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John Kasich

April 24, 2023

John Richard Kasich Jr. (/ˈkeɪsɪk/ KAY-sik;[1] born May 13, 1952)[2] is an American politician, author, and television political commentator. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 2001 and as the 69th governor of Ohio from 2011 to 2019. Kasich unsuccessfully sought his party's presidential nomination in 2000 and 2016.[3]

John Kasich
69th Governor of Ohio
In office
January 10, 2011 – January 14, 2019
LieutenantMary Taylor
Preceded byTed Strickland
Succeeded byMike DeWine
Chair of the House Budget Committee
In office
January 3, 1995 – January 3, 2001
Preceded byMartin Olav Sabo
Succeeded byJim Nussle
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Ohio's 12th district
In office
January 3, 1983 – January 3, 2001
Preceded byBob Shamansky
Succeeded byPat Tiberi
Member of the Ohio Senate
from the 15th district
In office
January 1, 1979 – January 1, 1983
Preceded byRobert O'Shaughnessy
Succeeded byRichard Pfeiffer
Personal details
Born
John Richard Kasich Jr.

(1952-05-13) May 13, 1952 (age 70)
McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouse(s)
Mary Lee Griffith
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(m. 1975; div. 1980)​

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(m. 1997)​
Children2
EducationOhio State University (BA)
Signature

Kasich grew up in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, moving to Ohio to attend college. After a single term in the Ohio Senate, he served nine terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio's 12th congressional district.[4] His tenure in the House included 18 years on the House Armed Services Committee and six years as chairman of the House Budget Committee. Kasich was a key figure in the passage of both 1996 welfare reform legislation and the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Kasich decided not to run for re-election in 2000 and ran for president instead. He withdrew from the race before the Republican primaries.

After leaving Congress, Kasich hosted Heartland with John Kasich on Fox News from 2001 to 2007 and served as managing director of the Lehman Brothers office in Columbus, Ohio.[5][6] He ran for governor of Ohio in 2010, defeating Democratic incumbent Ted Strickland.[7] He was re-elected in 2014, defeating Democratic challenger Ed FitzGerald by 30 percentage points. Kasich was term-limited and could not seek a third gubernatorial term in 2018; he was succeeded by fellow Republican Mike DeWine.

Kasich ran for president again in 2016, finishing in third place in the Republican primaries behind Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. He won the primary in his home state of Ohio and finished second in New Hampshire. Kasich declined to support Trump as the Republican presidential nominee and did not attend the 2016 Republican National Convention, which was held in Ohio.[8][9] In 2019, following the end of his second term as governor, Kasich joined CNN as a contributor. Kasich is known as one of Trump's most prominent critics within the Republican Party,[10] and he endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for president in a speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.[11]

Early life, education, and early political career

 
Kasich (right), aged 18, meeting President Nixon in 1970 at the White House, when he was an Ohio State University freshman.[12]

John Richard Kasich Jr. was born and raised in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.[13] He is the son of Anne (née Vukovich; 1918–1987) and John Richard Kasich (1919-1987), who worked as a mail carrier.[14][15]

Kasich's father was of Czech descent, while his mother was of Croatian descent.[16] Both his father and mother were children of immigrants and were practicing Roman Catholics.[14] He has described himself as "a Croatian and a Czech".[17]

After attending public schools in his hometown of McKees Rocks, Kasich later left his native Pennsylvania, settling in Columbus, Ohio in 1970 to attend Ohio State University, where he joined the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity.[18]

As a freshman, he wrote a letter to President Richard Nixon describing concerns he had about the nation and requesting a meeting with the President. The letter was delivered to Nixon by the university's president Novice Fawcett and Kasich was granted a 20-minute meeting with Nixon in December 1970.[19][20]

Earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Ohio State in 1974,[21] he went on to work as a researcher for the Ohio Legislative Service Commission.[22] From 1975 to 1978, he served as an administrative assistant to then-state Senator Buz Lukens.[23]

Ohio Senate career

In 1978, Kasich ran against Democratic incumbent Robert O'Shaughnessy for State Senate. A political ally of Kasich remembers him during that time as a persistent campaigner: "People said, 'If you just quit calling me, I'll support you.'"[24] At age 26, Kasich won with 56% of the vote, beginning his four-year term representing the 15th district.[25] Kasich was the second youngest person ever elected to the Ohio Senate.[26]

One of his first acts as a State Senator was to refuse a pay raise.[27][28] Republicans gained control of the State Senate in 1980, but Kasich went his own way, for example, by opposing a budget proposal he believed would raise taxes and writing his own proposal instead.[24]

U.S. House of Representatives (1983–2001)

In 1982, Kasich ran for Congress in Ohio's 12th congressional district, which included portions of Columbus as well as the cities of Westerville, Reynoldsburg, Worthington, and Dublin. He won the Republican primary with 83% of the vote[29] and defeated incumbent Democratic U.S. Congressman Bob Shamansky in the general election by a margin of 50%–47%.[30] He would never face another contest nearly that close, and was re-elected eight more times with at least 64 percent of the vote.[31][32]

 
Kasich as a congressman in 1985.

During his congressional career, Kasich was considered a fiscal conservative, taking aim at programs supported by Republicans and Democrats. He worked with Ralph Nader in seeking to reduce corporate tax loopholes.[33][34]

Kasich was a member of the House Armed Services Committee for 18 years.[35] He developed a "fairly hawkish" reputation on that committee,[36] although he "also zealously challenged" defense spending he considered wasteful.[35][37] Among the Pentagon projects that he targeted were the B-2 bomber program (teaming up with Democratic representative Ron Dellums to cut the program, their efforts were partly successful)[33][38] and the A-12 bomber program (ultimately canceled by defense secretary Dick Cheney in 1991).[37] He participated extensively in the passage of the Goldwater–Nichols Act of 1986, which reorganized the U.S. Department of Defense.[37][39] He also pushed through the bill creating the 1988 Base Realignment and Closure Commission, which closed obsolete U.S. military bases, and successfully opposed a proposed $110 million expansion of the Pentagon building after the end of the Cold War.[37] He also "proposed a national commission on arms control" and "urged tighter controls over substances that could be used for biological warfare."[37]

Kasich said he was "100 percent for" the first Persian Gulf War as well as the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, but said that he did not favor U.S. military participation in the Lebanese Civil War or in Bosnia.[40] In 1997, with fellow Republican representative Floyd Spence, he introduced legislation (supported by some congressional Democrats) for the U.S. to pull out of a multilateral peacekeeping force in Bosnia.[41] In the House, he supported the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act, a U.S. Representative Ron Dellums (D- CA)-led initiative to impose economic sanctions against apartheid-era South Africa.[37]

Ranking member of the House Budget Committee

 
Official congressional portrait of Kasich as chairman of the House Budget committee.

In 1993, Kasich became the ranking Republican member of the House Budget Committee. Kasich and other House Budget Committee Republicans proposed an alternative to President Bill Clinton's deficit reduction bill, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993.[42] That proposal included funds to implement Republican proposals for health care, welfare, and crime control legislation and for a child tax credit.[42] The Penny-Kasich Plan, named after Kasich and fellow lead sponsor Tim Penny, was supported by Republicans and conservative Democrats.[43] It proposed $90 billion in spending cuts over five years, almost three times as much in cuts as the $37 billion in cuts backed by the Clinton administration and Democratic congressional leaders.[43] About one-third ($27 billion) of the proposed Penny-Kasich cuts would come from means-testing Medicare, specifically by reducing Medicare payments to seniors who earned $75,000 or more in adjusted gross income.[44][45] This angered the AARP, which lobbied against the legislation.[44] Another $26 billion of the Penny-Kasich plan's cuts would have come from the U.S. Department of Defense and foreign aid, which led Secretary of Defense Les Aspin to say that the plan would destroy military morale.[44] Another $27 billion in savings would have come from federal layoffs.[44] The proposal was narrowly defeated in the House by a 219–213 vote.[43][44]

As ranking member of the Budget Committee, Kasich proposed his own health care reform plan as a rival to the Clinton health care plan of 1993 championed by First Lady Hillary Clinton, but more market-based.[46] As journalist Zeke Miller wrote in Time magazine, "The Kasich plan would have covered all Americans by 2005, using a form of an individual mandate that would have required employees to purchase insurance through their employers. (The mandate was an idea initially supported by conservative groups like The Heritage Foundation.)"[46]

On November 17, 1993, Kasich voted to approve the North American Free Trade Agreement, casting a "yea" vote for the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act.[47]

In 1994, Kasich was one of the Republican leaders to support a last-minute deal with President Bill Clinton to pass the Federal Assault Weapons Ban. After a series of meetings with Clinton's Chief of Staff, Leon Panetta, a longtime friend of Kasich, the assault weapons ban was passed when 42 Republicans crossed party lines and voted to ban assault weapons with the Democrats.[48] His support of the assault-weapons ban angered the National Rifle Association, which gave Kasich an "F" rating in 1994 as a result.[49]

Chair of the House Budget Committee

 
Kasich as chair of the House Budget Committee.

In 1995, when Republicans gained the majority in the United States Congress following the 1994 election, Kasich became chair of the House Budget Committee. In 1996, he introduced the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act in the House, an important welfare reform bill signed into law by President Clinton.[50]

During the 1996 presidential campaign, Republican nominee Bob Dole was reported to have considered Kasich as a vice presidential running mate but instead selected Jack Kemp, a former congressman and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.[51]

In 1997, Kasich rose to national prominence after becoming "the chief architect of a deal that balanced the federal budget for the first time since 1969"—the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.[52]

In 1998, Kasich voted to impeach President Clinton on all four charges made against him.[53] In 1999, while the Senate prepared to vote on the charges, he said: "I believe these are impeachable and removable offenses."[54]

2000 presidential campaign

Main article: John Kasich 2000 presidential campaign
Further information: 2000 United States presidential election and 2000 Republican Party presidential primaries

Kasich did not seek re-election in 2000. In February 1999, he formed an exploratory committee to run for president.[55][56] In March 1999 he announced his campaign for the Republican nomination. After very poor fundraising, he dropped out in July 1999, before the Iowa Straw Poll, and endorsed governor George W. Bush of Texas.[57][58]

Private sector career (2001–2009)

After leaving Congress, Kasich went to work for Fox News, hosting Heartland with John Kasich on the Fox News Channel and guest-hosting The O'Reilly Factor, filling in for Bill O'Reilly as needed.[59] He also occasionally appeared as a guest on Hannity & Colmes.[60]

Business career

Kasich served on the board of directors for several corporations, including Invacare Corp. and the Chicago-based Norvax Inc. In 2001, Kasich joined Lehman Brothers' investment banking division as a managing director, in Columbus, Ohio.[61] He remained at Lehman Brothers until it declared bankruptcy in 2008. That year, Lehman Brothers paid him a $182,692 salary and a $432,200 bonus. He stated that the bonus was for work performed in 2007.[62]

Kasich's employment by Lehman Brothers was criticized during his subsequent campaigns in light of the firm's collapse during the financial crisis.[5] Kasich responded to critics by saying: "I wasn't involved in the inner workings of Lehman, I was a banker. I didn't go to board meetings or go and talk investment strategy with the top people. I was nowhere near that. That's like, it's sort of like being a car dealer in Zanesville and being blamed for the collapse of GM."[63]

Political activities from 2001 to 2009

Republicans made efforts to recruit Kasich to run for Ohio governor in 2006, but he declined to enter the race.[64]

In 2008, Kasich formed Recharge Ohio, a political action committee (PAC) with the goal of raising money to help Republican candidates for the Ohio House of Representatives and Ohio Senate, in an effort to retain Republican majorities in the Ohio General Assembly.[65] Kasich served as honorary chairman of the PAC.[66]

Governor of Ohio

2010 election

Main article: 2010 Ohio gubernatorial election

On May 1, 2009, Kasich filed papers to run for governor of Ohio against incumbent Democratic governor Ted Strickland.[67] He formally announced his candidacy on June 1, 2009. On January 15, 2010, Kasich announced Ohio State Auditor Mary Taylor as his running mate.

During a speech before Ashtabula County Republicans in March 2009, Kasich talked about the need to "break the back of organized labor in the schools," according to the Ashtabula Star Beacon.[68]

Ohio teachers' unions supported Strickland, and after Kasich's gubernatorial victory, he said, "I am waiting for the teachers' unions to take out full-page ads in all the major newspapers, apologizing for what they had to say about me during this campaign."[69]

Elsewhere, he said he was willing to work with "unions that make things."[70]

On May 4, 2010, Kasich won the Republican nomination for governor, having run unopposed. On November 2, 2010, Kasich defeated Strickland in a closely contested race to win the governorship.[71] He was sworn in at midnight on January 10, 2011, in a private ceremony at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. It was then followed by a ceremonial inauguration at the Ohio Theatre at noon on the same day.[72]

2014 re-election

Main article: 2014 Ohio gubernatorial election

In November 2014, Kasich won re-election, defeating Democrat Ed FitzGerald, the county executive of Cuyahoga County, 64% to 33%. He won 86 of 88 counties.

Kasich, who was elected with Tea Party support in 2010, faced some backlash from some Tea Party activists. His decision to accept the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's expansion of Medicaid caused some Tea Party activists to refuse to support his campaign.[73] Kasich supported longtime ally and campaign veteran Matt Borges over Portage County Tea Party chairman Tom Zawistowski for the position of chairman of the Ohio Republican Party. Zawistowski secured just three votes in his run for the chairmanship.[74] Tea Party groups announced they would support a primary challenger, or, if none emerged, the Libertarian nominee.[75]

Ultimately, Zawistowski failed to field anyone on the ballot and the Libertarian nominee (former Republican State Representative Charlie Earl) was removed from the ballot after failing to gain the required number of valid signatures necessary for ballot access.[76]

Political positions and record

Kasich is considered by some to be a moderate Republican due to his strong condemnation of far-right conservatives and his endorsement of Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. However, his record in the House and as governor of Ohio has led others to point out that his views place him to the right of most moderate politicians. Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, who has known Kasich for years, says that "If you had asked me in the 90s about Kasich I would have said he was a Gingrich conservative."[77] Kasich's friend Curt Steiner, former chief of staff to former Republican Ohio governor and U.S. senator George Voinovich, described Kasich as a "solid Republican" with "an independent streak."[78]

Kasich's tenure as governor was notable for his expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, his work combating the opioid addiction crisis, his attempt (later reversed by Ohio voters in a 2011 referendum) to curtail collective bargaining for public sector employees, his local government funding cuts, his passage of several anti-abortion laws, his veto of a six-week abortion ban, his tax cuts, and his evolving position on gun control.[79]

Abortion

Kasich opposes abortion except in cases of rape, incest, and danger to the mother's life.[77][80] As governor, he signed 18 abortion-restrictive measures into law.[81] In June 2013, Kasich signed into law a state budget, HB 59, which stripped some $1.4 million in federal dollars from Planned Parenthood by placing the organization last on the priority list for family-planning funds;[82][83] provided funding to crisis pregnancy centers;[83] and required women seeking abortions to undergo ultrasounds.[82][84] The budget also barred abortion providers from entering into emergency transfer agreements with public hospitals, requiring abortion providers to find private hospitals willing to enter into transfer agreements.[82] Another provision of the bill requires abortion providers to offer information on family planning and adoption services in certain situations.[82] Under the budget, rape crisis centers could lose public funding if they counseled sexual assault victims about abortion.[83]

In 2015, Kasich said in an interview that Planned Parenthood "ought to be de-funded", but added that Republicans in Congress should not force a government shutdown over the issue.[85]

In December 2016, Kasich approved a ban on abortions after 20 weeks, except when a pregnancy endangers a woman's life, but vetoed HB 493, a six-week abortion ban. Kasich cited the cost to taxpayers of defending the legislation in court, and the likelihood that the six-week bill would be struck down in federal court as reasons for vetoing the more restrictive bill.[86][87] In December 2018, Kasich again vetoed a proposed six-week abortion ban, citing the cost to taxpayers and previous rulings by the federal courts.[88][89] He did sign a bill into law that bans the dilation and evacuation procedure commonly used for abortion.[90]

Climate change, energy, and environment

In a speech in April 2012, Kasich acknowledged that climate change is real and is a problem.[91][92] In the same speech, however, Kasich said that the Environmental Protection Agency should not regulate carbon emissions and that instead states and private companies should be in charge of regulating coal-fired power plant emissions.[91] In 2015, Kasich stated that he did not know all the causes of climate change, and that he did not know the extent to which humans contribute to climate change.[93][94]

In 2014, Kasich signed into law a bill freezing Ohio's renewable portfolio standard (RPS) program for two years.[95][96] Ohio's RPS program was created by 2008 legislation and required the state to acquire 12.5 percent of its energy portfolio from renewable sources and to reduce energy consumption by 22 percent by 2025.[95] The legislation signed by Kasich to stop the program was supported by Republican legislative leaders, utility companies, and some industry groups, and opposed by environmentalists, some manufacturers, and the American Lung Association.[95][96] In 2016, Kasich broke with fellow Republicans in the state legislature by vetoing their attempt to continue blocking the RPS standards; as a result, the freeze ended on December 31, 2016, and the clean-energy mandate resumed. This veto won Kasich praise from environmentalist groups, and angered Republicans in the state legislature.[97]

