Got this today:
February 18, 2015
KASICH HEADED TO SOUTH CAROLINA AND WEST VIRGINIA TO TOUT NEED FOR FEDERAL BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT
COLUMBUS – Ohio Governor John R. Kasich will visit South Carolina and West Virginia on February 18-19 after being invited by state lawmakers to help strategize on how to pass a resolution calling for an Article V Convention to write a federal balanced budget amendment.
Kasich’s visits to South Carolina and West Virginia follow trips to seven western states over the past few months, including Arizona, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Idaho. Many of those states are now moving forward with legislative consideration of a resolution, with Wyoming and South Dakota having already won passage in their respective House of Representatives.
“Getting our nation’s fiscal house in order is one of the single biggest issues facing our country,” said Kasich. “The threat that an $18 trillion debt poses to our children is becoming clearer to legislators in state capitols across America and it’s encouraging that more and more of them want to take action. Fortunately, our U.S. Constitution provides a solution and that is why a growing number of states are considering resolutions calling for a federal balanced budget amendment. If we succeed, we’ll finally be able to hold the federal government to the same standards as virtually all states, businesses and families and this fiscal stability will provide real benefits to future generations in my state and others across the country.”
EVENT SCHEDULE: (Note: all event details are subject to change; updates will be provided as necessary)
Wednesday, February 18: Columbia, South Carolina
Who: Governor John R. Kasich
What: Kasich to deliver remarks at South Carolina House Republican Caucus Reception
Where: Hilton – 924 Senate Street, Columbia, SC
When: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 – 5:30 PM …..
And so forth. He also has a press availability the next morning at the State House.
If you’d like all that translated into plain English, here’s what it’s about:
Ohio Gov. John Kasich will address nearly 200 Republican activists, local politicians and potential donors in Columbia, S.C., on Wednesday, in an early foray into a key 2016 primary state.
In his first major political trip to the Palmetto State, Mr. Kasich, a potential 2016 Republican candidate, will be hosted by the South Carolina House Republican Caucus.
South Carolina Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster, as well as more than 100 local activists, conservative donors, state politicos, and Republican members of the state House are expected to attend.
The February stop in South Carolina gives Mr. Kasich a chance for some face time with donors and power brokers in the key primary state, which traditionally votes after the nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.
The Ohio Republican has sounded increasingly interested in mounting a presidential bid in recent months, touting his political strengthen in his home state — a perennial swing state in general elections….
So now you know.
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I used the “boots on the ground” phrase because I had just read this…
One would think a balanced budget would be a given for any government entity.
Yes and no. Sometimes you might need to incur debt in order to assure national survival, as in such periods as 1861-65 and the early 1940s…
Or maybe to pull us out of the Depression. Or a Great Recession.
Not much excuse at other times. Revenues should match expenditures….
I would be fine with adding provisions to the amendment that would allow for budget overruns when war was specifically declared by Congress or by a 2/3 majority vote.
Who?
Well, I’ve at least HEARD of Kasich. Apparently, he’s bucking to be this generation’s Paul Tsongas. Or something.
For someone I had NOT heard of, consider that joker out in the Pacific Northwest who left office last week.
I had to laugh when some on the right wanted to know why there had been so much coverage of scandal attaching to Chris Christie, but not this Oregon guy. My response:
Even after all my years of taking irrational complaints from readers (along with some rational ones, of course, he added piously), I still get surprised by the gyrations partisans will go through to find some sort of conspiracy in the simplest, most obvious, no-brainer decisions having to do with the allocation of finite newsgathering resources, and play…
I thought about going to this event, but I have a double conflict: It’s at the same time as both the monthly Chairman’s Reception at the Capital City Club, which as a board member I feel obliged to attend (and enjoy, I should add), and Ash Wednesday Mass at St. Peter’s.
I’ll be going to Mass to get my ashes…
Seems like Wednesday evening’s a bad time to come here when you’re trying to reach Republicans, many of whom are Protestant and have conflicts EVERY Wednesday night…
Dunno. The classy Protestants don’t have conflicts on Wednesday nights….
You mean, those whose faith has evolved to the point that they don’t let it inconvenience them?
No, those who worship sufficiently on Sunday and don’t see the meed for prayer meetings….and the Professor, a/k/a Choirboy Steve is singing at Trinity right now–Lutherans and Episcopalians do Ash Wednesday, too–just not regular extra services.
A non-church choir I was in, made up mostly of Episcopalians, Lutherans and lapsed Catholics traded rehearsal space in a Methodist church in exchange for singing Sundays in the summer when the regular choir was off. Several of us wondered when the actual service was going to start, after a few hymns and a Psalm, but then it was the sermon and done.
And there’s Compline every Thursday in Lent and Advent, at 8. All you do is sit back in the darkened, candle-lit cathedral and let gorgeous music flow over you for a half hour. I highly recommend it.
Well, we Catholics are notorious for getting our card punched on Sunday and never darkening the doors at any other time, and I think that’s bad.
We have religious ed on Wednesday nights — for kids. Not for adults. I think it’s great that Baptists and others have Sunday school for adults and study meetings at other times. I wish we had that. We’ve done it fitfully in the past, and I always liked it.
For a couple of years, we had Lenten Bible study — small groups meeting around the city in a group member’s home. That was good…
I’ve started watching “Blue Bloods” on Netflix while working out, and I’m enjoying it.
One of the things I like about that family of Irish cops is that they are SO CATHOLIC. In a way it’s hard to be here in the South. The identity doesn’t seem to sit as well on a Southern accent…
I mean, they don’t hit you over the head with it or anything, and I think there have only been a couple of brief scenes in a church or with a priest, but it just shows. They’re so Irish…
Lots of liturgical churches do something special on a weekday during Lent. Trinity has a regular Wednesday night dinner prepared by its excellent kitchen staff and then programs for various groups afterwards. It’s a nice way to make a huge church smaller.
A Yankee Catholic friend once suggested I’d like the Catholic church because you could just show up for Mass and leave and no one would get up in your grill. As I realize just how introverted I actually am, this has some appeal.
Y’all got mass every hour on the hour, right?
Nah. My only choices are 5:30 and 7:30. It’s more convenient for J to go to the first one. Also, the second is in Spanish, which is fine by me, but J likes to understand what is being said…
In Chicago, a real Catholic town, they did. Tsk tsk
Interestingly, this item is related to the constitutional convention one from earlier today, apparently. See this advisory:
Why is the Chief of Staff of the Senate Transportation Committee putting out press releases for an out of state Presidential candidate about an issue not even related to “transportation”? Doesn’t Grooms’ at least have his own staff to do his bidding?