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theHandpuppet

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Sun Oct 19, 2014, 07:27 PM Oct 2014

SB 5 battle isn’t hurting Gov. Kasich [View all]

Just so depressing....

SB 5 battle isn’t hurting Gov. Kasich
By Darrel Rowland
The Columbus Dispatch
Sunday October 19, 2014

George Edge of Grove City and Judy McLaughlin of Canton both voted against Senate Bill 5 in a statewide referendum nearly three years ago.

Both had union members in their household when they opposed the law, which would have stripped many collective-bargaining rights from about 360,000 state and local government workers.

But now both say they are voting for the re-election of Gov. John Kasich, even though he led the campaign to pass the measure.

The two voters are part of a modern political phenomenon in Ohio: the turnaround from a 62 percent to 38 percent defeat of the collective-bargaining law in November 2011 to an apparent runaway victory for Kasich coming on Nov. 4....

MORE at http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/10/19/sb-5-battle-isnt-hurting-gov--kasich.html

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Sadly, OBblueMeanie Oct 2014 #1
I Think Kasich Is Setting Up For A 2016 Presidential Run... Corey_Baker08 Oct 2014 #2
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