Ohio GOP Chair Attacks Governor Kasich’s Staff
by Jason HartFor America to have any hope of averting fiscal collapse, the GOP presidential nominee will need to win Ohio in less than 11 months. Each day of Ohio Republican Party (ORP) infighting improves the odds for President Obama and Senator Sherrod Brown, redistributionist extraordinaire.
I’ve already given my two cents on the conflict between ORP chair Kevin DeWine and Governor Kasich, so I won’t belabor this point: DeWine should step down. I do not assume Kasich’s team is blameless, but the criticisms Ohio House Speaker Batchelder shared earlier this month cannot be discounted. Whoever threw the first stone, a public disagreement of this scope between a governor and a party chairman doesn’t leave many options.
My position was affirmed by an Ohio News Network (ONN) interview airing yesterday and covered in Friday’s Columbus Dispatch. The Dispatch story ran under the headline “Kasich’s staff used in effort to oust DeWine,” which says everything you need to know about how destructive a prolonged fight would be:
In an exclusive interview, Ohio Republican Party Chairman Kevin DeWine revealed that members of Gov. John Kasich’s staff were used in an ongoing effort to oust DeWine as head of the party.
So now Ohio’s Republican chairman is conducting opposition research against the sitting Republican governor and using it to criticize the governor’s staff on television. This makes a great headline and terrific fodder for leftists dying to smear Governor Kasich, even though the political activity in question was conducted on the staffers’ time off.
From the ONN segment:
Jim Heath, ONN: Even if Kasich’s team receives a majority of the seats in the central committee next March, DeWine says he will not step down.
DeWine: I’m going to be the chairman of the party through January 2013.
With three years remaining in his first term, Governor Kasich has already balanced a miserable state budget without raising taxes and shown a keen ability to make Ohio more employer-friendly. Another year with Chairman DeWine is a less exciting prospect for anyone interested in showing Sherrod Brown and Barack Obama the door.
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21 Comments
The GOP machine is pitiful. A monstrous waste.
All politics are about two things, money and power. Unfortunately, this is not going to change any time soon.
The Repubs in Columbus are throwing guano at the Gov to cover their ineptness, instead of attempting a duty to save Ohio's future, they are discarding the fleece they use to pretend they are not democrats.
It's the Tea Party verses the GOP elites/RINOs. They know that we want them out but they're doing anything they can to stay in power. That means lying to us.
They need to go.
Though I understand your pleas for cohesiveness, in many ways this could have a cleansing effect in Ohio. Better now than say, September next year.
I also smell union involvement?
The establishment versus new ideas……
Change is hard…..
THE OLD COMMUNIST PLOY DEVIDE AND CONCOR??
I am sort of getting tired of this same old same old from the GOP. I don't know about you, but the more this kinda clueless BS goes on in the GOP, the more I am ready to get behind a 3rd party. Split the vote? Are you effing kidding me? The GOP leadership has torn this party up more than a 3rd party ever could. They are totally out of touch.
3rd party solutions looking better and better to me all the time.
Yeah, I wish we had more time…..
George Washington warned us all about political faction.
It is time to listen.
The Republican party is just part of the political machine that is chewing up and spitting out Americans by the millions, and doing so daily.
If the 2006 and 2008 election cycles did not prove to the GOP "bosses" that their spineless, "go along to get along" ways are not the right and proper ones, then nothing will. Take a look at the entire field of GOP candidates right now.
Absolutely WORTHLESS!
Many claim that opposing the (D) and the (R) is somehow lending support to the "third party" idea. Let us put that strawman to rest once and for all shall we?
What we need is NO PARTY. We need INDIVIDUALS in elected office, from Dog Catch to President. THAT is how Individual Liberty will be once again treasured, observed, protected and defended in this country.
Me, I am voting Liberty. I am voting Sarah. Just what would happen to the media and party cabal if massive numbers of other people did so too, in spite of the "split the vote" dogma?
We must tell the government, the old media and the parties(the machine) that we no longer bow before them and that we decide.
All we have to do is actually do so. We already have the power and the authority. We must use it and use it now. Right now in this election cycle. It may well be the last opportunity we have to do so.
Mind your votes, folks, in Ohio and everywhere else too.
A third party would ensure an Obama re-election right now. If Ron Paul or Trump run as a third party candidate, Obama will finish the destruction of America.
A third party in a lot of instances would give the Democrats the win especially in the presidential election.
It's time to for term limits, the same people are running and getting elected and we're not getting any new ideas what so ever. We need some new blood in our elected offices.
And another RINO in the White House will accomplish the same dang thing, Petro.
I agree that third party is not the answer.
I submit that NO party is the answer, the answer George Washington gave us so long ago.
Parties seeking power and control, often times via money, are the problem, not the solution.
If it comes down on relying on Ohio, the US is sunk.
Other states will need to pick up the slack.
State your case, not the talking points of the GOP pundits Rush and Levin, both of whom I respect a lot, but am not seeing the facts that a 3rd party would guarantee a Dem win? Says who and why? I mean, according to the top 2 Repub pundits, we are a majority. So why would we lose a Tea Party candidate run? Sounds like contradictory statements…??? If we're the majority and all….
See above… I would love to hear a good reason with some proof as to why we as the majority of this country cannot elect who we want. Unless of course we're not…??
Two facts…
#1 It is obvious that Governor Kasich did everything within his power to take control of Ohio and their union 'goons'!
#2 It is obvious that…apparently…the GOP 'establishment' did not and now want to point fingers at those who did!
Disgusting 'pretenders' and 'fence sitters' need to lose control of the Republican party and 'real' conservatives need to take over…period!
GET YOUR UNION DUES REFUNDED IF THEY ARE NOT USING THEM PROPERLY…Republican Saul Anuzis (a former member of the Teamsters) announced the launch of a new website specifically designed to give union members assistance in getting refunds for the portion of their dues used on politics. It is not “anti-union,” it is a site with one purpose—to help union members who do NOT want their dues money used on politics, regardless of party.
http://www.unionrefund.org/
BANISH THE UNION ‘GOONS’ – BOTH PUBLIC & PRIVATE
IS YOUR STATE “RIGHT TO WORK”? – http://www.nrtw.org/rtws.htm
Sure. Thumbs down but no comment. Like I said, the GOP has lost it's way and it is not the best choice for this country anymore. Top down or bottom up, but either way, your two tiered, two partied system is all about BIG Govt.
I for one am getting a little tired of watching this country get screwed every day by an incompetent congress leader (spell that Bainer) and a GOP party that prefers scorched earth policies for survival of their power instead of common sense solution from citizens.
Go ahead, vote R and then whine some more and tell me to be patient.
VOTE CONSERVATIVE, VOTE THE GOP THE HELL OUT OF DC. NOW IS OUR TIME, NOW WE CAN MAKE A DIFF.
Hell, I knew putting anybody named DeWine in a position of authority was a
big mistake from the get go. Remember Mike DeWine? But did anyone listen
to me? Noooooo! And the same goes for the Bush family too!
No Bush! No DeWine! No Way!
Someone is acting like a Progressive with his post-adolescent behavior and it isn't Kasich. Grow up er git out.
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