"DUDE!! I'm am like SO TOTALLY-bored!!! Just shut up!!!
Posted on 03/17/2016 11:44:16 AM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
A video from a few years back featuring Ohio Gov. John Kasich calling a law enforcement officer an idiot is resurfacing, and boy, oh boy, is it making this guy even more unpopular than he already is.
Yes, that’s actually possible.
Outspoken Sheriff David Clarke is none too happy with Kasich over the video as he made clear in a recent tweet.
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I'd like to know if he got out of paying the ticket.
FWIW, local police in OH can get real fussy about the rules of the road. If you just show up and pay the fine at mayor's court it doesn't become part of your driving record. If you contest it and lose does.
Kasich has no class. Caught is caught. Best response is thank you sir for pointing that out and pay the dang ticket. Downside risk of making an issue is too severe.
JMHO
Why the ignorant, arrogant @$$ is known as “Hothead John.”
I can’t stand Kasich but had no idea what he did there was an offense that requires a ticket and court appearance.
Ka-Sick is just another cop hating leftist.
Not a nice guy.
He should have turned on his left-turn signal to re-enter traffic.
Instead, he pulled out left with his right-turn signal blinking.
And Ohio voted this guy in? And gave him 66 delegates?
Cop acted professionally and respectfully. Kasich gets on stage and reveals just what an ass he’s capable of being.
Common now, Kasich is angling for the Postmaster General
We have the same law here in Idaho.
It requires traffic moving in the same direction as an officer on the side of the road to slow down and, if possible, move over to the left to pass the officer for safety purposes.
You will get a ticket if you do not do so, and you have to show up in court to address the ticket, or you can plead guilty and send the money in to the court.
In this case, the truck behind Kasich new the law and complied. You can see it move over.
The police officer behind that truck noticed Kasich’s car did not pull over to the left, even thought there was room to do so.
So he stopped Kasich, got his license and reviewed it, and then issued him the ticket explaining what had happened and that Kasich would have to show up in court.
At the stop Kasich said twice that he did not see the officer on the side of the road, and the officer who stopped him explained civilly that Kasich had passed the officer right by.
The issue is Kasich’s word’s later...at some public event...calling the officer who issued him the ticket an idiot.
These laws are to protect officers who stop vehicles on the side of the road. Many officers are injured and some killed each year by the traffic passing them as the are there on the side of the road.
For Kasich to call this police officer an idiot at a public speech of some sort...who was just doing his job, and doing it politely...does reveal a side of the man that the public has probably not seen.
He didn’t even turn off his right-hand blinker.
Kasich is a fool.Those voting for him are even bigger fools.
Well, we won’t have to worry about him any more. He just dropped out of the race. There was something about him that just didn’t seem right with him. Of course, most of those running don’t seem right.
Everyone else moved over, even that big work truck. And, from what I saw, Kasich was enough ahead of the other cars to do so without putting himself in danger. He didn’t even put on a left turn signal. He must have been ignorant of the law, which would be his only defense. However, as any lawyer knows ignorance is no defense.
It was somewhat humorous watching dozens of drivers pass the stopped Kasich and the cop without changing lanes themselves even though some of them could have. Hard Luck Johnny.
You said:
Yes. The police are infallible. Every one of them. Criticizing one makes you a terrible person.
You people are sheep.
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I seriously doubt that there is anybody on this site that is more anti bad cop than me. This cop did nothing “idiotic”, he simply wrote a ticket to someone who was not paying attention and put another cops life in jeopardy by not moving over OR slowing down, either of which he could have and should have. Why is that cop an idiot?
In this case the cop was right, he was polite and he was quick, the ticket was deserved. The idiot remark just shows what the governor thinks of cops in general because this one did nothing wrong at this stop.
When you say something stupid and you are in politics it is unreasonable to think it won’t come back to haunt you. If you don’t want to hear yourself saying stupid things, don’t say them.
Did he violate a law? Yes.
Did the fact that the officer cited him for violating the law make the officer an idiot? Hardly.
Baaaaaa...!
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