Person
John Kasich
- Work
- Administrative assistant to an Ohio state senator, 1975-1977, before his own election to the Ohio Legislature.
Source: bioguide.congress.gov
- Work
- Managing director in Lehman Brothers' investment-banking division, Columbus, Ohio, 2001-2008.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
- Work
- Hosted "Heartland with John Kasich" on the Fox News Channel after leaving Congress in 2001.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
- Education
- B.A. in political science, Ohio State University, 1974.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · bioguide.congress.gov
- Home
- Westerville, Ohio.
Source: westervillelibrary.org
- $3.9MRaised, as filed · September 2014
- $12.5MCash on hand · September 2014
- 57%Latest poll · Quinnipiac University Poll, October 1, 2014
- 5Positions in their words · 5 issues
- 1Claims checked
- 3Offices held · Former Governor of Ohio, 2011–2019
10 of 11 sections researched
Not yet researched: Endorsements.
What has been checked
- Profile 10 entries links.wikipedia fetched cleanly for his Lehman Brothers and Fox News career. Kasich was also a U.S. Representative, so the Congressional Bioguide was checked per the sourcing priority; a direct WebFetch of bioguide.congress.gov returned HTTP 403, so it was loaded in the Browser pane instead, which added his exact degree year and his 1975-1977 job as an administrative assistant to a state senator (not in the offices array, which starts at his own 1983 election). The Westerville Public Library's page on its Kasich congressional-papers collection confirms he made Westerville his home after 1974.
- On the ballot 0 entries The 2014 race is complete; no pending candidacy is published for it.
- Where they stand 5 entries
- What they have said, checked 1 entry
- Record in office 6 entries
- Money 3 entries The research archive found no single confirmed full-cycle total; the closest sourced checkpoint figure is published instead.
- Financial interests 1 entry
- Polling and approval 2 entries
- Elections 3 entries
- Endorsements None found in the records checked The research archive found no endorsement he gave or received specific to the 2014 cycle.
- Sources 11 entries
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The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Chamber | District | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Statewide | All of Ohio | Governor of Ohio |
On the ballot
None found in the records checked
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Status |
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| None found in the records checked |
Where they stand
Economy
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Campaigned on his first term having restored Ohio's fiscal stability and turned around an economy that, like the rest of the Rust Belt, had languished after the Great Recession, crediting the administration with diversifying Ohio's economy and adding private-sector jobs.
Source: John Kasich
Health care
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Opposed the Obama administration's health care law, in contrast with Strickland's support for it, and opposed federal cap-and-trade emissions limits.
Source: 2010 Ohio gubernatorial election
Medicaid expansion
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Campaigned on having expanded Medicaid coverage to an estimated 366,000 low-income Ohioans starting January 2014, using the ACA's expansion funds after his own Republican legislature would not authorize it directly, citing its role in addiction treatment during Ohio's opioid crisis.
Source: John Kasich
Taxes
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Signed a budget (House Bill 59) phasing in a roughly 10% cut to state income-tax rates and a 50% tax reduction for small businesses on their first $250,000 of income, offset in part by raising the state sales tax from 5.5% to 5.75%, and eliminating Ohio's estate tax effective January 1, 2013.
Source: John Kasich
Taxes and government spending
Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:
Campaigned on restoring Ohio's fiscal stability and balancing the state budget without raising taxes, drawing on his record as former House Budget Committee chairman, and on cutting taxes and reducing regulation to spur job growth after the 2008-2010 recession.
What they have said, checked
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nearly 250,000 jobs have been created
NBC4/NBC News rated this Overstated, August 20, 2014 · the check
Our check against the record: The record does not settle it.
