Gov. John Kasich said October 26 that he has voted against state Issue 3 and voiced concern about the impact the marijuana legalization amendment could have on efforts to combat drug abuse.
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“It is a constant battle of education, monitoring, and I think all these things together are going to yield a few good things”, Kasich said October. 26.
The Ohio governor also hit Trump over his claim that he shamed Ford into building a planned auto plant in Ohio instead of Mexico.
“That was like something out of a “Back to the Future” movie”.
Chris Schrimpf, a spokesman for Kasich, acknowledged to CNN that the confrontational tone signaled a new decision in strategy ahead of Wednesday’s Republican debate. “So why don’t we grow up?”
“I feel like Ben Carson and Donald Trump are getting so much attention because they’re not politicians”, she said.
Kasich began by turning his sights on Carson for his announced plan to get rid of Medicare when many senior citizens could be dependent on it. After that, Kasich went after Trump for his “crazy” mass deportation idea to “scream at [immigrants] to get out of the country”. “People that get in the way of progress come dead last in my career and in my life”, Kasich said. “I’m sick and exhausted of listening to this nonsense and I’m going to have to call it like it is in this race”, he said. “We have people proposing health care reforms that are going to leave millions of people without adequate insurance”.
Kasich also took a stronger tone on Jeb Bush than he ever has before – again, not by name – calling him out for his fondness of a nickname he gained while governor of Florida.
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“Why don’t we have no taxes? What has happened to the conservative movement?” he said Tuesday, previewing a debate performance that will seek to rally establishment Republicans and mainstream conservatives. Kasich asked amid the cheers of about 200 people in his hometown of Westerville. Carson led Trump 26-percent to 22-percent among GOP primary voters, according to the CBS News/New York Times survey.
