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Rhoades on the SB5
Poll
Jeff Bell, a Dayton Business Journal contributor, says that half of
Ohio Voters disapprove of the way Gov. Kasich is handling things.
Not much of a surprise! The fury that he has stirred over SB 5
has brought people together from both sides of the aisle as well as
management and labor. Kasich was able to buffalo a lot of people
into believing that there was a problem without ever giving anyone a
shred of evidence that it actually was happening. So here we are
and half of the people don’t like him. Here’s the deal. HE
DOESN’T CARE! He had his mind made up long before he was even
nominated, exactly what he would do if he was elected. He brought
up something that he knew was a sore spot and led a bunch of otherwise
good legislators down the yellow brick road. Unfortunately, if he
goes down, some of them are bound to go down with him.
A whole bunch of registered voters don’t like the way the budget is
being handled because it calls for deep cuts in education
funding. Ever since Gov. Taft, the education governor, was in
office and before, the Supreme Court has admonished the administration
to get a viable way to fund schools so that all are funded equally and
sufficiently. In these tough economic times it seems that this
should be on the front burner. If the court ordered you or I to
do something like that and three generations later it wasn’t done, I’m
thinking we would probably be in line for a contempt of court
proceeding. But here’s the deal. HE DOESN’T CARE.
The governor’s approval rating is a couple points higher than it was
but once again, he didn’t come here to win a popularity contest.
The fact that there is strong feelings about the repeal of SB 5 only
says that there are a lot of people out there who are asking the same
question that I’ve been asking. Where did all of this alleged bad
stuff happen? People aren’t stupid even though a lot of
politicians think otherwise. It makes little difference which
party a person is either. The general public is getting pretty
good at seeing through someone like Kasich. They just need to
start doing it right before they enter the voting booth instead of six
months after coming out.
These intelligent people overwhelmingly agreed that limiting collective
bargaining wasn’t needed to balance the budget. One need only spend a
few hours outside any state office building and ask workers leaving the
building what the biggest problem is. They will overwhelmingly
tell you “mismanagement” and massive boondoggles of red tape. I
can’t understand why Mr. Kasich doesn’t get on Under Cover Boss.
He sure could find out the real problem if he really wants to.
But that might prove him wrong. Can’t have that. It’s the
bad state of Ohio employees and other public employees causing the
problem and that’s that.
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