Probably not.
The Governor signed off on a massive transportation budget and backed getting revenue from the Ohio Turnpike to create highway, road and bridge projects all over the state putting that union's membership to work.
The union's business manager Patrick Sink summed it up this way: "Any government or entity of government that facilitates jobs for members of this local I'm going to support."
Governor Kasich said the endorsement meant a lot to him personally and is an "affirmation," stressing his blue collar background. His father was a mailman and the president of a union local.
"It's in my roots. It's in my DNA. These are the people i grew up with," he said
Kasich is all over the place on Obamacare, as long as he can be for it (from Ramesh Ponnuru column for Bloomberg)
John Kasich, the Republican governor of Ohio who may be mulling a presidential bid, stepped in it this week.
He appeared to say that he thought the Affordable Care Act would never be repealed -- as many Republicans hope -- because it helps too many people. He then backtracked and said that he was only talking about the expansion of Medicaid that was part of Obamacare, not Obamacare itself.
I heard him myself on Hannity yesterday bragging:
how he has personally overseen the 15% minority contractors' preference in Ohio, as if GUARANTEEING jobs to anyone benefits anybody at all...if fifteen percent of public construction jobs HAVE to go to minorities, can you imagine how expensive and shoddy those projects have to be?
And also runs around citing the Bible as his authority for blowing taxpayer dollars (Washington Times):
God, so far as anyone here knows, has issued no decrees on Obamacare, but the governor cites a divine dispatch from a higher power to make his appeal. “When you die and get to the meeting with St. Peter,” he warned, “he’s probably not going to ask you much about what you did about keeping government small, but he is going to ask you what you did for the poor.”The message to dissenters was clearly, “expand Medicaid with Obamacare help, just in case.”
The conniving little scoundrel even showed up in my state to spread his leftist poison among the weak (ibid):
Kasich is traveling the country now as an evangelist for expansion, urging other governors to follow his lead.
He pitched his tent in Montana the other day and persuaded 10 Republicans to join all 41 Democrats to rewrite the rules for the 2015 legislative session to resurrect failed bills, including the earlier rejection of expanding the unpopular expansion scheme.
Seriously I don't know how a conservative could take this little scamster seriously. He is Jeb Bush without the millions, Santorum without the sweater, Huckabee without the fat. .