claim: says he worked with the democratic legislature to balance spending with revenues so that "at the end of my four-year term, the rainy day fund was established at more than $2 billion."
author: mitt romney
evidence_1: john richard kasich is an american politician, former television host, and the  69th and current governor of ohio. first elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2014,  kasich is a member of the republican party. his second term ends on january  14, 2019; he cannot stand for reelection due to term limits. a native of pittsburgh,  ...
evidence_2: oct 10, 2017 ... but state revenue and the overall economy will see negligible changes, he said  in an interview, shortly before issuing a year-end report. .... in protecting the rainy  day fund this session and limiting spending to less than a one percent increase in  a tight budget cycle," he said in a written statement tuesday.
evidence_3: massachusetts law required that all state budgets be balanced, and the current  fiscal year was already more than halfway over when romney assumed office ( massachusetts' fiscal year begins july 1 of the preceding calendar year). to  close the deficit, he asked for, and was granted by the state legislature,  emergency ...
evidence_4: jun 11, 2017 ... ohio's former governors, both democrats and republicans, have drained the  state's "rainy-day fund" only as a last resort in dire economic times. ... ohio's rainy -day fund balance. source: ohio office of budget management's year-end totals  of the budget stabilization fund. in 2009 and 2010, the fund had ...
evidence_5: may 24, 2013 ... john otto, r-dayton, said he and the senate are working out how to gradually  put an end to the gimmick. he said those negotiations are being impacted by the  contents of house bill 7, another bill dealing with dedicated accounts, that would  refund more than $600 million sitting in the system benefit fund.