{"id":11276,"date":"2015-07-21T17:18:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T00:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11276"},"modified":"2015-07-21T17:48:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T00:48:29","slug":"who-is-gov-john-kasich-and-why-the-hell-is-he-running-for-president-bradcast-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11276","title":{"rendered":"Who is Gov. John Kasich? And Why the Hell Is He Running for President?: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 7\/21\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_JohnKasich_Trump_072115.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Today, Ohio&#8217;s Republican Gov. John Kasich became the 16th major candidate to enter the GOP race for the 2016 Presidential nomination &#8212; for some reason.<\/p>\n<p>On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, I&#8217;m joined by Buckeye State <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plunderbund.com\/author\/john-michael-spinelli\/\">journalist John Michael Spinelli<\/a> of Ohio&#8217;s influential progressive blog <a href=\"http:\/\/plunderbund.com\">Plunderbund.com<\/a> to discuss the second term Governor&#8217;s record and why he might be running.<\/p>\n<p>All of that, even as Donald Trump skyrockets beyond the front of the pack (told ya so!) in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/poll-trump-surges-to-big-lead-in-gop-presidential-race\/2015\/07\/20\/efd2e0d0-2ef8-11e5-8f36-18d1d501920d_story.html\">latest <i>Washington Post<\/i>\/ABC News national poll<\/a> of GOP voters. (Though there is a small but noteworthy <i>caveat<\/i>.)<\/p>\n<p>Also, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\"><i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> as the climate crisis comes home to Southern California and as 2015 is on course to be the planet&#8217;s hottest year ever recorded&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_JohnMichaelSpinelli_Kasich_072115.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_JohnMichaelSpinelli_Kasich_072115.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stitcher.com\/s\/player.php?fid=25838&#038;src=psl\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Ohio&#8217;s Republican Gov. 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On today&#8217;s BradCast, I&#8217;m joined by Buckeye State journalist John Michael Spinelli of Ohio&#8217;s influential progressive blog Plunderbund.com to discuss the second term Governor&#8217;s record and why he might be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,89,675,543,479,594,106,200,754,477,417,15],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ann-coulter","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-climate-change","category-donald-trump","category-election-2016","category-election-fraud","category-environment","category-john-kasich","category-kpfk","category-lindsey-graham","category-ohio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11276"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}