John Kasich Balances His Blue-Collar Roots and Ties to Wall Street
“I came away thinking: interesting guy, not like a major door-opener,” recalled Gary Weinstein, who interviewed him and became his boss. As to what the congressman knew about banking, Mr. Weinstein said, “Zero. It was shocking to me.”
.. Today, as Mr. Kasich’s campaign seems to be gaining some traction in the early primary state of New Hampshire, Democrats — especially here in Ohio — are working hard to remind voters of his Lehman past. When Mr. Kasich vowed to reform Social Security by giving younger Americans “an opportunity to earn money through the strength of our American economy,” the Ohio Democratic Party accused him of trying to hand “Social Security funds over to the same Wall Street banks that caused the Great Recession — and coincidentally turned Kasich into a millionaire.”