Please answer the following question: Information: - A U.S. state is a constituent political entity of the United States of America. There are 50 states, which are bound together in a union with each other. Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory, and shares its sovereignty with the United States federal government. Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government, Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons covered by certain types of court orders (e.g., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody). - The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio; the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate. - Jim Zehringer is the Director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources , who has served in the cabinet of Ohio Governor John Kasich , since 2011 . He served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011 , and as a Mercer County Commissioner from 2002 to 2007 . He is a farmer by trade . Zehringer is a graduate of Fort Recovery High School , and still resides in Fort Recovery today . A former owner of a poultry and fish farm , Zehringer has made a career out of agriculture . While in elected office , much of his agenda focused greatly on agricultural efforts , and for a time , he served as ranking minority member of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee . With Republicans winning the gubernatorial election in 2010 , Zehringer was chosen to lead the Department of Agriculture by John Kasich . In 2011 John Kasich appointed Zehringer to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources . - John Richard Kasich (; born May 13, 1952) is an American politician, 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 term is set to end by January 2019. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'member of political party' with the subject 'jim zehringer'. Choices: - republican party - union
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republican party