Ohio Gov. John Kasich was last seen justifying his all-out assault on Ohio's public workers by saying:
“They’ve got good jobs, they’ve got high pay, they get good benefits, a great retirement."
But apparently when it comes to his own appointments as opposed to child care and home care workers, he worries that public salaries and benefits won't be good enough to lure people out of the private sector:
"I'm absolutely thrilled with the number of people...who are giving up private sector privacy, benefits, pay to come and be a public servant. I was worried about whether we were going to get the best of the best."
It's actually a valid worry -- multiple studies have shown that, if you control for small things like education and experience, public workers are actually undercompensated relative to private sector workers. It's just that home care workers and sanitation workers and nurses deserve this concern as much as John Kasich's suit-wearing buddies. But instead of worrying about hiring and retaining skilled EMTs and fire fighters and teachers, Kasich is trying to take their pensions and their workplace rights.
Well, that's why he's a Republican.