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>>> favorite one of mine. because we're not going to let it go. ohio governor john kasich is trying to make his racial diversity problem disappear. kasich is taking heat because he's the first ohio governor in nearly 50 years to appoint an all white cabinet. i guess everybody was wrong for 50 years. ohio state senator nina turner appeared on this program last night to discuss her call for governor kasich to add a person of color. i asked her if she thought the governor was a racist. do you think the governor of ohio is a racist?
>> well, i'm not sure, ed. that is a question you need to ask him. but i will say that his actions so far certainly shows a strong insensitivity and appreciation for diversity. you know, our diversity is our strength and we should embrace it.
>> governor kasich must have rabbit ears. just today he issued a statement commemorating black history month and announcing a director of minority affairs. kasich named lynn stevens, a person of color, to the position. that's great news. but there's a slight problem. think progress points out stevens has been the director of minority affairs for nearly a month and the position is not cabinet level. nothing has changed. kasich still has 23 white cabinet officers. we invited governor kasich to come on the program tonight to give us his take, his office has yet to respond. we'd like to have him come back tomorrow night. i guess the subject would be innovative hiring. the topic was on fire on my radio show today and with record unemployment the issue of quotas isn't easy to swallow for a lot of americans. but it's hard to believe that governor kasich can't find one qualified person of color in the entire state of ohio to be on his cabinet. and isn't it interesting tonight, e-mailer from ohio writes me and says that jerry ray ordered all tvs turned to fox news in the state cafeterias of the ohio department of transportation chief jerry ray sent that order out. wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that kasich used to have a show over on fox, do you think? nah. most states have a bird. utah wants to have a gun. i guess so you can shoot the state bird with the state gun. in south dakota they say they are trying to make a point about health care mandates by proposing a law that would require every adult to buy a gun. plus, the results of our text survey. stay with us.
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