In his 2015 budget plan, Kasich proposed raising the tax rate on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) activities.[98] Specifically, Kasich's plan called for imposing a 6.5 percent severance tax on crude oil and natural gas extracted via horizontal drilling and sold at the source (about $3.25 per $50 barrel of oil), and for an additional 4.5 percent tax per thousand cubic feet on natural gas and liquefied natural gas (about $0.16 per thousand cubic feet).[98] The proposal would not affect conventional drilling taxes.[98]

Kasich formerly supported fracking in Ohio state parks and forests, signing legislation in mid-2011 authorizing him to appoint a five-member commission to oversee the leasing of mineral rights on state land to the highest bidders.[99] In 2012, Kasich aides planned a campaign with a stated goal to "marginalize the effectiveness of communications by adversaries about the initiative" to bring fracking to state parks and forests, naming in an email the Ohio Sierra Club and state Representatives Robert F. Hagan and Nickie Antonio as adversaries of the plan.[99] Kasich never appointed the commission, and the promotional plan was never put into effect.[99] A memo and email relating to the 2012 promotional campaign were publicly released for the first time in February 2015, which according to the Columbus Dispatch attracted criticism from state environmental and liberal groups, as well as Democratic state legislators, who called for an investigation.[99] On the same day the governor reversed himself, with a spokesman saying, "At this point, the governor doesn't support fracking in state parks. We reserve the right to revisit that, but it's not what he wants to do right now, and that's been his position for the past year and a half."[99]

In April 2015, Kasich signed a bill aimed at protecting Lake Erie's water quality.[100][101] The bill places restrictions on the spread of manure and other fertilizers that contribute to toxic algal blooms and requires large public water treatment plants to monitor phosphorus levels.[100] The bill had been unanimously approved by both chambers of the Ohio Legislature the previous month.[100]

Kasich supported the Keystone XL oil pipeline project and, along with other Republican governors, signed an open letter in February 2015 urging federal approval for the project.[102] In 2016, in response to a request from South Dakota under the terms of an interstate compact, Kasich dispatched 37 Ohio state troopers to South Dakota, where they were stationed around Dakota Access Pipeline protests near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. This controversial deployment prompted unsuccessful petitions to Kasich (from members of the public, Cincinnati City Council members, environmentalists, and some state legislators), who asked Kasich to recall the troopers.[103]

Policing and criminal justice

Prison privatization

To offset a state budget deficit, Kasich proposed selling five state prisons to the for-profit prison industry. The Lake Erie prison was sold for $72.7 million to the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), generating savings of $3 million. Kasich's Director of Corrections, Gary Mohr, whom he had hired in January 2011, had previously worked for CCA, but he said that he removed himself from the sales process. In an audit in October 2012, CCA was cited for 47 contractual violations, and failed a second audit later that year.[104][105][106] In July 2015, the Kasich administration announced its intent to sell the North Central Correctional Institution at Marion, in order to recoup the state's original investment in the facility and invest the proceeds in community-based alternatives to prison.[107]

Policing standards

Following the separate fatal police shootings of John Crawford III and Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy in Ohio, while each were holding BB guns,[108][109] grand juries decided not to indict any of the officers involved.[110] Following this, Kasich created the Ohio Collaborative Community-Police Advisory Board "to address what he described as frustration and distrust among some Ohioans toward their police departments, particularly among the black community."[111][112] The 23-member task force (with 18 members appointed by Kasich) was appointed in January 2015[113] and issued its 629-page final report and recommendations in April 2015.[114][115] The report recommended greater accountability and oversight for police agencies and officers, further community education and involvement in policing, and new use-of-force and recruitment, hiring, and training standards for police agencies.

 
Kasich in 2015.

[114][115]

In April 2015, Kasich created the Ohio Collaborative Community-Police Advisory Board, a twelve-member board tasked (in conjunction with the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services and the Ohio Department of Public Safety) with developing statewide standards for the recruiting, hiring and screening of police officers, and for the use of force (including deadly force) by police.[111][116] The advisory board, the first of its kind in Ohio, was also tasked by Kasich with developing "model policies and best practice recommendations to promote better interaction and communication between law enforcement departments and their home communities."[111][117] In August 2015, the board issued its recommendations, which placed "an emphasis on the preservation of human life and restrict officers to defending themselves or others from death or serious injury."[118]

In August 2015, Kasich said that he was open to the idea of requiring police officers to wear body cameras.[119]

Capital punishment

As governor, Kasich presided over the executions of fifteen inmates and commuted the death sentences of seven inmates.[120][121] The last execution in Ohio took place in July 2018. In January 2015, Kasich announced that, due to pending litigation and other issues, he was delaying all seven executions scheduled through January 2016.[120][122] The delay was largely attributed to European pharmaceutical companies, which have refused to supply the state with deadly drugs necessary for executions.[123] In February 2017, Kasich again delayed Ohio executions for an additional three months, after a federal judge ruled that Ohio's three-drug lethal injection protocol is unconstitutional.[124][125]

Executive clemency

Kasich used his power of executive clemency sparingly.[126] He has the lowest clemency rate of any Ohio governor since at least the 1980s, when records began to be kept.[121] In six years in office, Kasich granted 86 of the 2,291 requests that he acted upon.[126] In 2016, Kasich granted executive clemency to 13 people; in all of the cases, the Ohio Adult Parole Authority had recommended clemency.[126]

Criminal justice reform issues

Kasich supports various criminal justice reform efforts; according to conservative Washington Post columnist George Will, Kasich "favors fewer mandatory minimum sentences and has instituted prison policies that prepare inmates for re-integration into communities."[127] In 2011, Kasich signed sentencing reform legislation which allowed judges to sentence defendants convicted of non-violent fourth- and fifth-degree felonies to "community-based halfway house facilities" instead of prison; expanded the earned credit system to allow inmates to reduce their sentences; and allowed felons who have already served 80 percent or more of their sentences to be immediately released.[128]

In 2012, Kasich signed into law a bill, sponsored by Cleveland Democratic Senator Shirley Smith and Cincinnati Republican Senator Bill Seitz, easing the collateral consequences of criminal conviction.[129]

In September 2014, Kasich touted the Ohio's prison system's recidivism rate, which is one of the lowest in the nation.[130] U.S. Senator Rob Portman, a Republican, attributed a drop in Ohio's recidivism rate "to the bipartisan work of the state legislature, Governor Kasich, Ohio's reentry leaders and the success of programs made possible at the federal level by the Second Chance Act," which Portman sponsored.[131]

In 2015, Kasich proposed a state budget including $61.7 million for addiction treatment services for prisoners.[132]

Drug policy

Kasich initially expressed opposition to medical marijuana in 2012, saying "There's better ways to help people who are in pain."[133] However, in late 2015 and early 2016, Kasich said he was open to the legalization of medical marijuana.[134][135]

In March 2014, in an effort to address the opioid epidemic, Kasich signed legislation (passed unanimously in both chambers of the state legislature) expanding the availability of naloxone, a lifesaving antidote to opioid overdoses. The measure allowed friends and family members of addicts to obtain access to naloxone and for first responders to carry naloxone.[136] In July 2015, Kasich signed legislation further expanding the availability of naloxone, making it available without a prescription.[137]

In a 2015 interview with radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, Kasich said he was opposed to the legalization of recreational marijuana and equated the drug to heroin, stating: "In my state and across this country, if I happened to be president, I would lead a significant campaign down at the grassroots level to stomp these drugs out of our country."[138][139]

When Kasich was asked by Hewitt whether, if elected president, he would federally enforce marijuana laws in states which have legalized marijuana, Kasich characterized it as a states' rights issue and said that "I'd have to think about it."[139] When asked the same question later in 2015, Kasich said: "I would try to discourage the states from doing it ... but I would be tempted to say I don't think we can go and start disrupting what they've decided."[140]

Kasich opposed Issue 3, an Ohio ballot measure in 2015 that proposed the legalization of recreational marijuana, saying it was a "terrible idea".[140][141][142]

Economic policy

State budgets and taxation

During Kasich's tenure, the state has eliminated a budget shortfall that his administration has estimated at $8 billion, but which the Cleveland Plain Dealer estimated at closer to $6 billion.[143] (The New York Times put the number at $7.7 billion).[144] Ohio also increased its "rainy day fund" from effectively zero to more than $2 billion.[145]

Kasich "closed the budget shortfall in part by cutting aid to local governments, forcing some of them to raise their own taxes or cut services. And increasing sales taxes helped make the income tax cuts possible."[144] An analysis by the Plain Dealer in March 2016 found that more than 70 cities and villages had lost at least $1 million a year due to Kasich's budget and taxation policy.[144]

In March 2008, Kasich called for "phasing out" Ohio's state income tax.[146]

During Kasich's time as governor, Ohio ranked 22nd out of the 50 states for private-sector job growth, at 9.3%.[144]

 
Kasich with Sean Hannity.

Kasich signed a state budget in 2011 which eliminated the state's estate tax effective January 1, 2013.[144][147]

In 2013, Kasich signed into law a $62 billion two-year state budget.[82] The budget provided for a 10-percent state income tax cut phased in over three years, and an increase in the state sales tax from 5.5 percent to 5.75 percent. It also included a 50% tax cut for small business owners on the first $250,000 of annual net income.[82] Kasich used his line-item veto power to reject a measure that would stop the Medicaid expansion (which Kasich had accepted from the federal government) to cover nearly 275,000 working poor Ohioans.[82]

In 2015, Kasich signed into law a $71 billion two-year state budget after using his line-item veto power to veto 44 items.[148] The overall 2015 budget provides a 6.3 percent state income-tax cut as a part one component of a $1.9 billion net tax reduction and lowers the top income-tax rate to slightly below 5 percent.[148] The budget also "spends $955 million more in basic state aid for K-12 schools than the last two-year period"; "boosts state funding for higher education to help offset a two-year tuition freeze at public universities"; expands the Medicaid health program; increases cigarette taxes by 35 cents a pack; and "prohibits independent health care and child care workers under contract with the state from unionizing."[148]

Senate Bill 5 and labor issues

On March 31, 2011, in his first year as governor, Kasich signed into law Senate Bill 5, a controversial labor law which restricted collective bargaining rights of public employees, such as police officers, firefighters, and teachers.[149][150] The legislation, championed by Kasich,[151] prohibited all public employees from striking and restricted their ability to negotiate health care and pension benefits.[149][150] The final version of the legislation signed by Kasich had passed the state Senate in a 17–16 vote (with six Senate Republicans joining all of the Senate Democrats in voting no) and the state House in a 53–44 vote, with two members abstaining.[152]

Democrats and labor unions opposed the legislation and placed a referendum on the November 2011 ballot to repeal SB 5.[149] SB 5 also "sparked numerous protests with thousands of union workers and other opponents descending on the Statehouse, mirroring similar demonstrations in Wisconsin and injecting Ohio into the national debate over Republican governors' attempts to curb public workers' collective bargaining rights."[153] Kasich and other supporters of SB 5 characterized the legislation as a necessary measure "to help public employers control labor costs" and reduce tax burdens to make Ohio more competitive with other states, while labor unions and other opponents characterized the bill as "a union-busting attack on the middle class."[153]

Ohio voters rejected Senate Bill 5 in a 61 percent to 39 percent vote, which was viewed as a rebuke to Kasich.[149][150][154] On election night, Kasich said in a speech at the Ohio Statehouse that "It's clear the people have spoken. I heard their voices. I understand their decision. And frankly, I respect what the people have to say in an effort like this."[149][154] Following this defeat, Kasich dropped efforts to pass broad-based collective bargaining restrictions, although in 2012 he supported a bill including "provisions reminiscent of Senate Bill 5" but applying only to the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.[149]

In May 2015, Kasich rescinded executive orders issued by his predecessor Ted Strickland in 2007 and 2008 that provided the right to home health care contractors and in-home child care contractors to collectively bargain with the state.[155]

Balanced budget amendment

Kasich has campaigned for a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.[156] Kasich created a 501(c)(4) group, Balanced Budget Forever, to promote the cause.[157]

Free trade

Kasich said in 2016 that "I have never been an ideological supporter of free trade," but has long supported free trade agreements. He is a strong supporter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and participated with others in a meeting with President Obama in support of the agreement.[158]

Civil liberties and electronic surveillance

In speaking in the 2016 campaign on domestic surveillance, Kasich has "straddled the line," praising Rand Paul for saying that "we need to get warrants," but also saying "if there's information they need, the government needs to get it."[159] Kasich has said there needs to be "a balance between good intelligence and the need to protect Americans from what can become an aggressive government somewhere down the road."[160]

On one occasion, Kasich spoke out against proposals to mandate that technology companies provide a "backdoor" for the government to access encrypted devices, saying that this could end up aiding hackers.[161] On a subsequent occasion, Kasich said that encryption was dangerous because it could stymie government antiterrorism investigations.[162]

Kasich has condemned whistleblower Edward Snowden as a traitor.[159]

Education

Kasich proposed new legislation which would increase funding to charter schools and poor school districts.[91] He canceled the school-funding formula put into place by his Democratic predecessor, Governor Ted Strickland.[163]

During Kasich's tenure as governor, he pushed to expand charter schools, increase the number of school vouchers that use public money to pay for tuition at private schools, implement a "merit pay" scheme for teachers, and evaluate teachers by student standardized test scores in math and reading.[164] Kasich supports the Common Core State Standards and has criticized Republicans who turned against it.[164]

During Kasich's tenure, funding for traditional public schools declined by about $500 million, while funding for charter schools has increased at least 27 percent.[164] As calculated by the Howard Fleeter/Education Tax Policy Institute, total school funding under Kasich (including both charter and district schools) has ranged from a low of $7.1 billion in fiscal year 2013 to $7.8 billion in fiscal year 2015, which was higher than its previous peak under Kasich's predecessor, Ted Strickland.[165] As calculated by the Howard Fleeter/Education Tax Policy Institute, Kasich has proposed total school funding of $8.0 billion in fiscal year 2016 and fiscal year 2017.[165] The Ohio Department of Education—which includes more spending areas than Fleeter's does and so reports higher numbers[165]—projects total school funding for Ohio schools to rise to slightly under $10.5 billion by the end of fiscal year 2017.[166]

Analysts disagree "on whether Kasich's education budgets give increases beyond inflation."[165] In the 2015 state budget, Kasich used his line-item veto power "to cut more than $84 million of funding from public schools."[91]

According to a September 2014 story in the Columbus Dispatch, Kasich favored allowing public school districts "to teach alternatives to evolution—such as intelligent design—if local school officials want to, under the philosophy of 'local control.'"[167]

In 2011, Kasich had the idea of establishing a Holocaust memorial on the grounds of the Ohio Statehouse. Kasich successfully secured approval of the proposal from the Capital Square Review and Advisory Board. The $2 million Ohio Holocaust and Liberators Memorial, designed by Daniel Libeskind, is located across from the Ohio Theatre; the memorial was dedicated in 2014.[168][169]

Foreign and defense policy

In November 2002, Kasich urged the invasion of Iraq, telling a crowd of students at Ohio State University: "We should go to war with Iraq. It's not likely that (Saddam) Hussein will give up his weapons. If he did he would be disgraced in the Arab world."[170]

 
Kasich consults with military leaders during the Gulf War.

