Kasich is as extreme as any of them

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Ohio’s Kasich slashes Planned Parenthood funding

John Kasich has adopted a rather specific posture: he’s the grown-up in the room. The rest of the field includes two first-term senators and two political amateurs, leaving the Ohio governor as the only candidate stressing qualities such as executive experience, governing skills, and pragmatism.

And that makes perfect sense given the circumstances.

Kasich can’t be as right-wing as his rivals;

he can’t be as unhinged as his rivals; and

he certainly can’t avoid the “career politician” label.

Looking for an opening, the Republican governor has decided to present himself as a more mainstream, and more electable, conservative.

In the five-person GOP field, that leaves Kasich as the last option for the party’s remaining “moderate” voters. But let’s not mistake perceptions for reality.

As we were reminded over the weekend, the Ohio Republican may be playing the role of 2016 pragmatist, but that doesn’t make him an actual moderate (http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/governor-john-kasich-signs-ohio-bill-cut-planned-parenthood-funding).


Republican presidential hopeful and Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Sunday signed a bill that aims to strip funding from Planned Parenthood in the state. […] After Kasich came in a strong second place in the New Hampshire primary, the Republican assembly in Ohio passed legislation that targets about $1.3 million in funding for Planned Parenthood in the state.

That money helps support screenings for breast cancer, STD testing, programs working to prevent violence against women, and more.


Remember, we’re not talking about public funding of abortions, which is already largely prohibited. Rather, state lawmakers passed a measure to block “any entity that performs or promotes nontherapeutic abortions” from receiving funds for women’s health treatments that have nothing to do with terminating pregnancies.

And Kasich, eager to curry favor with his party’s far-right base, eagerly signed the bill into law.

in practical terms, John Kasich decided to slash services for thousands of Ohio women, for no substantive reason, with a simple stroke of his pen. The public will pay a steep price because the governor wants to advance his ambitions.

This is what passes for “moderation” among GOP presidential candidates in 2016.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ohios-kasich-slashes-planned-parenthood-funding?cid=sm_fb_maddow (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ohios-kasich-slashes-planned-parenthood-funding?cid=sm_fb_maddow)

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How John Kasich Rewrote Welfare Laws and Is Keeping Food Off Family Dinner Tables


In Congress, he wrote the law to limit food aid to families. Now his rules are hurting minorities in Ohio.

In 1996, then-Congressman John Kasich cosponsored a welfare reform bill that, for the first time ever, put a time limit on recipients' access to food stamps. Healthy, childless adults would be able to receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for no more than three months in any three-year period, unless they were employed or in a training program for at least 20 hours a week.
When Congress balked at a rule that would cause an estimated 1 million people (http://m.repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/761445/SNAP%20Time%20Limit%20Implementation%20Updated.pdf ?sequence=1&isAllowed=y) to lose food aid each month, Kasich added an exception that would allow states to seek time-limit waivers for areas with especially high unemployment.

Twenty years later, in his second term as Ohio's governor, the GOP presidential hopeful is taking advantage of these waivers, as most
governors have done. But Ohio civil rights groups and economic analysts say Kasich's administration is using the waivers unequally: It applies for waivers in some regions of the state but refuses them in others, in a pattern that has disproportionately protected white communities and hurt minority populations.

The decision would result in a drastic downsizing of food aid in the state, but the administration moved with surprising speed given the enormity of the impact. "It was really fast," says Kate McGarvey, deputy director of the Legal Aid Society of Columbus. In August 2013, she says, the legal services community had heard that Ohio qualified for a statewide waiver, and was setting up meetings with the ODJFS to discuss how the state might proceed. "Within a week or two, we were told, 'It's going to be a partial waiver, it's already been submitted, it's done,'" McGarvey says. "No advocates that I know of were given a chance to give feedback on the wisdom of the partial waiver."

Across the 16 counties the state had selected for waivers, about 94 percent of food stamp recipients were white. Overall in Ohio in December 2013—immediately before the new policy's effects began to surface—food stamp recipients were 65 percent white.

six months into the new system, the six counties with the highest rate of terminating food stamps for able-bodied, childless adults were all counties populated mostly by minorities.

Within a few months of the system's implementation, food pantries began to seean increase (http://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/article/20140117/NEWS01/301170014/Food-pantry-seeing-new-clients-after-food-stamps-work-rule-hits?sf21812399=1) in their numbers of clients.

"We believe that the majority of them were removed for inability to meet the work requirement. And they are turning to our agencies to get food. More people are going to soup kitchens and homeless shelters, begging, panhandling, and dumpster diving. It's not a good scene."

It's unclear whether Kasich's administration is turning a blind eye to the racial disparity intentionally. But the policy continued even after its disparate impact was revealed over the last two years.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/law-john-kasich-wrote-now-keeping-food-stamps-minorities-ohio

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Still ll not as extreme as shillary

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Sam Bee on Kasich

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