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The Ohio Senate has voted on Senate Bill 5 in general session and the bill PASSED.
Ohio Senate Bill 5 is a very controversial piece of legislation that deals with union control over the political process and requires public employee unions to cover more of their benefits costs.
Essentially, as noted on Ballotpedia, the bill does the following:
# Eliminate tenure as the only consideration in deciding lay-offs
# Require employees to pay 20% of their health insurance premiums
# Implement merit-based pay for some government workers.
# Restrict the ability of teachers, firefighters, and to collectively bargain
The bill passed with a 17 – 16 vote in the Senate.
The following was written by Tom Zawistowski, Executive Director, Portage County TEA Party.
Fellow Patriots, this past week many or our members and our groups, for the first time since our movement began, actually faced hostile crowds in numbers significantly larger than we could muster. This was a new learning experience for most of us and, as you will see, it was not a pleasant experience. After a rally in Youngstown on Thursday, February 24, 2011, it became clear to me that, though our groups and members were learning from our experience, we were not doing a good job of sharing that experience, and as a result we were unknowingly and unnecessarily putting our members in harms way. Which is why I am writing this essay for you to read.
Many of you are familiar with the book “Rules for Radicals†by Saul D. Alinsky, and if you have not read it, you should get a copy and read it now. It will make you sick. I had to actually stop and put it down several times because what Alinsky endorses is so disgusting and so demeaning that it is hard to believe anyone could stoop so low to win power. But that is the point of the book and that is why you need to read it. We must know our enemies and their tactics; and what you will learn from Alinsky is that there is nothing the left will not do to beat you and take power. Nothing. With that introduction, I am going to proceed to show you the “Saul Alinsky tactics†that were employed against the TEA Party and Patriot groups in Columbus on February 17th, in Canton on Tuesday, February 22nd, and in Youngstown on Thursday, February 24th, in an effort to intimidate us and our legislators and defeat Senate Bill 5.
Columbus – Thursday, February 17, 2011
First of all, the unions knew about
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There is a significant contrast between the two sides of the political fight happening in Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio regarding union power. I plan on writing more extensively about this in the next 24 hours, but I wanted to bring attention to the way the “left” has unified their efforts in a 2.0 world.
This morning I stumbled across an ad at the top of HotAir.com for fun looking game called “Angry Buckeyes.” Because I’m currently in Ohio this immediately caught my attention. I must also admit that yes, I’ve also downloaded and played the iPhone app “Angry Birds” this campaign was clearly modeled after.
Angry Buckeyes is a well designed, 2.0 style marketing “mini-site” aimed at
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While standing in line for the Senate Committee on SB5 in Ohio this morning I had the opportunity to gain a much better understanding of the arguments being made by the public employee unions.
A woman in front of me was holding a piece of material she was planning on using to make her point about collective bargaining in the committee. The material was a fireproof “firewall” that sits above the gas tank in automobiles.
The woman, who clearly represented the views of the public employee unions (she stated it several times), said that SB5 would strip public employee unions of the ability to bargain for this safety device.
According to her statement, if the auto-makers installed the panels while building the
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With the launch of StandWithOhio.com I’ll be spending the week in Columbus, Ohio. The purpose of the visit is two fold:
A) I’m helping the tea party groups in Ohio coordinate a counter-rally against the unions and in support of SB5
B) I’ll be filming and documenting the union rally on Tuesday (March 1) and the counter rally by tea partiers on Wednesday (March 2)
For those who are not yet familiar with Ohio Senate Bill 5, please click here and gain some
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After watching Megan Kelly take Wisconsin State Senator Jon Erpenbach (D) to the woodshed this morning I started digging around and found quite a bit about his agenda.
Erpenbach is one of the fleebaggers currently hiding out in Chicago, refusing to go back and do his job in the Wisconsin legislature.
As Kelly and Erpenbach approached a hard break (Fox News) Kelly asked him if he could stick around to continue the conversation after the break. Erpenbach said he didn’t have time to stay on the line and would have to go.
That’s interesting… especially considering the fact that
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It used to be common to see the “party of special interests” charge leveled against Republicans. I think the events unfolding in Wisconsin, and now Indiana, should make it clear that unions pull the strings in the Democrat Party.
In a move straight out of the Wisconsin playbook, Indiana Democratic lawmakers fled the state today in a bid to kill a proposed right-to-work bill ahead of a vote.
Citing a source, the Indianapolis Star reported that Democrats “are headed to Illinois, though it was possible some also might go to Kentucky.” Wisconsin’s Democratic senators have been in Illinois for days, depriving Republicans the quorum needed to vote on Gov. Scott Walker’s legislation to roll back collectively bargaining rights for state workers.
Of course, those same people who charge Republicans of being the party
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What a bizarre and interesting world we now live in…
Think about this for a minute. Taxpayers are picking up the entire bill for the teachers and the unions currently protesting the will of the taxpayers in Wisconsin.
It’s like I say to you I’ll give you a job at $xx.xx an hour and I’ll enter an
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Over the weekend I posted a video on the Patriot Caucus that show a union thug telling a tea partier that “You’re the f***ing Nazi’s” and brown shirts. The video make it clear he was referring to the tea party movement in general. (WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE IN VIDEO)
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The above video is clearly a paid union goon. But what about the liberal “progressive” students? Well, if the following video is a measure…
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My last post still has me fuming. I can’t for the life of me figure out why house Republicans FAILED so miserably on the Guinta Amendment.
Right now the country is going into a very, VERY important financial battle. On one side you have the parasites, on the other you have the hosts.
The hosts have been dealing with a slow death for some time now. The hosts have been saying
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