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Strickland vetoes items, signs plan to create 50,000 jobs
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Friday, June 13, 2008
COLUMBUS — Gov. Ted Strickland has signed legislation to enact a $1.57 billion economic stimulus plan that aims to create 50,000 jobs.
Put an asterisk next to $200 million of the money in that plan.
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Strickland vetoed the date — July 1, 2008, or "as soon as possible thereafter" — for transferring $200 million out of the state's $1.1 billion "rainy day fund" to help pay for public works in the plan.
The administration will try to find an alternative source for the $200 million, Strickland said in his veto message on Thursday, June 12. He objected to using the "rainy day fund" for new expenditures.
If a better source is not identified when the $200 million is scheduled to go out, Strickland would tap the "rainy day fund," Keith Dailey, the governor's spokesman said.
Strickland also vetoed a provision banning using any money in the plan's biomedical research program for human cloning. Strickland has said he opposes human reproductive cloning but said in his veto message that the way the provision is worded "would severely limit scientists' ability to conduct potentially life-saving stem cell research."
In separate press releases, Senate President Bill Harris, R-Ashland, and House Speaker Jon Husted, R-Kettering, ignored the vetoes and praised the plan. Husted called it an investment "in our most valuable resource — our people."
The plan is aimed at giving the slumping Ohio economy an immediate boost with money to build roads, bridges and sewers and also to help the economy long-term with investments in the biomedical industry, biobased products and renewable energy.
Also, there's a beefed up internship co-op program to keep more college graduates in Ohio.
The original bipartisan plan announced by Strickland and Republican legislative leaders last April didn't include "rainy day fund" money. Lawmakers substituted it for $200 million in bonds that was supposed to be backed by excess revenue from the Ohio Turnpike after legislators from the turnpike area objected.
To help pay for the plan, voters will be asked to approve a $400 million bond issue on Nov. 4 for the Clean Ohio Program, with $200 million going to preserve farmland and green space and $200 million for cleaning up polluted brownfields.
Comments
By Ziglet
June 25, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this
I think Strickland’s going the wrong direction. However, I’m glad he was a Hillary supporter and refuses to consider being Obama’s vp. If Strickland wants to advance his career, hooking up with Obama would be the worst thing he could do.
By Jay
June 16, 2008 10:11 PM | Link to this
I see that all of you on here are conservatives. You know the Governor is actually doing a great job. And he is trying to get mass transit back in Ohio. A passenger rail act was just passed to provide more funding for the project that he proposed. so Relax people. Ohio will not turn overnight. How much can you ask from a guy in his first term trying to recover the state from the Bob Taft Era. Ohio has Bob Taft written all over it right now from all the policies he proposed and the big deficit.
By Jack
June 13, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this
Lets see under our so well-liked Governer, Ohio and specifically Dayton, is losing jobs, and lost of jobs. Now, he wants to raise taxes by issuing a bond. I can only hope that Obama selects him as his running mater so we can get this loser out of the state. For all his promises, has he actually delivered…anything?
By Job Hunting
June 13, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this
You know, I think it will work because he does. We voted for him because of his good looks and charm.
By billis
June 13, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this
I love you Karon…
By billis
June 13, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this
I was actually against Ted Strickland. I am a republican, but I must say he isn’t doing too bad. There is always room for improvement, but he is not too bad.
By karon
June 13, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this
Ohio should be spending money towards mass transit, not more highways. Will Ohio be the last state to get a real passenger rail system? States that are getting passenger rail system are doing great and they are attracting new business and tourism. Ohio desperately needs a 21st century mass transit system if Ohio wants to compete in a global world!
By Bab
June 13, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this
Ted’s “Great Leap Forward” strategy is bound to work - Chairman Mao
By maria
June 13, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this
I needed a job and there weren’t any that paid any good money. I had to get a work from home job. Now I love my job and don’t need to get a job working for someone else. Plus I have time to stay at home with my kids now instead of pawning them off to a daycare teacher who sucks up half my daily wage.
Anyone else who is interested check it out! I highly recommend this!
http://offto.net/workfromhomemom
By Ben Brubaker
June 13, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this
I don’t know what a lot of you are smoking, but it must be good. Ted Strickland has not raised taxes in Ohio. He brought back fiscal discipline to the state government; something that was sorely needed after Bob Taft raised taxes because he couldn’t control state spending.
