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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Kasich raises $5 M for governor’s race; has $4 M on hand
Republican John Kasich raised $5 million in seven months last year and had $4 million on hand at the start of 2010 for his campaign to unseat Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland.
The information came from the campaign finance report Kasich and his lieutenant governor running mate Mary Taylor, the state auditor, plan to file by the Friday, Jan. 29, deadline.
“Ohioans are coming out very strong for John and Mary,” campaign manager Beth Hansen said in a press release.
“The campaign’s fundraising is going exceptionally well because Ohioans know that we must have new, better leadership and that with John and Mary we’ll deliver it — to create jobs, to transform state government and to bring prosperity back to Ohio.”
Kasich, a former Columbus-area U.S. House member, entered the race last June 1. Political scientist John Green said the $5 million “is a good start for any statewide campaign in Ohio.”
“Given the competitive nature of the race and the absence of a primary, I think the Republicans are likely to have enough money to be competitive in the fall,” said Green, director of the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron. Strickland’s campaign was not impressed. He had $4 million on hand as of last July 1 and plans to file the new report by the Friday deadline.
“Gov. Strickland will have more cash on hand than any incumbent governor in Ohio history at this point in his campaign,” Lis Smith, campaign spokeswoman, said in an e-mail.
Given Kasich’s career in Congress, as an investment banker and presidential candidate, “we’re frankly surprised that he didn’t raise more,” she said.
Kasich’s campaign provided this breakdown:
*$5,071,901 raised
*$4,680,644 from individuals
*11,754 total contributions from 9,838 individual contributors
*More than $300,000 raised online from 3,457 contributors - 29 percent of all contributions were made online
*9,321 donations of $100 or less
*$4,289,434 from 10,920 Ohio contributors
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Sen. Cates to attend State of Union as Boehner’s guest
State Sen. Gary Cates, R-West Chester, is set to attend President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight, Jan. 27, at the invitation of U.S. House Minority Leader, R-West Chester.
Cates said he has never attended one of the speeches.
“I kind of feel like a kid going to the all-star game,” he said. “You have to soak it in.”
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New prisons director appointed
Gov. Ted Strickland named Ernie L. Moore as the new director of the state Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections. Moore replaces Terry Collins, who is retiring after a 33 year career.
Moore began his career as a corrections officer in 1987 and worked his way up to warden and assistant director. He has worked in adult prisons in Warren, Dayton, Chillicothe, Madison and Lebanon as well as a juvenile facility in Circleville.
Moore, 47, of Sabina, begins his new job Feb. 1 and will be paid $119,454 a year.
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Columbus casino plan set for May 4 ballot
The Ohio House today, Jan. 27, gave final approval for putting a proposed constitutional amendment on the May 4 ballot asking voters to approve changing the site for a Columbus casino.
The Senate earlier approved Senate Joint Resolution 8. Gov. Ted Strickland’s approval isn’t needed to put a proposed constitutional amendment before the voters.
The bipartisan House vote was 71-26.
The House tabled - or voted not to consider - an amendment from Rep. Bob Hagan, D-Youngstown, to permit an additional casino in Youngstown.
The amendment would permit moving the casino from the Arena District near downtown to the site of a former Delphi auto parts plant on the city’s west side, near I-270.
Voters statewide approved a constitutional amendment last November to allow casinos at specific sites in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo. Residents and leaders in Franklin County, which includes Columbus, objected to the Arena District site and persuaded legislators to put the new issue on the ballot.
Penn National Gaming, developer of the Columbus casino, has agreed to the switch.
Hagan said the state for too long has ignored the economic decline of the Mahoning Valley, which includes Youngstown, and said the area would benefit from a casino.
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Sen. Jones tweets as Strickland speaks
State Sen. Shannon Jones, R-Springboro, like most Republicans, didn’t think much of Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland’s State of the State speech on Tuesday, Jan. 26.
Jones didn’t keep her thoughts to herself but used Twitter to register them as Strickland spoke.
Here are her tweets:
Upon reflection…The return on Ohioan’s investment in Mr. Strickland has been “unyielding.”
So fed money, loans and a map to Kroger will turn around Ohio?
