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Ohio Lawmakers To Introduce Bill To Recall GOP Gov. John Kasich

source: http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/11/ohio-recall-john-kasich/

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Last month, Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s (R) approval ratings plummeted to 30 percent after just two months in office. Kasich has repeatedly balked at transparency, reneged on his own promises to vulnerable constituents, insulted law enforcement and minorities, and muscled through a highly unpopular anti-union bill that dramatically restricts 350,000 workers’ rights.

In response to Kasich’s disastrous reign, Democratic state Reps. Mike Foley and Bob Hagan will introduce legislation this week to make Ohio the 20th state to allow voters to remove and replace state officials, including the governor and legislators. The legislation requires a petition signed by 15 percent of the votes cast for that office in the last election. In Kasich’s case, they would need more than 577,870 signatures. While acknowledging that the bill is unlikely to pass in a GOP-led legislature, Hagan said Ohioans deserved a chance to recall a governor who is “hurting the people in this state”:

State Rep. Robert Hagan, a Youngstown Democrat, cited what he called “an attack on working people, an attack on organized labor, an attack on the ability to collectively bargain” as reasons he’s co-sponsoring the measure. He said it also had to a lot to do with Gov. John Kasich.

“He’s dividing the state,” Hagan said. “He’s hurting the people in this state and we think that this legislation that will be offered will go to the heart of those constituents and voters who have grown disenchanted with this governor.[...]

Hagan said he did not expect the legislation to pass. But, he added, “I think that they would be foolish not to have some hearings and have this discussion. I think it would be even more foolish for them to stand in the way.” [...]

“People wanted to know why if they can do it in Wisconsin, why can’t they do it in Ohio — why can’t we do it in Ohio,” Foley said. “They wanted that same right here in Ohio.”

In Wisconsin, 16 senators “face possible recalls for their actions on the bill which limits collective bargaining by public employee unions.” Four, so far, have enough signatures to face recall elections. Wisconsin’s Gov. Scott Walker (R) can face recall in January of 2012. In Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer’s (R) outlandishly radical moves have spurred Arizonans to start a recall effort against her. And as ThinkProgress’s Ian Millhiser points out, Michiganders can recall Gov. Rick Snyder (R) this July for an attack on workers’ rights similar to Kasich’s.

Should Ohio’s recall bill fail, the state’s citizenry does have a “fall back option” to write the power of recall into the Ohio Constitution by collecting almost 400,000 signatures of registered voters. Kasich, however, rebuffed any recall effort as sheer politics. Viewing his record as “pretty remarkable,” Kasich said, “I don’t care about a lot of the other political things that go on.” His spokesman Rob Nichols called the proposal “gutter politics” and “borderline absurd.”


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  • Persecuted
    • +1
      Persecuted  

    • did he care about how people were treated before he got a freakin ticket? at least he isnt black or mexican.
      he is really shocked that the police officer didnt know who he was, and didnt let him off because of who he was. thats what this is really about.
      he should have had some balls like asshole rick perry and said, EXCUSE ME... DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM??????

    • 1 year ago
  • Davidlv
    • -4
      Davidlv  

    • Finally, this country is getting some fine governors who want to curb the out-of control spending by these irresponsible liberals. May men and women just like the Ohio Governor win elected offices all over this country. And may you stupid liberals lose very election!!!!

    • 1 year ago
  • budsnews
  • SFirman
    • +1
      SFirman  
    • Davidlv:

      These fine govenors want to curb out of control spending by giving to big Industry on the backs of the middle class and poor. Next time they won't be back. We'll be back in 2012!!!!

    • 1 year ago
  • Persecuted
    • +1
      Persecuted  
    • Davidlv:

