Ohio Governor John Kasich's approval ratings have been dragging around in the range of 33 percent since he proposed severe budget cuts and a union-stripping bill. Governor Kasich plans to sign the budget, which shifts state resources from the public to corporations, today.
Meanwhile, opponents of the union-stripping law, Senate Bill 5, are turning backflips over their petition drive to put it on the ballot for a citizens repeal. Organizers say they handed in 1,298,301 signatures, five times more than required. The signatures took up 1,502 separate boxes. "Things like this make me proud to be an Ohioan," writes lefty blogger Plunderbund.
Plunderbund points out that organizers in support of SB5 have gotten a push from Mr. Kasich and Republican hopeful Mitt Romney and the Ohio Republican Party. They're trying to get people to like their Facebook page. You can see the tidal wave below.
Building a Better Ohio, very slowly.
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Screw you, King Kasich. What a douche. Seriously. Worst thing to EVER happen to Ohio. I hope that the sheeple who voted for this ass are ashamed of themselves.
When Democrats take back control, we need to reverse all these feed the rich and soak the poor bills. Go teachers!
up to 885 now
I'm sure they'll fix that. I'm sure scads of sock-puppet Facebook accounts will be created by corporate front groups just to "like" this thing before too long. That's how the right works. They know America loves them, even if they have to buy themselves flowers and chocolate to prove it.
It was the governors that everyone pointed to as a sign that the country wanted "real" change in 2010. Well, they got it. OH, WI, FL, NJ, IN.
BTW, I think all of these governors save for NJ attended the Koch brothers retreat in Vail. Anyone know?
TX and FL governors were there. I don't know where Kasich (OH) was--I was carrying a banner in the People's Parade in Columbus!
Don't forget Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder-He's in on it, too.
What I find most interesting is the sheer, non-politic, robotic behavior of these charlatans, the Kasichs, Walkers,Scotts who have hijacked the statehouses of the nation. With pathologically flattened affect, they proceed with their fiat of destruction of human dignity and rights, unconcerned with polls, protests, and public loathing. They bring an Eichmann-like sense of bureaucratic efficiency in their agenda to finally, after all these years, eliminate the "parasites" their patron saint Ayn Rand had singled out as the danger to human freedom. Of course, her "parasites" are defined as the 99+% of the human race that don't own corporations. They are on automatic and have no "Off" button. This is the nonhuman situation only the chronic stupidity and lack of fear control of average people can put us in. The good news is that the people might have come to realize their mistake. Time will tell.
"These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost."
- Ronald Reagan 1980
Yeah, isn't that ironic?
these kinds of quotes are priceless - I must take it and post it. Thanks.
Did he say that before or after he fired unionized air traffic controllers?
Sadly, many of his schemes will be irreversible, or at least particularly expensive to the state to reverse. If the next Democratic governor blows a hole in the budget to undo Kasich's privatization efforts, the short-term-memories-of-Alzheimer's-patients-Ohioans will only be able to focus on the cries of "recklessly spending Democrats" and conveniently forget everything that led up to having to do so. That's how Kasich got elected in the first place. The loss of 400,000 jobs in Ohio had more to do with lustfully greedy corporations and a nationwide economic collapse than our Democratic governor's policies, yet Strickland was given the blame as though HE somehow caused our recession firsthand. Ohio's problem isn't so much John Kasich, it's poorly-informed and shockingly-misguided voters. Hopefully the SB5 petition campaign inspired enough people to learn from their collective mistake.
This is exactly why Repubs constantly tear down education...they don't WANT an educated public. They might actually start thinking for themselves and vote Democratic.
As H. L. Mencken once remarked, "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence on the American public." Ohio voters have certainly proven that to be true over the past few years.
How ANYONE with a scintilla of awareness and intelligence could have thought that Strickland (like Obama and like most other state governors) was doing anything other than trying to contain the damage caused by the irresponsible, rapacious actions of an out-of-control Wall Street crowd is beyond me.
Ohio has been losing jobs for decades. Are its citizens completely blind to economic reality?
I wonder if the media will cover this as much as they covered Palin's email dump. Will we find out how much all of this paper weighed (Palin's emails weighed 100 pounds, don'tchaknow!)?
WOW What a rush.....I always hoped that the people of the midwest would wake up to what they did when these privateers were elected. I also knew that in California, if they (not me) elected Meg Whitman as Governor, we would now be in the same boat.
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Well, the misinformation is out there, beware.
