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Governor John Kasich
BuckeyeB:
Governor-Elect John Kasich has a penchant for colorful and bombastic quotes. This thread is an attempt to catalogue them for posterity. Please add any, but be sure to include where they appeared. Enjoy!
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“A 39-mph train that costs $400 million dollars and which will lose $17 million in perpetuity is
one of the silliest ideas I have ever heard. I will kill it if elected governor and prioritize highway
and freight rail projects…” - Columbus Dispatch candidates questionnaire 8-15-10
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"I don't support a 39 mph train, OK? It's not going to happen if I'm governor, OK?" Kasich
said. "If you want the train, I hope you can get over that and vote for me anyway. But you're
not going to get that train. It's a white elephant, we can't afford it. We can't pay for it. And who's
riding it?" - Cleveland.com (Plain Dealer),”John Kasich, Yvette McGee-Brown Differ on Rail Plan at
candidate Forum” 8-4-10
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“The 39 mph high-speed train is dead when I become governor”…“We don’t have the money
to operate it, we don’t have the money longterm to fund it ... (and) I’m still trying to find
somebody in Ohio that wants to get on that train. No, no, we have to shut it down before it
gets too far.” - Recordpub. com 8-26-10 Kasich: High Speed Train Dead When I’m Governor”
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"We don't know what it's going to cost, we don't know who's going to operate it, and we don't
know who's going to get on the train," Kasich said. "I'm going to tell you - I'm governor, the
39-mile-per-hour high-speed passenger train is dead." - Columbus Dispatch 9-15-10 “A Civil Fight”
Kasich names staff members
Business First - by Jeff Bell
Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 3:09pm EDT
...Kasich also reiterated his commitment to get more money into Ohio classrooms by reducing spending on administrative functions. He also said he will stick by his campaign promise to stop the 3C passenger rail project from Cleveland to Cincinnati.
“That train is dead,” Kasich said. “We’re not going to have it.”
READ MORE AT:
http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2010/11/03/kasich-names-staff-members.html
Kasich lays down the law to lobbyists
Friday, November 5, 2010 02:52 AM
By Mark Niquette and Jim Siegel
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
"I just want Ohio to be great; this is our chance," Kasich said during a luncheon at Brio Tuscan Grille at Polaris. "Please leave the cynicism and the political maneuvering at the door. Because we need you on the bus, and if you're not on the bus, we will run over you with the bus. And I'm not kidding."
"And if you think you're going to stop us, you're crazy. You will not stop us. We will beat you. And that's not arrogance."
READ MORE AT: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/11/05/copy/kasich-lays-down-the-law.html
Columbo:
Since John Kasich is transitioning to be Ohio's next governor - Urban Ohio might as well do the same. So here is the new Governor John Kasich discussion thread. BuckeyeB got it started with a sampling of Kasich quotes and two news items, so I renamed that thread into this Governor Kasich thread.
Please include news and discussion of the Kasich administration in this thread instead of the older 2010 Governor Race thread. If you want to discuss the actual 2010 election process (i.e. voting patterns etc.) in the 2010 Governor Race thread, that's fine. But discussion of what Kasich will or will not do as governor, criticism, praise and news items should go into this thread moving forward.
SFSpike:
Personally, I think that governor elect Kasich should keep his mouth shut until he is sworn in. So far he suffers from a severe foot in mouth problem. One day after winning by the slightest of margins, he is spouting orders and dictates as though it were the landslide to end all. He should not forget that 51% of the state voted against him. Also, he should keep in mind that he was elected chief executive; he was not appointed dictator of the state, nor was he crowned emperor. His last sentence delivered at Brio shows his arrogance, no matter what he thinks. It is beyond the pale.
I don't live in the state, so my opinion probably does not matter much. I still care what happens to Ohio. Taft was an embarrassment, but this man gives buffoon a whole new meaning.
X:
I think Taft got a bad rap. He was a pragmatic moderate. So was Strickland. I haven't heard anything out of Kasich yet that doesn't make me cringe. I'm really not looking forward to the next 4 years of news out of Columbus.
gottaplan:
^well glad to hear you're keeping an open mind
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