In an interview in August 2015, Kasich said: "I would never have committed ourselves to Iraq."[170] A Kasich spokesman subsequently said that "Kasich was not revising history" but was instead saying that the Iraq War was a mistake given the facts available now.[170]

Kasich has said that the U.S. "should've left a base in Iraq" instead of withdrawing troops in 2011.[40][170]

In 2015, Kasich said that airstrikes were insufficient to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and he would send U.S. ground troops to fight ISIL.[171][172]

Kasich opposed the landmark 2015 international nuclear agreement with Iran,[40] and in September 2015 was one of fourteen Republican governors who sent a letter to President Obama stating "that we intend to ensure that the various state-level sanctions [against Iran] that are now in effect remain in effect," despite the agreement.[173]

Kasich has expressed support for the U.S.'s drone program.[159] He has said, however, that the program should be overseen by the Department of Defense, and not by the CIA.[40]

Kasich has said that he wants to lift budget sequestration for military spending, and "spend more if necessary."[174]

In November 2015, Kasich said that if elected president, he "would send a carrier battle group through the South China Sea" to send a message to China regarding their claims of sovereignty there.[159]

Kasich supports continued U.S. support of Saudi Arabia, but he criticized Saudi Arabia's "funding and teaching of radical clerics who are the very people who try to destroy us".[175]

Kasich favors strong relations between the U.S. and its NATO allies.[176] He supported Senator John McCain's call for maintaining existing U.S. sanctions on Russia, and condemned the Trump administration's consideration of lifting sanctions.[177] Like McCain, Kasich supports imposing "tougher sanctions against Russia and Putin's inner circle."[176] He supports a bipartisan investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.[178]

LGBT rights

By the mid-2010s, Kasich had shown much more support for LGBT rights than many of his Republican counterparts. However, during his time in Congress, Kasich was much less accepting, and voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which barred federal recognition of same-sex marriage.[179] During this period, Kasich supported a ban on same-sex marriage in Ohio and stated that he did not approve of the "gay lifestyle."[179] As governor of Ohio, Kasich signed an executive order banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation for state employees; this was more narrow than the previous executive order signed by his predecessor because it omitted protections for gender identity.[180]

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Kasich struck a more moderate tone compared to his Republican opponents. In June 2015, following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which held that there is a fundamental right to same-sex marriage under the Fourteenth Amendment, Kasich said that he was "obviously disappointed"[181][182] and that he believes in "traditional marriage,"[183] but that the ruling was "the law of the land and we'll abide by it" and that it was "time to move on" to other issues.[183] During his time as Ohio governor, Kasich appointed Richard Hodges as Ohio Director of Health, who was the lead-respondent in the case.[184]

Kasich indicated that he did not support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to overturn the decision.[183] In response to a debate question about how he would explain his position on same-sex marriage to one of his daughters if she were gay, Kasich responded, "The court has ruled, and I said we'll accept it. And guess what, I just went to a wedding of a friend of mine who happens to be gay. Because somebody doesn't think the way I do doesn't mean that I can't care about them or can't love them. So if one of my daughters happened to be that, of course I would love them and I would accept them. Because you know what? That's what we're taught when we have strong faith."[185]

In September 2015, Kasich commented on the highly publicized case of Kim Davis (the Rowan County, Kentucky clerk who refused to comply with a federal court order directing her to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples), saying: "Now, I respect the fact that this lady doesn't agree but she's also a government employee, she's not running a church, I wouldn't force this on a church. But in terms of her responsibility I think she has to comply. I don't think — I don't like the fact that she's sitting in a jail, that's absurd as well. But I think she should follow the law."[186]

In a March 2018 interview on The Rubin Report, Kasich passively came out in support of same-sex marriage saying "I'm fine with it," but stated that he now preferred to show himself as someone in the "Billy Graham tradition" that "avoided social issues".[187][188] In December 2018, Kasich signed an executive order extending non-discrimination protections for gender identity, including trans and non-binary identities, to state employees in Ohio.[189][190]

Gun policy

While in the U.S. House of Representatives, Kasich had a mixed record on gun policy.[191] He was one of 215 Representatives to vote for the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, which became law in 1994, but voted against the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act ("Brady Bill"), which established current background check laws.[191]

As governor, Kasich shifted to more pro-gun positions.[191] In 2011, he signed one bill permitting concealed handguns in bars and another making it easier for people with misdemeanor drug convictions to purchase guns.[191] In 2012, Kasich signed a bill allowing gun owners to transport weapons with loaded magazines in their vehicles and expanding concealed carry permit reciprocity.[191] In December 2014, Kasich signed legislation that reduced the numbers of hours of training required to obtain a concealed carry permit and eliminated the training requirement for permit renewals.[191]

After the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in February 2018, Kasich called for restrictions on the sales of AR-15 style rifles.[192]

Health care

Kasich opted to accept Medicaid-expansion funding provided by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA or "Obamacare") in Ohio.[193][194][195] This decision angered many Statehouse Republicans, who wanted Kasich to reject the expansion.[194][196]

Total spending on Medicaid by the state was almost $2 billion (or 7.6 percent) below estimates for the fiscal year ending in June 2015, according to a report by Kasich's administration. The lower-than-expected costs were attributed to expanded managed care, shorter nursing home stays and increased in-home care for seniors, capitated reimbursement policies, increased automation to determine eligibility for the program and pay care providers, and an improving economy in the state which allowed some participants to move out of the program.[197]

In an October 2014 interview, Kasich said that repeal of the ACA was "not gonna happen" and stated that "The opposition to it was really either political or ideological. I don't think that holds water against real flesh and blood, and real improvements in people's lives."[194] Kasich later said that he was referring solely to the law's Medicaid expansion, and that "my position is that we need to repeal and replace" the rest of the law.[194][198] In 2015, Kasich expressed support for many provisions of the ACA (ensuring coverage for people with preexisting conditions, the use of insurance exchanges, and Medicaid expansion), but opposed mandates.[199]

In 2017, after Donald Trump took office and congressional Republicans maneuvered to repeal the ACA, Kasich criticized Republican hard-liners in Congress who demanded a full ACA repeal, saying that full repeal was "not acceptable" when 20 million people gained insurance under the ACA and that doing so would be a "political impossibility." Kasich urged that the Medicaid expansion be preserved in some form, criticizing the House Republican legislation that would cut the Medicaid expansion and phase out health insurance subsidies for low-income Americans.[200] Kasich said that the nation's "soul" was at stake if Republicans passed legislation that left millions without health insurance.[201] After the failure of the House Republican health-care legislation, Kasich met in Washington with members of the Republican Tuesday Group and urged fellow Republicans to work with Democrats to make more modest changes to the Affordable Care Act.[202] In May 2017, Kasich said that the version of the Republican health care bill that passed the House was "inadequate" and would harm patients; Kasich said that Republicans "should've worked with the Democrats" on the bill rather than passing legislation merely to fulfill a campaign pledge.[203]

In June 2017, Kasich said that he didn't "have a problem" with gradually phasing out the ACA's expansion of Medicaid over a seven-year period, but only if Congress provided states with significantly more, more than the House Republican bill provided for, and only if Congress granted states more authority to manage the program.[204] Along with three other Republican governors (Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, Brian Sandoval of Nevada, and Rick Snyder of Michigan), Kasich signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell with an outline of their wishes for a health care bill. Kasich and the others specifically called upon Congress to "end the requirement that state Medicaid programs cover nearly every prescription drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration."[204] Kasich and the other governors' views were seen as influential, because their states have Republican senators and the Republicans have only a narrow majority in the Senate.[204]

Immigration and refugees

In 2010, while running for governor, Kasich expressed support for amending the U.S. Constitution to abolish the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of jus soli (birthright) citizenship for people born in the United States.[205][206] Kasich also told the Columbus Dispatch at the time that "One thing that I don't want to reward is illegal immigration."[205]

In 2014, Kasich acknowledged that his stance on immigration has "evolved" because "maybe [I'm] a little smarter now," stating: "I don't want to see anybody in pain. So I guess when I look at this now, I look at it differently than I did in '10. ... When I look at a group of people who might be hiding, who may be afraid, who may be scared, who have children, I don't want to be in a position of where I make it worse for them."[205] That year, Kasich expressed openness to a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, saying at a Republican Governors Association (RGA) meeting in Florida, "I don't like the idea of citizenship when people jump the line, [but] we may have to do it."[206] Kasich was the only governor at the RGA conference "to express openly a willingness to create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants."[205]

In August 2015, while running for president, Kasich called for a path to legal status (but not necessarily citizenship) for undocumented immigrants and for a guest worker program.[206][207] Kasich also appeared to disavow his earlier stance against birthright citizenship, stating "I don't think we need to go there"; called for completion of a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border; and noted that undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as young children may obtain driver's licenses in Ohio.[206][207]

In October 2015, Kasich criticized Donald Trump's "plan to build a wall along the Mexican border and remove immigrants who entered the United States illegally," calling these notions "just crazy."[208]

In September 2015, Kasich said that the U.S. had a moral responsibility to accept refugees fleeing war and violence in Syria. Subsequently, however, Kasich moved to the right, and in November 2015 wrote a letter to President Obama asking that no additional Syrian refugees be resettled in Ohio.[209] Kasich opposed Trump's executive order on travel and immigration, which Trump signed one week after taking office in January 2017. Kasich said that the order was "ham-handed" because it "sowed so much confusion" and "sent a message that somehow the United States was looking sideways at Muslims."[210]

Lieutenant governor

Kasich has a "long-standing political partnership" with his lieutenant governor, Mary Taylor.[211] In 2014, Kasich defended Taylor after her chief of staff, and that chief of staff's administrative assistant, resigned following a timesheet probe.[212][213] Kasich said of Taylor's handling of the matter: "Mary did the right thing and I support her."[213]

In 2017, the Kasich-Taylor relationship frayed after Taylor abandoned Kasich ally Matt Borges in his bid for chairman of the Ohio Republican Party, and instead chose to support Jane Timken, who was actively supported by Donald Trump,[211][214] who sought revenge against Kasich for his choice not to endorse Trump.[215] Nevertheless, Kasich indicated that Taylor had "been a good partner" over his term and indicated that he would support her if she chose to run for governor in 2018.[216]

Racial diversity in Cabinet

Upon taking office in 2011, Kasich received criticism for appointing an initial all-white cabinet of 22 members.[217] Responding to criticism for not appointing any black, Hispanic, or Asian Cabinet members, Kasich said: "I don't look at things from the standpoint of any of these sort of metrics that people tend to focus on, race or age, or any of those things. It's not the way I look at things... I want the best possible team I can get."[217] Shortly afterward, on February 2, 2011, Kasich made his first minority appointment to the Cabinet, naming Michael Colbert, a black man, to lead the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.[218]

As of 2018, four members of Kasich's Cabinet were members of racial minorities.[219]

Transportation

Throughout his first gubernatorial campaign, Kasich opposed the Ohio Hub higher-speed passenger rail project (a proposed 258-mile Cleveland-to-Cincinnati train) and promised to cancel it, claiming that it would average speeds of merely 36 mph.[220] In his first press conference following his election victory, Kasich declared "That train is dead...I said it during the campaign: It is dead."[221]

As governor-elect, Kasich lobbied the federal government to use $400 million in federal dollars allocated for high-speed rail for freight rail projects instead.[220][222] In a November 2010 letter to Kasich, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wrote that the federal funding was specifically allocated by the 2009 economic stimulus act for high-speed rail, and could not be used for other purposes.[222] In a December 2010 meeting with President Barack Obama, Kasich again unsuccessfully lobbied to use the grant money for freight rail rather than high-speed rail.[223]

In December 2010, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced that Ohio would lose the $385 million in grant funds allocated for high-speed passenger rail, since Kasich had informed them that he had no intention of ever building high-speed rail projects.[224] (Almost $15 million had already been spent for preliminary engineering.[220]) The $385 million was instead diverted to other states, such as California, New York, and Florida, which planned high-speed rail using the grant money for its congressionally intended purpose.[220][224] Outgoing governor Ted Strickland, who championed the project, expressed disappointment, saying that the loss of funding for the project was "one of the saddest days during my four years as governor" and that "I can't understand the logic of giving up these vital, job-creating resources to California and Florida at a time when so many Ohioans need jobs."[220][224]

Kasich is an opponent of the Cincinnati Streetcar project.[225][226]

In April 2015, Kasich signed a two-year transportation budget bill which allocated $7.06 billion for highway construction and maintenance, $600 million to local governments for road and bridge projects, and an additional million over the last budget for public transportation.[227]

Voting rights

In February 2014, Kasich signed into law a bill which cut six days from Ohio's early voting period, including the "golden week" (a period at the beginning of early voting when voters could both register to vote and cast an in-person absentee ballot).[228][229] The measures were hotly contested in the state legislature,[228] passing on a party-line vote, with Republicans in favor and Democrats opposed.[230] This measure prompted two federal lawsuits.[231] The first lawsuit, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio on behalf of the NAACP and League of Women Voters of Ohio, resulted in a settlement in April 2015, in which the state agreed to provide evening and Sunday hours for early voting in elections in Ohio through 2018.[232] The second lawsuit, Ohio Democratic Party v. Husted, was brought in May 2015 by Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias; plaintiffs argued that the Ohio bill eliminating "golden week" violated the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act because it disproportionately burdened black, Latino and young voters. The federal district court agreed and struck down the legislation, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed that decision in a 2–1 vote, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal.[233] In July 2015, Kasich said that it was "pure demagoguery" for Hillary Clinton to "say that there are Republicans who are deliberately trying to keep people from voting."[234]

In April 2015, Kasich used his line-item veto power to veto a provision added to a highway-budget bill by Republicans in the state legislature that would have required college students who register to vote in Ohio to obtain a state driver's license and vehicle registration, imposing an estimated $75 in motor vehicle costs on out-of-state college students who wanted to vote in the state.[235][236][237] The veto was celebrated by voting rights advocates, Ohio Democrats, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer editorial board, which viewed the proposal as effectively a "poll tax" motivated by a partisan desire to limit college-town voting.[235][236][237]

Judicial appointments

In Ohio, justices of the Ohio Supreme Court are elected, but the governor can fill unexpired terms. In May 2012, Ohio Supreme Court Associate Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton announced she would retire at the end of 2012.[238] In December 2012, Kasich appointed Judge Judith L. French to Stratton's unexpired term, which ran from January 1, 2013, through January 1, 2015.[239]

Impeachment of Donald Trump

On October 18, 2019, Kasich publicly stated that Donald Trump should be impeached. He had previously said there was not enough evidence to impeach the President.[240][241]

2016 presidential campaign

Main article: John Kasich 2016 presidential campaign
 
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsing John Kasich for President.

In April 2015, Kasich announced the formation of his "New Day For America" group. Formerly a 527 group, it filed as a super PAC in July 2015.[242] Between April 20 and June 30, 2015, the super PAC raised over $11.1 million from 165 "reportable contributions," including 34 contributions of $100,000 or more.[242] Major contributors to the PAC include Floyd Kvamme, who donated $100,000, and Jim Dicke, chairman emeritus of Crown Equipment Corporation, who donated $250,000.[242] According to FEC filings, Kasich's campaign had $2.5 million on hand at the beginning of 2016.[243]

In May 2015, sources close to him had said he was "virtually certain" to run for the Republican nomination for president.[244] On July 21, 2015, Kasich announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination during a speech at the Ohio Union, the student union of his alma mater, the Ohio State University.[245][246][247]

On January 30, 2016, the New York Times endorsed Kasich for the Republican nomination. The Times editorial board strongly rebuked leading candidates Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz and wrote that Kasich, "though a distinct underdog, is the only plausible choice for Republicans tired of the extremism and inexperience on display in this race."[248]

On the campaign trail, Kasich sought to project a sunny, optimistic message, describing himself as "the prince of light and hope."[249][250] This marked a change in tone for Kasich, who had developed a reputation as an abrasive governor.[251] Viewed as a long-shot contender, Kasich took an "above-the-fray approach to his rivals" and "ran unapologetically as a candidate with experience" even as others ran as "outsider" contenders.[252]

Kasich came in second place in the New Hampshire primary on February 9, 2016, behind winner Trump. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that this was "the best possible result" for Kasich and lent "credence to the notion that he can emerge" as a Republican alternative to Trump and Cruz.[253]

Ultimately, however, Kasich's message "never caught on in a campaign that ... exposed the anger and frustration coursing through the electorate" and he "found himself stuck in fourth place in a three-man race, trailing Senator Marco Rubio of Florida in the delegate count" although Rubio had dropped out of the race in March.[252]

The only state won by Kasich was his home state of Ohio,[252] which gave him 66 delegates in its March 2016 winner-take-all primary but still left him with "a steep delegate deficit against his rivals."[254] Kasich's unsuccessful campaign strategy hinged on the possibility of a contested (or brokered) Republican National Convention, in which no single candidate has enough delegates to win the nomination on the first ballot, something that has not happened in either of the two major parties' presidential nominating conventions since 1952.[255] Kasich suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on May 4, 2016, one day after Trump won the Republican primary in Indiana. The third remaining contender, Cruz, quit the race shortly before Kasich did, leaving Trump as the only candidate remaining in the Republican field and hence the party's presumptive nominee.[252]

A 2018 study on media coverage of the 2016 election noted "the paradox of the Kasich campaign's longevity while it lacked public interest provides some evidence for the idea that Kasich's biggest supporters were the media".[256]

Aftermath

Following his withdrawal from the race, Kasich did not extend his support to Trump. In May and June 2016, Kasich said that Trump was a divisive figure rather than a "unifier," said he had no plans to endorse Trump in the near future, and ruled out the possibility of seeking the Vice Presidency as Trump's running mate.[257][258]

Kasich said it was "hard to say" whether he would ever endorse Trump; he added, "I can't go for dividing, name calling, or somebody that doesn't really represent conservative principles."[259] Kasich said he had ruled out voting for Clinton but lacked the enthusiasm to fully back Trump.[260]

In August 2016, Kasich repeated an earlier claim that the Trump campaign had offered him a powerful vice presidency, "putting him in charge of all domestic and foreign policy".[261] The Trump campaign denied that such an offer had been made.[261] Kasich also doubted whether Trump could win Ohio, a critical state in the election.[261] It was speculated that Kasich was looking towards a 2020 campaign.[262] This speculation was strengthened by a report that Kasich had planned to give a speech to the American Enterprise Institute less than 48 hours after the election but cancelled it the morning after the election when it was clear that Trump had won.[263]

Kasich received an electoral vote for the presidency from one faithless elector, Christopher Suprun of Texas, who had been pledged to vote for Trump. An elector in Colorado also attempted to vote for him, but that vote was discarded; the elector was replaced by an alternate elector who voted, as pledged, for Clinton.[264]

Opposition to Trump

In February 2017, Kasich met with Trump at the White House[265] in a private meeting that followed a bitter feud.[266] Kasich indicated that he hoped for Trump's success, but would continue to be critical when he thought it was necessary.[266] The same month, Kasich's chief political advisors launched a political group, Two Paths America, in an effort to promote Kasich and his views and draw a contrast with Trump.[267] In April 2017, Kasich also released a book, Two Paths: America Divided or United, written with Daniel Paisner.[268][269] The creation of the group prompted speculation he could possibly run for president again,[267] but Kasich said that he had no plans to seek elected office in the future.[270]

In April 2017, during a CNN town hall, Kasich, while stating that he was "very unlikely" to do so, reopened the possibility that he might run for president in 2020.[271][272] On August 20, however, he reiterated his previous statement that he had no plans to run; rather, he stated that he was "rooting for [Trump] to get it together."[273]

In October 2017, during an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, Kasich said he had not "given up" on the Republican Party, but added that "if the party can't be fixed ... I'm not going to be able to support the party. Period. That's the end of it."[274][275] In March 2018, he told The Weekly Standard that he was "increasingly open" to running for president in the 2020 presidential election;[276] however, in May 2019, he again declared that he would not seek the presidency in 2020.[277]

In October 2019, Kasich expressed support for the impeachment inquiry against Trump, saying that the "final straw" for him was when Trump's acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney admitted that Trump had withheld U.S. aid from Ukraine in part to pressure the country to investigate Trump's domestic political rivals, a statement that Mulvaney later said were misconstrued.[278][279]

Kasich confirmed on August 10, 2020, that he would be speaking at the 2020 Democratic National Convention in support of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.[11][280] Kasich said that his conscience compelled him to speak out against Trump and in support of Biden, even if it resulted in blowback against him, adding, "I've been a reformer almost all of my life. I've been very independent and I'm a Republican but the Republican Party has always been my vehicle but never my master. You have to do what you think is right in your heart and I'm comfortable here."[11]

Personal life

 
Kasich during his tenure in Congress.