By Nicholas Borgert
June 13, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this
Strickland is acting more like Michigan Gov. Granholm every day — and you know what a basketcase that state is. Read this slowly Ted: government doesn’t produce ANYTHING; it only takes and distributes.
Nick Borgert Huntersville, NC
By Ben Brubaker
June 13, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this
I don’t know what some of you people are smoking, but Ted Strickland has not raised taxes. He’s brought fiscal responsibility back to Ohio without raising taxes. You must have him confused with Bob Taft. The man who in 2002(election year) said there was not going to be a budget crisis in Ohio and then a year later said we had a huge budget crisis. Funny how that works.
By Concerned Taxpayer
June 13, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this
My message to Teddy and the General Assembly is this: Stop playing Robin Hood by stealing money from hard working Ohioan in an effort to fund a poorly thought out job creation plan. It might make a good movie, but isn’t a real solution in our society.
Gas prices are up, driving is down, yet Teddy wants to create ‘temporary’ jobs to build more roads and bridges that will eventually add to the tax burden with even more aging infrastructure to replace in 10 or 20 years. How about maintaining existing infrastructure instead? (No to the Austin Interchange!)
I recommend reading the editorial at the link below on in impact of taxation on Ohio job loss written by a state representative: http://www.daytondailynews.com/o/content/oh/story/opinions/editorial/2008/06/12/ddn061308letters.html High taxes are the problem, not the solution! Wake up Ted and look at states like Texas and Alabama!
By gary
June 13, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this
The governor is deluded. You cannot create jobs by increasing taxes. You cannot “tax” yourself into prosperity! The way to promote more jobs is to create a better tax structure so entrepeneurs can prosper! They create the jobs! our governor is a typical liberal!
By Old Scratch
June 13, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this
Yes! This will create jobs in China, India, and so forth. Okay by me, I invest overseas and things are looking up. “Taxing Teddy” will help finish Ohio off. You get the government you deserve, even when you can’t really afford it.
By Jim 5
June 13, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this
I like the idea of the Governor exercising some fiscal discipline by not tapping the rainy day fund - yet. But his stem-cell comments belie his true liberal nature. Why can’t our governor focus on the economy for one bill without resorting to makiing it into a “social issue”? I am surprised he didn’t seek to add an affirmative action piece to the bill. Campaign over, Ted — Time to get to work.
By Chuck
June 13, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this
Spending on infrastructure is a great way to put people to work. Society gets the double benefit of better roads, sewers, and bridges while Ohioans get money in their pockets to take care of their families. Too bad the greedy unions will keep us from any New Deal-type public works programs.
By Skeptic
June 13, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this
It’s a pretty good plan. The State is finally stepping up to replace the funds no longer provided by the Feds. Clean Ohio is a VERY important fund for our cities dealing with decades of pollution left behind by irresponsible corporations. Funds for research and infrastructure will help attract businesses, which will encourage job growth in the long run. Also, Ohio is actually lowering taxes already, which is why the budget is so tight and a lot of good projects will still go without funding.
By Sherri
June 13, 2008 8:17 AM | Link to this
Doesen’t sound like it. Sounds like a retold story putting money in the same pockets as in the past. There are so many people in this state with great ideas that aren’t in the “good old boys club” that will probably never be heard! These plans are continuing hurting the families that are living just above poverty. What is happening in this country is sad. All of our systems are failing the middle and lower class people of this could be great nation.
By Concerned Taxpayer
June 13, 2008 8:15 AM | Link to this
When will the Ohio Gov’t wake up — they CAN’t create jobs! Lower taxes and let other people create real jobs!
By FreedomLover
June 13, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this
Oh, I see……tax me more, to create more jobs that illegals and NAFTA and CAFTA have taxen? That’s what all good Socialist governments do.
Why not take the “rainy day fund” return it to the hardworking taxpayers, reduce our tax base, use prisoners to do most of the state maintenance, cut welfare, deport illegal aliens and the HUGE tax burden they put on our state, and encourage more free enterprise?
Voters need to just say No! to this outlandish proposal.