      curbing out of control spending is easy... cease the republican wars, tax the republican super corporations, and let the freemarket really be free.... let the banks that profit from ripping us off fail. that would save us a couple trillion and earn us a couple trillion as well. when you talk about liberal spending, you're talking about social programs that help the poor, healthcare, foodstamps, and money for the very low income. you support attacking poor people and supporting huge corporations who give multi million dollar bonuses to the very people who caused an economic melt down in the first place. i wonder, what exactly did the conservatives say to you to make you believe that the poor people are the enemy and the rich people are your friends?
      i'm a liberal... and i'm your friend... i want the best for you, and your family... and i dont give a damn about those politicans making millions from tax payer subsidies... or stripping womens care so that women are forced to go to their privately owned clinics... and i dont care about those people who make you scared of poor people, even though there are not enough jobs to go around, because the people that you support get huge tax breaks for creating jobs overseas, those people who hurt people by the millions will get whats coming to them, if not in this life, then the next ...
      i am still your friend... we liberals, are still your friend, even though, as a conservative, your brain is less able to interpret complex situations and you have a tendency to be more fearful... dont be fearful... we will survive... if we help the poor, the poor will build a strong country and we will thrive... we could use your support on the common sense side.

    • 1 year ago
  • budsnews
  • sageohio
    • +5
      sageohio  

    • I WENT BACK TO OHIO
      BUT MY PRETTY COUNTRYSIDE
      HAD BEEN PAVED DOWN THE MIDDLE
      BY A GOVERNMENT THAT HAD NO PRIDE
      THE FARMS OF OHIO
      HAD BEEN REPLACED BY SHOPPING MALLS
      AND MUZAK FILLED THE AIR
      FROM SENECA TO CUYAHOGA FALLS
      SAID, A, O, OH WAY TO GO OHIO

    • 1 year ago
  • jam60jam
    • +5
      jam60jam  

    • in more kasich news he has given diebold co famous for there voting machines and of course atms 56 millon to stay in ohio then he is talking of raising taxes and license fees on our new cainos before they can even get started iam not dead on on these numbers but since he stripped bargain rights from workers he has given away 100 millon in tax breaks to companys who hold states hostage by crying give us a tax break or were moving if no one gave them a break what would they do why move overseas of course and we let them then we continue to buy product while they get away with not paying taxes f---outrageous

    • 1 year ago
  • SFirman
  • mii
    • +5
      mii  

    • Kasich seems to think he is above reproach.
      Let's hope the working people in Ohio and their
      courageous Democratic legistators will succeed.

    • 1 year ago
  • Dave_Root
    • +5
      Dave_Root  

    • Racall all those over-reaching rePubicans. I'm loving this shit. Progressives/Liberals need to be motivated and come to fight because I don't think the U.S. can take much more rePubican rule.

    • 1 year ago
  • Dejan_Croatia
  • cathylim
  • KB723
  • figgdimension
  • letsliveinpeace
  • ptr23
  • Leen61
    • +8
      Leen61  

    • I just watched "The Ed Show." My link to the CommonDreams.org story still stands regarding Tammy Baldwin wanting Eric Holder to launch a Federal investigation into the Prosser/Kloppenburg election. Now Scott Walker is saying that "Labor is trying to steal the election." This guy just doesn't quit. Asshole!

    • 1 year ago
  • letsliveinpeace
  • tlbuffin
  • Milieu
  • Leen61
  • Leen61
    • +3
      Leen61  
    • tlbuffin:

      I know he and the Koch's were behind "finding" those ballots. I sure hope his day will come. My husband yelled at the TV last night "I wish someone would just take him out!"
      (Walker IS that evil)

    • 1 year ago
  • SFirman
  • Leen61
  • PoliticalAmazon
  • KB723
  • Straighttalker
  • chief_longhair
  • cherry5000
  • sffsmessiah
  • Demtothecore
    • +7
      Demtothecore  

    • After two months and the majority of them are being set up for recall. Damn I wonder what they could have done??? LOL. Folks next time please look before you leap. Listen to the message and study their puppet masters and what they stand for. Heck I guess I don't really have to say this. Just get them all!

    • 1 year ago
  • Persecuted
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      Persecuted  
    • Demtothecore:

      whats more important is that WE get out there and rally up the troops... get people motivated to vote... we outnumber them, we just get frustrated and fed up because democrats suck too... we just gotta convince people that until some real change comes along, we gotta go democrat... the lesser of two evils

    • 1 year ago
  • Richard_Wyatt
  • crash_text_dummy
  • tlbuffin
  • madammarsh
  • tlbuffin
  • Demtothecore
  • Plue
  • cherry5000
  • cherry5000
  • Demtothecore
  • figgdimension
  • Milieu
  • madammarsh
    • -1
      madammarsh  
    • tlbuffin:

      I had been blissfully unaware of his existence till the campaign. A lot of ohmygodding then began. My one precious vote on the matter cancelled out, of course, by my sweetie, R. Grrrr!

