Jan 28th 2011
Delivering on his vision for a “new way,” Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) “is on pace to be the first governor since 1962 to have an entire Cabinet without any racial diversity.” Every one of his 22 full-time agency head appointments has been a white person. Only five are women. Dubbing diversity as “metrics that people tend to focus on,” Kasich said, “I can’t say I need to find somebody to fit this metric” because “it’s not the way I look at those things. I want the best possible team I can get.”
Yesterday, the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus held a press conference to express their waning patience with his dismissive attitude and “implore[] Kasich to make better strides to diversify his Cabinet.” But according to State Senator Nina Turner (D-OH), this time Kasich’s response was a bit more blunt. According to Turner, when the caucus offered him help in finding qualified minority applicants, Kasich told Turner, “I don’t need your people“:
TURNER: Today, in 2001, it feels more like 1811 in the state of Ohio under a governor who just does not get it. I want to read some of [Kasich’s] quotes. He said, ‘I don’t look at things from that standpoint. It’s not the way I look at things. I want the best possible team I can get and hopefully we will be in a position that we are fully diverse as we go forward.” As we go forward, as we go along, by and by, someday. I remember Martin Luther King saying so eloquently that wait almost always means never. Through his actions and deeds, Governor Kasich has declared that Ohio is open for business, but if you are African-American you need not apply. If you are hispanic, you need not apply. If you are Asian-Indian, you need not apply. And Oh My God I have a few women but we don’t need many more, so for women, you need not apply.
And then to have the pure unadulterated gall to say that he can’t find anyone. In that same caucus meeting when I said to the governor “if you need help, we can help you” and he said, and I quote, “I don’t need your people.” Now as an African-American, I was kind of perplexed about “I don’t need your people.” I wasn’t quite sure whether or not he was referring to my ethnic group people or my people as in the 350,000 constituents I serve in this state that represent all ethnic groups, all religious groups. I didn’t understand what “I’m not going to hire your people” means.
John Kasich full statement on Donald Trump –
Are we to believe Gov John Kasich’s views has changed? Pay attention to folks action, not their empty words.
John Kasich full statement on Donald Trump – pic.twitter.com/Qky6QGQtnd
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) August 8, 2015
Say, Kasich! Shut your pie hole!
this is who they are.
period.
Love Nina Turner
Blah! Who needs Kasich?!
He is just a talented public speaker with no sign of an inclusive, caring heart which means that he is not qualified to be President.
Where are you Rikyrah?
THEY ARE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE.
HA! Trump: Don’t come at me Bro, unless you got RECEIPTS, like me.
Couldn’t stop laughing about Erick Erikson ‘defending’ Megyn Kelly’s honor from Donald Trump’s supposed misogynistic insult…
The joke writes itself…
Erick Erikson and his RedState site subsist mostly on their obsession with, and dehumanizing attacks on First Lady Michelle Obama;
Megyn Kelly has always been and remains party to the 7 years long – and never-ending demeaning, and racist and misogynistic attacks on Mrs Obama…
Yet I’m supposed to be appalled that Trump might have suggested something bad about Megyn and periods and hormones and not being too bright…And impressed that the unabashed racist Erick Erickson disinvited Trump from what is a modern day KKK reunion because of this perceived slight of Megyn Kelly…?
Lol..
Ooh Lord, Nina Turner TURNED UP THE HEAT on Kasich.
Kasich better think twice, if he thinks just because he’s running for POTUS and is from Ohio, that he can win without ‘YOUR PEOPLE,’ he’s even more delusional then the rest of the clowns in the GOP circus.
bwa ha ha ha ha ha
A “favorite Republican.” Isn’t that kind of like a
– favorite military dictatorship
– favorite form of execution
– favorite type of food poisoning
– favorite natural disaster
– favorite terminal illness
and so on.
check!