GOP gov. pushes change in battleground Ohio

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's new Republican Gov. John Kasich is a study in contradictions.

He is candid yet secretive. He is acerbic yet personable. He quibbles over media access yet is omnipresent on Twitter and Fox. He's made a cause of taking on public workers after spending most of his life as one.

Critics call Kasich's inconsistencies arrogance. Fans see him as bold and endearingly human. Polls have found mounting dissatisfaction among voters. One thing shines through regardless: John Kasich is a man in a hurry.

Six months into a four-year term, Kasich has dumped his Democratic predecessor's high-speed rail initiative and education overhaul. He's moved to privatize Ohio's job creation operation, state prisons and the Ohio Turnpike. He's signed a bill limiting bargaining rights for 350,000 unionized public workers that's even stricter than Wisconsin's polarizing first-in-the-nation restrictions.

The state budget he signed on Thursday closes a yawning budget gap that approached $8 billion while cutting estate, income and investment taxes.

The pros and cons of Kasich have both Democrats and fellow Republicans seeing the possibility that his impact could be important as President Barack Obama seeks to retake Ohio in 2012. Obama won with 51.5 percent of the vote in 2008, but it is essentially a race between the parties to see whose ideas — Obama's stimulus and health care policies, or Kasich's business incentives and cuts to government — do more, faster for average Ohioans.

Both know that to Ohio voters, the economy is king.

"Ultimately John Kasich's popularity will not be the most important number to determine whether Obama carries Ohio. It will be the unemployment rate," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac Polling Institute.

Indeed, Kasich, appearing Sunday on CBS' Face the Nation, said doing "what's right" trumps any consideration of his political popularity.

"At the end of the day you look yourself in the mirror and you say to yourself, 'Did I do what was right for families and for children? If I paid a political price, so what?'" Kasich said.

And the former congressman and chairman of the House Budget Committee in the Clinton administration admonished Washington lawmakers to re-evaluate their own motivations.

"I mean, there's too much posturing. There's too much thinking about your party, yourself."

Looking almost shell-shocked on Election Night after squeaking out a victory over Ted Strickland, a once-popular Democrat, Kasich tossed two victorious fists in the air. He grabbed his running mate, Mary Taylor, for a twirl to the music, and grinned. "Guess what? I'm gonna be governor of Ohio!

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