    • 1 year ago
  • SFirman
  • Persecuted
  • EmperorThan
  • littlwarrior
  • 3lan
  • jam60jam
    • +4
      jam60jam  

    • if i were homer simpson i would say woooooooooooooohoooooooooooooo!!! i am ready to sign still waiting to sign petition for repeal of sb5 with all the union members they might not need me i would like to sign it just the same

    • 1 year ago
  • KSirys
  • Leen61
    • +7
      Leen61  

    • Seeing as I'm from WI, I'm wishing Ohio the best of luck. I see on some of the posts here alot of the same things that were said about WI. For the most part, WI received support for our efforts to recall Walker. Not everyone in Ohio voted for Ka-sick just like not everyone voted for Walker in WI. Our recall efforts are still going forward. Ohio, if you have any petitions to sign, I will gladly do so.

    • 1 year ago
  • SFirman
    • +5
      SFirman  
    • Leen61:

      Thanks Leen. I signed a petition when I recieved a news letter from Sen. Brown. It was to put on the ballet in Nov. to repeal his bill. This was probably for Ohio residents only. I haven't seen one yet to recall him. Perhaps someone can inform both of us if there is one.
      I can only hope. Have you heard any more about WI election and the votes they SAID they found?

    • 1 year ago
  • Leen61
  • Leen61
  • Milieu
  • Leen61
  • oldpol2
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      oldpol2  
    • SFirman:

      The last I heard was this afternoon and the woman who 'found' the votes is being investigated by a state , non partisan, election commission. It is widely believed that because she was previously involved in voter irregularities( some were found guilty of felonies) and has overseen numerous 'mistakes' , there is reason to believe this latest move is not on the up and up.Not much surprise there.

      She also worked for and was a supporter of the conservative judge.

    • 1 year ago
  • SFirman
  • Demtothecore
    • +3
      Demtothecore  
    • Leen61:

      Leen where is the petition to sign? I am ready but have not received anything in email about this one. Only one about the Canadian government getting ready to club over 400,000 baby seals. Come on folks in Ohio let's get this thing going. Publish the petition or give a site for us to log on and sign.

    • 1 year ago
  • Demtothecore
    • 0
      Demtothecore  
    • oldpol2:

      So that idiot woman is going to the "pokey" and the idiot who she did her little election fraud will pretend to not know a darn thing and skip off into the sunset. Sorry but I would not even do that for my mother and I love her! Reminds me of that idiot who went to jail because she did not want to give up Cheney over the Plame incident. Judith Miller???

    • 1 year ago
  • Leen61
  • Leen61
  • Leen61
  • Demtothecore
  • Leen61
  • figgdimension
  • cherry5000
  • Dave_Root
  • Leen61
  • SFirman
  • SFirman
  • Milieu
    • +3
      Milieu  
    • Image

    • If you'll go back and watch video of Kompanieführer Kasich, you'll see that he's never given a particular Rat's fanny about anybody but himself.

      Also found this, for those who love the Kochs:

      "The legislation was prefabricated by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) which has a long affiliation with John Kasich. More than three decades ago, this corporate front masquerading as advocates of “limited government” and “free markets” began plotting to destroy the programs common in all modern industrial democracies.

      ALEC’s own history points to a meeting in September 1973 that included then-Illinois state Representative Henry Hyde, conservative activist Paul Weyrich, and Lou Barnett, an operative for then-Governor Ronald Reagan’s presidential ambitions; these three created the council. Reactionary and racist Senator Jesse Helms is also listed as one of the key founders of ALEC. ALEC’s website states that “Among those who were involved with ALEC in the formative years were . . . John Kasich of Ohio.”

      http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/1409

    • 1 year ago
  • madammarsh
  • lazloman
    • +7
      lazloman  

    • They're dismissive of the opinion people have of them publicly, but don't fool yourselves, the national rethuglican leadership is definitely paying attention. There are three much ballyhooed governors that were elected on the strength of the dissatisfaction with the direction the country is going, but now that angered is being turned against them. If this anger pours over into next years elections, many of the "Big Ten" states they thought they had a shot at, will end up back in the Obama camp. For his part, he needs to come out squarely on the side of working people. If he does that, he can take the enthusiasm to a whole new level. The first step would be to present a budget that reflects the progressive agenda:
      Close those tax loopholes
      Stop subsidies to large corporations
      Cut defense spending
      Make Medicare more efficient and let people keep their benefits
      Start rebuilding this country's infrastructure using American workers and American raw materials-> Keep the jobs here.

