MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2015                                

While Kasich Kampaigns in Michigan

IN COLUMBUS: Buckeye Bureau Chief Gerry Manders says the counter at the lower right hand corner of the Whistleblower Newswire web page continues to click off the Hours, Minutes, and Seconds until Donald Trump’s campaign rally at 7 p.m. at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, and if Trump gets a lot of publicity, some people say he’ll owe a big thanks to Ohio Governor John Kasich, whose 2016 Republican Presidential campaign is promoting Trump’s visit with a record amount of advertising and promotion.

The Cleveland Pain Dealer reports Trump’s Buckeye State visit comes as he and Kasich engage in public sniping. Trump went ballistic on Twitter last week after learning that a pro-Kasich super PAC plans to spend more than $2 million blasting the real estate mogul in New Hampshire.

Kasich responded with critical tweets of his own. And his campaign on Friday posted a camp video questioning Trump’s ability to deal with Russia.

The Dispatch’s Darrel Rowland asks: “Will [Kasich] go the way of others who’ve been beaten down by the belligerent billionaire? Or could the Twitter-fueled challenge to the longtime poll-leader be coming at the right time as voters reconsider their options after the Paris terrorist attack? The bottom-line consensus: What can it hurt?”

“Donald Trump’s rhetoric has been egomaniacal, inflammatory, and divisive,” former U.S. Sen. George Voinovich said in a Sunday email sent by the Kasich campaign. “We need a leader that talks about what ‘we,’ not ‘I’ can do; a leader that will bring us together and that will re-establish America’s faith in their government and be respected, again, as the world’s leader.”

“Ohioans are inherently mistrustful of extremes on either end of the political spectrum and we respect and celebrate the diverse backgrounds, traditions and views that make our great state,” Betty Montgomery, a former state auditor and attorney general, said in the email distributed by Kasich’s campaign.

The Kasich team also included thoughts from David Johnson, the GOP chairman in Columbiana County, an area rich with the blue-collar voters Trump is targeting. “If Republicans want to win Ohio and the White House next year,” Johnson said, “we’re going to need a serious candidate that can beat the Clinton machine. John Kasich is that candidate. He has turned Ohio around by balancing budgets, cutting taxes, reducing regulatory burdens on Ohio businesses, embracing new oil and gas development and by being a positive, consensus building leader.”

The Kasich Campaign even got some Ohio Military Veterans together “to discuss Donald Trump and National Security” this afternoon before Trump’s speech.

Then there was a Media Conference Call where Kaisch arranged for some other Ohio Republican Officials nobody remembers to discuss Donald Trump in advance of his speech.

Meanwhile, Kasich continues to say things Conservatives don’t believe and don’t want to hear.

A Quinnipiac University poll from October 7 indicated Trump was running ahead of Kasich among Ohio Republicans, with 23% of GOP voters saying they would vote for Trump while only 13% said they would go for Kasich. However, the latest National Polls show Kasich in ninth place with less than 3%.

The Blower says let’s see if any of that changes after all that Kasich campaign BS and Kasich’s friends spend all that money promoting Trump’s visit here in a few hours. But Beloved Whistleblower Publisher Charles Foster Kane says, “I’m not going to bet the house on it.”