"We have asked public employees to pay 10 percent of the costs of their guaranteed pension and 15 percent of the cost of their health care. ... The leadership of those public employees unions don't want to pay anything."
"Since the beginning of the year we've created a net increase of 45,000 jobs."
"The president came in and campaigned against me 12 times."
"Two million federal workers negotiate zippo, zero. There is no collective bargaining for federal employees."
"President Obama came to Ohio 12 times to try to defeat me and guess what? He didn't win."
Says an EPA permit "languished" under Strickland but his new EPA director got it done in two days.
State government spending will be increase 10.7 percent this year.
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