Kasich has been married twice. His first marriage was to Mary Lee Griffith from 1975 to 1980, and they had no children. Griffith has campaigned for Kasich since their divorce. Kasich and his current wife, Karen Waldbillig, a former public relations executive, were married in March 1997 and have twin daughters, Emma and Reese.[281]

Kasich was raised a Catholic, but considers denominations irrelevant, while stating that "there's always going to be a part of me that considers myself a Catholic." He drifted away from his religion as an adult, but came to embrace an Anglican faith after his parents were killed in a car crash by a drunk driver on August 20, 1987.[282][283][284][285] He joined the Episcopal Church as an adult.[286][287] Kasich has said he "doesn't find God in church" but does belong to St. Augustine's in Westerville, Ohio, which is part of the Anglican Church in North America, a conservative church with which he remained when it broke off from the Episcopal Church.[285][286][287]

Electoral history

Election results[288][289]
Year Office Election Candidate Party Votes % Opponent Party Votes % Opponent Party Votes %
1982 U.S. House of Representatives General John Kasich Republican 88,335 50% Bob Shamansky Democratic 82,753 47% Russell A. Lewis Libertarian 3,939 2%
1984 U.S. House of Representatives General John Kasich Republican 148,899 70% Richard S. Sloan Democratic 65,215 30%
1986 U.S. House of Representatives General John Kasich Republican 117,905 73% Timothy C. Jochim Democratic 42,727 27%
1988 U.S. House of Representatives General John Kasich Republican 204,892 80% Mark P. Brown Democratic 50,782 20%
1990 U.S. House of Representatives General John Kasich Republican 130,495 72% Mike Gelpi Democratic 50,784 28%
1992 U.S. House of Representatives General John Kasich Republican 170,297 71% Bob Fitrakis Democratic 68,761 29%
1994 U.S. House of Representatives General John Kasich Republican 114,608 67% Cynthia L. Ruccia Democratic 57,294 33% N/A Write-in 443 0%
1996 U.S. House of Representatives General John Kasich Republican 151,667 64% Cynthia L. Ruccia Democratic 78,762 33% Barbara Ann Edelman Natural Law 7,005 3%
1998 U.S. House of Representatives General John Kasich Republican 124,197 67% Edward S. Brown Democratic 60,694 33%
2010 Governor of Ohio General John Kasich Republican 1,889,186 49% Ted Strickland Democratic 1,812,059 47% Ken Matesz Libertarian 92,116 2%
2014 Governor of Ohio General John Kasich Republican 1,944,848 64% Ed FitzGerald Democratic 1,009,359 33% Anita Rios Green 101,706 3%

Published works

Kasich has authored five books:

