How The Ohio Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Helped Bring The RNC To Cleveland
How The Ohio Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Helped Bring The RNC To Cleveland
âWhen I went to Charlotte, I definitely said we can do as good or better than Charlotte.â View this image âş The front page of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Cleveland Plain Dealer The Republican National Committee site selection committee announced Tuesday it would recommend Cleveland to host the 2016 Republican National Convention. Numerous Cleveland elected officials such as Mayor Frank JacksonâŚ
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2014 was a bleak year for Team Blue. The November elections went poorly in most places. Our current elected officials, who call themselves Democrats, didnât always have our backs either. Sure, Elizabeth Warren rocks. So do a few others. But as 2014 draws to a close, its time to recognize the most disappointing Democrats of the past year.
Mary Landrieu:The Louisiana Senator lost a DecemberâŚ
2014 was a bleak year for Team Blue. The November elections went poorly in most places. Our current elected officials, who call themselves Democrats, didnât always have our backs either. Sure, Elizabeth Warren rocks. So do a few others. But as 2014 draws to a close, its time to recognize the most disappointing Democrats of the past year.
Mary Landrieu:The Louisiana Senator lost a DecemberâŚ
When, inevitably, John Kasich is touted as a 2016 Republican presidential candidate following his reelection next month as the governor of Ohio, and the punditry is alight with joy that he won reelection in a state that went for Obama twice, it would be wise to remember that his Democratic challenger, Ed FitzGerald, is one of the worst gubernatorial candidates in recent memory.
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Gubernatorial election campaigns continue with out debate
By Olivia Miltner
September 22, 2014
The two leading Ohio gubernatorial candidates will not be participating in a debate before this Novemberâs election for the first time in more than three decades.
Negotiations for a debate broke down last week between incumbent candidate John Kasich and Democratic challenger Ed Fitzgerald when Kasichâs campaign did not respond to a Sept. 14 deadline set by Fitzgeraldâs campaign stating, Fitzgerald would agree to a debate format in any time and place of Kasichâs choosing.
âWe felt that after two months (of negotiating) we had to be as compliant as we could and put all the options on the table,â Hitt said in the article.
The Kasich campaign officially announced it would not be engaging Fitzgerald in a debate on Sept. 16. Connie Wehrkamp, the communications director for Kasich Taylor for Ohio, said it was time to focus on other areas.
âOur debate team put two debate proposals and two dates on the table, both of which were rejected by the other campaign. Then the other campaign completely imploded, he gave away what little money he had and the Democrats abandoned his campaign,â Wehrkamp said in a statement.
âWhen the other side issued an ultimatum, after turning down our proposal to do two debates, we thought it was best to move on.â
Moving forward, Wehrkamp said Kasich will speak to the public through other channels.
âIn addition to sitting down with several major news publications across Ohio, weâll be seeking other, additional avenues for the governor to talk about his accomplishments, answer whatever direct, tough questions people may have and discuss his plans for Ohioâs future,â Wehrkamp said.
The âimplosionâ Wehrkamp referred to references events over the summer that reflected poorly on Fitzgerald, including the presence of a woman who was not his wife in a parked car late one night, his lack of a permanent driverâs license and issues surrounding jury pay and mileage reimbursements.
However, Hill and Ohio Democratic Chairman Chris Redfern said in a Columbus Dispatch article that Kasichâs refusal of an organized debate shows he is hesitant to defend his policies.
âHeâs not accepting the challenge because his handlers know that when the governor is forced to speak on his feet he reveals his disdain for working Ohioans,â Hill said in the article.
Redfern echoed this thought and added the party was not abandoning support for Fitzgeraldâs campaign.
âThe accusation that the Ohio Democratic Party has abandoned any of our candidates is simply untrue, and itâs shameful that Kasich is covering up his fear of defending his record with such a pathetic excuse,â Redfern said.
The last year two gubernatorial candidates did not debate before an election was 1978. Since then, even races with clearly predicted winners have had debates, including the 1994 election in which George Voinovich was re-elected by almost 47 percent over Democratic candidate State Sen. Robert Burch.
Heading back to Rwanda last week saw my third visit with Lifebox, only this time I was not alone. Somehow, an aspirational idea to combine my Lifebox checklist and pulse oximeter work with a surgical skills workshop had gained traction since my last visit. So, with additional support from the Association of Surgeons in Training, Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, five colleagues were also flying out from various corners of the UK to join me during my trip.
I flew out ahead in order to fit in some follow-up time at CHUK prior to the course, and stayed on afterwards to visit Kibagabaga hospital too. The hustle and bustle of CHUK, the central University teaching hospital in Kigali, has always provided both a challenge and an inspiration during my visits. With so much going on, this busy hospital has much to gain from checklist implementation. Yet that busyness also makes the implementation all the more difficult, and there remains much work ahead to ensure everything is done to reduce avoidable patient errors.
