Ohio gov forbids broadcast of budget announcement

[upstatecajun]

Source: Associated Press

COLUMBUS: Reporters have been told they will not be allowed to broadcast sound and images from the Tuesday release of Ohio Gov. John Kasich's budget plan.



Read more: http://www.ohio.com/news/break_news/117950294.html

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Here we go folks.










http://www.liberalohioan.com/index.html

[JuniperLea]

1. They can't scream for transparency in others any longer...

This is ridiculous.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Hmm...

[Poll_Blind]

3. What the blue hell is that about?

PB

[annabanana]

27. They don't want the 'SHAME, SHAME SHAME" video out there

when the next election rolls around.

[arcane1]

4. Something to hide, perhaps?

:shrug:

[fasttense]

5. Secret laws, secret plans, secret policies, secret budgets, secret scams

Welcome to fascism 101.

If the media doesn't report it, it didn't happen.

[Auntie Bush]

46. Sounds like he's getting advice from the Big DICK Cheney

[emulatorloo]

6. Yes, no video or sound recordings. It is harder to lie about it if there is videotape

Can he get a way with this?

[glinda]

9. They just did that at our local Government also. No news media at all.

[femrap]

42. MoveOn and other groups are

holding a 'Defend the American Dream' today at 5:00 in Westerville, Ohio.....King John Kasich's hometown. In fact, we are marching to his house (he refused to live in the Governor's mansion, so us little people had to pay $1.67 million for added security to his home) today.

Meet at the Westerville High School at 7118 Mt. Royal Ave. in Westerville at 5:00 today (Tuesday).

I wonder if King John will run us over with his bus???? He said he would. 'Either get on the bus or the bus will run over you.'

He thinks he is a 'Little W'...isn't that precious?

[socialist_n_TN]

7. Well if I were an enterprising young journalist.........

who wasn't afraid of jail, I might try to find a way to record the budget announcement and get it out there anyway.

[Drale]

13. What charges are they going to hold you on?

The governors word is not law.

[forty6]

14. You'd be a WIKI LEAKER !!!!! hooray! I was thinking more about..

I was thinking more about going to court and getting a court order to open the public event to the media. Even THAT sounds strange!!!

Who would have ever thought that the budget workings of an elected state government would be unavailable to the press and media?

[LiberalFighter]

19. The media needs to get a court action to stop Kasich.

[demwing]

8. BULLSHIT

These fuckers work for US. It's time both sides remember that inconvenient truth

[glinda]

12. Who can we contact and demand freedom of the press and information. We have a right to know.

[forty6]

15. Try ANY state or Federal court! Something about the first amendment comes to

mind...that "freedom of speech and press and assembly" pesky part!

[TygrBright]

10. izzere any news organization with the guts to take 'em to court & get an injunction?

Probably not, alas...

sadly,
Bright

[demwing]

16. how about any Ohio citizen? /nt

[SpiralHawk]

11. Republicon occultism is soooo unAmerican

Ptooooey on Republicons and their kinky penchant for occultism.

[Hubert Flottz]

17. KKKasich's KKKremlin in Columbus

SILENCE! Talking is now verboten in the rank and file.

First they came for the Union Leaders...

Free, all you can drink KKKool-aid, for the kkkiddies.

[Plucketeer]

18. Right outta the Darrell Issa handbook

of openess and transparency! Or maybe he's worried O'keefe might vid and edit his announcement to where it doesn't sound like the public fucking it really is!

Edit: Where's the "Wisconsin" outrage in Ohio??? C.mon! This is supposed to be a tsunami, not an anomaly! :grr:

[we can do it]

30. Some of Us Are Trying, But These Posts Usually Sink Pretty Fast

help would be appreciated (michigan has big problems, too)

[LiberalFighter]

20. I hope the media and others makes this a big issue so Ohioans know what the hell is happening.

[blm]

21. Spread this article EVERYWHERE you can....Shame them

.

[louis-t]

22. Because it will sound something like this:

"Ve vill cr-r-r-r-rush the common man und seize his assets. No vunn must know vat ve are doink."

[Mybrokenchains]

23. somebody sneak a camera in that bitch

[upstatecajun]

24. HMMMM

I wounder who that could be? O8)

[Snoutport]

25. Isn't that how Stalin worked things? nt

[Hardrada]

37. Except he also shot most of the people on the committees.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

47. Not really.

Stalin's biggest weapon was the stroke of a pen. He never shot anyone personally.

Now, the NKVD, the Secret Police who worked personally for Uncle Joe, (and the precursors to what we later knew as the KGB), they were plenty busy. On the other hand, employment levels were never a problem for Uncle Joe. All those people volunteering to work in Siberia - talk about efficiency!

