Dispatch Attempts to Rehabilitate John Kasich's Bankster Years
| By Doug - Nov 3rd, 2009 at 2:21 pm EST |
The Nov. 1 edition of the Columbus Dispatch had a major article under the headline: "Was Kasich a Wall Street Titan" by Jonathan Riskind, Joe Hallett and Mark Niquette. The article implied that John Kasich's job with the bankrupt Wall Street financial firm Lehman Brothers was minor.
http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/insight/stories/2009/11/01/copy/Kasichlehman.ART_ART_11-01-09_G1_S1FH1PT.html?adsec=politics&sid=101
The article left me wondering two things:
1. Would have the Dispatch run a major article that Kasich's role with Lehman Brothers was minimal had the Wall Street financial meltdown NOT happened?
2. The article seemed to imply that Kasich was hired by Lehman for his political and governmental connections. Where was the critical reporting about a former politician taking a multi-million dollar salary from a corporation just because of his connections in government? Don't the Dispatch reporters think that voters are turned off by politicians who cash in with corporations and then attempt to go through the revolving door back into political office?
Lehman must have highly valued Kashich's connections or else it wouldn't have paid him a multi-million dollar salary. Sure, Kasich wasn't in CEO Richard Fuld's inner circle but his role with Lehman was $ubstantial.
http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/insight/stories/2009/11/01/copy/Kasichlehman.ART_ART_11-01-09_G1_S1FH1PT.html?adsec=politics&sid=101
The article left me wondering two things:
1. Would have the Dispatch run a major article that Kasich's role with Lehman Brothers was minimal had the Wall Street financial meltdown NOT happened?
2. The article seemed to imply that Kasich was hired by Lehman for his political and governmental connections. Where was the critical reporting about a former politician taking a multi-million dollar salary from a corporation just because of his connections in government? Don't the Dispatch reporters think that voters are turned off by politicians who cash in with corporations and then attempt to go through the revolving door back into political office?
Lehman must have highly valued Kashich's connections or else it wouldn't have paid him a multi-million dollar salary. Sure, Kasich wasn't in CEO Richard Fuld's inner circle but his role with Lehman was $ubstantial.
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