Our ‘Moderate’ Republican John Kasich Just Defunded Planned Parenthood

“You say, ‘Well, you’re kind of strident, aren’t you?’ I say, ‘No, not when 5,499 abortions are in Cuyahoga County, which I happen to represent, and 63 percent of them are black women, ‘” Patmon asserted.

Flanked by other members and several local pastors, Minter said the group supports Gov. Matt Bevin’s lawsuit against Planned Parenthood, which accuses it of offering abortions without a license.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed legislation Thursday that also stripped Planned Parenthood of funding in Wisconsin, costing the organization around $7.5 million a year, a Planned Parenthood spokeswoman told the New York Times. “I’m just not for doing it through Planned Parenthood”.

“I just think the organization has lost credibility, and at the end of the day it is about women’s health”.

BLITZER: And the Republican presidential candidate John Kasich is joining us now live.

“Kasich says when first elected, he was backed by “women who left their kitchens to go out and go door to door”, Kaplan tweeted”.

“It’s clear Kasich has no regard for women’s health or lives, and will stop at nothing to block health care for the tens of thousands of Ohioans who rely on Planned Parenthood”, Richards added.

John Kasich said there are many to thank for his successful state Senate campaign in 1978, including the “women who left their kitchens” to canvass for him.

Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to defund Planned Parenthood even as he admits that the organization does “very good work”, such as cancer screenings, that wouldn’t be easily covered by other providers in its absence. “We just got an army of people and many women who left their kitchens to go out and go door to door and to put yard signs up for me all the way back when things were different”.

WOLF BLITZER: Republican presidential candidate John Kasich is facing some criticism for a remark he made today.

“When I was a new candidate I did what I do now, which is to have a lot of town hall meetings but they weren’t in town halls”, Kasich said. “I don’t use teleprompters”.

“I’ll come out to support you, but I won’t be coming out of the kitchen”, the woman told him. “I’m real and maybe sometimes I might say something that isn’t as artfully said as it should be”.

Pure Michigan pitchman Allen endorsed Kasich for president in August, calling the OH governor “a Republican that a Democrat could vote for”, according to the Washington Times. Planned Parenthood’s largest percentage of services are toward STD treatment and prevention.

“Most people didn’t know who he was until New Hampshire, so what we’ve seen is his support growing rapidly”, Schrimpf said.