Labor Loses Big In Ohio

[Swede]

Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) owes his Wisconsin gubernatorial colleague Scott Walker (R) some serious gratitude. While nearly all the media attention and labor activism has been centered in Madison over Walker's controversial budget bill, Kasich is on the verge of passing an equally significant bill restraining collective bargaining rights in the Buckeye State.

The bill passed the state Senate by the narrowest possible margin - and now is virtually assured of being signed into law by the governor next week. It's awfully similar to the legislation Walker has struggled to pass, in a more politically-consequential state for the 2012 presidential battle. The bill would make Ohio the first state to strip collective bargaining rights from public employees.

http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2011/03/labor-loses-big.php

[DoBotherMe]

1. I wonder what happens now?

This is terrible! Dana ; )
K&R

[mod mom]

2. ballot referendum will put a hold on the bill.

[Vinee]

4. the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer.

[mod mom]

3. Time for the media to take a look at Kasich's hypocrisy in budget concerns:

Here are two examples of OH Gov Kasich fleecing Ohio taxpayers at a time when he is demanding cuts to public employees as well as attempting to eliminate collective bargaining. I hope you will cover these as well to expose the type of scoundrel he really is:



Cost of security upgrade at Kasich's home withheld

SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 2011 03:01 AM
BY JAMES NASH
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

John Kasich will be the first Ohio governor in a generation to forgo the secure confines of the state-owned Governor's Residence in Bexley in favor of his private residence, which means taxpayers will pay for security improvements at Kasich's home near Westerville.

The size of that bill, however, might never be known publicly.

-snip

Kasich's 4,400-square-foot home sits amid 10 acres in Genoa Township near Hoover Reservoir. The Delaware County auditor valued the property at $759,500 in 2008.

In addition to providing around-the-clock security at the Kasich home, including a checkpoint to restrict access to the gravel road leading to the property, the patrol will continue to guard the official residence in Bexley. Kasich has said he'll use the state-owned home for ceremonial functions.

-snip
http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/01/02/copy/security-upgrade-price-tag-withheld.html?adsec=politics&sid=101




OSU paid Kasich $4K per classroom session

By Laura A. Bischoff, Columbus Bureau Updated 9:25 AM Monday, August 16, 2010 COLUMBUS — As a candidate for governor, Republican John Kasich has called on colleges and universities to cut costs and force professors to teach more courses.


Yet for seven years Kasich served as a “presidential fellow” at his alma mater, Ohio State University, in a role that paid him the equivalent of about $4,000 per campus visit.


“It sounds like a perk program for a politician that we can’t afford,” said Matt Mayer of the Buckeye Institute, a conservative-leaning think tank that has posted government salaries in an online database.


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The job was among the many hats Kasich wore in the years after he left Congress in 2000. Although other politicians, including Republican Senate candidate Rob Portman, have taught courses at OSU for no cost, Kasich’s role paid him $50,000 a year.

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http://www.journal-news.com/news/hamilton-news/osu-paid-kasich-4k-per-classroom-session-861545.html?cxtype=rss_local-news

[Botany]

6. Or the way helped lehmann Brothers loot 480 million from public employees

1) Kasich in Congress works to weaken controls over wall street and banking

b) Kasich goes to work for Lehmann Brothers and talks the republican administration
in Ohio into investing 480 million in state workers pension funds into a Lehmann Brothers
fund which then went belly up

iii) Kasich as Governor of Ohio complains about the shortfalls in public workers
pension funds.


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John is going to loot every last nickel from Ohio he can and that includes public education
and prisons too.

[mod mom]

13. and the turnpike...and the state parks (which btw he just opened to gas drilling

despite al the reports on hydrofracking polluting the water!)

[xchrom]

5. recommend

[CrossChris]

7. The silence from Obama and national Dems turned out to be a losing strategy in OH

It was fine when you could say that we were winning the fight, but what's the point in playing it this way if we're going to lose this big in a state like Ohio?

[Botany]

8. That is not true

Obama put in solid work in Ohio last fall

35,000 + @ OSU

[CrossChris]

10. Did he say anything specifically about this bill? Did anyone?

I think even a little attention would have helped. I could see how refraining from comment was a good strategy when it looked like the protestors would generate momentum themselves, but once it fizzled, how was it a good strategy? We lost!

[Kahuna]

9. Dems need to blame themselves, not Obama. All it would have taken

for this to not be happening is for them to vote.

[CrossChris]

11. What if LBJ had taken that attitude towards Civil Rights in the South?

I don't think anyone deserves to be treated this unfairly just because they were bested by a majority.

[Lorien]

14. The fish rots from the head down. Obama needs to LEAD like a Democrat

not like a Bush hugging DINO with a knife at the ready for every liberal's back. Give the people a champion to vote FOR and they'll turn out in record numbers. But if you don't correct your mouthpiece when he calls your base "fucking retards", then you shouldn't be surprised when no one shows up for your party. The blame lies 100% with the Democratic leadership for pissing their mandate down a fucking toilet.

[Kahuna]

19. When the Dems get off their couches and vote, he will. As the saying

goes, you first.

[Citizen Worker]

12. More appropriately to ask is, where the hell was the hierarchy of organized Labor?

[Hannah Bell]

15. it ain't over til it's over.

[B Calm]

16. Why did the democratic senators not leave the state?

[Hannah Bell]

17. because the republicans don't need them to vote; simple majority i think is all

that's needed & the pubs have it.

[B Calm]

18. Thanks

[old mark]

20. K&R- Labor has been losing big since Reagan's first term...Wait till the

Democratic Convention in North Carolina, where collective bargaining is illegal...But hey, they are looking for those "swing voters"...
Why should the Democratic Party give a fuck about Unions and working people anyway?
Why, Mr. Obama?

mark