Self-starters usually don’t wait for orders from headquarters, they’re savvy enough to know the lay of the land and how best to chart a course to navigate it. In the world of bare knuckle politics, the kind Ohio Gov. John Kasich and his team are skilled at playing, self-starters are appreciated even if they break bad now and again.

For a self-described long-time Republican operative and self-starter like Terry L. Casey, who Gov. Kasich appointed soon after he was sworn-in to lead the state’s Employee Relations Board at a yearly salary of $66,997, he again finds himself at the […]