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Ohio repeal effort

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UPDATED: Friday, July 1, 2011 15:30
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Friday, July 1, 2011 11:03 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Ninety days ago yesterday, Ohio Governor John Kasich followed Wisconsin by signing an even MORE draconian anti-union bill than Wisconsin's. Ohio law allows the voters to repeal the union-stripping law by popular vote, but it requires 231,000 valid signatures to get it on the ballot. Many things don't manage to get on the ballot because there's only 90 days and that's a LOT of signatures. In fact, you really need to get something like 450,000 signatures to ensure you have enough valid ones.

Well, yesterday the opponents of the anti-union measure submitted their signatures to get on the ballot. How many did they get? They got 1,298,301 signatures -- the most signatures ever turned in for any repeal in the history of Ohio. Kinda says it all, don't it?
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Thousands of opponents of Ohio's new collective bargaining law marched through the streets of Columbus on Wednesday to deliver signatures aimed at getting a repeal question on the November ballot, even as Gov. John Kasich continued to defend the law.



The morning parade staged by We Are Ohio, the group opposing Senate Bill 5, stretched from the city's science museum across the Scioto River past the Statehouse. Marchers young and old chanted "Kill the bill" and "O-H-I-O, John Kasich's got to go" as they walked.

U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, a Democrat from the blue-collar Mahoning Valley, called the number of signatures "epic."

"At this point, it appears all but certain that in November voters will have the opportunity to overturn this attack on Ohio's working families," he said in a statement. "This bill was a blatant political attack on Ohio's teachers, firefighters, policeman, and the rest of the people that support our communities."

The law signed by Kasich in late March bans public employee strikes and restricts collective bargaining rights for more than 350,000 teachers, police officers, state employees and others. While unions can continue to negotiate wages, they cannot bargain on health care, sick time or pension benefits.

"Educators oppose one-size-fits-all evaluation and merit pay systems that rely too much on standardized tests," the teachers union said in a statement. "Most Ohioans agree it is wrong to link high-stakes decisions to student performance on standardized tests, especially decisions about how teachers are paid."

With the budget and signature deadline behind them, opposing groups sought political contributions for their sides Wednesday in anticipation of the fall campaign.

Ohio AFL-CIO President Tim Burga said Senate Bill 5 has "galvanized a true grassroots movement of Ohioans who have stood up and made their voice heard, not only on Senate Bill 5, but also on Kasich's jobs killing budget, bills that would suppress the vote, and a slew of other attacks."

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700148178/Ohio-union-law-opponents-
deliver-repeal-signatures.html?pg=2


HOW I wish they could do the same in Wisconsin!

By the way, these jolly "fiscal conservatives" voted to repeal the state estate tax as of Jan. 1, 2013. The bill is now in conference (it’s part of the 2012-2013 state budget package,) but the repeal provision, backed by Republican Governor John Kasich, looks like a certainty. So by their own "logic" (I use the terem advisedly), Ohio legislators think it's a good idea in this economic climate to increase the burden on education other middle-class workers, while handing out more tax breaks to people who didn't work fr their inheritance. Good thinking!

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Friday, July 1, 2011 2:29 PM

FREMDFIRMA



Well, if Wisconsin is undergoing the same various unheavals Michigan is, with MASSIVE side orders of press lockouts, chicanery and misuse of state resources to suppress dissent, or sabotage it via infiltrators/provocateurs, I am not surprised they ain't gettin much traction.

I do know the MI State Attorney General is climbing into the top ten of the "needs to go" list, although the number one slot on that is so claimed by Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy it might as well be carved in stone...

One thing that does sicken me about the WI fiasco though is the amount of rabid support for Prosser, and what it says about political discourse around here these days - in what kinda fucking bizarro world is something like that even okay, much less lauded and celebrated ?(1)

And people wonder why I wanna stage a pogrom on the GOP... yeesh.

-Frem
(1) http://www.politicususa.com/en/prosser-chokes-justice

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Friday, July 1, 2011 3:30 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


Clearly the people have spoken, good for Ohio!

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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