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NOT, smarter than he looks.

I was worried in the beginning that Kasich might be smarter than he looks, that his plans were well thought out.  Now I'm seeing evidence that he's about as smart as he looks, which is not very.

Like when he nominated Mark Kvamme as Director of the Ohio Department of Development and was forced to un-nominate him because of this pesky little thing call the Constitution of the State of Ohio that bars him from holding a public position in Ohio since he is not, nor has any intention of being, an Ohio resident.

And how did Kasich react? He bitterly blamed “partisan politics”, not his violation of the State’s charter of government.

In a statement Kasich said: "I was frustrated when some tried to raise roadblocks to his eligibility to serve based on his residency, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by anything in politics,"

He thinks holding him to the constitution is politics, whereas I think it was simply making him obey the law. I guess having no law degree, or any post graduate degree beyond his Bachelor of Arts degree we shouldn't expect too much out of him.  But, personally, I believe that as long as there is a presumption that We The People should obey the law, I think he should too. Don't you?

And by the way, I guess Kasich is allowed to hire people in his office regardless of where they live or how much time they intend to spend here, so he created a new job for him, just like he did with his old Lehman Brothers co-worker. Kvamme will be appointed to a newly created “Director of Job Creation” post within Governor Kasich’s office, at God  knows how much money.


SB5 won't survive legal challenge either. Republican Senator Tim Grendell, who voted against the law precisely because he knows the law, pointed out several legal problems with the law on the floor in final statements before the vote. In private practice Grendell had more courtroom experience than anyone in the state congress, included many cases argued before the State Supreme Court. I repeat, Grendell is a Republican. He IS a conservative. Look at his record and positions.

I think it's possible that Kasich will try to do too much too fast and will have not dug deep enough into the systems he's trying change, that he'll make mistakes that don't survive scrutiny.

Still, what we'll be left with is an ineffective Governor with no intention of doing anything that doesn't benefit the investor class first.

I don't like the idea of suffering this guy and his investor class appointees all the way to 2015.

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