In Ohio, Republican John Kasich, a former longtime congressman and also commentator for FOX News Channel, plans to file papers today for a bid for governor, according to a well-placed source.
Republicans wanted Kasich to run in 2006, he demurred, but has been planting the seeds for 2010 since them – in March 2008, he suggested that Ohio’s income tax should be “phased out.” He served last year as honorary chairman of “Recharge Ohio,” a group committed to finding leaders who could “get our state back on track.”
I do find it a bit of a stretch to imagine a warmed-over retread like Kasich giving Strickland much of a scare, but with Ohio’s economy as bad as it is, one can never be too careful.
Final thought: What’s Mike DeWine gonna do now?
(H/T: Taegan)
The repub nominee for Senate is going to be Dubya’s free trade guy and the nominee for Governor is a right-wing hack who worked as a managing Director for the now bankrupt Lehman Brothers financial institution.
Kasich gets 43% tops against Sttrckland.
From what I’ve heard he says it’ll be a big surprise.
I always forget the number, but Ohio has an election law that sez that yer most recent top of the ticket statewide candidate has to get a certain percentage of votes in order for the Party to automatically qualify for the ballot, and seats on the county BOEs. I can’t remember if it’s 30 or 35%
In 1994, da dems flirted with that limit. (Voinovich/Hollister 2,401,572, Burch/Jones 835,849)
If the GOP runs Portman for senate and Kasich for gov, guess what?
It’s gonna be a rout.
But then –now that I think about it– who else have they got? I mean seriously –Blackwell? DeWhine? Basically, we are about to discover what the bottom line, hard core, uber-neocon percentage is in this state. I say 27-30%
It’s just a shame that our Ohio state Senate contingent is the Gang Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight. (Themselves? yes. Anybody else, nope.)
or is he in jail?