Record in office
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Person | Date | Kind | Entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kasich (R) | 2011-01 | office | Governor of Ohio |
| Kasich (R) | 1983-01 | office | U.S. House of Representatives, Ohio's 12th District |
| Kasich (R) | 2011-01 | office | Governor of Ohio |
| Kasich (R) | 1997-08 | bill | 1997-08 (bill): As chairman of the House Budget Committee (1995-2001), was a lead architect and chief House sponsor of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, a bi |
| Kasich (R) | 2001 | action | 2001 (action): Joined Lehman Brothers' investment banking division as a managing director in 2001, running its two-person Columbus, Ohio office, and remain |
| Kasich (R) | 2002 | action | 2002 (action): While at Lehman Brothers, sought to persuade two Ohio state pension funds to invest with the firm; after Lehman's 2008 collapse, Ohio's publ |
| Kasich (R) | 2011-03 | bill | 2011-03 (bill): Signed Senate Bill 5, sharply restricting collective-bargaining rights for public employees including police, firefighters and teachers; Ohi |
| Kasich (R) | 2013-06 | bill | 2013-06 (bill): Signed, in a private ceremony, a law reclassifying JobsOhio's liquor-profit funding as private and exempt from state audit, after State Audi |
| Kasich (R) | 2013-10-21 | action | 2013-10-21 (action): His administration won approval for Ohio's Medicaid expansion from the seven-member Ohio Controlling Board, 5-2, after being unable to get t |
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action October 21, 2013
His administration won approval for Ohio's Medicaid expansion from the seven-member Ohio Controlling Board, 5-2, after being unable to get the GOP-controlled General Assembly to authorize it directly; two anti-abortion groups and six Republican state lawmakers sued the next day, arguing the Board lacked authority to approve the spending.
Source: John Kasich
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bill June 2013
Signed, in a private ceremony, a law reclassifying JobsOhio's liquor-profit funding as private and exempt from state audit, after State Auditor Dave Yost had subpoenaed the agency's records in March 2013 to audit the roughly $100-228 million a year in liquor profits funding it.
Good Jobs First, a national watchdog group, October 23, 2013 report:
JobsOhio's board included major campaign contributors and executives of companies that were themselves recipients of large state subsidies
· the sourceSource: National Report Criticizes JobsOhio, Other Privatized Agencies
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bill March 2011
Signed Senate Bill 5, sharply restricting collective-bargaining rights for public employees including police, firefighters and teachers; Ohio voters repealed it by referendum on November 8, 2011, 61.33%-39.67%.
Source: An Ohio gubernatorial race blow-out? Wouldn't be the first time
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action 2002
While at Lehman Brothers, sought to persuade two Ohio state pension funds to invest with the firm; after Lehman's 2008 collapse, Ohio's public pension systems suffered losses reported at roughly $480 million tied to Lehman-related investments.
Source: John Kasich's Work at Lehman Brothers Connected to Hit That Ohio Seniors Have Taken in New TV Ad
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action 2001
Joined Lehman Brothers' investment banking division as a managing director in 2001, running its two-person Columbus, Ohio office, and remained there until the firm's September 2008 bankruptcy, earning a documented $432,200 bonus atop a $182,692 salary in 2008 alone.
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bill August 1997
As chairman of the House Budget Committee (1995-2001), was a lead architect and chief House sponsor of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, a bipartisan agreement with the Clinton administration that helped produce the first federal budget surpluses since the late 1960s.
House Speaker Newt Gingrich, per Bloomberg:
more than any single man... responsible for balancing the budget
· the sourceSource: Did John Kasich Help Balance the Federal Budget as Budget Chairman?
Recorded votes
John Kasich cast 3,454 Yea or Nay votes on the roll calls we hold, across 3 terms from 1995 to 2000, all in Congress, from Voteview. Each term opens to every roll call, with the question, the result, how John Kasich voted and how the majority of their party voted.
| Term | Chamber | Yea | Nay | Did not vote | With party |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 106th Congress, 1999–2000 | U.S. House, district 12 | 770 | 266 | 173 | 93% of 492 |
| 105th Congress, 1997–1998 | U.S. House, district 12 | 797 | 334 | 35 | 92% of 597 |
| 104th Congress, 1995–1996 | U.S. House, district 12 | 805 | 482 | 34 | 94% of 874 |
"With party" counts only roll calls on which most Republicans and most Democrats voted opposite ways.
Sources: Congressional roll-call votes · Roll call votes · Roll call votes
Money
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| From | To | Dollars | Share of total | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raised | Cash on hand | 3,900,000 | 31.2% | |
| Other funds (derived) | Cash on hand | 8,600,000 | 68.8% |
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Status |
|---|
| None found in the records checked |
Totals as filed
| Race | Filer | Raised | Spent | Cash on hand | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor of Ohio | OhioSOS | $3,900,000 | $12,500,000 | September 2014 | |
| Governor of Ohio | OhioSOS | November 2010 |
Source: Kasich, FitzGerald report campaign coffers
Source: Ohio gubernatorial election, 2010
Outside spending
Financial interests
Disclosed holdings
None found in the records checked.