See also

References

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john, kasich, john, richard, kasich, born, 1952, american, politician, author, television, political, commentator, member, republican, party, served, house, representatives, from, 1983, 2001, 69th, governor, ohio, from, 2011, 2019, kasich, unsuccessfully, soug. John Richard Kasich Jr ˈ k eɪ s ɪ k KAY sik 1 born May 13 1952 2 is an American politician author and television political commentator A member of the Republican Party he served in the U S House of Representatives from 1983 to 2001 and as the 69th governor of Ohio from 2011 to 2019 Kasich unsuccessfully sought his party s presidential nomination in 2000 and 2016 3 John Kasich69th Governor of OhioIn office January 10 2011 January 14 2019LieutenantMary TaylorPreceded byTed StricklandSucceeded byMike DeWineChair of the House Budget CommitteeIn office January 3 1995 January 3 2001Preceded byMartin Olav SaboSucceeded byJim NussleMember of the U S House of Representatives from Ohio s 12th districtIn office January 3 1983 January 3 2001Preceded byBob ShamanskySucceeded byPat TiberiMember of the Ohio Senate from the 15th districtIn office January 1 1979 January 1 1983Preceded byRobert O ShaughnessySucceeded byRichard PfeifferPersonal detailsBornJohn Richard Kasich Jr 1952 05 13 May 13 1952 age 70 McKees Rocks Pennsylvania U S Political partyRepublicanSpouse s Mary Lee Griffith m 1975 div 1980 wbr Karen Waldbillig m 1997 wbr Children2EducationOhio State University BA SignatureKasich grew up in McKees Rocks Pennsylvania moving to Ohio to attend college After a single term in the Ohio Senate he served nine terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio s 12th congressional district 4 His tenure in the House included 18 years on the House Armed Services Committee and six years as chairman of the House Budget Committee Kasich was a key figure in the passage of both 1996 welfare reform legislation and the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 Kasich decided not to run for re election in 2000 and ran for president instead He withdrew from the race before the Republican primaries After leaving Congress Kasich hosted Heartland with John Kasich on Fox News from 2001 to 2007 and served as managing director of the Lehman Brothers office in Columbus Ohio 5 6 He ran for governor of Ohio in 2010 defeating Democratic incumbent Ted Strickland 7 He was re elected in 2014 defeating Democratic challenger Ed FitzGerald by 30 percentage points Kasich was term limited and could not seek a third gubernatorial term in 2018 he was succeeded by fellow Republican Mike DeWine Kasich ran for president again in 2016 finishing in third place in the Republican primaries behind Donald Trump and Ted Cruz He won the primary in his home state of Ohio and finished second in New Hampshire Kasich declined to support Trump as the Republican presidential nominee and did not attend the 2016 Republican National Convention which was held in Ohio 8 9 In 2019 following the end of his second term as governor Kasich joined CNN as a contributor Kasich is known as one of Trump s most prominent critics within the Republican Party 10 and he endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for president in a speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention 11 Contents 1 Early life education and early political career 2 Ohio Senate career 3 U S House of Representatives 1983 2001 3 1 Ranking member of the House Budget Committee 3 2 Chair of the House Budget Committee 4 2000 presidential campaign 5 Private sector career 2001 2009 5 1 Business career 5 2 Political activities from 2001 to 2009 6 Governor of Ohio 6 1 2010 election 6 2 2014 re election 7 Political positions and record 7 1 Abortion 7 2 Climate change energy and environment 7 3 Policing and criminal justice 7 3 1 Prison privatization 7 3 2 Policing standards 7 3 3 Capital punishment 7 3 4 Executive clemency 7 3 5 Criminal justice reform issues 7 3 6 Drug policy 7 4 Economic policy 7 4 1 State budgets and taxation 7 4 2 Senate Bill 5 and labor issues 7 4 3 Balanced budget amendment 7 5 Free trade 7 6 Civil liberties and electronic surveillance 7 7 Education 7 8 Foreign and defense policy 7 9 LGBT rights 7 10 Gun policy 7 11 Health care 7 12 Immigration and refugees 7 13 Lieutenant governor 7 14 Racial diversity in Cabinet 7 15 Transportation 7 16 Voting rights 7 17 Judicial appointments 7 18 Impeachment of Donald Trump 8 2016 presidential campaign 8 1 Aftermath 9 Opposition to Trump 10 Personal life 11 Electoral history 12 Published works 13 See also 14 References 15 External linksEarly life education and early political career Edit Kasich right aged 18 meeting President Nixon in 1970 at the White House when he was an Ohio State University freshman 12 John Richard Kasich Jr was born and raised in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKees Rocks Pennsylvania 13 He is the son of Anne nee Vukovich 1918 1987 and John Richard Kasich 1919 1987 who worked as a mail carrier 14 15 Kasich s father was of Czech descent while his mother was of Croatian descent 16 Both his father and mother were children of immigrants and were practicing Roman Catholics 14 He has described himself as a Croatian and a Czech 17 After attending public schools in his hometown of McKees Rocks Kasich later left his native Pennsylvania settling in Columbus Ohio in 1970 to attend Ohio State University where he joined the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity 18 As a freshman he wrote a letter to President Richard Nixon describing concerns he had about the nation and requesting a meeting with the President The letter was delivered to Nixon by the university s president Novice Fawcett and Kasich was granted a 20 minute meeting with Nixon in December 1970 19 20 Earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Ohio State in 1974 21 he went on to work as a researcher for the Ohio Legislative Service Commission 22 From 1975 to 1978 he served as an administrative assistant to then state Senator Buz Lukens 23 Ohio Senate career EditIn 1978 Kasich ran against Democratic incumbent Robert O Shaughnessy for State Senate A political ally of Kasich remembers him during that time as a persistent campaigner People said If you just quit calling me I ll support you 24 At age 26 Kasich won with 56 of the vote beginning his four year term representing the 15th district 25 Kasich was the second youngest person ever elected to the Ohio Senate 26 One of his first acts as a State Senator was to refuse a pay raise 27 28 Republicans gained control of the State Senate in 1980 but Kasich went his own way for example by opposing a budget proposal he believed would raise taxes and writing his own proposal instead 24 U S House of Representatives 1983 2001 EditIn 1982 Kasich ran for Congress in Ohio s 12th congressional district which included portions of Columbus as well as the cities of Westerville Reynoldsburg Worthington and Dublin He won the Republican primary with 83 of the vote 29 and defeated incumbent Democratic U S Congressman Bob Shamansky in the general election by a margin of 50 47 30 He would never face another contest nearly that close and was re elected eight more times with at least 64 percent of the vote 31 32 Kasich as a congressman in 1985 During his congressional career Kasich was considered a fiscal conservative taking aim at programs supported by Republicans and Democrats He worked with Ralph Nader in seeking to reduce corporate tax loopholes 33 34 Kasich was a member of the House Armed Services Committee for 18 years 35 He developed a fairly hawkish reputation on that committee 36 although he also zealously challenged defense spending he considered wasteful 35 37 Among the Pentagon projects that he targeted were the B 2 bomber program teaming up with Democratic representative Ron Dellums to cut the program their efforts were partly successful 33 38 and the A 12 bomber program ultimately canceled by defense secretary Dick Cheney in 1991 37 He participated extensively in the passage of the Goldwater Nichols Act of 1986 which reorganized the U S Department of Defense 37 39 He also pushed through the bill creating the 1988 Base Realignment and Closure Commission which closed obsolete U S military bases and successfully opposed a proposed 110 million expansion of the Pentagon building after the end of the Cold War 37 He also proposed a national commission on arms control and urged tighter controls over substances that could be used for biological warfare 37 Kasich said he was 100 percent for the first Persian Gulf War as well as the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan but said that he did not favor U S military participation in the Lebanese Civil War or in Bosnia 40 In 1997 with fellow Republican representative Floyd Spence he introduced legislation supported by some congressional Democrats for the U S to pull out of a multilateral peacekeeping force in Bosnia 41 In the House he supported the Comprehensive Anti Apartheid Act a U S Representative Ron Dellums D CA led initiative to impose economic sanctions against apartheid era South Africa 37 Ranking member of the House Budget Committee Edit Official congressional portrait of Kasich as chairman of the House Budget committee In 1993 Kasich became the ranking Republican member of the House Budget Committee Kasich and other House Budget Committee Republicans proposed an alternative to President Bill Clinton s deficit reduction bill the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 42 That proposal included funds to implement Republican proposals for health care welfare and crime control legislation and for a child tax credit 42 The Penny Kasich Plan named after Kasich and fellow lead sponsor Tim Penny was supported by Republicans and conservative Democrats 43 It proposed 90 billion in spending cuts over five years almost three times as much in cuts as the 37 billion in cuts backed by the Clinton administration and Democratic congressional leaders 43 About one third 27 billion of the proposed Penny Kasich cuts would come from means testing Medicare specifically by reducing Medicare payments to seniors who earned 75 000 or more in adjusted gross income 44 45 This angered the AARP which lobbied against the legislation 44 Another 26 billion of the Penny Kasich plan s cuts would have come from the U S Department of Defense and foreign aid which led Secretary of Defense Les Aspin to say that the plan would destroy military morale 44 Another 27 billion in savings would have come from federal layoffs 44 The proposal was narrowly defeated in the House by a 219 213 vote 43 44 As ranking member of the Budget Committee Kasich proposed his own health care reform plan as a rival to the Clinton health care plan of 1993 championed by First Lady Hillary Clinton but more market based 46 As journalist Zeke Miller wrote in Time magazine The Kasich plan would have covered all Americans by 2005 using a form of an individual mandate that would have required employees to purchase insurance through their employers The mandate was an idea initially supported by conservative groups like The Heritage Foundation 46 On November 17 1993 Kasich voted to approve the North American Free Trade Agreement casting a yea vote for the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act 47 In 1994 Kasich was one of the Republican leaders to support a last minute deal with President Bill Clinton to pass the Federal Assault Weapons Ban After a series of meetings with Clinton s Chief of Staff Leon Panetta a longtime friend of Kasich the assault weapons ban was passed when 42 Republicans crossed party lines and voted to ban assault weapons with the Democrats 48 His support of the assault weapons ban angered the National Rifle Association which gave Kasich an F rating in 1994 as a result 49 Chair of the House Budget Committee Edit Kasich as chair of the House Budget Committee In 1995 when Republicans gained the majority in the United States Congress following the 1994 election Kasich became chair of the House Budget Committee In 1996 he introduced the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act in the House an important welfare reform bill signed into law by President Clinton 50 During the 1996 presidential campaign Republican nominee Bob Dole was reported to have considered Kasich as a vice presidential running mate but instead selected Jack Kemp a former congressman and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 51 In 1997 Kasich rose to national prominence after becoming the chief architect of a deal that balanced the federal budget for the first time since 1969 the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 52 In 1998 Kasich voted to impeach President Clinton on all four charges made against him 53 In 1999 while the Senate prepared to vote on the charges he said I believe these are impeachable and removable offenses 54 2000 presidential campaign EditMain article John Kasich 2000 presidential campaign Further information 2000 United States presidential election and 2000 Republican Party presidential primaries Kasich did not seek re election in 2000 In February 1999 he formed an exploratory committee to run for president 55 56 In March 1999 he announced his campaign for the Republican nomination After very poor fundraising he dropped out in July 1999 before the Iowa Straw Poll and endorsed governor George W Bush of Texas 57 58 Private sector career 2001 2009 EditAfter leaving Congress Kasich went to work for Fox News hosting Heartland with John Kasich on the Fox News Channel and guest hosting The O Reilly Factor filling in for Bill O Reilly as needed 59 He also occasionally appeared as a guest on Hannity amp Colmes 60 Business career Edit Kasich served on the board of directors for several corporations including Invacare Corp and the Chicago based Norvax Inc In 2001 Kasich joined Lehman Brothers investment banking division as a managing director in Columbus Ohio 61 He remained at Lehman Brothers until it declared bankruptcy in 2008 That year Lehman Brothers paid him a 182 692 salary and a 432 200 bonus He stated that the bonus was for work performed in 2007 62 Kasich s employment by Lehman Brothers was criticized during his subsequent campaigns in light of the firm s collapse during the financial crisis 5 Kasich responded to critics by saying I wasn t involved in the inner workings of Lehman I was a banker I didn t go to board meetings or go and talk investment strategy with the top people I was nowhere near that That s like it s sort of like being a car dealer in Zanesville and being blamed for the collapse of GM 63 Political activities from 2001 to 2009 Edit Republicans made efforts to recruit Kasich to run for Ohio governor in 2006 but he declined to enter the race 64 In 2008 Kasich formed Recharge Ohio a political action committee PAC with the goal of raising money to help Republican candidates for the Ohio House of Representatives and Ohio Senate in an effort to retain Republican majorities in the Ohio General Assembly 65 Kasich served as honorary chairman of the PAC 66 Governor of Ohio Edit2010 election Edit Main article 2010 Ohio gubernatorial election On May 1 2009 Kasich filed papers to run for governor of Ohio against incumbent Democratic governor Ted Strickland 67 He formally announced his candidacy on June 1 2009 On January 15 2010 Kasich announced Ohio State Auditor Mary Taylor as his running mate During a speech before Ashtabula County Republicans in March 2009 Kasich talked about the need to break the back of organized labor in the schools according to the Ashtabula Star Beacon 68 Ohio teachers unions supported Strickland and after Kasich s gubernatorial victory he said I am waiting for the teachers unions to take out full page ads in all the major newspapers apologizing for what they had to say about me during this campaign 69 Elsewhere he said he was willing to work with unions that make things 70 On May 4 2010 Kasich won the Republican nomination for governor having run unopposed On November 2 2010 Kasich defeated Strickland in a closely contested race to win the governorship 71 He was sworn in at midnight on January 10 2011 in a private ceremony at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus It was then followed by a ceremonial inauguration at the Ohio Theatre at noon on the same day 72 2014 re election Edit Main article 2014 Ohio gubernatorial election In November 2014 Kasich won re election defeating Democrat Ed FitzGerald the county executive of Cuyahoga County 64 to 33 He won 86 of 88 counties Kasich who was elected with Tea Party support in 2010 faced some backlash from some Tea Party activists His decision to accept the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act s expansion of Medicaid caused some Tea Party activists to refuse to support his campaign 73 Kasich supported longtime ally and campaign veteran Matt Borges over Portage County Tea Party chairman Tom Zawistowski for the position of chairman of the Ohio Republican Party Zawistowski secured just three votes in his run for the chairmanship 74 Tea Party groups announced they would support a primary challenger or if none emerged the Libertarian nominee 75 Ultimately Zawistowski failed to field anyone on the ballot and the Libertarian nominee former Republican State Representative Charlie Earl was removed from the ballot after failing to gain the required number of valid signatures necessary for ballot access 76 Political positions and record EditKasich is considered by some to be a moderate Republican due to his strong condemnation of far right conservatives and his endorsement of Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election However his record in the House and as governor of Ohio has led others to point out that his views place him to the right of most moderate politicians Larry Sabato the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics who has known Kasich for years says that If you had asked me in the 90s about Kasich I would have said he was a Gingrich conservative 77 Kasich s friend Curt Steiner former chief of staff to former Republican Ohio governor and U S senator George Voinovich described Kasich as a solid Republican with an independent streak 78 Kasich s tenure as governor was notable for his expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act his work combating the opioid addiction crisis his attempt later reversed by Ohio voters in a 2011 referendum to curtail collective bargaining for public sector employees his local government funding cuts his passage of several anti abortion laws his veto of a six week abortion ban his tax cuts and his evolving position on gun control 79 Abortion Edit Kasich opposes abortion except in cases of rape incest and danger to the mother s life 77 80 As governor he signed 18 abortion restrictive measures into law 81 In June 2013 Kasich signed into law a state budget HB 59 which stripped some 1 4 million in federal dollars from Planned Parenthood by placing the organization last on the priority list for family planning funds 82 83 provided funding to crisis pregnancy centers 83 and required women seeking abortions to undergo ultrasounds 82 84 The budget also barred abortion providers from entering into emergency transfer agreements with public hospitals requiring abortion providers to find private hospitals willing to enter into transfer agreements 82 Another provision of the bill requires abortion providers to offer information on family planning and adoption services in certain situations 82 Under the budget rape crisis centers could lose public funding if they counseled sexual assault victims about abortion 83 In 2015 Kasich said in an interview that Planned Parenthood ought to be de funded but added that Republicans in Congress should not force a government shutdown over the issue 85 In December 2016 Kasich approved a ban on abortions after 20 weeks except when a pregnancy endangers a woman s life but vetoed HB 493 a six week abortion ban Kasich cited the cost to taxpayers of defending the legislation in court and the likelihood that the six week bill would be struck down in federal court as reasons for vetoing the more restrictive bill 86 87 In December 2018 Kasich again vetoed a proposed six week abortion ban citing the cost to taxpayers and previous rulings by the federal courts 88 89 He did sign a bill into law that bans the dilation and evacuation procedure commonly used for abortion 90 Climate change energy and environment Edit In a speech in April 2012 Kasich acknowledged that climate change is real and is a problem 91 92 In the same speech however Kasich said that the Environmental Protection Agency should not regulate carbon emissions and that instead states and private companies should be in charge of regulating coal fired power plant emissions 91 In 2015 Kasich stated that he did not know all the causes of climate change and that he did not know the extent to which humans contribute to climate change 93 94 In 2014 Kasich signed into law a bill freezing Ohio s renewable portfolio standard RPS program for two years 95 96 Ohio s RPS program was created by 2008 legislation and required the state to acquire 12 5 percent of its energy portfolio from renewable sources and to reduce energy consumption by 22 percent by 2025 95 The legislation signed by Kasich to stop the program was supported by Republican legislative leaders utility companies and some industry groups and opposed by environmentalists some manufacturers and the American Lung Association 95 96 In 2016 Kasich broke with fellow Republicans in the state legislature by vetoing their attempt to continue blocking the RPS standards as a result the freeze ended on December 31 2016 and the clean energy mandate resumed This veto won Kasich praise from environmentalist groups and angered Republicans in the state legislature 97 In his 2015 budget plan Kasich proposed raising the tax rate on hydraulic fracturing fracking activities 98 Specifically Kasich s plan called for imposing a 6 5 percent severance tax on crude oil and natural gas extracted via horizontal drilling and sold at the source about 3 25 per 50 barrel of oil and for an additional 4 5 percent tax per thousand cubic feet on natural gas and liquefied natural gas about 0 16 per thousand cubic feet 98 The proposal would not affect conventional drilling taxes 98 Kasich formerly supported fracking in Ohio state parks and forests signing legislation in mid 2011 authorizing him to appoint a five member commission to oversee the leasing of mineral rights on state land to the highest bidders 99 In 2012 Kasich aides planned a campaign with a stated goal to marginalize the effectiveness of communications by adversaries about the initiative to bring fracking to state parks and forests naming in an email the Ohio Sierra Club and state Representatives Robert F Hagan and Nickie Antonio as adversaries of the plan 99 Kasich never appointed the commission and the promotional plan was never put into effect 99 A memo and email relating to the 2012 promotional campaign were publicly released for the first time in February 2015 which according to the Columbus Dispatch attracted criticism from state environmental and liberal groups as well as