[Hardrada]

54. Solzhenitsyn said Lenin's Politburo shot itself

one by one as they agreed with the proscription memos sent around by Stalin. Of course if they didn't sign on to eliminating one of their number their turn would come up next. Funny how that worked.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

55. all it took was one saying no.

Much like our Patriot Act and other unconstitutional things that W, and now Obama, have done to this country. '

[EnlightenedOne]

26. well, Obama's health care meetings were secret

That's the Repuke response on an Ohio message board.

[Marthe48]

28. WBNS 10 didn't even bother to report it

That's a Columbus station, one of the main news sources. If they don't bother, if it doesn't bother them, he gets away with it. I read comments on Ohio.com and Columbus Dispatch site and comments are almost totally against this fat-faced little bastard. There's gotta be something wrong with the voting machines in Ohio. This POS doesn't represent any Ohio value I've ever lived with.

Ohio has a habit of picking scum like this to represent the repugs, they seem to have invented the worst of the worst. From Thompson to Johnson to K-Suck to Boehner the crybaby, they all suck and they are all anti-Ohio values.

[we can do it]

31. I Agree About the Machines Here- Having Worked the Past Few Elections

[Marthe48]

32. I volunteered several elections

missed 2010, had a new grandchild. I don't believe they are as close as they are. I live in a repug enclave in se Oh. and yet, hardly anyone I know supports them

[fascisthunter]

29. is this legal?

this guy sounds like a tin pot dictator... lurking republicans... you are screwed for many years to come.

[Marthe48]

33. he's a repug -- legal doesn't matter to him

he comes from a long line of dirt bags

[upstatecajun]

34. Update Kasich to allow broadcast of budget briefing

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/03/14/kasich-press-restrictions-budget-announcement.html?sid=101

[Marthe48]

36. Komrade K-suck Kaved

good news, ty for posting link

[CTyankee]

45. Sunshine Week! Now THAT's funny!

Haysus, this guy is an idiot!

[Marthe48]

49. what the repugs do-

Up is down, down is up. Not sure if he knows what irony is, but maybe he thinks the timing was cute.

what a tool.

[christx30]

35. I'm sure

everything is on the up and up.
There's no reason he'd be hiding anything, right? I mean... it's not like they're socalist democrats! :sarcasm:

[du_grad]

38. He is backing off on this...

http://toledoblade.com/local/2011/03/14/Kasich-backs-off-media-restrictions.html

The Blade is really good at keeping tabs on who is breaking sunshine laws. I hope they keep calling him out on this stuff.

[Posteritatis]

39. How the hell is that even vaguely legal? (nt)

[xxqqqzme]

40. Is he going to require everyone to

surrender their phone?

[theothersnippywshrub]

41. How very Republican. n/t

[AllyCat]

43. PUkes will stop at nothing. What are they afraid of?

[iwishiwas]

44. Kasich drops effort to bar full coverage of budget briefing

what an idiot Kasich was for even trying this horrible stunt.




http://www.ohio.com/news/break_news/117968159.html

Kasich drops effort to bar full coverage of budget briefing

By Staff and wire reports

POSTED: 06:10 p.m. EDT, Mar 14, 2011

COLUMBUS: Ohio Gov. John Kasich's office Monday afternoon reversed its plan to prohibit journalists from broadcasting sound and images gathered during a Tuesday media briefing on the state budget.

Spokeswoman Connie Wehrkamp says the reversal was prompted by concerns raised by Statehouse journalists and media outlets on Monday.

Reporters objected to rules announced earlier limiting them to notepads, pens, and tape recorders, which were to be used only to check accuracy. Video and photos also were to be prohibited.

In a letter to Kasich press secretary Rob Nichols, Associated Press Ohio bureau chief Eva Parziale objected strongly to the prohibition.

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[Uncle Joe]

48. Amazing, how's that for a lack of transparency, not to mention disrespect for the First Amendment?

Thanks for the thread, upstatecajun.

[upstatecajun]

50. Budget proposal released

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/03/15/kasich-releases-budget.html?sid=101

[defendandprotect]

51. Anyone still saying this is a democracy -- ????

The Rightwing Koch Bros. Funded the DLC --

http://www.democrats.com/node/7789

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x498414


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[reggie the dog]

52. move along, nothing to see here

you will respect my authority

i think we should all go home now

[indimuse]

53. forbids??

Didn't OBAMA have a meeting just a couple of weeks ago with all the gov's..?

WTF??

wake t f u peepz!!

[Zorra]

56. Wow. Stalin is jumping for joy down in hell. nt