“To his credit, Kasich did right the fiscal ship. His first two-year budget closed the projected $8 billion budget gap [16] Stickland had left behind without increasing taxes. He enthusiastically signed a repeal of the state’s death tax. He made some progress cutting an overgrown bureaucracy. The state’s economy responded by generating over 90,000 jobs and growing by 2.9 percent during his first 12 full months in office. Both figures significantly outpaced the averages in the rest of the U.S.
Unfortunately, Kasich and state Republicans suffered a serious political setback in November 2011, when voters decisively torpedoed [17] their attempt to enact collective bargaining reforms analogous to those successfully implemented by Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin.”
Republicans will be as conservative as the voters will let them be.
If the voters don’t want conservatism, don’t expect us to tilt at windmills and ram it down their throats.
Us?
You are among the chosen?