Thankfully the conversation around my checklist work there has been facilitated by the relationship we have built supplying them with Lifebox pulse oximeters. On that front Iâm certainly being recognised now, and on this visit no sooner had I arrived in the theatre block then staff started bringing me oximeters to check. Repairs were made, batteries swapped, probes replaced and several new pulse oximeters donated. The machines at CHUK are looking pretty beaten up now, but it is pleasing to see they are clearly being well used.
Kibagabaga always provides a contrast to CHUK, and it was great to see some familiar faces and hear how their work with the checklist is progressing. I was particularly pleased to be able to spend a morning observing surgery and see them putting the checklist into action. The original adapted checklist they developed with Lifebox is still on the wall, and the staff were clearly comfortable with using it.
In addition, I was pleased to donate a further pulse oximeter following their request on my last visit.
The weekend training course focussed on students just starting their final attachments before clinical practice. In Rwanda, newly qualified doctors are usually sent to district general hospitals where they will be performing c-sections and emergency surgery with little supervision from the outset. This is despite minimal practical training in basic surgical skills and related topics â including patient safety.
During the weekend we trained over 50 final year students in basic surgical skills, with a special session dedicated to Lifeboxâs work around the surgical safety checklist and pulse oximetry. My colleagues, previously unfamiliar with surgical practice in such settings, noted the response when I asked who had experience of preventable patient safety problems. A retained swab had been witnessed by the majority of participants.
Although overall awareness of the checklist was high, an understanding of the individual items and particularly the rational for these was very variable. Having an opportunity to talk them through the checks was certainly valuable and I was impressed by the studentâs appreciation of the issues and their general enthusiasm.
Overall, given the complexities of this particular trip, we were pleased at how successful and well received it was â certainly promising for running another joint training session in future. In the longer term, expanding this for those just finishing training and starting practice is perhaps the right point for such training to be given. Changing the practice of established healthcare practitioners is difficult work. Catching them before or as they are starting their careers raises the hope of embedding safe surgical practice right from the very beginning.
The separate surgical skills blog featuring daily contributions from all the visiting team focusses on the backdrop to current healthcare provision, including the lack of basic surgical skills training and the impact of this. For those interested in that aspect, the training weekend blog is available here: http://www.asit.org/news/FSS_Rwanda_2014.
Although school lets out in the beginning of May for the students of Ohio University, the political realm of Ohio continues to make headlines during the summer months. Here are the highlights of what happened while you were away:
 Photo courtesy of John Baden
1. Cleveland RNC
On July 4, members of the Republican National Committee unanimously voted for Cleveland to be the location for the 2016 Republican National Convention after beating out Dallas, Texas. Columbus is in the running for a front seat in the elections, as Democrats are considering it â along with New York and Philadelphia â for their own national convention.
Ohio is an important swing state during presidential elections â a factor that holds weight with the parties and a major reasons both parties have looked into cities in the state.
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2. Senate Bill 310
Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed a bill, SB 310, in mid-June that freezes energy standards in Ohio for two years â the first in the nation to take such measures. The law changes numerous regulations for electric utility and service companies, including pausing energy efficiency and renewable energy requirements at 2014 levels, while creating a committee to review the costs and benefits of these measures. It also removes a requirement that says at least 50 percent of the ârenewable energy resourcesâ must be derived from within Ohio.
3. Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Scandals
Ed FitzGerald, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate running against incumbent John Kasich in this Novemberâs election, was discovered at the beginning of August to have been driving without a license for 10 years. He applied for temporary learnerâs permits in 2008, 2010 and 2011, and received his license in 2012, but according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, ârecords suggest from 2002 to 2008 he had no license to drive in Ohio at all.â
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4. Common Core Debate
The debate over the Common Core State Standards was re-opened this summer when a bill was introduced into the Ohio House that would prohibit schools from adopting the changes.
The Common Core State Standards went into effect at the beginning of the 2014-2015 school year and involve different standardized tests and curricula. According to NPR, critics of the Common Core believe it takes away from local control and eases standards. However, the policy also has firm supporters throughout Ohio, including the Ohio House Education Committee Chair Gerald Stebelton, R-Lancaster.
The bill, HB 597, is currently in the House Rules and Reference Committee and will be reviewed in a hearing on September 4.
Photo courtesy of NASA, Jeff Schmaltz
5. Toxic Algae Blooms
A toxic algae bloom in Lake Erie near Toledo forced the city and surrounding areas to cut water off from 400,000 people for two days at the beginning of August. These algae blooms have happened in the past and are expected to continue in the future.
The event has sparked discussion amongst politicians over regulations regarding agricultural runoff, such as fertilizer, and reopened the debate as to whether manure should be considered when enforcing these regulations. Two bills in particular have surfaced in the General Assembly: HB 611 and SB 356 both propose stricter regulations on manure application.
