Bill Crawford: Good Politicians Care for all of Their Constituents

Yep.

The good governor will do what is best for his whole state.

Consider Ohio Gov. John Kasich, just re-elected to a second term. A Fox News commentator said, “Kasich’s empathy for others is one of his strongest qualities.”

Kasich is a fiscal conservative, an adamant tax cutter, a small government champion, an effective job creator, and pro business. He is also an evangelical Christian whose pro-life actions dramatically reduced abortions in Ohio.

But, he believes the Bible calls him to do more.

“The right way to live is to make sure that those who do not have the blessings that we have, those who are beleaguered, those who have fallen on hard times — we can’t ignore them, we have to help them, and we’re expected to do that, and I believe the Lord expects us to do that,” he said. “And it’s spelled out pretty clearly in the Old and New Testaments, consistently.”

For that reason he signed Ohio up for Medicaid expansion under Obamacare, one of a handful of Republican governors to do so. “I had a chance to bring … Ohio money back to Ohio to do some things that frankly needed to be done. And that’s to treat the mentally ill, to get them across the bridge so they can get employment. The same for the drug addicted — and you know drug addiction is in every demographic, every income, every community — to treat those people, rehab them, and get them to work. And also to make sure the working poor have a system that makes sense, instead of showing up and getting their health care in emergency rooms.”

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