Tuesday, February 1, 2011

"I Don't Need Your People"

Yikes. (via thinkprogress)
Delivering on his vision for a “new way,” Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) “is on pace to be the first governor since 1962 to have an entire Cabinet without any racial diversity.” Every one of his 22 full-time agency head appointments has been a white person. Only five are women. Dubbing diversity as “metrics that people tend to focus on,” Kasich said, “I can’t say I need to find somebody to fit this metric” because “it’s not the way I look at those things. I want the best possible team I can get.”

Yesterday, the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus held a press conference to express their waning patience with his dismissive attitude and “implore[] Kasich to make better strides to diversify his Cabinet.” But according to State Senator Nina Turner (D-OH), this time Kasich’s response was a bit more blunt. According to Turner, when the caucus offered him help in finding qualified minority applicants, Kasich told Turner, “I don’t need your people“: 
Ladies and Gentlemen, your modern day Republican Party!

3 comments:

  1. Well, at least he's honest about it, right?

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  2. He's honest he doesn't need people of any diversity because he feels nothing can be added from it. He's an ass.

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  3. mostly unrelated: the RFK (I think) speech in the latest treasure fingers mixtape is super-awesome.

    http://www.modularpeople.com/modcast/64-treasure-fingers/4358.html

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