The latest monthy state-by-state unemployment data available here should give pause to GOP activists who seek to blame Gov. Ted Strickland for Ohio's woes. The GOP runs most of the states that are worse off. Playing a blame game could tar a lot of Republican governors. Ohio now stands [...]
What brings Ted Strickland, Bill Harris, Bill Batchelder, Armond Budish, Chris Redfern, Kevin DeWine, and Tom Moyer together in the same room, without resulting in bloodshed or the selling of our state to Michigan in return for casino revenues?
You want this answer to be the budget crisis, don't you?
Well, while' [...]
His name is Lou Gentile of Steubenville, a former Strickland congressional staffer who worked for the Strickland office worker who exposed himself to 12 year old girls.
The unpopular Governor gave his former employee a glowing endorsement:
“I know how much Lou loves this region,” said Gov. Ted Strickland. “I [...]
Unemployment continues to skyrocket:
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s unemployment rate was 10.5 percent in October, up from 10.1 percent in September, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services said today.
Ohio’s nonfarm wage and salary employment increased 1,400 over the month, from 5,097,000 in September to 5,098,400 in October.
And this [...]
Those were Ted Strickland’s words this morning as quoted in the Columbus Dispatch Daily Briefing.
Unseemly, indeed.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I take you back to July [...]
Gov. Ted Strickland has told Senate President Bill Harris, R-Ashland, that the Senate Republican budget plan unveiled on Wednesday, Nov. [...]
Gov. Ted Strickland says it is "unseemly" that Senate Republicans don't plan to return until December after failing yesterday to reach an agreement on how to fill a $851.5 million hole in the state budget.
Strickland said yesterday, before the Senate went home, that he thinks the legislature' [...]
From the Dayton Daily News this evening:
It is rather amusing to hear Ted Strickland’s office talk about responsible budgeting. By “responsible,” does Spokesbabe Amanda mean: 1) plugging budget holes with incredibly optimistic projections about revenues that could be generated from various morons at slot machines [...]
An urgent email from the National Taxpayers Union:
Dear Matt,
Governor Strickland’s income tax increase could pass as soon as today if we don’t convince the Senate to reject it. Join us in calling Chairman John Carey and the rest of the Senate Finance Committee and urge them to vote NO [...]
As 2010 approaches, Governor Ted Strickland faces a rather complex set of political challenges in his campaign to win re-election.
The economic recovery has been slow to take hold in Ohio. Budget cuts and other fiscal moves to balance the state budget are being politicized by the Ohio GOP, [...]
Kyle Sisk beat me to this. A handful of Ohio Republican Senators, will support a compromise version of HB 318 that would include apprixmately 2/3rds of Ted Strickland’s propose tax increase (a freeze on planned income tax reductions) and a handful of “cash management maneuvers” (accounting tricks?) to [...]
A member of Gov. Ted Strickland's cabinet was chosen today as a regional Health and Human Services director for President Obama.
Cristal A. Thomas, executive director of Ohios Executive Medicaid Management Administration, will head the region that includes Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Cristal Thomas brings [...]
While Senate Republicans continue looking for alternatives, yet another business group has joined the chorus calling for them to pass Gov. Ted Stricklands income tax plan.
Shortly after Ohio Republicans canceled a scheduled Senate Finance Committee meeting, ending any public discussion of filling the budget shortfall for today, the [...]
Over the summer, Ted Strickland came under fire from supporters of libraries(and reallly, what kind of weirdo doesn't support libraries) for proposing a massive cut of their funding to the tune of $84.3 million.It was a party-building Monday out of state for Gov. Ted Strickland.
The governor flew to New York City yesterday afternoon and plans to return to the state tonight, according to the Ohio Democratic Party, speaking for Strickland.
The governor has taken numerous trips out of state this year so [...]
Since we’ve been following the whole judicial screening process, and the recent appointment of Keila Cosme, it seemed appropriate to share this release concerning the recent appointment of Nadine Allen to the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas sent via e-mail:
Columbus, Ohio – Ohio Governor Ted Strickland announced today [...]
Ted Strickland’s new web ab endorses socialized health care the government takeover of 1/6th of the private economy by the government.
Does this mean the media will finally pretending Strickland is a moderate? Oh wait… he likes guuuuns. Never mind.
Remember that Quinnipiac poll shows Ohio voters disapprove of the way [...]
From Mike Memoli’s report on the new Quinnipiac Poll: (The full poll is here.)
Economic woes in the Buckeye State put Gov. Ted Strickland in a vulnerable position for 2010, a new Quinnipiac Poll (1,123 RVs, 11/5-9, +/- 2.9%) finds.
General Election Matchup
Strickland (D) 40 (-6 vs. last poll, [...]
Now that full-scale casinos are on their way to Ohio after the passage of Issue 3 last week, Gov. Ted Strickland is pledging not to take campaign contributions from casino owners, but his Republican opponent next year is not.
The governor also is maintaining his previous promise not [...]
Invitations to two fundraisers for Gov. Ted Strickland’s re-election campaign that advertised special access to state officials appear to perpetuate a pay-to-play political system that the governor promised in 2006 that he would end.
A third fundraising invitation by the Ohio Democratic Party to join Strickland [...]
Last week we reported on the disastrous interview Ted Strickland went through on 55KRC in southern Ohio.I posted here about local politicians running away from Issue 3, the recently passed constitutional amendment to allow Ohio’s four major cities to build casino’s. At the state level, due to his flip-flop on slot machines, it appears Governor Ted Strickland ran away as well.
The governor was originally against [...]
