All Mostly True statements involving John Kasich
Without a Medicaid expansion, 275,000 more Ohioans could be getting their primary care in emergency rooms, costing "everybody a lot of money."
"We're up 123,000 jobs over the last year and three-quarters. We're actually, according to the Bureau of Labor statistics, down 500 ... auto jobs in Ohio."
"Giving the facts: 73,000 jobs created ... since '11. Do you know how many direct jobs in the auto industry? 1,800."
"When I started in Ohio it was terrible. Now, we’re getting bipartisan support for our bills. And that’s called leadership."
"We are now eighth in the nation in job creation . . . we are No. 1 in the Midwest."
"One-third of our college grads leave Ohio within three years."
"We jumped 11 places since beginning this year in terms of being job-friendly."
"We are in the bottom 10 in dollars in the classroom and the top 10 in dollars in the bureaucracy and red tape."
Says there are Ohio Turnpike workers getting paid $66,000 a year to collect tolls that machines might collect.
"Ohio ranks 46th in the country in putting dollars in the classroom."
"(Strickland) raised taxes last year to the tune of $840 million."
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