Disclosed income
None found in the records checked.
Reported conflicts
None found in the records checked.
Net worth, as estimated
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$9,000,000 to $22,000,000, 2015
Estimated by Kasich's own federal financial disclosure, filed for his 2016 presidential run, reported by the Associated Press.
Source: John Kasich
Polling and approval
The numbers behind this figure, as a table
| Field date | Candidate | Share | Poll |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2014 | John Kasich | 57 | Quinnipiac University Poll, likely voters |
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Quinnipiac University Poll · October 1, 2014 · Governor of Ohio
FitzGerald 35 · Kasich 57
likely voters
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Quinnipiac University Poll · October 26, 2010 · Governor of Ohio
Kasich None · Strickland None
likely voters
Elections
| Race | Party | Result | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor of Ohio (2014) | Republican | Won | 1,944,848 | 63.6% |
| Governor of Ohio (2010) | Republican | Won | 1,889,186 | 49.0% |
| U.S. Representative, Ohio's 12th District (1998) | Republican | Won | 124,197 | 67.2% |
Offices held
Governor of Ohio · 2011-01 to 2019-01 · elected
Source: John Kasich
U.S. House of Representatives, Ohio's 12th District · 1983-01 to 2001-01 · elected
Source: John Kasich
Governor of Ohio · 2011-01 to 2019-01 · elected
Endorsements
None found in the records checked
Sources
Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: John Kasich · 2014 Ohio gubernatorial election · 2010 Ohio gubernatorial election
Every URL on this page, once each.
- John Kasich · Ballotpedia · accessed 2026-09-19
- John Kasich · Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-19
- 2014 Ohio gubernatorial election · Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-19
- FACT CHECK: NBC4 Dissects 'Kasich Listened' Campaign Ad · NBC4/NBC News · 2014-08-20 · accessed 2026-09-19
- An Ohio gubernatorial race blow-out? Wouldn't be the first time · WVXU · 2014-10-05 · accessed 2026-09-19
- Kasich Stomps FitzGerald In Ohio Gov Race · Quinnipiac University Poll · 2014-10-01 · accessed 2026-09-19
- Kasich, FitzGerald report campaign coffers · MyTownNEO · 2014-09-05 · accessed 2026-09-19
- National Report Criticizes JobsOhio, Other Privatized Agencies · Cincinnati CityBeat · 2013-10-23 · accessed 2026-09-19
- Ohio gubernatorial election, 2010 · Ballotpedia · accessed 2026-09-21
- 2010 Ohio gubernatorial election · Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-21
- Kasich ad puts all the state's budget woes, job losses on Strickland · PolitiFact · 2010-10-19 · accessed 2026-09-21
- https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/K000016
- https://westervillelibrary.org/kasich/
- Federal Elections 98 (PDF, the entire publication; Ohio U.S. House results on printed pages 99-103); compiled from state elections offices · Federal Election Commission · accessed 2026-09-25
- Federal Elections 98 · Federal Election Commission · accessed 2026-09-25
- Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 3, 1998 (Ohio, U.S. Representative) · Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · accessed 2026-09-25
- Ed FitzGerald accuses Gov. John Kasich of pay-to-play politics · PolitiFact · 2013-05-02 · accessed 2026-09-19
- 10/26/10 - Kasich Up 6 Points In Ohio Gov Race · Quinnipiac University Poll · accessed 2026-09-21
- Did John Kasich Help Balance the Federal Budget as Budget Chairman? · Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget · accessed 2026-09-21
- John Kasich's Wall Street ties could haunt 2016 bid · CNN Politics · accessed 2026-09-21
- John Kasich's Work at Lehman Brothers Connected to Hit That Ohio Seniors Have Taken in New TV Ad · SEIU · accessed 2026-09-21
- State and Area Employment, Hours, and Earnings (CES), series SMS39000000000000001 (Ohio, total nonfarm, seasonally adjusted) · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · accessed 2026-09-19
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