Anti-Union Issue-2 in OHIO going down... 2-1

The Viking wrote: I agree. Stupid clueless liberals! They will never get it! the top 10 poorest cities have been run by Dems for decades and some have never had a Republican mayor. They just want the government to take care of them

F*** that. I have family and friends in Ohio who are nurses, firemen, policemen, and teachers and every one of 'em is a Republican and every one of 'em voted against this bill! They take care of themselves, but won't let the government take their rights away from them and make their lives harder either. This bill was defeated BY THE PEOPLE, conservative and liberal alike.

http://www.truth-out.org/ohio-labor-mov ... 1320856161
Ohio Labor Movement Defeats Anti-Union Bill and Its Wealthy Supporters
Wednesday 9 November 2011
by: Mike Ludwig

Ohioans voted to repeal Senate Bill 5 (SB 5) by a margin of 61 to 38 percent. SB 5 would have limited collective bargaining rights for more than 350,000 public workers in Ohio and increased health care and pension costs for some workers.

SB 5 passed the Ohio legislature by a single vote in March, and soon after, 10,000 pro-worker volunteers began working to put the bill up for a voter referendum, as allowed by Ohio law. Volunteers collected an unprecedented 1.3 million signatures by June.

The campaign pit money from unions and their middle-class supporters against secret funds donated by businesses, wealthy Ohioans and out-of-state interests. We Are Ohio, labor's main campaign vehicle, reported all of their finances and raised $30 million, mostly from Ohio unions and public teachers groups. Building a Better Ohio, the GOP-linked group defending the law, set up a nonprofit corporation to raise funds and avoided revealing their finances to the public, but a recent Truthout investigation shed light on the Republican fund raising scheme.

In the end, the pro-SB 5 campaign failed to gain the same momentum as the repeal effort, which received massive support from thousands of tireless volunteers and middle-class donors, who refused to let Ohio's police, firefighters and teachers lose their collective voice.

And your claim that the top ten poorest cities have all had Democrat mayors...mostly useless. There are a whole lot more factors than just a mayor as to why a city is poor - economic and social demographics for one, influx of immigrants, geographic location, industry shut-downs, etc.