Congratulations Ohio!!

Ted, me and my fellow Ohioans DON'T want to be told by elitist in Columbus, what are rights are, and aren't. This bill had NOTHING to do with employees paying more for benefits, and pay freezes (that the elitist EXEMPTED themselves from). It had to do with republicans going to far with their political motives, and the people seeing right through them. I was NOT a good day to be a republican yesterday, and I am sure a year from now it will be the same way. The mandate that republicans THOUGHT they had last year isn't there today, and the American people are NOT going to allow them to push their form of larger government on them. The true motives of the right came out yesterday, and the voters didn't like what they saw.

I suspect the biggest problem with this is that when they do go broke, they won't blame it on this. Something about cause and effect escapes a lot of people.

Another huge smear campaign.. and scare tactics to boot!

The Governor should develop a budget and show the people just what their vote will cost. Point out the fact that the Unions spent $30 million to defeat this and that the Union Dues paid for this and the tax payers are paying those dues. People have to wake up and educate themselves. Just like Social Security the young employees will be planning on a system that will not be there when they retire.

There was such a massive scare campaign here that I'm not surprised at the voting results. There was even a commercial that depicted a guy calling about a home invasion and the 911 operator telling him it'll be at least 20 minutes because they only had 2 deputies and they were clear across the county. They trotted out the firemen with their fire trucks, in full gear, that told the public their houses would burn and nurses that told us all we could die because there would not be as many nurses on duty if we took away labor rights. Playing on fear is a very effective tool and they used it with skill. The forces opposing Issue 2, those that wanted a "yes" vote to defeat it, used reason and facts. But we did accept a constitutional amendment exempting Ohio from Obamacare. I guess that's something. The people will soon be clamoring for the governor to do something about rising prices and an increasingly bad economy. They won't connect it with empowering unions or the way they voted. It's all about "rights". Like the right to force the taxpayers to pay people in the public sector twice as much as the taxpayers make.

I was a little surprised at ths out come. I read it in the New York Times, and it still did not make sense of Ohio's doing this. Everyone else pays part of health insurance, so why can the employees to the state of Ohio pay some of their own. I think this might be a sign of the unions power getting into this, and shows a sigh of what we have to prepart against in Nov 2012. We have to get conservatives out to vote. This is key!

Whatever happened to the demands from the tea party conservatives that the elected officials do what the people want them to do? The voters have spoken and they obviously believed Governor Kasich has greatly overreached with his attacks on teachers, firefighters, nurses and police officers. Annie