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Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Dem video blasts Kasich Wall St. ties; Kasich campaign fires back
The Ohio Democratic Party on Wednesday, June 9, unveiled a new web video that attempts to contrast Republican John Kasich’s past willingness to discuss his Wall Street connections with Kasich’s tendency to downplay those connections in his campaign for governor against Democratic incumbent Ted Strickland.
“Congressman Kasich, you can’t have it both ways,” Ohio Democratic Chairman Chris Redfern said in a press release,
Kasich campaign spokesman Rob Nichols fired back in an e-mail, saying “Strickland’s failures and incompetency have left him with no political option but to try to smear John Kasich.”
Here’s “Two Years”, the video:
Kasich, a former U.S. House member from suburban Columbus, worked as a managing director for Lehman Brothers after leaving Congress in 2000.
Redfern said that the video shows Kasich described his work at Lehman Brothers differently before the firm’s collapse in 2008 than he has during the campaign for governor when he has said he worked out of a two-man office in Columbus.
“You can’t run on your business experience and then run on your claim that you played no role at that business,” Redfern said.
Nichols said that recent polls - a Rasmussen Reports poll showed Kasich leading Strickland - showed that “Ted Strickland’s negative attacks are backfiring and actually making him less popular.”
Kasich and state Auditor Mary Taylor, the Republican lieutenant governor candidate, “are focused on talking with voters about how to revive Ohio’s economy and create jobs because that’s the essential work that must be done to bring Ohio back.”