Democratic state legislators who called for an investigation 99 On the same day the governor reversed himself with a spokesman saying At this point the governor doesn t support fracking in state parks We reserve the right to revisit that but it s not what he wants to do right now and that s been his position for the past year and a half 99 In April 2015 Kasich signed a bill aimed at protecting Lake Erie s water quality 100 101 The bill places restrictions on the spread of manure and other fertilizers that contribute to toxic algal blooms and requires large public water treatment plants to monitor phosphorus levels 100 The bill had been unanimously approved by both chambers of the Ohio Legislature the previous month 100 Kasich supported the Keystone XL oil pipeline project and along with other Republican governors signed an open letter in February 2015 urging federal approval for the project 102 In 2016 in response to a request from South Dakota under the terms of an interstate compact Kasich dispatched 37 Ohio state troopers to South Dakota where they were stationed around Dakota Access Pipeline protests near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation This controversial deployment prompted unsuccessful petitions to Kasich from members of the public Cincinnati City Council members environmentalists and some state legislators who asked Kasich to recall the troopers 103 Policing and criminal justice Edit Prison privatization Edit To offset a state budget deficit Kasich proposed selling five state prisons to the for profit prison industry The Lake Erie prison was sold for 72 7 million to the Corrections Corporation of America CCA generating savings of 3 million Kasich s Director of Corrections Gary Mohr whom he had hired in January 2011 had previously worked for CCA but he said that he removed himself from the sales process In an audit in October 2012 CCA was cited for 47 contractual violations and failed a second audit later that year 104 105 106 In July 2015 the Kasich administration announced its intent to sell the North Central Correctional Institution at Marion in order to recoup the state s original investment in the facility and invest the proceeds in community based alternatives to prison 107 Policing standards Edit Following the separate fatal police shootings of John Crawford III and Tamir Rice a 12 year old boy in Ohio while each were holding BB guns 108 109 grand juries decided not to indict any of the officers involved 110 Following this Kasich created the Ohio Collaborative Community Police Advisory Board to address what he described as frustration and distrust among some Ohioans toward their police departments particularly among the black community 111 112 The 23 member task force with 18 members appointed by Kasich was appointed in January 2015 113 and issued its 629 page final report and recommendations in April 2015 114 115 The report recommended greater accountability and oversight for police agencies and officers further community education and involvement in policing and new use of force and recruitment hiring and training standards for police agencies Kasich in 2015 114 115 In April 2015 Kasich created the Ohio Collaborative Community Police Advisory Board a twelve member board tasked in conjunction with the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services and the Ohio Department of Public Safety with developing statewide standards for the recruiting hiring and screening of police officers and for the use of force including deadly force by police 111 116 The advisory board the first of its kind in Ohio was also tasked by Kasich with developing model policies and best practice recommendations to promote better interaction and communication between law enforcement departments and their home communities 111 117 In August 2015 the board issued its recommendations which placed an emphasis on the preservation of human life and restrict officers to defending themselves or others from death or serious injury 118 In August 2015 Kasich said that he was open to the idea of requiring police officers to wear body cameras 119 Capital punishment Edit As governor Kasich presided over the executions of fifteen inmates and commuted the death sentences of seven inmates 120 121 The last execution in Ohio took place in July 2018 In January 2015 Kasich announced that due to pending litigation and other issues he was delaying all seven executions scheduled through January 2016 120 122 The delay was largely attributed to European pharmaceutical companies which have refused to supply the state with deadly drugs necessary for executions 123 In February 2017 Kasich again delayed Ohio executions for an additional three months after a federal judge ruled that Ohio s three drug lethal injection protocol is unconstitutional 124 125 Executive clemency Edit Kasich used his power of executive clemency sparingly 126 He has the lowest clemency rate of any Ohio governor since at least the 1980s when records began to be kept 121 In six years in office Kasich granted 86 of the 2 291 requests that he acted upon 126 In 2016 Kasich granted executive clemency to 13 people in all of the cases the Ohio Adult Parole Authority had recommended clemency 126 Criminal justice reform issues Edit Kasich supports various criminal justice reform efforts according to conservative Washington Post columnist George Will Kasich favors fewer mandatory minimum sentences and has instituted prison policies that prepare inmates for re integration into communities 127 In 2011 Kasich signed sentencing reform legislation which allowed judges to sentence defendants convicted of non violent fourth and fifth degree felonies to community based halfway house facilities instead of prison expanded the earned credit system to allow inmates to reduce their sentences and allowed felons who have already served 80 percent or more of their sentences to be immediately released 128 In 2012 Kasich signed into law a bill sponsored by Cleveland Democratic Senator Shirley Smith and Cincinnati Republican Senator Bill Seitz easing the collateral consequences of criminal conviction 129 In September 2014 Kasich touted the Ohio s prison system s recidivism rate which is one of the lowest in the nation 130 U S Senator Rob Portman a Republican attributed a drop in Ohio s recidivism rate to the bipartisan work of the state legislature Governor Kasich Ohio s reentry leaders and the success of programs made possible at the federal level by the Second Chance Act which Portman sponsored 131 In 2015 Kasich proposed a state budget including 61 7 million for addiction treatment services for prisoners 132 Drug policy Edit Kasich initially expressed opposition to medical marijuana in 2012 saying There s better ways to help people who are in pain 133 However in late 2015 and early 2016 Kasich said he was open to the legalization of medical marijuana 134 135 In March 2014 in an effort to address the opioid epidemic Kasich signed legislation passed unanimously in both chambers of the state legislature expanding the availability of naloxone a lifesaving antidote to opioid overdoses The measure allowed friends and family members of addicts to obtain access to naloxone and for first responders to carry naloxone 136 In July 2015 Kasich signed legislation further expanding the availability of naloxone making it available without a prescription 137 In a 2015 interview with radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt Kasich said he was opposed to the legalization of recreational marijuana and equated the drug to heroin stating In my state and across this country if I happened to be president I would lead a significant campaign down at the grassroots level to stomp these drugs out of our country 138 139 When Kasich was asked by Hewitt whether if elected president he would federally enforce marijuana laws in states which have legalized marijuana Kasich characterized it as a states rights issue and said that I d have to think about it 139 When asked the same question later in 2015 Kasich said I would try to discourage the states from doing it but I would be tempted to say I don t think we can go and start disrupting what they ve decided 140 Kasich opposed Issue 3 an Ohio ballot measure in 2015 that proposed the legalization of recreational marijuana saying it was a terrible idea 140 141 142 Economic policy Edit State budgets and taxation Edit During Kasich s tenure the state has eliminated a budget shortfall that his administration has estimated at 8 billion but which the Cleveland Plain Dealer estimated at closer to 6 billion 143 The New York Times put the number at 7 7 billion 144 Ohio also increased its rainy day fund from effectively zero to more than 2 billion 145 Kasich closed the budget shortfall in part by cutting aid to local governments forcing some of them to raise their own taxes or cut services And increasing sales taxes helped make the income tax cuts possible 144 An analysis by the Plain Dealer in March 2016 found that more than 70 cities and villages had lost at least 1 million a year due to Kasich s budget and taxation policy 144 In March 2008 Kasich called for phasing out Ohio s state income tax 146 During Kasich s time as governor Ohio ranked 22nd out of the 50 states for private sector job growth at 9 3 144 Kasich with Sean Hannity Kasich signed a state budget in 2011 which eliminated the state s estate tax effective January 1 2013 144 147 In 2013 Kasich signed into law a 62 billion two year state budget 82 The budget provided for a 10 percent state income tax cut phased in over three years and an increase in the state sales tax from 5 5 percent to 5 75 percent It also included a 50 tax cut for small business owners on the first 250 000 of annual net income 82 Kasich used his line item veto power to reject a measure that would stop the Medicaid expansion which Kasich had accepted from the federal government to cover nearly 275 000 working poor Ohioans 82 In 2015 Kasich signed into law a 71 billion two year state budget after using his line item veto power to veto 44 items 148 The overall 2015 budget provides a 6 3 percent state income tax cut as a part one component of a 1 9 billion net tax reduction and lowers the top income tax rate to slightly below 5 percent 148 The budget also spends 955 million more in basic state aid for K 12 schools than the last two year period boosts state funding for higher education to help offset a two year tuition freeze at public universities expands the Medicaid health program increases cigarette taxes by 35 cents a pack and prohibits independent health care and child care workers under contract with the state from unionizing 148 Senate Bill 5 and labor issues Edit On March 31 2011 in his first year as governor Kasich signed into law Senate Bill 5 a controversial labor law which restricted collective bargaining rights of public employees such as police officers firefighters and teachers 149 150 The legislation championed by Kasich 151 prohibited all public employees from striking and restricted their ability to negotiate health care and pension benefits 149 150 The final version of the legislation signed by Kasich had passed the state Senate in a 17 16 vote with six Senate Republicans joining all of the Senate Democrats in voting no and the state House in a 53 44 vote with two members abstaining 152 Democrats and labor unions opposed the legislation and placed a referendum on the November 2011 ballot to repeal SB 5 149 SB 5 also sparked numerous protests with thousands of union workers and other opponents descending on the Statehouse mirroring similar demonstrations in Wisconsin and injecting Ohio into the national debate over Republican governors attempts to curb public workers collective bargaining rights 153 Kasich and other supporters of SB 5 characterized the legislation as a necessary measure to help public employers control labor costs and reduce tax burdens to make Ohio more competitive with other states while labor unions and other opponents characterized the bill as a union busting attack on the middle class 153 Ohio voters rejected Senate Bill 5 in a 61 percent to 39 percent vote which was viewed as a rebuke to Kasich 149 150 154 On election night Kasich said in a speech at the Ohio Statehouse that It s clear the people have spoken I heard their voices I understand their decision And frankly I respect what the people have to say in an effort like this 149 154 Following this defeat Kasich dropped efforts to pass broad based collective bargaining restrictions although in 2012 he supported a bill including provisions reminiscent of Senate Bill 5 but applying only to the Cleveland Metropolitan School District 149 In May 2015 Kasich rescinded executive orders issued by his predecessor Ted Strickland in 2007 and 2008 that provided the right to home health care contractors and in home child care contractors to collectively bargain with the state 155 Balanced budget amendment Edit Kasich has campaigned for a balanced budget amendment to the U S Constitution 156 Kasich created a 501 c 4 group Balanced Budget Forever to promote the cause 157 Free trade Edit Kasich said in 2016 that I have never been an ideological supporter of free trade but has long supported free trade agreements He is a strong supporter of the Trans Pacific Partnership and participated with others in a meeting with President Obama in support of the agreement 158 Civil liberties and electronic surveillance Edit In speaking in the 2016 campaign on domestic surveillance Kasich has straddled the line praising Rand Paul for saying that we need to get warrants but also saying if there s information they need the government needs to get it 159 Kasich has said there needs to be a balance between good intelligence and the need to protect Americans from what can become an aggressive government somewhere down the road 160 On one occasion Kasich spoke out against proposals to mandate that technology companies provide a backdoor for the government to access encrypted devices saying that this could end up aiding hackers 161 On a subsequent occasion Kasich said that encryption was dangerous because it could stymie government antiterrorism investigations 162 Kasich has condemned whistleblower Edward Snowden as a traitor 159 Education Edit Kasich proposed new legislation which would increase funding to charter schools and poor school districts 91 He canceled the school funding formula put into place by his Democratic predecessor Governor Ted Strickland 163 During Kasich s tenure as governor he pushed to expand charter schools increase the number of school vouchers that use public money to pay for tuition at private schools implement a merit pay scheme for teachers and evaluate teachers by student standardized test scores in math and reading 164 Kasich supports the Common Core State Standards and has criticized Republicans who turned against it 164 During Kasich s tenure funding for traditional public schools declined by about 500 million while funding for charter schools has increased at least 27 percent 164 As calculated by the Howard Fleeter Education Tax Policy Institute total school funding under Kasich including both charter and district schools has ranged from a low of 7 1 billion in fiscal year 2013 to 7 8 billion in fiscal year 2015 which was higher than its previous peak under Kasich s predecessor Ted Strickland 165 As calculated by the Howard Fleeter Education Tax Policy Institute Kasich has proposed total school funding of 8 0 billion in fiscal year 2016 and fiscal year 2017 165 The Ohio Department of Education which includes more spending areas than Fleeter s does and so reports higher numbers 165 projects total school funding for Ohio schools to rise to slightly under 10 5 billion by the end of fiscal year 2017 166 Analysts disagree on whether Kasich s education budgets give increases beyond inflation 165 In the 2015 state budget Kasich used his line item veto power to cut more than 84 million of funding from public schools 91 According to a September 2014 story in the Columbus Dispatch Kasich favored allowing public school districts to teach alternatives to evolution such as intelligent design if local school officials want to under the philosophy of local control 167 In 2011 Kasich had the idea of establishing a Holocaust memorial on the grounds of the Ohio Statehouse Kasich successfully secured approval of the proposal from the Capital Square Review and Advisory Board The 2 million Ohio Holocaust and Liberators Memorial designed by Daniel Libeskind is located across from the Ohio Theatre the memorial was dedicated in 2014 168 169 Foreign and defense policy Edit In November 2002 Kasich urged the invasion of Iraq telling a crowd of students at Ohio State University We should go to war with Iraq It s not likely that Saddam Hussein will give up his weapons If he did he would be disgraced in the Arab world 170 Kasich consults with military leaders during the Gulf War In an interview in August 2015 Kasich said I would never have committed ourselves to Iraq 170 A Kasich spokesman subsequently said that Kasich was not revising history but was instead saying that the Iraq War was a mistake given the facts available now 170 Kasich has said that the U S should ve left a base in Iraq instead of withdrawing troops in 2011 40 170 In 2015 Kasich said that airstrikes were insufficient to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and he would send U S ground troops to fight ISIL 171 172 Kasich opposed the landmark 2015 international nuclear agreement with Iran 40 and in September 2015 was one of fourteen Republican governors who sent a letter to President Obama stating that we intend to ensure that the various state level sanctions against Iran that are now in effect remain in effect despite the agreement 173 Kasich has expressed support for the U S s drone program 159 He has said however that the program should be overseen by the Department of Defense and not by the CIA 40 Kasich has said that he wants to lift budget sequestration for military spending and spend more if necessary 174 In November 2015 Kasich said that if elected president he would send a carrier battle group through the South China Sea to send a message to China regarding their claims of sovereignty there 159 Kasich supports continued U S support of Saudi Arabia but he criticized Saudi Arabia s funding and teaching of radical clerics who are the very people who try to destroy us 175 Kasich favors strong relations between the U S and its NATO allies 176 He supported Senator John McCain s call for maintaining existing U S sanctions on Russia and condemned the Trump administration s consideration of lifting sanctions 177 Like McCain Kasich supports imposing tougher sanctions against Russia and Putin s inner circle 176 He supports a bipartisan investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections 178 LGBT rights Edit By the mid 2010s Kasich had shown much more support for LGBT rights than many of his Republican counterparts However during his time in Congress Kasich was much less accepting and voted for the Defense of Marriage Act which barred federal recognition of same sex marriage 179 During this period Kasich supported a ban on same sex marriage in Ohio and stated that he did not approve of the gay lifestyle 179 As governor of Ohio Kasich signed an executive order banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation for state employees this was more narrow than the previous executive order signed by his predecessor because it omitted protections for gender identity 180 During the 2016 presidential campaign Kasich struck a more moderate tone compared to his Republican opponents In June 2015 following the U S Supreme Court s decision in Obergefell v Hodges which held that there is a fundamental right to same sex marriage under the Fourteenth Amendment Kasich said that he was obviously disappointed 181 182 and that he believes in traditional marriage 183 but that the ruling was the law of the land and we ll abide by it and that it was time to move on to other issues 183 During his time as Ohio governor Kasich appointed Richard Hodges as Ohio Director of Health who was the lead respondent in the case 184 Kasich indicated that he did not support an amendment to the U S Constitution to overturn the decision 183 In response to a debate question about how he would explain his position on same sex marriage to one of his daughters if she were gay Kasich responded The court has ruled and I said we ll accept it And guess what I just went to a wedding of a friend of mine who happens to be gay Because somebody doesn t think the way I do doesn t mean that I can t care about them or can t love them So if one of my daughters happened to be that of course I would love them and I would accept them Because you know what That s what we re taught when we have strong faith 185 In September 2015 Kasich commented on the highly publicized case of Kim Davis the Rowan County Kentucky clerk who refused to comply with a federal court order directing her to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples saying Now I respect the fact that this lady doesn t agree but she s also a government employee she s not running a church I wouldn t force this on a church But in terms of her responsibility I think she has to comply I don t think I don t like the fact that she s sitting in a jail that s absurd as well But I think she should follow the law 186 In a March 2018 interview on The Rubin Report Kasich passively came out in support of same sex marriage saying I m fine with it but stated that he now preferred to show himself as someone in the Billy Graham tradition that avoided social issues 187 188 In December 2018 Kasich signed an executive order extending non discrimination protections for gender identity including trans and non binary identities to state employees in Ohio 189 190 Gun policy Edit While in the U S House of Representatives Kasich had a mixed record on gun policy 191 He was one of 215 Representatives to vote for the Federal Assault Weapons Ban which became law in 1994 but voted against the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act Brady Bill which established current background check laws 191 As governor Kasich shifted to more pro gun positions 191 In 2011 he signed one bill permitting concealed handguns in bars and another making it easier for people with misdemeanor drug convictions to purchase guns 191 In 2012 Kasich signed a bill allowing gun owners to transport weapons with loaded magazines in their vehicles and expanding concealed carry permit reciprocity 191 In December 2014 Kasich signed legislation that reduced the numbers of hours of training required to obtain a concealed carry permit and eliminated the training requirement for permit renewals 191 After the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in February 2018 Kasich called for restrictions on the sales of AR 15 style rifles 192 Health care Edit Kasich opted to accept Medicaid expansion funding provided by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ACA or Obamacare in Ohio 193 194 195 This decision angered many Statehouse Republicans who wanted Kasich to reject the expansion 194 196 Total spending on Medicaid