Scott Milburn - American Forest & Paper Association, APCO Public Relations, OMB, US Senate
Diane Brey - Attorney General, Judiciary
Sharon Maynard - Auditor’s Office
Mark Hamlin - Auditor’s Office, AG’s Office, Ohio House
Steve Faulkner - Auditor’s Office, Ohio House of Reps
Traci Orahood -DAS
Ann Brubaker - Hotel Marketing Association
Mike Hartley - Kasich for Ohio
Ben Kaiser - Kasich for Ohio
Ben Kanzeg - Kasich for Ohio
Dave Luketic - Kasich for Ohio, Cuyahoga County Bd of Elections, Cuyahoga County GOP
Mona Reed - Kasich for Ohio, DAS (retired)
Jeff Polesovksy - Kasich for Ohio, private practice (campaign lit, website design), Recharge Ohio PAC
Jai Chabria- Kasich for Ohio, Schottenstein, Lehman/Barclay’s, New Century Project
Mike Hartley - Kasich for Ohio, Steve Stivers, Deborah Pryce, US House of Reps
Maggie Toal - Kasich of Ohio, Fox Business News (intern)
Holly Davis - Morgan Stanley (4 months), Ohio House of Reps
Frank Strigari - New Day Ohio, Auditor’s Office
JD Pisula - New Day Ohio, Ohio Republican Party and Kasich for Ohio
Connie Wehrkamp - NFIB
Matt Carle - Ohio College Access Network, various GOP campaigns
Blair Cathcart - Ohio Republican Party
Mike Grodhaus - private practice, formerly AG’s office and Auditor’s office
John Wickham - Rep Austria
Wayne Struble - Rep Austria, Rep Hobson
Beth Hansen - Senator Voinovich
Lynn Stevens - Senator Voinovich
Shane Ellett - Springfield Church of Christ, Carmax
Mindy McLaughlin - US Dept of State, White House, Bush-Cheney 2004
Rob Nichols - US House of Reps, Rep. Pryce
Eric Hinten - US Senate, Mike Dewine
Brad Reynolds - various associations, formerly legislative at DAS (under Taft), Governor Taft’s office
It’s no wonder Kasich and his team think businesses are the answer to everything: none of them have ever worked for one!
As Albert Einstein once said, that insanity is Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Above all else, he is a POLITICIAN. He is paying his top people MORE MONEY by LOWERING THE WAGES of secretaries and people who really NEED the money
First, here are some general facts to keep in mind:
The average proposed salary of Governor Kasich’s staff is higher than what Governor Strickland’s staff is when you compare them budget to budget.
- The size of Governor Strickland’s staff in 2010 is larger than what it was at the same point as now in 2007.
- Only 46% of the positions Kasich expects to fill in his staff (including staff for the Lt. Gov and First Lady) have been filled. Those positions already consume over 53% of his proposed staff budget. If Kasich’s remaining hires force him to pay more than he originally budgeted (not an unrealistic assumption given that his staff hiring so far,) then any claim that his budget is coming below Gov. Strickland’s current budget goes out the window.
- All indications are that Kasich is expected to cut funding for education somewhere between 10% to 20%, according to his allies in the Statehouse. Yet, his own staff budget makes no such sacrifice. This much we already know.
COLUMBUS: Amid pledges to slash government spending, Ohio's next governor is preparing to pay some of his top aides significantly more than current Gov. Ted Strickland has paid his.
Gov.-elect John Kasich defended the higher salaries for his chief of staff, communications director, press secretary and others on Thursday after they were made public on the political blog Plunderbund. The figures were released later Thursday to the Associated Press through a public records request.
Kasich, a Republican, plans to pay his chief of staff, Beth Hansen, just over $170,000 a year. That's about $47,000 more per year than Strickland chief of staff John Haseley has made, and about what President Barack Obama plans to pay the new White House chief of staff he named Thursday, veteran political manager William Daley.
New communications director Scott Milburn is slated to earn $130,000 a year, compared to $89,000 for Strickland counterpart Keith Dailey. Press secretary Rob Nichols will be paid $90,000, transition documents show — $20,000 a year more than Strickland press secretary Amanda Wurst.
The new governor prides himself on being able to negotiate a balanced federal
budget agreement as U.S. House budget chairman in the 1990s and campaigned on a theme of reducing the size of state government.
Gov.-elect John Kasich defended the higher salaries for his chief of staff, communications director, press secretary and others on Thursday after they were made public on the political blog Plunderbund. The figures were released later Thursday to the Associated Press through a public records request.
Kasich, a Republican, plans to pay his chief of staff, Beth Hansen, just over $170,000 a year. That's about $47,000 more per year than Strickland chief of staff John Haseley has made, and about what President Barack Obama plans to pay the new White House chief of staff he named Thursday, veteran political manager William Daley.
New communications director Scott Milburn is slated to earn $130,000 a year, compared to $89,000 for Strickland counterpart Keith Dailey. Press secretary Rob Nichols will be paid $90,000, transition documents show — $20,000 a year more than Strickland press secretary Amanda Wurst.
The new governor prides himself on being able to negotiate a balanced federal
budget agreement as U.S. House budget chairman in the 1990s and campaigned on a theme of reducing the size of state government.
