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Monday, April 5, 2010
Strickland: name Ohio Judicial Center after Chief Justice Moyer
Gov. Ted Strickland said on Monday, April 5, that he would like to see the Ohio Judicial Center in Columbus, which houses the Ohio Supreme Court, named in honor of Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer who died Friday at 70.
“He cared deeply for that building,” Strickland said. “It seems to me that it would be very appropriate for that building to be named after him.”
Strickland said he would be encouraging legislators to join him in the effort to name the building after Moyer.
Although he is a Democrat and Moyer was a Republican, Strickland said that he had a “wonderful relationship with the chief justice.”
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Strickland to Kasich: release tax returns
Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday, April 5, called on his Republican opponent John Kasich to release copies of his federal income tax returns as Strickland has done in the past and plans to do again this month.
“He, for whatever reason, has chosen not to do so. I would like for him to release his income tax (returns) for the last several years. That’s what I would like for him to do,” Strickland said in a telephone interview.
Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern, separately at a press conference, also called on Kasich to release copies of his tax returns and asked “what is he hiding?”
Their comments on Kasich’s tax returns came after Kasich on Friday permitted reporters to examine but not photocopy a summary of Kasich’s 2008 federal income tax return and portions of the actual return.
The release was aimed at refuting Democratic assertions that Kasich, a former Columbus-area U.S. House member, personally benefited as Lehman Brothers collapsed on Sept. 15, 2008, said Rob Nichols, Kasich’s campaign spokesman. That collapse was blamed for the national economic meltdown.
The summary showed that Kasich, a Lehman Brothers managing director from 2001-2008, received $182,692 in salary from Lehman Brothers in 2008 and also was paid a $432,200 bonus in January of 2008 for work in 2007.
Kasich also released a copy of his 2009 state financial disclosure statement, which had to be filed by Monday, that showed he received no income from Lehman Brothers in 2009 but had an investment in a Lehman Brothers’ retirement plan.
Nichols, the Kasich campaign spokesman, declined to say whether Kasich would release additional income tax information but in an e-mail said that “only Ted Strickland and his liberal buddies could think working hard and being successful is somehow bad.”
“Ted Strickland is desperate to divert attention away from his record of trashing Ohio’s economy and blowing an $8 million hole in the budget and frankly we’re not going to let him do it,” Nichols added.
Strickland in 2006 released his income tax returns for six years and will release his returns for the years since then later this month, said Lis Smith, Strickland’s campaign spokesman.
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Strickland signs DNA testing bill
Gov. Ted Strickland today, April 5, signed Senate Bill 77 which expands DNA testing in criminal cases, requires police to keep biological evidence from crime scenes for years and also establishes a new protocol for how police lineups are conducted.
“This bill updates Ohio’s DNA law and will play a significant role in the modernization of criminal justice,” Strickland said in a press release. “The new procedures will help improve criminal investigations and save lives.”
Action on the legislation came after several high-profile cases across the state in which DNA samples ultimately exonerated inmates who served time in prison for crimes they did not commit.
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Monday, April 5, is deadline to register to vote in primary
Today, April 5, is the deadline to register to vote in Ohio’s May 4 primary.
For information from the secretary of state’s office, click here.
Click here for a directory of the 88 county boards of elections.
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Brunner Senate campaign gets on the school bus
Taking a page from the campaign of the late Paul Wellstone, Jennifer Brunner’s U.S. Senate campaign has bought a school bus to tour the state and try to rustle up votes in Brunner’s campaign for the Democratic nomination against Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher.
“We want you to be part of helping us name it,” Brunner, the secretary of state, said in an e-mail to supporters and potential supporters on Monday, April 5. Click here for more information on the bus.
Wellstone, a Minnesota Democrat, traveled across Minnesota in 1990 in a converted school bus en route to his upset victory in the U.S. Senate race there. His bus was green.
Brunner’s is silver. It once carried students in Licking County, according to her e-mail.
The winner of the Democratic primary will face Republican Rob Portman, the former Cincinnati-area congressman, in the general election.
