I dreaded Kasich choosing Mary Taylor for his running mate. She might have been a logical choice given that she was state auditor and the highest elected Republican in the state, but she's also a student of Alex Arshinkoff, the Chairman of the Akron/Summit County Republican Party. No joke: Arshinkoff is so crooked and corrupt, he's the guy Karl Rove calls for advice.

With Taylor as Lt. Governor, Arshinkoff's clout and influence in Columbus has just been magnified times 100. That doesn't bode well for anyone in this state. My hope is that with the GOPers now firmly in control of the entire state government, they will overreach big time. Corruption through their own hubris will be their undoing. The upshot is that when they go down, they will likely take the entire state government down with them.