Gov. John Kasich

The War on Workers :Ohio

Passing Senate Bill 5, the anti-worker bill so extreme that Newsweek said it was worse than Wisconsin’s more publicized version, was just the start from Kasich and right-wing extremists in the legislature.  This week they proved again that nothing is sacred.  Not Ohio’s education system, not our basic voting rights, not women’s rights, and certainly not the middle class.

Today GOP lawmakers in the state Senate are getting ready to pass a budget so extreme that it made even the Republican House Speaker exclaim, “Oh my!  They must have a special room where they go to cook these things up.”

SO WHAT’S REALLY IN THE STATE BUDGET?
Local tax increases.
Gov. Kasich and the GOP are fixing their budget problems in Columbus by cutting off the economic oxygen and destroying local communities across Ohio. Through draconian cuts to local governments, this budget requires massive local property taxes to pay for school children, cops, firefighters, and nurses.

To Kasich and GOP lawmakers, local communities sure aren’t sacred.

Making it harder to earn a living in tough economic times.
Gov. Kasich and the GOP are fixing their budget problems in Columbus by cutting off the economic oxygen and destroying local communities across Ohio. Hundreds of millions in cuts to local governments mean businesses too will have to lay off workers or close.

To Kasich and GOP lawmakers, it’s clear that regular Ohioans who put in a long day’s work aren’t sacred.

New restrictions on women’s healthcare.
By taking away women’s right to abortion care in public health institutions, GOP senators are taking decisions out of the hands of a woman and her doctor.  Instead, they are making it the government’s decision and once again putting politics before patients.

To Kasich and GOP lawmakers, women’s health is certainly not sacred.

Handouts for their corporate friends.
As reported in the Columbus Dispatch, the millionaire owner of many profitable and failing charter schools called in special favors to his House Republican friends to get even richer with charter school rules passed in the House’s budget.  We’d wager the $217,000 Brennan and his wife gave to House GOP members in 2010 that their cozy relationship helped more than one idea make it into the budget.

To Kasich and GOP lawmakers, the middle class isn’t sacred.

Republicans rode into office by crying “jobs!” but now they are doing anything but.  Click here to help stop their dangerous policies from taking effect.

Want to call your legislator and tell him or her to vote against the budget?  Click here to find the number.

Sincerely,
The Ohio Democratic Party