When state Rep. Alicia Reece first started serving on a legislative committee dealing with transportation issues, Republican Gov. John Kasich came and told her he was killing state funding for the Cincinnati streetcar.
“’I’m not doing the streetcar. That’s out,’” Reece, a Democrat, said, paraphrasing what Kasich told her and local business leaders in 2011. “’Reece, give me something we can get a shovel in in 90 days.’ That’s my kind of language.”
She and other Cincinnati political…