Abortion limit, voter ID await action in Ohio
By Ann Sanner
Associated Press
Associated Press
Published: June 15, 2012 - 12:13 PM | Updated: June 15, 2012 - 04:11 PM
COLUMBUS: A white board hangs in an Ohio Senate staffer’s office with the lines drawn through a list of 16 major policy bills.
Pension reform:
Ohio House Speaker Bill Batchelder said his chamber will return to take up a package of bills aimed at shoring up Ohio’s five public pension funds once an independent study of the systems is complete. The analysis, commissioned by the Ohio Retirement Study Council, is due out soon.
“I’ve said to my caucus we may be back, in fact we will be back, this summer,” he told reporters Thursday.
Romney serves up a stop in Brunswick
By Stephanie Warsmith
Beacon Journal staff writer
Beacon Journal staff writer
Published: June 17, 2012 - 08:44 PM | Updated: June 18, 2012 - 09:03 AM
While many fathers probably enjoyed breakfast in bed Sunday morning, Mitt Romney helped serve pancakes to hungry supporters during a campaign stop at Mapleside Farms in Brunswick.
Romney, the likely Republican presidential candidate, was joined by his wife, two of his five children and several of their 18 grandchildren during the soggy Father’s Day campaign event.
“Good to see you,” he said, as he helped dish out the free meal of pancakes, maple syrup, coffee and juice.
The former Massachusetts governor is on a six-day bus tour that crossed Ohio Sunday, with the Brunswick breakfast, an afternoon rally in Newark and a planned stop at a burger joint in Troy.
Gov. Kasich invokes Bono, Romney, Obama at Mid-Biennium Review love fest
Columbus Government Examiner
Had you not been present in Columbus Thursday at a press event designed to extol the many bills the Ohio General Assembly passed, that Gov. John Kasich signed, with special attention given to the comprehensive set of reforms called the Mid-Biennium Review [MBR] package, you would not have learned that had it not been for Kasich and Bono, the Irish rock star and lead singer of U2, going to see Jesse Helms, the late uber-conservative Senator from North Carolina and Ted Kennedy, the so-called liberal lion of the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts, who later found themselves at the same event, might never have realized that maybe the one thing they agreed on was that people need help.
Reform begets more reform
That story was one of several oral histories Gov. Kasich waxed on about at the ceremonial governor's mansion in Columbus today. Members of his cabinet members were joined by Ohio Senate President Tom Niehaus and Ohio House Speaker Bill Batchelder in a love fest that extolled the stunning success of the MBR, which the lawmakers largely credited to the governor's leadership.
Gongwer 6/15/12
Speaker Bill Batchelder says that despite the House's first-blush rejection of the concept, the legislature might give Gov. John Kasich's oil and gas severance tax proposal a second chance after the November elections have come and gone.
Gov. Kasich told reporters during a news conference Thursday that he remains confident the legislature will eventually come around to his plan to increase the petroleum severance tax to fund a future reduction in the personal income tax.
"It's going to happen. It's just a matter of when and what it's going to look like," he said.
"Sometimes you have to give them space. I mean I do push hard, but, you know, once in a while they'll call me up and say, 'Hey, hey, hey could you just give us some time on this?' And they deserve that," he said about the General Assembly. "As time goes on I think legislators will get this."
Politics Notebook: Bipartisanship Claims Prompt Partisan Responses; Another Front Opens In Abortion Battle: Sutton Targeted; Anti-Fracking Event Set
Gongwer 6/15/12
Bipartisanship is apparently in the eye of the beholder based on comments aired out by both parties this week as the legislative session would down.
Democratic legislative leaders questioned GOP claims of bipartisan agreement, while the Ohio Republican Party responded to a critique of Gov. John Kasich's rare speech to senators on Wednesday.
A day after Gov. John Kasich and Republican leaders laid claim to a bipartisan atmosphere the Democrats issued statements that suggested all was not as rosy as suggested.
Senate Minority Leader Eric Kearney (D-Cincinnati) said of Thursday's news conference featuring the governor, Speaker Bill Batchelder (R-Medina) and Senate President Tom Niehaus (R-New Richmond), "Webster's dictionary defines 'bipartisanship' as cooperation, agreement and compromise between political parties. So it strikes me as very odd that the governor and Republican leaders would hold a press conference touting their new-found spirit of bipartisanship and not invite Democrats to the event."
Following Thursday's event held at the governor's residence, Sen. Niehaus issued an assessment of the spring session.
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