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Dem video blasts Kasich Wall St. ties; Kasich campaign fires back
The Ohio Democratic Party on Wednesday, June 9, unveiled a new web video that attempts to contrast Republican John Kasich’s past willingness to discuss his Wall Street connections with Kasich’s tendency to downplay those connections in his campaign for governor against Democratic incumbent Ted Strickland.
“Congressman Kasich, you can’t have it both ways,” Ohio Democratic Chairman Chris Redfern said in a press release,
Kasich campaign spokesman Rob Nichols fired back in an e-mail, saying “Strickland’s failures and incompetency have left him with no political option but to try to smear John Kasich.”
Here’s “Two Years”, the video:
Kasich, a former U.S. House member from suburban Columbus, worked as a managing director for Lehman Brothers after leaving Congress in 2000.
Redfern said that the video shows Kasich described his work at Lehman Brothers differently before the firm’s collapse in 2008 than he has during the campaign for governor when he has said he worked out of a two-man office in Columbus.
“You can’t run on your business experience and then run on your claim that you played no role at that business,” Redfern said.
Nichols said that recent polls - a Rasmussen Reports poll showed Kasich leading Strickland - showed that “Ted Strickland’s negative attacks are backfiring and actually making him less popular.”
Kasich and state Auditor Mary Taylor, the Republican lieutenant governor candidate, “are focused on talking with voters about how to revive Ohio’s economy and create jobs because that’s the essential work that must be done to bring Ohio back.”
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By Tsk, Tsk, tsk...
June 11, 2010 7:17 AM | Link to this
Poor little democrats…nothing but emotions to back their statements. It must be tough to exist with nothing but a angry heart and an empty head.
By Leslie
June 10, 2010 12:58 PM | Link to this
Kasich is running for Governor of Ohio. He is NOT running for Governor of the country. Kasich did not get RICH as a congressman, if he did, than so did Strickland! The people commenting against Kasich are the ones that want to continue the class warfare and promote progressive plantation politics. Problem is if we actually let all of that happen these people would be really disappointed to find out they live in Venezuela or Cuba now.
By C'mon Man
June 10, 2010 10:10 AM | Link to this
Strickland is an idiot; zero leadership skills! Kasich is a change of pace; do something other than being a politician.
By No Kasich for Me
June 10, 2010 9:19 AM | Link to this
It’s guys Kasich who shipped jobs overseas so they could collect their bonuses. We don’t need someone from Wall Street, and especially Lehman Bros. corrupting our state government.
By J
June 10, 2010 9:07 AM | Link to this
Get over the party politics, people. D or R, it’s just a slightly different puppet. It’s just a show, hiding the puppet strings from you.
By Champsummers
June 10, 2010 8:56 AM | Link to this
This is a Red Herring. Kasich had nothing to do with the demise of Lehman Brothers. Ted Strickland ,however, owns the Ohio Economy or lack of it. Then we have the scandals of the Strickland Administration, Marc Dann and his cronies, Trooper Gate, The Mansion Scandal,The sleazy Helen-Jones-Kelly affair, Playing $100 bribes to those unemployed…Ted has no answers on how to run the State and it shows. How about his latest? We lost a government grant to help disabled veterans find employment….Uncle Ted needs to lose “HIS” employment and soon.
By EthicsWatch
June 10, 2010 7:17 AM | Link to this
The only jobs the Republicans have created are the ones they outsourced overseas. Republicans have voted NO on every domestic jobs bill. Ohio, please don’t be fooled by this Wall Streeter claiming he has your interests at heart. Haven’t we learned that lesson?
By The Moderator
June 10, 2010 1:05 AM | Link to this
What is Kasich plan to bring more jobs to Ohio and improve it’s citizens lifes? Have not heard one positve word from Kasich or his supporters.
By ted s.
June 10, 2010 12:35 AM | Link to this
http://www.turnaroundted.com
By Safari
June 9, 2010 6:15 PM | Link to this
It is the same old politicians who became millionaires while in congress. Now Mr. Kasich wants to come back to save us … Give me a break.
By Bill
June 9, 2010 6:04 PM | Link to this
I’m so tired of seeing Kasich misleading ad I wouldn’t vote for him if he was unopposed.
By Lee Fisher's missing shirt
June 9, 2010 5:55 PM | Link to this
Strickland is such an idiot. The voters won’t be fooled by Dem deceptions. Ted Strickland was going to turn around Ohio 4 years ago. Where is the turn-around? Lost jobs, proposed tax increases, attempts to under-fund public libraries, a staff that lied to investigators and now no real plan. What, what a turn around…