by the state was almost 2 billion or 7 6 percent below estimates for the fiscal year ending in June 2015 according to a report by Kasich s administration The lower than expected costs were attributed to expanded managed care shorter nursing home stays and increased in home care for seniors capitated reimbursement policies increased automation to determine eligibility for the program and pay care providers and an improving economy in the state which allowed some participants to move out of the program 197 In an October 2014 interview Kasich said that repeal of the ACA was not gonna happen and stated that The opposition to it was really either political or ideological I don t think that holds water against real flesh and blood and real improvements in people s lives 194 Kasich later said that he was referring solely to the law s Medicaid expansion and that my position is that we need to repeal and replace the rest of the law 194 198 In 2015 Kasich expressed support for many provisions of the ACA ensuring coverage for people with preexisting conditions the use of insurance exchanges and Medicaid expansion but opposed mandates 199 In 2017 after Donald Trump took office and congressional Republicans maneuvered to repeal the ACA Kasich criticized Republican hard liners in Congress who demanded a full ACA repeal saying that full repeal was not acceptable when 20 million people gained insurance under the ACA and that doing so would be a political impossibility Kasich urged that the Medicaid expansion be preserved in some form criticizing the House Republican legislation that would cut the Medicaid expansion and phase out health insurance subsidies for low income Americans 200 Kasich said that the nation s soul was at stake if Republicans passed legislation that left millions without health insurance 201 After the failure of the House Republican health care legislation Kasich met in Washington with members of the Republican Tuesday Group and urged fellow Republicans to work with Democrats to make more modest changes to the Affordable Care Act 202 In May 2017 Kasich said that the version of the Republican health care bill that passed the House was inadequate and would harm patients Kasich said that Republicans should ve worked with the Democrats on the bill rather than passing legislation merely to fulfill a campaign pledge 203 In June 2017 Kasich said that he didn t have a problem with gradually phasing out the ACA s expansion of Medicaid over a seven year period but only if Congress provided states with significantly more more than the House Republican bill provided for and only if Congress granted states more authority to manage the program 204 Along with three other Republican governors Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas Brian Sandoval of Nevada and Rick Snyder of Michigan Kasich signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell with an outline of their wishes for a health care bill Kasich and the others specifically called upon Congress to end the requirement that state Medicaid programs cover nearly every prescription drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration 204 Kasich and the other governors views were seen as influential because their states have Republican senators and the Republicans have only a narrow majority in the Senate 204 Immigration and refugees Edit In 2010 while running for governor Kasich expressed support for amending the U S Constitution to abolish the Fourteenth Amendment s guarantee of jus soli birthright citizenship for people born in the United States 205 206 Kasich also told the Columbus Dispatch at the time that One thing that I don t want to reward is illegal immigration 205 In 2014 Kasich acknowledged that his stance on immigration has evolved because maybe I m a little smarter now stating I don t want to see anybody in pain So I guess when I look at this now I look at it differently than I did in 10 When I look at a group of people who might be hiding who may be afraid who may be scared who have children I don t want to be in a position of where I make it worse for them 205 That year Kasich expressed openness to a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants saying at a Republican Governors Association RGA meeting in Florida I don t like the idea of citizenship when people jump the line but we may have to do it 206 Kasich was the only governor at the RGA conference to express openly a willingness to create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants 205 In August 2015 while running for president Kasich called for a path to legal status but not necessarily citizenship for undocumented immigrants and for a guest worker program 206 207 Kasich also appeared to disavow his earlier stance against birthright citizenship stating I don t think we need to go there called for completion of a fence along the U S Mexico border and noted that undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U S as young children may obtain driver s licenses in Ohio 206 207 In October 2015 Kasich criticized Donald Trump s plan to build a wall along the Mexican border and remove immigrants who entered the United States illegally calling these notions just crazy 208 In September 2015 Kasich said that the U S had a moral responsibility to accept refugees fleeing war and violence in Syria Subsequently however Kasich moved to the right and in November 2015 wrote a letter to President Obama asking that no additional Syrian refugees be resettled in Ohio 209 Kasich opposed Trump s executive order on travel and immigration which Trump signed one week after taking office in January 2017 Kasich said that the order was ham handed because it sowed so much confusion and sent a message that somehow the United States was looking sideways at Muslims 210 Lieutenant governor Edit Kasich has a long standing political partnership with his lieutenant governor Mary Taylor 211 In 2014 Kasich defended Taylor after her chief of staff and that chief of staff s administrative assistant resigned following a timesheet probe 212 213 Kasich said of Taylor s handling of the matter Mary did the right thing and I support her 213 In 2017 the Kasich Taylor relationship frayed after Taylor abandoned Kasich ally Matt Borges in his bid for chairman of the Ohio Republican Party and instead chose to support Jane Timken who was actively supported by Donald Trump 211 214 who sought revenge against Kasich for his choice not to endorse Trump 215 Nevertheless Kasich indicated that Taylor had been a good partner over his term and indicated that he would support her if she chose to run for governor in 2018 216 Racial diversity in Cabinet Edit Upon taking office in 2011 Kasich received criticism for appointing an initial all white cabinet of 22 members 217 Responding to criticism for not appointing any black Hispanic or Asian Cabinet members Kasich said I don t look at things from the standpoint of any of these sort of metrics that people tend to focus on race or age or any of those things It s not the way I look at things I want the best possible team I can get 217 Shortly afterward on February 2 2011 Kasich made his first minority appointment to the Cabinet naming Michael Colbert a black man to lead the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services 218 As of 2018 update four members of Kasich s Cabinet were members of racial minorities 219 Transportation Edit Throughout his first gubernatorial campaign Kasich opposed the Ohio Hub higher speed passenger rail project a proposed 258 mile Cleveland to Cincinnati train and promised to cancel it claiming that it would average speeds of merely 36 mph 220 In his first press conference following his election victory Kasich declared That train is dead I said it during the campaign It is dead 221 As governor elect Kasich lobbied the federal government to use 400 million in federal dollars allocated for high speed rail for freight rail projects instead 220 222 In a November 2010 letter to Kasich Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wrote that the federal funding was specifically allocated by the 2009 economic stimulus act for high speed rail and could not be used for other purposes 222 In a December 2010 meeting with President Barack Obama Kasich again unsuccessfully lobbied to use the grant money for freight rail rather than high speed rail 223 In December 2010 the U S Department of Transportation announced that Ohio would lose the 385 million in grant funds allocated for high speed passenger rail since Kasich had informed them that he had no intention of ever building high speed rail projects 224 Almost 15 million had already been spent for preliminary engineering 220 The 385 million was instead diverted to other states such as California New York and Florida which planned high speed rail using the grant money for its congressionally intended purpose 220 224 Outgoing governor Ted Strickland who championed the project expressed disappointment saying that the loss of funding for the project was one of the saddest days during my four years as governor and that I can t understand the logic of giving up these vital job creating resources to California and Florida at a time when so many Ohioans need jobs 220 224 Kasich is an opponent of the Cincinnati Streetcar project 225 226 In April 2015 Kasich signed a two year transportation budget bill which allocated 7 06 billion for highway construction and maintenance 600 million to local governments for road and bridge projects and an additional million over the last budget for public transportation 227 Voting rights Edit In February 2014 Kasich signed into law a bill which cut six days from Ohio s early voting period including the golden week a period at the beginning of early voting when voters could both register to vote and cast an in person absentee ballot 228 229 The measures were hotly contested in the state legislature 228 passing on a party line vote with Republicans in favor and Democrats opposed 230 This measure prompted two federal lawsuits 231 The first lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio on behalf of the NAACP and League of Women Voters of Ohio resulted in a settlement in April 2015 in which the state agreed to provide evening and Sunday hours for early voting in elections in Ohio through 2018 232 The second lawsuit Ohio Democratic Party v Husted was brought in May 2015 by Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias plaintiffs argued that the Ohio bill eliminating golden week violated the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act because it disproportionately burdened black Latino and young voters The federal district court agreed and struck down the legislation but the U S Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed that decision in a 2 1 vote and the U S Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal 233 In July 2015 Kasich said that it was pure demagoguery for Hillary Clinton to say that there are Republicans who are deliberately trying to keep people from voting 234 In April 2015 Kasich used his line item veto power to veto a provision added to a highway budget bill by Republicans in the state legislature that would have required college students who register to vote in Ohio to obtain a state driver s license and vehicle registration imposing an estimated 75 in motor vehicle costs on out of state college students who wanted to vote in the state 235 236 237 The veto was celebrated by voting rights advocates Ohio Democrats and the Cleveland Plain Dealer editorial board which viewed the proposal as effectively a poll tax motivated by a partisan desire to limit college town voting 235 236 237 Judicial appointments Edit In Ohio justices of the Ohio Supreme Court are elected but the governor can fill unexpired terms In May 2012 Ohio Supreme Court Associate Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton announced she would retire at the end of 2012 238 In December 2012 Kasich appointed Judge Judith L French to Stratton s unexpired term which ran from January 1 2013 through January 1 2015 239 Impeachment of Donald Trump Edit On October 18 2019 Kasich publicly stated that Donald Trump should be impeached He had previously said there was not enough evidence to impeach the President 240 241 2016 presidential campaign EditMain article John Kasich 2016 presidential campaign Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsing John Kasich for President In April 2015 Kasich announced the formation of his New Day For America group Formerly a 527 group it filed as a super PAC in July 2015 242 Between April 20 and June 30 2015 the super PAC raised over 11 1 million from 165 reportable contributions including 34 contributions of 100 000 or more 242 Major contributors to the PAC include Floyd Kvamme who donated 100 000 and Jim Dicke chairman emeritus of Crown Equipment Corporation who donated 250 000 242 According to FEC filings Kasich s campaign had 2 5 million on hand at the beginning of 2016 243 In May 2015 sources close to him had said he was virtually certain to run for the Republican nomination for president 244 On July 21 2015 Kasich announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination during a speech at the Ohio Union the student union of his alma mater the Ohio State University 245 246 247 On January 30 2016 the New York Times endorsed Kasich for the Republican nomination The Times editorial board strongly rebuked leading candidates Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz and wrote that Kasich though a distinct underdog is the only plausible choice for Republicans tired of the extremism and inexperience on display in this race 248 On the campaign trail Kasich sought to project a sunny optimistic message describing himself as the prince of light and hope 249 250 This marked a change in tone for Kasich who had developed a reputation as an abrasive governor 251 Viewed as a long shot contender Kasich took an above the fray approach to his rivals and ran unapologetically as a candidate with experience even as others ran as outsider contenders 252 Kasich came in second place in the New Hampshire primary on February 9 2016 behind winner Trump The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that this was the best possible result for Kasich and lent credence to the notion that he can emerge as a Republican alternative to Trump and Cruz 253 Ultimately however Kasich s message never caught on in a campaign that exposed the anger and frustration coursing through the electorate and he found himself stuck in fourth place in a three man race trailing Senator Marco Rubio of Florida in the delegate count although Rubio had dropped out of the race in March 252 The only state won by Kasich was his home state of Ohio 252 which gave him 66 delegates in its March 2016 winner take all primary but still left him with a steep delegate deficit against his rivals 254 Kasich s unsuccessful campaign strategy hinged on the possibility of a contested or brokered Republican National Convention in which no single candidate has enough delegates to win the nomination on the first ballot something that has not happened in either of the two major parties presidential nominating conventions since 1952 255 Kasich suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on May 4 2016 one day after Trump won the Republican primary in Indiana The third remaining contender Cruz quit the race shortly before Kasich did leaving Trump as the only candidate remaining in the Republican field and hence the party s presumptive nominee 252 A 2018 study on media coverage of the 2016 election noted the paradox of the Kasich campaign s longevity while it lacked public interest provides some evidence for the idea that Kasich s biggest supporters were the media 256 Aftermath Edit Following his withdrawal from the race Kasich did not extend his support to Trump In May and June 2016 Kasich said that Trump was a divisive figure rather than a unifier said he had no plans to endorse Trump in the near future and ruled out the possibility of seeking the Vice Presidency as Trump s running mate 257 258 Kasich said it was hard to say whether he would ever endorse Trump he added I can t go for dividing name calling or somebody that doesn t really represent conservative principles 259 Kasich said he had ruled out voting for Clinton but lacked the enthusiasm to fully back Trump 260 In August 2016 Kasich repeated an earlier claim that the Trump campaign had offered him a powerful vice presidency putting him in charge of all domestic and foreign policy 261 The Trump campaign denied that such an offer had been made 261 Kasich also doubted whether Trump could win Ohio a critical state in the election 261 It was speculated that Kasich was looking towards a 2020 campaign 262 This speculation was strengthened by a report that Kasich had planned to give a speech to the American Enterprise Institute less than 48 hours after the election but cancelled it the morning after the election when it was clear that Trump had won 263 Kasich received an electoral vote for the presidency from one faithless elector Christopher Suprun of Texas who had been pledged to vote for Trump An elector in Colorado also attempted to vote for him but that vote was discarded the elector was replaced by an alternate elector who voted as pledged for Clinton 264 Opposition to Trump EditIn February 2017 Kasich met with Trump at the White House 265 in a private meeting that followed a bitter feud 266 Kasich indicated that he hoped for Trump s success but would continue to be critical when he thought it was necessary 266 The same month Kasich s chief political advisors launched a political group Two Paths America in an effort to promote Kasich and his views and draw a contrast with Trump 267 In April 2017 Kasich also released a book Two Paths America Divided or United written with Daniel Paisner 268 269 The creation of the group prompted speculation he could possibly run for president again 267 but Kasich said that he had no plans to seek elected office in the future 270 In April 2017 during a CNN town hall Kasich while stating that he was very unlikely to do so reopened the possibility that he might run for president in 2020 271 272 On August 20 however he reiterated his previous statement that he had no plans to run rather he stated that he was rooting for Trump to get it together 273 In October 2017 during an interview with CNN s Jake Tapper Kasich said he had not given up on the Republican Party but added that if the party can t be fixed I m not going to be able to support the party Period That s the end of it 274 275 In March 2018 he told The Weekly Standard that he was increasingly open to running for president in the 2020 presidential election 276 however in May 2019 he again declared that he would not seek the presidency in 2020 277 In October 2019 Kasich expressed support for the impeachment inquiry against Trump saying that the final straw for him was when Trump s acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney admitted that Trump had withheld U S aid from Ukraine in part to pressure the country to investigate Trump s domestic political rivals a statement that Mulvaney later said were misconstrued 278 279 Kasich confirmed on August 10 2020 that he would be speaking at the 2020 Democratic National Convention in support of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden 11 280 Kasich said that his conscience compelled him to speak out against Trump and in support of Biden even if it resulted in blowback against him adding I ve been a reformer almost all of my life I ve been very independent and I m a Republican but the Republican Party has always been my vehicle but never my master You have to do what you think is right in your heart and I m comfortable here 11 Personal life Edit Kasich during his tenure in Congress Kasich has been married twice His first marriage was to Mary Lee Griffith from 1975 to 1980 and they had no children Griffith has campaigned for Kasich since their divorce Kasich and his current wife Karen Waldbillig a former public relations executive were married in March 1997 and have twin daughters Emma and Reese 281 Kasich was raised a Catholic but considers denominations irrelevant while stating that there s always going to be a part of me that considers myself a Catholic He drifted away from his religion as an adult but came to embrace an Anglican faith after his parents were killed in a car crash by a drunk driver on August 20 1987 282 283 284 285 He joined the Episcopal Church as an adult 286 287 Kasich has said he doesn t find God in church but does belong to St Augustine s in Westerville Ohio which is part of the Anglican Church in North America a conservative church with which he remained when it broke off from the Episcopal Church 285 286 287 Electoral history EditElection results 288 289 Year Office Election Candidate Party Votes Opponent Party Votes Opponent Party Votes 1982 U S House of Representatives General John Kasich Republican 88 335 50 Bob Shamansky Democratic 82 753 47 Russell A Lewis Libertarian 3 939 2 1984 U S House of Representatives General John Kasich Republican 148 899 70 Richard S Sloan Democratic 65 215 30 1986 U S House of Representatives General John Kasich Republican 117 905 73 Timothy C Jochim Democratic 42 727 27 1988 U S House of Representatives General John Kasich Republican 204 892 80 Mark P Brown Democratic 50 782 20 1990 U S House of Representatives General John Kasich Republican 130 495 72 Mike Gelpi Democratic 50 784 28 1992 U S House of Representatives General John Kasich Republican 170 297 71 Bob Fitrakis Democratic 68 761 29 1994 U S House of Representatives General John Kasich Republican 114 608 67 Cynthia L Ruccia Democratic 57 294 33 N A Write in 443 0 1996 U S House of Representatives General John Kasich Republican 151 667 64 Cynthia L Ruccia Democratic 78 762 33 Barbara Ann Edelman Natural Law 7 005 3 1998 U S House of Representatives General John Kasich Republican 124 197 67 Edward S Brown Democratic 60 694 33 2010 Governor of Ohio General John Kasich Republican 1 889 186 49 Ted Strickland Democratic 1 812 059 47 Ken Matesz Libertarian 92 116 2 2014 Governor of Ohio General John Kasich Republican 1 944 848 64 Ed FitzGerald Democratic 1 009 359 33 Anita Rios Green 101 706 3 Published works EditKasich has authored five books Courage is Contagious published in 1998 made the New York Times bestseller list Stand for Something The Battle for America s Soul published in 2006 Every Other Monday published in 2010 This book is a New York Times bestseller 290 Two Paths America Divided or United published in 2017 It s Up to Us Ten Little Ways We Can Bring About Big Change published in 2019See also EditOhio s 12th congressional district List of United States representatives from Ohio Ohio gubernatorial election 2010 Ohio gubernatorial election 2014 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2015 09 14 at the Wayback Machine Politifact March 5 2013 a b c Ohio s SB 5 Explained StateImpact NPR retrieved September 13 2015 Archived July 25 2015 at the Wayback Machine Jim Provance Kasich accepts defeat of Issue 2 Archived 2015 11 17 at the Wayback Machine Toledo Blade November 8 2015 CNN Bill restricting public sector