From Recordpub.com:

Leaders of the Ohio House’s Democratic and Republican caucuses have been trading barbs, with angry claims of hypocrisy and mudslinging.

House Speaker Armond Budish, a Democrat from the Cleveland area, launched his caucus’ Rhetoric Reality Tour, aimed at spotlighting differences in Republicans’ campaign speeches and legislative records — specifically related to state spending.

“Now many House Republicans are running around the state expressing outrage over spending issues and claiming to be fiscal conservatives,” Budish said. “But when they controlled the Ohio House, Republicans spent and spent and they created or presided over the largest bureaucracy in state government history.”

He added, “The reality is that it took a Democratic governor and a Democratic House to significantly reduce the size of state government.”

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