By Randy Ludlow The Columbus Dispatch – Friday February 20, 2015 Gov. John Kasich is asking state lawmakers to approve a little more than a 20 percent pay raise over four years for Ohio’s justices and judges whose paychecks have…
Category: Politics
Influence & Lobbying
The primary goal of much of the money that flows through Ohio politics is this: Influence. Corporations and industry groups, labor unions, single-issue organizations – together, they spend billions of dollars each year to gain access to decision-makers in government,…
Federal NDAA Indefinite Detention Efforts
Virginia Bill Shines Light on Federal NDAA Indefinite Detention Efforts by: Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. A representative of the people in Virginia has stepped up to prevent the federal government from robbing them of their most precious — and formerly…
Kasich Calls Common Core Opposition “Hysteria”
Ohio Gov. John Kasich believes opposition to the Common Core State Standards Initiative is “hysteria,” and does not expect his state’s legislature to attempt to a repeal in this legislative session. “I don’t expect anything like that,” Kasich told TheBlaze.…
Republicans Who Opposed Omnibus Were Right
ARRA News Service – by Rick Manning: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2014 Speaker John Boehner passed the last government funding bill (in 2014) by appealing to Democrat votes in the House to offset the more than 25 percent of his Republican Conference…
2014 Election Recap and Commentary
Tom Zawistowski, President of the We the People Convention and the Ohio Citizens PAC, released a recap of the 2014 Election from the view of the Ohio TEA Party movement. The Ohio Citizens PAC had endorsed 44 candidates for various…
What Michelle and Barack Obama knew that would doom the American Republic
What Michelle and Barack Obama knew that would doom the American Republic – By Jim Mullen “Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation;…
Why Eric Cantor Lost
The media will play up Cantor’s loss by claiming it was about immigration. They will be wrong, but it will be useful for the rest of us. Immigration reform is now DOA in the House of Representatives thanks to…