re: #143 Charles Johnson

Lets look at some wiki.

Really a mixed bag.

2014 re-election campaign[edit]
Main article: Ohio gubernatorial election, 2014
In November 2014, Kasich won re-election, defeating Democrat Ed FitzGerald, the county executive of Cuyahoga County, 64% to 33%. He won 86 of 88 counties.
Kasich, who was elected with Tea Party support in 2010, faced some backlash from some tea party activists. His decision to accept the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid caused some Tea Party activists to refuse to support his campaign.

In 1997, Kasich rose to national prominence after becoming “the chief architect of a deal that balanced the federal budget for the first time since 1969”—the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.[45]
In 1998, Kasich voted to impeach President Clinton on all four charges made against him.[46] In 1999, while the Senate prepared to vote on the charges, Kasich said: “I believe these are impeachable and removable offenses.”[47]

In April 2015, Kasich signed a bill aimed at protecting Lake Erie’s water quality.[84][85] The bill places restrictions on the spread of manure and other fertilizers that contribute to toxic algal blooms and requires large public water treatment plants to monitor phosphorus levels.[84] The bill had been unanimously approved by both chambers of the Ohio Legislature the previous month.[84]

But YIKES!

Abortion[edit]
In June 2013, Kasich signed into law a state budget which included anti-abortion measures such as mandating any woman seeking an abortion to have a trans-abdominal ultrasound, and barring abortion providers from entering into emergency transfer agreements with public hospitals.[73] The bill stripped some $1.4 million in federal dollars from Planned Parenthood by placing the organization last on the priority list for family-planning funds.[73][74] The bill also provided funding to crisis pregnancy centers, which do not provide abortion referrals.[74] Under the budget, rape crisis centers could lose public funding if they counseled sexual assault victims about abortion.[74] Since 2011, Governor Kasich has signed 16 anti-abortion measures into law.[75]