{"id":185357,"date":"2011-07-21T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/21\/its-on-bitch\/"},"modified":"2011-07-21T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T02:29:00","slug":"its-on-bitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/21\/its-on-bitch\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s On Bitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And by Bitch, I mean Ohio Governor John Kasich, who passed an even wider ranging assault on union rights, because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/07\/21\/us-unions-ohio-idUSTRE76K70J20110721\">the referendum to repeal the bill is on the ballot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Ohio residents will be voting this fall on whether to allow a controversial collective bargaining law to go into effect, officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Backers of the effort to repeal the law have successfully collected almost four times as many signatures needed to put the issue on the statewide ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted said opponents of the newly passed law collected 915,456 valid petition signatures. A total of 231,147 were needed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We Are Ohio has collected and validated more signatures than any other campaign in Ohio history,&#8221; said Melissa Fazekas, a spokeswoman for the group collecting the signatures. She expects voters will repeal the new law in November.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Maddow it&#8217;s gotten so bad that Kasich is polling behind Rick Scott of Florida.  He&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/live\/content\/local_news\/stories\/2011\/07\/20\/20_kasich-approval-rating-down.html\">down to 35% approval<\/a>, which means that not only is he less popular than a case of hemorrhoids, he&#8217;s probably less popular than Dick Cheney pole dancing.<\/p>\n<p>I expect that a lot of this vote will be about Kasich in addition to the union busting law.<\/p>\n<p>I just hope that the Koch suckers and their corporate money don&#8217;t turn this around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And by Bitch, I mean Ohio Governor John Kasich, who passed an even wider ranging assault on union rights, because the referendum to repeal the bill is on the ballot: Ohio residents will be voting this fall on whether to allow a controversial collective bargaining law to go into effect, officials said Thursday. Backers of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1040,1023],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-former-soviet-union","category-labor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}