edited by: Lisa Renee Ward,
Ohio Editor
This in via e-mail from the office of Governor Ted Strickland:
Ohio Education Budget Shortfall and the Consequences of Inaction
Ohio GOP Senators Claim they can Delay Resolving Education Funding Shortfall Until Next Year.
Senate Republicans don’t see Jan. 1 as such a key date…Sen. Mark Wagoner, a Toledo-area Republican, said the [...]
The Ohio Republican Party Central Committee on Friday endorsed Justice Maureen O'Connor for election next year as chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.
The party's 66-member governing board unanimously endorsed O'Connor to replace Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer, who will be forced to retire at the end of [...]
t was just six weeks ago that House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) decided he was fed up with empty, meaningless congressional resolutions. These largely symbolic measures are taken up all the time -- it's been routine fare for years -- [...] 
Nothing like a good game of chicken I always say!!!
I've been writing a bit about the potential "Gang of 5" that might be created if five Ohio GOP State Senators give Strickland (aka the opponent to the GOP gubernatorial candidate John Kasich and potential person who' [...]
Governor Ted Strickland trails Wall Street Investment Banker John Kasich by 9 points in the latest Rasmussen Reports poll taken December 7th, 48%-39%.
With the election a year away, the numbers should be a warning to both candidates.
Strickland, with three years in the bank, has only a 46% favorable [...]
GOP Sen. George V. Voinovich of Ohio amplified today in an interview on his at least partial support for President Obama's desire to use $200 billion in surplus bank bailout money (known as TARP) for job creation efforts.
Like most Republicans, Voinovich wants to use the excess TARP money [...]
This week, the Ohio GOP’s screening committee was scheduled to meet before the central committee’s meeting on Friday. As was decided in September, they were supposed to consider making an endorsement in the one state-wide race they had not made one in yet… the race Ohio [...]
GOP Rep. Steve Austria of Beavercreek responded to President Obama's speech by saying that "more government spending and debt is not the answer to growing our economy."
But when asked if he supported the small business tax cuts in Obama's proposal, Austria indicated that he did, but wants them [...]
GOP Sen. George V. Voinovich says he is encouraged that President Obamas economy speech today recognized that our federal spending is out of control.
The Ohio Republican, who is much more supportive in his reaction to Obamas speech than many in the GOP, is hoping that Obama will back [...]
GOP Rep. Pat Tiberi of Genoa Township says President Obama is using the wrong pot of money for new job creation efforts.
Obama said in his speech today that he wants to use an unspecified amount of surplus bank bailout money the estimate is the total is about [...]
For more than a week, Sen. Sherrod Brown and his staff tried to get his name attached as a co-sponsor to a Republican health care amendment. Nine times his staff members contacted the office of GOP senators and nine times they came away without any answer.
So today, Brown, [...]
The former No. 2 in Hamilton County's Republican Party has been hired as the Cincinnati lobbyist for Rock Ohio Ventures LLC, the entity created to spend $500 million for downtown gambling casinos in Cleveland and Cincinnati. He landed the job Nov. 18, not long after finishing counting votes at [...]
The Democratic Governor’s Association has listed Ohio as one of the five states in it’s new “GOP Accountability Project”. The program is aimed at taking on Republican’s who have supported the bad policies that has left our nation in such a fragile state.
Of course, John Kasich was an executive [...]
