Strickland officially completely out of touch with Ohio

I've always thought this guy was a little loony, but this proves it.

Dispatch story here.

He thinks it's wrong for people to keep their own money? He actually wants to make a campaign issue of this? How dumb are his advisors?

Ohio is the 47th highest taxes state in the nation. 1 being good. 50 being bad (unless your a democrat).

Mr. Strickland thinks your only a good Ohioan if you give him your money. So he, in turn, can give your money to more government leeches....

Didn't we fight (and win) a war over high taxes? (lower, BTW, than they are today).

Yet Strickland thinks it makes good political sense to bash those that don't want to pay taxes on death to the state and would rather give it to their children?

He thinks this is a winning issue? This guy is crazy!

Here's the winning quote: "Strickland said he found that comment revealing and disturbing, noting that Ohioans who grow up in the state and start successful businesses here benefit from the state's advantages."

So, because of this we have to pay up, just like the Mafioso? The state has many benefits in spite of the government, not because of it.

We need a governor that understands that people will move to locales that steal less of their money than Ohio does. Ohio has to compete with the Florida's and Texas' of this union or we'll keep losing good people to those states. This is not rocket science.

Mr. Strickland does not get it.

OK, I've agreed with Redfern twice recently.....

First he asks for Athens County democrat chair, Susan Gwinn, to resign. Which, of course, she should have, and did.

Second, he says what we've been saying all along about Dave Yost and Mike DeWine:

Dispatch story here

"Ohio Democratic Chairman Chris Redfern said Yost was "strong-armed" out of the attorney general's race.

"Yost clearly wanted to be attorney general but was forced to play second fiddle to Kevin DeWine's second cousin and the second choice of the Republican base," Redfern said."

What they've done is allow the dems to keep the Attorney General office for another four years. This office could have been won by Yost.

Yost is the one that fits the Attorney General role. DeWine fits a Methodist minister role....in their new liberal teachings.

As detailed in these posts here.

Cordray should be re-elected as Attorney General as he is more conservative then DeWine!

These back room deals and schemes are what has turned folks away from the ORP. Taylor should have ran for Auditor again.....especially since it's very important for the gerrymandering that our 2 parties do after the census.

I am now convinced (I know, I must be a little slow) that the GOP is afraid of their own voters. They'd rather hand pick their candidates before the primary than let their conservative base pick it for them. The conservatives will abandon them again if they keep it up. The difference now is, their base has a place to go.

Another reason to eliminate Townships in Ohio

The taxpayers would not have to pay the State Auditor's office to audit 1309 townships.

I'm told an audit for a small township costs around $5,000. Multiply that by 1309 = $6,545,000. This is a very conservative figure.

So, we (taxpayers) now pay taxes to support Townships. The Townships pay (using our taxes) the State Auditor's office (which is also tax payer funded) to audit the Townships. Does this sound like an employment agency for auditors? It does to me.

I'm not suggesting that auditing is not needed. See this as an example. However, if our State Auditor Mary Taylor could focus on 88 counties (granted she would have to spend more time at the counties) instead of 1309 townships along with the 88 counties....the job would have to be easier, less costly to do and more thorough.

Townships need to be abolished.