      Note: I didn't say raise taxes. We don't have to do that; just make them actually PAY taxes.

    • 1 year ago
  • BigAL72
    • +8
      BigAL72  

    • If all of these backward thinking idealogue driven new Republican Governors are not re-called they will most definitely not be re-elected in four years. Hopefully no states are damaged seriously in four years.

    • 1 year ago
  • Demtothecore
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
    • +4
      COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM  

    • Of course the criminally insane; which all of these corrupted corporate right zombie puppets are, will call all common sense actions absurd and gutter politics, even after God reminds them of each and every perverse betrayal of the United States Constitution and the American People which they have committed! I'm thinking there was something effective about the days of tar, feathers and being strapped to a galloping horse out of town to nowhere. But in Kasich's case, I still recommend that they strap him in a canoe and take him across the street from the Capitol to float him down the Olentangy river.

    • 1 year ago
  • madammarsh
  • SFirman
  • PoliticalAmazon
    • 0
      PoliticalAmazon  

    • Is this a "real effort," or a "pretend effort"?

      I'm so jaded by the "pretend efforts" of Obama, when he takes stands on an issue and says he will make it right, when all along, he knew it would never pass (because he didn't put the effort to drive it through Congress).

      Example:
      Our tax dollars are STILL going to pay incentives to American corporations to send our jobs abroad.

      On 9/9/2010 (before the 2010 midterm elections), Obama "VOWED" he would stop tax incentives for outsourcing, but "the GOP blocked it." (note in the quote, below, that at that time he also VOWED to let the Bush tax cuts expire for people making greater than $250,000--it's a two-fer Obama fake promise!).

      --------------------------------------------------------
      http://ibnlive.in.com/news/obama-vows-to-end-tax-cuts-create-more-jobs/130599-2....

      [BEGIN QUOTE]Washington: Accusing opposition Republicans of pushing bankrupt economic policies and putting politics ahead of national welfare, US President Barack Obama has vowed to end Bush era tax cuts encouraging companies to "create jobs and profits in other countries".
      I think if we're going to give tax breaks to companies, they should go to companies that create jobs in America - not that create jobs overseas," he said on a mid-term campaign in the perennial swing state of Ohio on Wednesday.
      "That's one difference between the Republican vision and the Democratic vision. That's what this election is all about," he said vowing to stand by his plan to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire for people making over $ 250,000, while extending the cuts for those making less. [END QUOTE]

      ---------------------------------------------------------------

      However, on 9/28/2010--even CLOSER to the 2010 midterm elections--the true Obama/Democrat agenda was revealed in a follow-up CNN article:it was all just a campaign gimmick for the 2010 midterm elections. Democrats knew all along the corporatists in Congress (GOP AND Democrat, because at that time there was still a Democratic majority in both the House and Senate) wouldn't let the bill pass. That's why Obama and the Democrats raised the issue--they knew it wouldn't pass.

      ------------------------------------------------------------------

      http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/28/gop-blocks-democrats-jobs-outsou...

      [BEGIN QUOTE] .Democratic sources tell CNN they knew all along this measure would not make it very far. That was beside the point. The point, Democratic strategists candidly admit, was to use the last few days of the congressional session before the election to try to highlight one of the few jobs-related issues Democrats feel they may be able to use against Republicans: outsourcing....[END QUOTE]

      -------------------------

      So, for those of you more familiar with this situation--do you think the Ohio politicians are serious about this recall? Or are they just pandering to the voters, never intending to actually accomplish anything?

      Sorry to be so cynical, but I don't trust but a handful of politicians anymore, especially when they herd up.

