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Monday, June 22, 2009
Political harmony breaks out on livestock care
Gov. Ted Strickland and state legislators are struggling to come up with a balanced budget for the next two years but they’ve found something they can agree on:
Taking care of chickens, cows, sheep, pigs and other animals.
Strickland, a Democrat, and legislative leaders on Monday, June 22, announced support for putting a proposed constitutional amendment on the Nov. 3 ballot that would determine and enforce guidelines for taking care of livestock and poultry.
The goal is to protect food safety and locally produced food. The amendment would create the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board.
“The board will ensure that Ohioans continue to have access to a safe and affordable local food supply and will make our state a national leader n the level of animal care and responsibility,” Strickland said in a press release.
Strickland, House Speaker Armond Budish, D-Beachwood, Senate President Bill Harris, R-Ashland, House Minority Leader Bill Batchelder, R-Medina, and Senate Minority Leader Capri Cafaro, D-Hubbard, all support the proposal, the release said.
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Strickland approval rating dips to 43 percent
Gov. Ted Strickland’s approval rating has dipped to 43 percent and Republican John Kasich is nipping at Strickland’s heels in a hypothetical matchup for the 2010 governor’s race.
Public Policy Polling of Raleigh, N.C., on Sunday, June 21, released results of a poll with the disappointing results for Democrat Strickland.
The survey found that 43 percent approved Strickland’s performance while 42 disapproved. A January survey found 48 percent approved and 35 percent disapproved.
In the hypothetical matchup with Republican Kasich, Strickland led 44-42, a virtual dead heat with the survey’s margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percent. In January, Strickland led Kasich 45-39 percent.
Dean Debnam, PPP president, said in a press release that midwestern states have been hit hard by the recession and that governors are paying the political price.
“We are seeing pretty low approval ratings for chief executives across most of the region as voters wait to see what they will do to turn things around,” said Debnam.
The survey found Strickland support waning among the state’s critical bloc of independent voters. Kasich led 54-33 percent among this group. Kasich appeared to be gaining even though a plurality of voters said they didn’t know enough about him to have an opinion.
Among those who had an opinion, 31 percent viewed him favorably and 30 percent had an unfavorable opinion.
Strickland also got just 52 percent among black voters- usually a reliable Democratic constituency - against Kasich. However, there was good news for Strickland among white voters. He was basically running even with Kasich. According to a PPP analysis, “any Democrat who can split the white vote in Ohio is going to win statewide.”
The survey was taken from Wednesday, June 17 to Friday, June 19, with 619 voters. The poll concluded on the day Strickland proposed putting video slot machines at Ohio tracks to help fill a $3.2 billion budget hole. He also proposed $2.4 billion in budget cuts.