unions passes in Ohio Archived 2015 11 17 at the Wayback Machine March 30 2011 a b Joe Guillen What s really in Senate Bill 5 Clearing up the rumors misinformation surrounding collective bargaining overhaul Archived 2015 10 03 at the Wayback Machine Cleveland Plain Dealer March 20 2011 a b Reginald Field Ohio voters overwhelmingly reject Issue 2 dealing a blow to Gov John Kasich Archived 2012 01 23 at the Wayback Machine Cleveland Plain Dealer November 10 2011 Michelle Everhart Gov John Kasich rescinds orders allowing collective bargaining for care workers Archived 2015 08 20 at the Wayback Machine Columbus Dispatch May 22 2015 Janet Hook Will Kasich s Balanced Budget Tour Lead Him to White House Archived 2017 03 11 at the Wayback Machine Wall Street Journal January 23 2015 James Hohmann John Kasich s crusade Behind the potential 2016 candidate s long shot bid for a balanced budget amendment Archived 2015 06 28 at the Wayback Machine Politico December 14 2014 Eric Bradner amp Eugene Scott Kasich meets with Obama to discuss TPP Archived 2017 02 03 at the Wayback Machine CNN September 16 2016 a b c d Alex Jaffe Kasich outlines iron fist velvet glove foreign policy doctrine in South Carolina Archived 2020 02 12 at the Wayback Machine MSNBC August 18 2015 John Kasich on the N S A Archived 2016 04 05 at the Wayback Machine New York Times June 4 2015 Ross Barkan Kasich Warns Giving Government a Backdoor to Encrypted Phones Could Help Hackers Archived 2016 02 14 at the Wayback Machine New York Observer December 9 2015 Andrea Peterson Kasich doesn t understand how the tech that keeps you safe online works Archived 2016 02 14 at the Wayback Machine Washington Post December 16 2015 Aaron Marshall Kasich O Meter Scrap Gov Ted Strickland s evidence based school funding model Archived 2015 09 14 at the Wayback Machine Politifact June 28 2012 a b c Valerie Strauss What Ohio Gov John Kasich is doing to public education in his state Archived 2015 10 19 at the Wayback Machine Washington Post July 20 2015 a b c d What has Gov John Kasich really done to school funding in Ohio Archived 2015 08 05 at the Wayback Machine Cleveland Plain Dealer March 24 2015 Overview of School Funding Archived 2016 03 04 at the Wayback Machine Ohio Department of Education March 1 2016 Darrel Rowland Kasich FitzGerald at odds on hot button issues Archived 2015 09 23 at the Wayback Machine Columbus Dispatch September 28 2014 Alan Johnson Holocaust memorial at Statehouse speaks for victims survivors liberators Archived 2017 02 07 at the Wayback Machine Columbus Dispatch June 1 2014 Carlo Wolff 1 500 attend dedication of Ohio Holocaust Memorial Archived 2020 02 25 at the Wayback Machine Cleveland Jewish News June 2 2014 a b c d Eric Bradner Kasich revises history on Iraq war Archived 2015 08 20 at the Wayback Machine CNN August 16 2015 Alexandra Jaffe Kasich Boots on the ground necessary to defeat ISIS Archived 2015 09 04 at the Wayback Machine CNN February 20 2015 Shahien Nasiripour Kasich Wouldn t Cancel Iran Deal Would Send Troops to Fight ISIS Archived 2016 01 07 at the Wayback Machine Huffington Post July 26 2015 Deirdre Shesgreen amp Ledyard King Kasich Ohio to keep sanctions against Iran Archived 2016 03 17 at the Wayback Machine Bucyrus Telegraph Forum September 9 2015 Alexandra Jaffe Kasich Boost Defense Spending With Reforms Lose Sequestration Archived 2015 09 05 at the Wayback Machine NBC News August 31 2015 John Kasich in Rare Break From GOP Liturgy Offers Mild Criticism of Saudi Arabia The Intercept January 15 2016 Archived from the original on July 1 2018 Retrieved July 1 2018 a b John R Kasich Reject False Prophets Protect Our Allies Archived 2017 02 02 at the Wayback Machine Time January 12 2017 Jack Torry Portman McCain Kasich slam talk of lifting Russian sanctions Archived 2017 02 03 at the Wayback Machine Columbus Dispatch January 27 2017 Kasich Weighs in on Trump s First Month Archived 2017 06 30 at the Wayback Machine Columbus Underground February 20 2017 a b Jessica Schulberg The Reaction John Kasich Got for Accepting Gay Marriage Shows How Far the GOP Has Come Archived 2016 01 18 at the Wayback Machine Huffington Post August 7 2015 Alan Johnson Kasich alters order on work rights Archived 2015 07 26 at the Wayback Machine The Columbus Dispatch January 22 2011 John Kasich An Obviously Disappointed Record On Equality Archived 2015 09 11 at the Wayback Machine Human Rights Campaign July 21 2015 Gov John Kasich responds to gay marriage ruling Archived 2015 09 25 at the Wayback Machine video Dayton Daily News June 26 2015 a b c Jack Torry Gov John Kasich says it s time to move on from same sex marriage ruling Archived 2015 09 07 at the Wayback Machine Columbus Dispatch June 28 2015 Director Hodge Bio 2017 03 05 Archived from the original on 2017 03 05 Retrieved 2019 06 30 Gov John Kasich scores political points on gay marriage without embracing it Archived 2016 02 10 at the Wayback Machine Cleveland Plain Dealer August 13 2015 Kate Davidson amp Andrew Ackerman John Kasich Says Kentucky Clerk Should Follow Law on Gay Marriage Archived 2017 10 01 at the Wayback Machine Wall Street Journal September 6 2015 Reaction to Sears Catalog philosopher John Kasich on The Rubin Report from an Ohioan Archived 2018 08 08 at the Wayback Machine Hard News By Razor Ray McCoy March 30 2018 The Rubin Report 30 March 2018 Governor John Kasich 2016 Craziness to 2020 Prospects Full Interview Archived from the original on 2021 12 21 Retrieved 21 October 2018 via YouTube Henderson Emma Governor Kasich adds additional protections for transgender non binary state employees wtol com Archived from the original on 2018 12 23 Retrieved 2018 12 23 Ohio Gov John Kasich Signs Order Protecting Trans State Workers advocate com 2018 12 21 Archived from the original on 2018 12 22 Retrieved 2018 12 23 a b c d e f Dan Friedman How John Kasich Flipped a Mixed Gun Voting Record into an A Grade from the NRA Archived 2016 02 14 at the Wayback Machine The Trace February 5 2016 Koenig Kailani February 18 2018 GOP Sen Lankford has no issue with stronger gun background checks Meet the Press NBC News Archived from the original on August 4 2018 Retrieved July 18 2018 Benen Steve Ohio s Kasich expands healthcare access through Obamacare Archived 2020 01 13 at the Wayback Machine MSNBC October 22 2013 a b c d Eric Bradner Kasich in interview Obamacare here to stay Archived 2015 09 24 at the Wayback Machine CNN October 21 2014 Daniel Skinner Medicaid in Ohio The Politics of Expansion Reauthorization and Reform Archived 2015 10 11 at the Wayback Machine Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law October 7 2015 doi 10 1215 03616878 3424647 Domenico Montanaro Ohio Republican Gov Kasich On Expanding Medicaid It s My Money Archived 2018 03 29 at the Wayback Machine NPR May 1 2015 Catherine Candisky Ohio s Medicaid costs 2 billion less than estimates Archived 2015 08 16 at the Wayback Machine Columbus Dispatch August 13 2015 Tom LoBianco Kasich says he s not an Obamacare hypocrite Archived 2015 08 02 at the Wayback Machine CNN May 27 2015 Chrissie Thompson Kasich care Priorities like Obamacare without mandates Cincinnati Enquirer August 16 2015 Emily Schultheis Ohio Gov Kasich says House conservatives may cause problem passing Obamacare replacement Archived 2017 03 07 at the Wayback Machine CBS News February 26 2017 Deirdre Shesgreen Ohio Gov John Kasich House Republicans could foil Obamacare replacement Archived 2017 03 07 at the Wayback Machine USA Today February 26 2017 Jeremy Pelzer John Kasich lobbies in D C to save Medicaid expansion Ohio Politics Roundup Archived 2017 02 27 at the Wayback Machine cleveland com February 27 2017 Carl Weiser John Kasich Nation s soul at stake in Obamacare repeal Archived 2017 03 19 at the Wayback Machine Cincinnati Enquirer March 13 2017 Jessica Wehrman Talk to Democrats about health care Kasich urges GOP Archived 2017 03 28 at the Wayback Machine Columbus Dispatch March 28 2017 Jennifer Calfas John Kasich Says GOP Health Care Bill Is Inadequate Archived 2017 05 21 at the Wayback Machine Time May 7 2017 a b c Robert Pear John Kasich Backs Slow Medicaid Rollback but With More Money Archived 2017 06 15 at the Wayback Machine New York Times June 12 2017 a b c d Darrel Rowland Kasich s immigration views evolved Archived 2015 09 24 at the Wayback Machine Columbus Dispatch November 21 2014 a b c d Anna Louie Sussman Kasich Backs Path to Legal Status for Undocumented Immigrants Archived 2017 02 22 at the Wayback Machine Wall Street Journal August 9 2015 a b Kasich supports a path to legal status for those in country illegally Trump says they have to go Archived 2020 02 26 at the Wayback Machine Los Angeles Times August 16 2015 Alan Rappeport October 27 2015 John Kasich Says He s Had It With Rivals Peddling Crazy Ideas The New York Times Archived from the original on August 25 2017 Retrieved February 17 2017 Alan Rappeport John Kasich Shifts His Stand on Accepting Refugees Archived 2017 02 18 at the Wayback Machine New York Times November 17 2015 Robert Costa January 29 2017 Kasich calls Trump s immigration order and White House staff ham handed Washington Post Archived from the original on April 7 2017 Retrieved March 18 2017 a b Henry J Gomez Ohio Gov John Kasich s allies ponder whether to punish Lt Gov Mary Taylor for political snub Archived 2017 07 13 at the Wayback Machine Cleveland com January 26 2017 Karen Kasler Kasich Defends Lt Gov Mary Taylor after Resignation of Two Staffers Archived 2015 09 24 at the Wayback Machine Ideastream WVIZ WCRN June 16 2014 a b Jim Letizia Kasich Defends Taylor in Timesheet Probe Archived 2015 12 10 at the Wayback Machine Ohio Public Radio June 17 2014 Paul Orlousky Leak suggests Lt Gov Mary Taylor double crossed Ohio Gov John Kasich WOIO January 26 2017 Trump gets revenge helps oust Kasich loyalist from Ohio GOP post Archived 2017 04 12 at the Wayback Machine Fox News January 10 2017 Laura A Bischoff Kasich says he backs Taylor for governor in 18 Archived 2017 02 25 at the Wayback Machine Dayton Daily News February 10 2017 a b John Kuntz The race of Gov John Kasich s all white Cabinet only matters if he fails to create jobs Phillip Morris Archived 2011 01 22 at the Wayback Machine Cleveland Plain Dealer January 21 2011 Aaron Marshall Gov John Kasich makes first minority appointment to his Cabinet Archived 2015 09 08 at the Wayback Machine Cleveland Plain Dealer February 2 2011 Governor of Ohio John R Kasich gt Administration gt Cabinet governor ohio gov Archived from the original on 9 October 2018 Retrieved 21 October 2018 a b c d e Robert Higgs Kasich successful in halting 400 million high speed rail project Archived 2015 07 31 at the Wayback Machine Politifact January 10 2011 Not So Fast Future For High Speed Rail Uncertain Archived 2018 05 24 at the Wayback Machine David Schaper NPR November 12 2010 Retrieved 23 jan 2017 a b Lisa Lambert Tensions with states grow over high speed rail Archived 2015 09 24 at the Wayback Machine Reuters November 10 2010 Jack Torry amp Mark Niquette Kasich pitches his 400M rail plan to Obama Archived 2010 12 04 at the Wayback Machine Dayton Daily News December 3 2010 a b c Stephen Koff Feds to Ohio Your high speed rail project is officially dead and New York thanks you Archived 2013 10 17 at the Wayback Machine Cleveland Plain Dealer December 10 2010 Joe Wessels Cincinnati streetcar state funding nixed by Ohio agency Archived 2015 09 24 at the Wayback Machine Reuters April 12 2011 Kasich Can t justify streetcar money Archived 2016 01 07 at the Wayback Machine Cincinnati Enquirer March 11 2011 Robert Higgs John Kasich signs transportation budget that targets billions for roadwork bolsters driver safety video Archived 2015 07 10 at the Wayback Machine Cleveland Plain Dealer April 1 2015 a b Robert Higgs Kasich signs voting bills that end Golden Week and limit distribution of absentee ballots Archived 2015 08 12 at the Wayback Machine Cleveland Plain Dealer February 21 2014 Zachary Roth Kasich to sign restrictive Ohio voting bills Archived 2020 01 24 at the Wayback Machine MSNBC February 21 2015 Reid Wilson Ohio Republicans move to curb early absentee voting Archived 2016 04 05 at the Wayback Machine Washington Post February 20 2014 Robert Higgs New federal lawsuit targets changes in Ohio voting laws Archived 2015 08 11 at the Wayback Machine Cleveland Plain Dealer May 11 2015 Robert Higgs ACLU Secretary of State Jon Husted settle federal lawsuit over access to early voting in Ohio Archived 2015 07 12 at the Wayback Machine Cleveland Plain Dealer April 20 2015 Darrel Rowland Federal lawsuit filed against Ohio s voting system Archived 2015 08 19 at the Wayback Machine Columbus Dispatch May 11 2015 Robert Barnes The crusade of a Democratic superlawyer with multimillion dollar backing Archived 2017 05 21 at the Wayback Machine Washington Post August 7 2016 David A Graham Ohio s Golden Week of Early Voting Is Dead Again Archived 2016 11 11 at the Wayback Machine The Atlantic August 23 2016 Adam Liptak Supreme Court Won t Restore Golden Week Voting in Ohio Archived 2017 06 19 at the Wayback Machine New York Times September 14 2016 Darrel Rowland Hillary Clinton draws ire of John Kasich on voting Archived 2015 08 22 at the Wayback Machine Columbus Dispatch June 6 2015 a b Zachary Roth John Kasich blocks GOP scheme to target student voting Archived 2020 01 13 at the Wayback Machine MSNBC April 2 2015 a b Chrissie Thompson Kasich vetoes GOP s college voting provision Archived 2016 01 07 at the Wayback Machine Cincinnati Enquirer May 13 2015 a b Editorial Gov John Kasich s veto of college voting restriction does the right thing for Ohio Archived 2015 07 12 at the Wayback Machine Cleveland Plain Dealer April 3 2015 Fields Reginald 2012 05 22 Ohio Supreme Court Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton to retire midway through term Cleveland com Archived from the original on 2017 06 29 Retrieved 2012 05 25 Vardon Joe 2012 12 20 Kasich Names French to Supreme Court The Columbus Dispatch Archived from the original on 2012 12 23 Retrieved 2012 12 22 Iyer Kaanita October 18 2019 Former Republican Ohio Gov John Kasich says he s now for impeaching Trump CNN Archived from the original on October 18 2019 Retrieved October 18 2019 Klar Rebecca October 18 2019 Kasich says he d back impeachment The Hill Archived from the original on October 18 2019 Retrieved October 18 2019 a b c Daniel Strauss John Kasich super PAC raises more than 11 million Archived 2015 08 02 at the Wayback Machine Politico July 31 2015 Jeremy Fugleberg Kasich campaign warchest 2 5 million Archived 2016 02 14 at the Wayback Machine Cincinnati Enquirer February 1 2016 Karl Jonathan May 17 2015 Ohio Gov John Kasich Virtually Certain to Run for President Sources Say ABC News Archived from the original on May 18 2015 Retrieved May 17 2015 Stolberg Sheryl Gay July 21 2015 John Kasich Enters Crowded 2016 Race Facing Job of Catch Up The New York Times Archived from the original on December 25 2020 Retrieved July 21 2015 Henry J Gomez December 11 2014 In Arizona the first hints of what a John Kasich presidential campaign might look and sound like Cleveland Plain Dealer Archived from the original on 2014 12 15 Retrieved 2014 12 12 Ingles Jo 21 July 2015 U S latecomer Kasich touts experience as he joins Republican field Reuters com Reuters Archived from the original on July 21 2015 Retrieved July 21 2015 The Editorial Board January 30 2016 A Chance to Reset the Republican Race New York Times Archived from the original on 2016 02 01 Retrieved 2016 02 02 Thomas Kaplan With Calm and Experience John Kasich Connects in New Hampshire Archived 2016 07 25 at the Wayback Machine New York Times January 22 2016 Robert Costa Ohio Gov John Kasich heads to early primary state of South Carolina Archived 2016 02 14 at the Wayback Machine Washington Post February 11 2015 Erick Trickey How Mean Old John Kasich Became Mr Nice Ohio s famously abrasive governor ditches the tough talk to convince New Hampshire voters he s the anti Trump Archived 2016 02 14 at the Wayback Machine Politico Magazine February 3 2016 a b c d Kaplan Thomas May 4 2016 John Kasich Drops Out of Presidential Race The New York Times Archived from the original on May 25 2017 Retrieved February 17 2017 Chrissie Thompson February 9 2016 John Kasich finishes 2nd in New Hampshire primary vaulting to prominence in GOP race Cincinnati Enquirer Archived from the original on 2016 02 11 Retrieved 2016 02 09 Alan Rappeport John Kasich Wins Ohio His Home State Archived 2017 02 18 at the Wayback Machine New York Times March 15 2016 Tim Reid Kasich Banks on Contested Convention to Win GOP Nomination Archived 2020 11 08 at the Wayback Machine Reuters March 14 2016 Reuning Kevin Dietrich Nick 2018 Media Coverage Public Interest and Support in the 2016 Republican Invisible Primary Perspectives on Politics 17 2 326 339 doi 10 1017 S1537592718003274 ISSN 1537 5927 Chrissie Thompson John Kasich undecided on backing Donald Trump won t serve as VP Archived 2016 11 08 at the Wayback Machine Cincinnati Enquirer May 17 2016 Eliza Collins Kasich still not endorsing Trump won t be his VP Archived 2018 02 15 at the Wayback Machine USA Today June 9 2016 Kailani Koenig John Kasich Hard to Say If I Will Ever Endorse Donald Trump Archived 2016 06 13 at the Wayback Machine NBC News June 9 2016 Healy Patrick August 8 2016 Tim Kaine Says Hillary Clinton Has Learned From Email Mistake The New York Times Archived from the original on August 10 2016 Retrieved August 8 2016 a b c Cadigan Will August 7 2016 Kasich Trump Jr called aide to float VP offer CNN Archived from the original on August 28 2016 Retrieved August 30 2016 Libit Daniel August 9 2016 Yes John Kasich is still running for president in 2020 CNBC Archived from the original on February 16 2018 Retrieved September 9 2017 Thompson Chrissie November 9 2016 NeverTrumper John Kasich Cancels Thursday Speech Cincinnati Enquirer Archived from the original on November 9 2016 Retrieved December 26 2016 Detrow Scott 19 December 2016 Donald Trump Secures Electoral College Win With Few Surprises NPR NPR Archived from the original on January 23 2017 Retrieved December 19 2016 Henry J Gomez President Donald Trump will meet with Ohio Gov John Kasich on Friday But whose idea was it Archived 2017 02 22 at the Wayback Machine Cleveland com February 21 2017 a b Deirdre Shesgreen After bitter feud Kasich and Trump try to mend fences Archived 2017 03 05 at the Wayback Machine USA Today February 24 2017 a b Henry J Gomez John Kasich s allies launch political organization to promote his vision and to counter Trump s Archived 2017 08 27 at the Wayback Machine Cleveland com February 10 2017 Philip Rucker Kasich to publish Two Paths a book offering a contrast to Trump s America Archived 2017 08 27 at the Wayback Machine Washington Post January 31 2017 Martha Wexler Ohio Gov John Kasich on America s Division and Rising Above Self Absorption Archived 2018 04 07 at the Wayback Machine NPR Morning Edition April 26 2017 Eli Watkins John Kasich says he s not running for office again Archived 2017 03 28 at the Wayback Machine CNN March 26 2017 Kasich Unlikely I ll run for president in 2020 Video United States YouTube April 24 2017 Event occurs at 0 15 Very unlikely Kasich Unlikely I ll run for president in 2020 Video United States YouTube April 24 2017 Event occurs at 0 36 If I see something I need to do to help my country that I really believe I have to do you know then I would think I would probably do it Cheney Kyle August 20 2017 Kasich No plans to challenge Trump in 2020 Politico Archived from the original on August 20 2017 Retrieved August 20 2017 Eli Watkins Kasich hints at leaving GOP if it s not fixed Archived 2017 10 02 at the Wayback Machine CNN October 1 2017 Erica Pandey Kasich If GOP can t be fixed I can t support it Archived 2017 10 02 at the Wayback Machine Axios October 2 2017 McCormack John March 23 2018 Party of One The Weekly Standard Archived from the original on April 1 2018 Retrieved April 3 2018 Galioto Katie Kasich says there s no path to the White House for him in 2020 POLITICO Archived from the original on 2021 11 10 Retrieved 2021 01 26 Kasich calls for Trump s impeachment Archived 2019 10 18 at the Wayback Machine CNN Newsroom October 18 2019 Final straw GOP ex Ohio Gov Kasich supports impeachment Archived 2019 10 18 at the Wayback Machine Associated Press October 18 2019 JohnKasich 10 August 2020 I will be speaking at the DNC Convention because I believe that America needs to go in a different direction I ve searched my conscience and I believe the best way forward is for change to bring unity where there has been division And to bring about a healing in America Tweet via Twitter Stephanie Schorow September 30 2010 Is John Kasich Married politicsdaily com AOL News HuffPost Politics Archived from the original on October 19 2010 Retrieved 2012 02 12 Kasich 2010 p 96 Gomez Henry J May 12 2014 A mailman s son in McKees Rocks dreams of priesthood and politics John Kasich 5 0 The Plain Dealer Cleveland com Archived from the original on February 19 2016 Retrieved February 19 2016 Religion in Review May 2010 publishersweekly com Archived from the original on 2015 02 07 Retrieved 2015 02 07 a b Cathy Lynn Grossman 5 faith facts about Gov John Kasich God is with me wherever I happen to be Archived 2018 04 03 at the Wayback Machine Religion News Service July 21 2015 a b How Kasich s Religion Is Hurting Him With Conservatives POLITICO Magazine Archived from the original on 2018 11 20 Retrieved 2018 11 20 a b 5 Things You Should Know About John Kasich NPR org Archived from the original on 2018 11 20 Retrieved 2018 11 20 Election Results Ohio Secretary of State Archived from the original on 2012 08 15 Retrieved 2014 03 01 Election Statistics United States House of Representatives History Art amp Archives Archived from the original on 2013 01 03 Retrieved 2014 03 01 New York Times Best Sellers July 11 2010 The New York Times Archived from the original on 2014 11 29 Retrieved 2014 11 26 BibliographyKasich John 1999 Courage Is Contagious Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the Face of America New York Random House ISBN 9780385491488 Kasich John 2010 Every Other Monday Twenty Years of Life Lunch Faith and Friendship New York Simon and Schuster ISBN 9781439172186 Rechcigl Miloslav Jr 2013 Czech American Timeline Chronology of Milestones in the History of Czechs in America Bloomington Indiana Author House ISBN 9781481757065 Weisskopf Michael Maraniss David 2008 Tell Newt to Shut Up Prize Winning Washington Post Journalists Reveal H New York Simon and Schuster ISBN 9781439128886 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to John Kasich Wikiquote has quotations related to John Kasich Governor John Kasich official Ohio government website Jan 2019 archive John Kasich for Governor John Kasich for President John Kasich at Curlie Appearances on C SPANU S Representative 1983 2001 Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Financial information federal office at the Federal Election Commission Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title John Kasich amp oldid 1150579344, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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