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Political Positions of John Kasich

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The Guardian reports that Kasich is sometimes "billed as a moderate" due to his "unassuming image" but also has a record in the House and as Ohio governor that "puts him a big step to the right of what many Americans would consider in the middle." 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."[1] 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."[2]

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 fetal heartbeat law, his tax cuts, and his evolving position on gun control.[3]

Abortion[edit]

Kasich opposes abortion except in cases of rape, incest, and danger to the mother's life.[1][4] As governor, he signed 18 abortion-restrictive measures into law.[5] 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;[6][7] provided funding to crisis pregnancy centers;[7] and required women seeking abortions to undergo ultrasounds.[6][8] 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.[6] Another provision of the bill requires abortion providers to offer information on family planning and adoption services in certain situations.[6] Under the budget, rape crisis centers could lose public funding if they counseled sexual assault victims about abortion.[7]

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.[9]

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 law which would have made abortion illegal after detection of a fetal heartbeat (typically 5–6 weeks after conception). Kasich cited the cost to taxpayers of defending the legislation in court, and the likelihood that the "Heartbeat Bill" would be struck down in federal court as reasons for vetoing the more restrictive bill.[10][11] In December 2018, Kasich again vetoed a bill to ban abortion after detection of a fetal heartbeat citing the cost to taxpayers and previous rulings by the federal courts.[12][13] He did sign a bill into law that bans the dilation and evacuation procedure commonly used for abortion.[14]

Climate change, energy, and environment[edit]

In a speech in April 2012, Kasich claimed that climate change is real and is a problem.[15][16] 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.[15] 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.[17][18]

In 2014, Kasich signed into law a bill freezing Ohio's renewable portfolio standard (RPS) program for two years.[19][20] 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.[19] 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.[19][20] 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.[21]

In his 2015 budget plan, Kasich proposed raising the tax rate on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) activities.[22] 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).[22] The proposal would not affect conventional drilling taxes.[22]

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.[23] 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.[23] Kasich never appointed the commission, and the promotional plan was never put into effect.[23] 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.[23] 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."[23]

In April 2015, Kasich signed a bill aimed at protecting Lake Erie's water quality.[24][25] 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.[24] The bill had been unanimously approved by both chambers of the Ohio Legislature the previous month.[24]

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.[26] 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.[27]

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.[28][29][30] 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.[31]

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,[32][33] grand juries decided not to indict any of the officers involved.[34] 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."[35][36] The 23-member task force (with 18 members appointed by Kasich) was appointed in January 2015[37] and issued its 629-page final report and recommendations in April 2015.[38][39] 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.

[38][39]

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.[35][40] 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."[35][41] 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."[42]

In August 2015, Kasich said that he was open to the idea of requiring police officers to wear body cameras.[43]

Capital punishment[edit]

As governor, Kasich presided over the executions of fifteen inmates and commuted the death sentences of seven inmates.[44][45] 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.[44][46] The delay was largely attributed to European pharmaceutical companies, which have refused to supply the state with deadly drugs necessary for executions.[47] 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.[48][49]

Executive clemency[edit]

Kasich used his power of executive clemency sparingly.[50] He has the lowest clemency rate of any Ohio governor since at least the 1980s, when records began to be kept.[45] In six years in office, Kasich granted 86 of the 2,291 requests that he acted upon.[50] In 2016, Kasich granted executive clemency to 13 people; in all of the cases, the Ohio Adult Parole Authority had recommended clemency.[50]

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."[51] 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.[52]

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.[53]

In September 2014, Kasich touted the Ohio's prison system's recidivism rate, which is one of the lowest in the nation.[54] 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.[55]

In 2015, Kasich proposed a state budget including $61.7 million for addiction treatment services for prisoners.[56]

Drug policy[edit]

Kasich initially expressed opposition to medical marijuana in 2012, saying "There's better ways to help people who are in pain."[57] However, in late 2015 and early 2016, Kasich said he was open to legalization of medical marijuana.[58][59]

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.[60] In July 2015, Kasich signed legislation further expanding the availability of naloxone, making it available without a prescription.[61]

In a 2015 interview with radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, Kasich said he was opposed to the legalization of recreational drugs in some states and equated marijuana and 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."[62][63]

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."[63] 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."[64]

Kasich opposed "Issue 3," an Ohio ballot measure in 2015 that proposed the legalization of recreational marijuana, saying it was a "terrible idea."[64][65][66]

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.[67] (The New York Times put the number at $7.7 billion).[68] Ohio also increased its "rainy day fund" from effectively zero to more than $2 billion.[69]

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."[68] 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.[68]

In March 2008, Kasich called for "phasing out" Ohio's state income tax.[70]

During Kasich's time as governor, Ohio ranked 22nd out of the 50 states for private-sector job growth, at 9.3%.[68]

Kasich with Sean Hannity.

Kasich signed a state budget in 2011 which eliminated the state's estate tax effective January 1, 2013.[68][71]

In 2013, Kasich signed into law a $62 billion two-year state budget.[6] 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.[6] 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.[6]

In 2015, Kasich signed into law a $71 billion two-year state budget after using his line-item veto power to veto 44 items.[72] 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.[72] 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."[72]

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.[73][74] The legislation, championed by Kasich,[75] prohibited all public employees from striking and restricted their ability to negotiate health care and pension benefits.[73][74] 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.[76]

Democrats and labor unions opposed the legislation and placed a referendum on the November 2011 ballot to repeal SB 5.[73] 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."[77] 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."[77]

Ohio voters rejected Senate Bill 5 in a 61 percent to 39 percent vote, which was viewed as a rebuke to Kasich.[73][74][78]

References[edit]

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  2. ↑ "Looking for another boomer president". Cincinnati Enquirer. 1998-10-11. Retrieved 2013-07-19.
  3. ↑ Bischoff, Laura (January 13, 2019). "John Kasich ends 2 terms as governor, prepares for what's next". Retrieved January 26, 2021.
  4. ↑ Pilkington, Ed (September 8, 2015). "Ohio Planned Parenthood fights back at frontline of new conservative assault". The Guardian. London, England: Guardian Media Group.
  5. ↑ Candisky, Catherine (May 3, 2017). "Abortion-rights advocates say support has swelled since Trump election". Columbus Dispatch. Columbus, Ohio: Gannett.
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  36. ↑ Robert Higgs, New task force a step toward easing tensions between citizens, police, John Kasich says, Cleveland Plain Dealer (December 5, 2014).
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  40. ↑ Chrissie Thompson, Kasich orders rules for use of deadly force, Cincinnati Enquirer (April 29, 2015).
  41. ↑ Tammy Mutasa, Gov. Kasich announces police standards board in wake of shootings: Board is first for state, WLWT (April 29, 2015).
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  45. ↑ 45.0 45.1 Associated Press, Records show Ohio governor John Kasich uses clemency power infrequently (March 23, 2015).
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  53. ↑ Reginald Fields, Bill easing collateral sanctions for felons in Ohio will soon be law, Cleveland Plain Dealer (June 26, 2012).
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  55. ↑ Gary C. Mohr, Reforming A System: An Inside Perspective on How Ohio Achieved a Record-Low Recidivism Rate, Justice Center: Council of State Governments (March 12, 2012).
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  60. ↑ Cory Shaffer, First responders in Ohio can now carry life-saving heroin overdose antidote, Cleveland Plain Dealer (March 12, 2014).
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  72. ↑ 72.0 72.1 72.2 Julie Carr Smyth, Kasich signs $71B budget after vetoing 44 items, Associated Press (July 1, 2015).
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