As Gov. John Kasich continues to push for his proposed Medicaid expansion, an organization of tea party groups in Ohio is talking about how many primary election votes it would take to defeat House Republicans who vote for it.
Kasich will give his third State of the State speech this evening in Lima, and is likely to talk about various aspects of his new two-year, $63.3 billion budget. Part of that budget calls for a Medicaid expansion under the new federal health-care law, to cover about 275,000 people with incomes up to 138 percent of the poverty level -- about $23,000 a year for a family of four.
The federal government would pay the full cost for the first three years, and then 90 percent for several years after. The Kasich administration estimates Ohioans would save $404 million over two years with the expansion.
But the Ohio Liberty Coalition is sending its own message, titled ?Replacing the RINOs who support Kasich's Medicaid expansion.? RINO stands for Republicans in name only.
The group also opposes other aspects of Kasich?s budget proposal, particularly his sales tax expansion and new severance tax on shale drillers.
?We are holding the line against the governor?s proposed budget on: no new sales taxes on services, no increase of the severance tax, and absolutely, positively NO expansion of Medicaid in Ohio,? the group wrote.
?Republican state reps on the committee voting to approve a budget proposal that includes the issues mentioned above should be replaced with new representatives.?
The Liberty Coalition goes on to list every Republican member of the House Finance Committee along with an estimated number of votes needed to defeat each one in a 2014 primary.
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