    • 1 year ago
  • DougChristian
    • +6
      DougChristian  
    • PoliticalAmazon:

      It will remain a pretend effort until people like you stop fighting people like Obama and start fighting the people who block him. There's nothing dishonest about supporting a position that they believe in even though they don't think it can actually pass with the current Congress. Call it a campaign gimmick if you like but it does represent what they'd like to do if we elect a Congress that would also support it.

      Obama shares your goal on these issues but you hate him because the Republicans didn't allow his proposals to pass. That is insanity.

    • 1 year ago
  • PoliticalAmazon
    • -1
      PoliticalAmazon  
    • DougChristian:

      Obama fights for what he wants, and usually wins.

      if he's not fighting for it, he wants it.

      In other words, he's using the GOPers as patsies to pass the agenda he wanted to pass in the first place, but it would have been political suicide coming from him.

    • 1 year ago
  • SFirman
  • DougChristian
  • Demtothecore
    • +4
      Demtothecore  
    • DougChristian:

      Doug you have just said (not calling any names or addressing anyone specifically) what I have been saying all along. The man is getting it from both sides and must make compromises or all hell will break loose. He is not going to play games with the lives of others so he had to make deals with the devils. What he needs is a majority in the Senate and Congress.... a serious majority without the Blue Balls folks who will work with him. This will give him the chance to get shit done and not have to make deals with those assholes, who water down everything and pretend to be in agreement then turn around and vote NO.

    • 1 year ago
  • budsnews
  • DougChristian
    • +1
      DougChristian  
    • Demtothecore:

      Yep. It's annoying how many people don't understand the balance of powers or the mixed ideology of the electorate. They act as if a completely progressive population has been tricked into conservatism by a deceitful dictator. Every other time they turn on the party who's platform shares their values and elect the party who's platform holds that they should literally go to hell and they wonder why nothing ever changes.

    • 1 year ago
  • dinm76
  • dinm76
  • dinm76
    • 0
      dinm76  
    • Demtothecore:

      Obama is the king of "watering down everything". Wake up Demtothecore. I wouldn't let Obama do a deal for me buying a used car! If Obama is elected again, after four more years the republicans will have the country THEY want!

    • 1 year ago
  • dinm76
    • 0
      dinm76  
    • DougChristian:

      A progressive base WAS tricked into voting for a "deceitful conservative". Where have you been in the last two years? Puplic option, support for labor, off shore oil, gitmo, bank regulation,torture,patriot act, ending the wars, Bush tax cuts.......need I go on?

    • 1 year ago
  • DougChristian
    • +2
      DougChristian  
    • dinm76:

      I understand her fully. At best she is friendly fire, at worst, true traitor. She is absolutely not on my side.

      And if you are working against Obama to get the Republicans back in power along with everything that comes with including securing a conservative Supreme Court for another entire generation, than you are not either.

      The fact that you do it as a liberal ideologue out of ignorance of the balance of power in government, the US history of compromise, the center-right ideology of the electorate, and other practical realities, rather than as a conservative out of moral depravity doesn't make you any better than them.

    • 1 year ago
  • SFirman
  • SFirman
  • DougChristian
    • +2
      DougChristian  
    • SFirman:

      I think they'd actually prefer it. It's easier and more satisfying to criticize the direction of the country when you are fully opposed to every part of the government.

      That's why they prefer to think Obama is a complete lying fraud who was a secret conservative all along but tricked a liberal country into electing him. That's an easy problem to deal with. We just need to find the right liberal President and he'll sail into office.

      It's much harder to deal with a President doing the best he can with a major opposition party acting completely in bad faith, dedicated to bad ideas, with its own massive media outlets, in addition to entrenched bureaucracies, a conservative Supreme court, pervasive corporate propaganda, and a profoundly misinformed and short-term thinking electorate.

    • 1 year ago
  • Demtothecore
    • 0
      Demtothecore  
    • dinm76:

      You are indeed the A+ student on the board. So we should look at pink and call it green because we do not have the ability to look, listen, read and comprehend what has been going on. Tell you what, keep your beliefs of lack there of and I will keep mine. No wonder the Kochroach bro's think they can keep you folks distracted with their brand of nonsense.

    • 1 year ago
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