Building a Better Ohio, the group heading the campaign to preserve Ohio’s controversial anti-collective bargaining law Senate Bill 5, is, as a 501(c)4 non-profit, able to keep the names and amounts of donors secret. Campaign finance reports filed today in Ohio for the pre-general election deadline bear this out: More…
In an effort to influence the debate over Ohio’s union-busting legislation, Senate Bill 5, that voters appear ready to repeal on Nov. 8, conservative activist James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas attempted to make one of the Buckeye State’s most respected think tanks the target of one of its latest “investigations.”
Fox News’ morning show “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday oversimplified and misrepresented an ongoing news story about a former Democratic congressman, an anti-abortion-rights group and the new health-care reform law.
Two weeks before the November 8 election, Ohio voters seem poised to stomp the aggressive collective-bargaining-curbing law, Senate Bill 5, that has unified public employee union members with nearly every other demographic in the state, according to a poll released by Quinnipiac University on Oct. 25.
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney seems dangerously close to waffling on union reform, an issue core to many conservative voters, in Ohio, as he has made different statements on the state’s flashpoint political issue in the last two days.
Ohio’s attorney general has rejected the wording of an amendment that seeks to define a human being from the moment of conception. Attorney General Mike DeWine told Personhood Ohio that the group must rework the wording of its amendment before it can be approved.
After a bit of a late summer lag, opponents of Ohio’s collective-bargaining-reform law, Senate Bill 5, have regained a definitive lead, according to a recent poll by Public Policy Polling.
As the fate of Ohio’s Senate Bill 5 hangs in the balance, so too may the fate of public-sector unions in the Buckeye State.
While Ohio’s Senate Bill 5, legislation approved in March that curbs collective-bargaining rights for public employees, has been viewed largely as an attack on teachers, firefighters and police officers, the legislation could also have major implications for Ohio’s veteran community.
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