I am very happy to see the 1.2 million signatures to overturn SB 5
Good job Buckeyes!
Facebook likes don't mean much. Kasich has about a brazilion... I'd say at least a quarter are trolls. More than half are liberals ready to pounce on any piece of misinformation out there. The rest are just people who post links to World Net Daily or some other "Obama is a secret Kenyan muslim gay who punches babies" blog.
All eyes of the pigpubs have been on Wisconsin and the Fritzwalkers and the Prosser camp have shown the rest of the states that the way to invoke people is to think and act as though they were of royal bluuuud. Now we in Wisconsin have Supreme Court Judges choking other Judges and thinking they can get away with it. Democracy does not look like it did when JFK was alive and he is probably rolling over in his grave right now. As a senior I worry how I am going to live on the little I get (which money stalking Walker think is alot) without working until I am 75, let me tell you it is scarey. Fight and fight hard because Wisconsin is behind you all the way.
I get you Connlyfox... The foxes are in the henhouse and we are now looking down the barrel of the Ben Franklin saying ... We've got a Republic "if you can keep it".
I hope it isn't too late, I put my retirement money in Treasury bonds, I am not quite 58, so if that gets eaten up by this global economic heist...
... well, I am scared for us all. We need to band together against those that would totally throw us all in the street and then say, those bums should get a job. Yes, the seniors, too. I see more folks working at an advanced age. Shudder to think what caused it. My parents got taken by an investment huckster they trusted.
It is good to see public action to throw the bums out.
You are doing a great job, get rid of those people that solve problems by cutting seniors and poor and wage earners get less and cut more jobs!
I'm sure you're on this tidbit as well, right?
http://www.plunderbund.com/2011/06/30/state-rep-mecklenborg-likely-arrested-with-a-stripper/
Ohio has a long history of hiring/electing the fecocephalic for political jobs and the office of governer carries the added onus of Contageous Cretinism...Instead of being in the "Heartland" we seem to be in the "Fartland"...Lots of hot air and stink but very little substance!
The video with Kasich praising and thanking the Koch Bros "Americans for Prosperity" group is here:
http://www.progressohio.org/blog/2011/06/the-video-john-kasich-and-americans-for-prosperity-dont-want-you-to-see.html
Vail meeting
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/626230/koch_brothers_hold_top_secret_conference_with_rich_corporate_fundraisers._were_ricks_scott_and_perry_there/
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20110623/NEWS/110629925/1001
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/28/koch-weekend-meeting-fires-up-debate-over-politics-influence/
Doing my part to expose the hidden. the Vail article states some of the policies that are being pushed.
The problem I see is SCOTUS allows this and we do not know who funds what and we must be super sleuths to find out WHAT policies they are secretly fighting against. They always put flowery things like job creating, but it looks more like cutting off Social Security and any public program that is good for people. The fallacy is, they do not trickle down, as claimed. They pish upon the workers. The Ohio sign says it all "Business Friendly does not have to be Worker Hostile".
I remember a time where people were concerned about what country we might be getting money from to shape our laws. Now, a free for all!
I've asked this before, but haven't received an answer. Does Ohio allow for recall of the governor? If so, why don't people get about it? If not, why don't they use the initiative process to create a recall --- and then get about it?
No, governor can't be recalled. Don't think legislators can be recalled either.
Oops didn't read the next post. Sorry to duplicate.
mpguy,
Nope - we can't recall the governor. There's been talk of passing a law to allow it, but that obviously isn't going to happen until the state legislature gets taken out of the hands of the Republicans.
http://www.ohiodailyblog.com/content/update-recall-petition
They need to investigate the processes and perhaps he/they can be indicted on some kind of law breaking in pushing this nonsense that is anti democratic.
@teacherfromohio: I don't live in Ohio, so maybe I'm getting this wrong. However, based on what I read, you have an initiative process that would allow you create a constitutional amendment allowing a recall of the governor. It's a challenging process, but you can do it if the will is there.
I agree about the legislature. But it seems like you don't have to wait until the Dems control the governorship and both houses of the legislature (or, roughly, until hell freezes over). Go the initiative route!
Was happy to sign the petition. Will be thrilled to vote for the repeal, and now waiting to vote to remove him from office..Proud of Ohio again :)
Good for you! And thank you for your support. Im a proud union member and support all the good people in Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida, Indiana, New Jersey or any state where radical extremist govenors use an iron fist to try and crush the middle class. It's amazing to see all the money the koch brothers spend in Ohio but STILL won't defeat the will of the middle class.