Money Floods Ohio as Vote Nears on Law That Limits Union Bargaining Power

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Source: Bloomberg News

Ohio opponents of a law limiting public-employee bargaining are outspending supporters by more than 3-to-1 as a statewide vote on repeal nears, financial- disclosure reports show.

We Are Ohio, a group of labor leaders and Democrats trying to overturn the law backed by Governor John Kasich, put $19.7 million into television advertisements and other actions, compared with $6 million spent by Building a Better Ohio, a group backing the law, according to the reports filed yesterday.

Cash and in-kind donations to We Are Ohio have reached $30.6 million, according to the reports filed with Secretary of State Jon Husted’s office. Building a Better Ohio brought in $7.6 million, the records show. Combined spending in the Issue 2 campaign may exceed the $37 million that fueled last year’s governor’s race, won by Kasich, a Republican.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-28/money-floods-ohio-as-vote-nears-on-law-that-limits-union-bargaining-power.html

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1. Recommend

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2. Let Issue 2 become the beginning of the end of the Kasich dictatorship.

He's also trying to set up a sweetheart deal for some crony to run the Ohio Turnpike. He's selling off state assets as fast as he can find them just so that he can say he "balanced" the state budget without having to raise taxes.

While Kasich and his ilk are trying to cut wages of state employees, he gives his appointees big fat payraises.

I see his behavior from his Lehman Bros. days hasn't skipped a beat.

[Kolesar]

3. John "Crow" Kasich...eom

[dotymed]

5. It seems that he is following in the footsteps of Mitch Daniels.

He is the governor of Ohio's neighboring state, Indiana. Mitch was "W's" former budget director. He bought his way in to the Indiana position. I lived there at the time. His first official act as Governor was to force all public employees to quit their Union. He proceeded to "rent" toll roads to foreign (mainly M.E.) corporations with 75 year leases. It is tragic what he has done to Indiana. Most other Unions began appeasing him in order to survive. My Union asked me to help remodel the Governors Mansion (even though he and his family live in a different Mansion in a gated community), I refused on principal.

I started my Union career in Ohio, at Local #2 Carpenters. It is the oldest remaining Carpenters Union in America. Just recently, a year after absorbing the KY carpenters Union, the Indiana Carpenters had to absorb the Ohio Carpenters Union also. This is tragic.

As a Union Carpenter in Ohio during the 90's, I would have never thought this was possible. The Cincinnati area where I worked and trained was a very strong Union environment. These teapartiers have turned regular working people against regular working Union people. They said that we were overpaid and had too many benefits. the reality is that most of the non-Unionized people were underpaid and had no benefits. Why were these sheeple too ignorant to see that the people agitating for the end of the Unions, were wealthy and had so much more than a regular working, Unionized person?

We have to totally reset this paradigm. Every person should be collectively bargaining in order to earn a fair wage and benefits. If we would do as all other 1st world nations and implement universal health care, that would (and should) be one less benefit to demand.

Yes, the wealthy started this class war and they have been winning. Hopefully OWS is waking people up to this and we will see a much more fair America.

[SkyDaddy7]

4. Just wait until 2013 when the GOP controls...

The entire country!

The Koch Bros. are engineering a complete take over of this country while we fight each other. SAD!

[JDPriestly]

6. The Koch brothers already have taken over most of the country.

They and their like-thinking buddies own most of the media. Clinton enabled their final takeover. That's where the votes and the money are.

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8. This election is a nationally important election.

If the unions lose here they can expect a wave of copy-cat laws in other red states.