Let the corporate takeover of America continue. How quickly some forget the stories of the Cuyahoga River catching on fire due to pollution due to lack of regulation. When I was in school in Columbus I stumbled upon a warehouse of jars filled with the mutated fish from the river and Lake Erie. When you hand over your state to business, what else should you expect? The Buckeye state is going to continue to struggle with this type of leadership.
"These departments are going to send a message to Ohio that we are open for business," Kasich said in naming Scott Nally of Indiana as head of the EPA and former American Electric Power executive David Mustine as director of Natural Resources.
Kasich, a former Republican congressman who will take office Jan. 10, emphasized that he doesn't plan to empower business at "the cost of environmental degradation." But in the next breath, he said he wants to "exploit the wonders of our state."
"When you have something that's really valuable, use it," he said in a briefing at the Rhodes Tower. That includes drilling for oil and gas in state parks and on state land, he said. But he was cautious when asked about drilling in Lake Erie.
