Friday, Dec. 18, that he had accepted Collins’ decision and praised Collins’ work.
“He (Collins) has managed a corrections system that is well beyond capacity and has dealt with very difficult economic circumstances in his department while showing great concern for the safety and security of his employees,” Strickland said.
Collins will leave the job after 33 years of state service.
