MCDP Chair Betras says Kasich puts Wall Street ahead of Main Street, Mexico and China ahead of Ohio workers

Today, Mahoning County Democratic Party Chair Dave Betras issued the following statement in response to Republican gubernatorial candidate and former Lehman Brothers Managing Director John Kasich’s visit to Boardman.

"One year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers set off the Great Recession, Mahoning County residents continue to lose their jobs and their homes as a result of Wall Street greed," Chairman Betras said. "Not only was John Kasich Managing Director of Lehman Brothers, as a member of Congress he consistently and actively opposed reasonable regulations that would have reined in Wall Street and protected Ohio families.  Instead, he went out of his way to make it easier for predatory lenders and speculators to lay waste to our economy and threaten the standard of living of millions of American workers."

"Just as troubling—and insulting--to our area’s working families was Kasich’s enthusiastic support for NAFTA and other trade agreements that made it possible and profitable for companies to  send thousands of good paying jobs to Mexico and other low wage countries,” Mr. Betras said.  "Mr. Kasich has always placed the interests of Wall Street ahead of the interests of Main Street and I, quite frankly, have no idea how he can even show his face in an area that has been so devastatd by the legislation and policies he has supported over the years."

“At a time when Mahoning County and the state of Ohio are struggling to recover from the economic catastrophe Kasich helped cause, we need a leader who knows how to create jobs and prosperity here in Ohio, rather than in Mexico and China.  We need a governor who puts Main Street ahead of Wall Street.  And that, as he has proven time and time again, is clearly not John Kasich.”

For more information please contact Mahoning County Democratic Party Chair David Betras at 330-503-9696.