Kasich's Fracking Pipe Dream
How many Ohioans actually believed the governor’s pipe dream about the State of the State being moved to Steubenville to honor the impressive achievements of a successful public school? Even though this Steubenville school has been named the highest-ranking public elementary school in Ohio, its name, Wells Academy, clued us in on what was really on Kasich’s mind.
After some brief congratulatory remarks to the staff and students of Wells Academy, Johnny Kasich, self-described as “just another kid from an ethnic blue collar, hard-working town” talked at length to advocate for the future of the fracking industry in Ohio, cautioning, “We cannot let our fears outweigh the potential.”
Joe Vardon, of The Columbus Dispatch, wrote, “It was long speculated that Kasich would use Wells Academy to drill home proposals for education reform.” It was not education reform that got Johnny “so pumped up,” but a much more volatile kind of message that he drilled home in Steubenville.
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