I believe! I believe! I believe! Lame. Governor Strickland how about the $7 BILLION deficit looming???
If you say it, the jobs will come. Right? Anyone?? Anyone?? Bueller??
Strickland’s plan: say you will create jobs, ignore the 330,000 jobs lost under his watch, extoll virtues of earlier gop initiatives.
I really think my head is going to explode! Revisionist history. Spin. Convenient memories.
can’t wait til Kasich is here. But we have to deal with this now! A tidal wave in horizon.
Underfunded system that cut education is not reform, Mr. Governor.
Education Week ranks Ohio schools 5th in nation — under the old system, governor.
Hey all you teachers, parents, and school board members: Apparently Strickland has fixed school funding. You just didn’t get the memo!
A laundry list of new programs with focus on successful gop initiatives like tax reform.
About a half dozen new programs. What about spending??
Strickland has talked for nearly a half hour… So far he supports old gop initiatives and hasn’t talked about spending!
Governor, do you have anything that is not a gop idea? Gop tax reform, gop 3rd frontier, gop college co-op program, etc
Strickland is encouraging the legislature to do what the GOP had already done — co-ops.
NO! DON’T PUT LEE IN CHARGE OF JOBS AGAIN!!!
so why did strickland oppose free trade when in congress?
Listening to Strickland talk about advanced/renewable energy is laughable — since he opposed us on this at every turn.
Governor Strickland, the state of our state is unemployed!
Listening to state of state. The 330,000 lost jobs since strickland took office is proof of his commitment to job creation.
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Ganley for Senate TV ads up in Columbus, Cleveland
Cleveland-area car dealer Tom Ganley started advertising on broadcast TV on Tuesday, Jan. 26, in the Columbus and Cleveland markets in the race for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination.
The ad comes with Ganley’s opponent, former U.S. Rep. Rob Portman of the Cincinnati area holding a big lead in campaign cash on hand. Portman has $6 million in the campaign bank after raising $1.4 million in the final quarter of 2009, Portman’s campaign said.
Ganley’s campaign said he took in more than Portman in the fourth quarter - $1.477 million - but has $1.3 million in the bank. Ganley has said is willing to personally help finance his campaign but Jeff Longstreth, his campaign manager, declined to say how much of the $1.477 million was Ganley’s own money.
Longstreth declined to say how long the ads would be on the air. Ganley advertised on cable last year.
Here’s the ad:
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Columbus casino plan moves toward ballot
The Ohio House today, Jan. 27, could take the final step to get an issue on the May 4 ballot that would permit changing the location of a Columbus casino.
The Senate on Tuesday approved Senate Joint Resolution 8, which would let voters decide whether to move the casino from the Arena District near downtown Columbus to the site of a former Delphi auto parts plant on the city’s west side.
Keary McCarthy, spokesman for House Speaker Armond Budish, said said the House vote could come today if House leaders determine that there’s support to move ahead without going through the normal committee process. It takes a two-thirds vote - 66 out of 99 - to suspend the rules and vote without going through the normal process.
If that happens, it then would take 60 votes to approve the resolution. The deadline for putting the issue on the ballot is Feb, 3.
Voters approved a constitutional amendment last November to allow casinos at specific sites in Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Toledo. Columbus and Franklin County residents and leaders, however, objected to the Arena District site and persuaded legislators to try to put another issue on the May 4 ballot. Penn National Gaming, developer of the Columbus casino, has agreed to the switch.
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Sending smut to kids via Internet barred, court says
The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday, Jan. 27, ruled that a state law designed to protect children from pornography and predators on the Internet applies only to material sent via person-to-person communications, such as instant messages, e-mails and private chat rooms.
The court said in a 7-0 decision that the law does not apply to material posted on generally accessible websites and public chatrooms when the person distributing the obscene material can’t prevent a juvenile from seeing it.
The court did not address the constitutionality of the law. Instead, its ruling gives the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals direction on which types of electronic communication are subject to prosecution under the state law. The federal court asked the Ohio Supreme Court to decide whether the Ohio attorney general’s interpretation of the law was correct — and the supreme court said yes.
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression argued that the law is too vague for the average citizen to know what is prohibited and it violates First Amendment protections.
