(Alanna Okun, BuzzFeed) -- "It's not easy to be the spouse of an elected official," Ohio Governor John Kasich said at a rally for Mitt Romney in Cincinnati on Wednesday. "You know, they're at home doing the laundry and doing so many things while we're up here on stage getting a little bit of applause." His comment set off a flurry of outrage .
But few have pointed out that for many years of Kasich's political career, his wife worked outside of the home.
According to a 2010 article in The Columbus Dispatch, for nearly twenty years, until around 2002, Karen Kasich worked in marketing and public relations, serving most notably as vice president of public relations at Gerbig, Snell and Weisheimer, a healthcare advertising agency. The Kasichs began dating in 1989 and married in 1997, meaning that for much of the Governor's political life (which began when he became a member of the Ohio Senate in 1978), Karen Kasich was working outside of the home.
