PD:Police &fire unions say they will make Ohio Republicans pay for proposal limiting collective barg

[Kolesar]

Police and fire unions upset over a bill in the Ohio Statehouse that would sharply restrict collective bargaining say they will make sure Republicans supporting the proposal pay at the ballot box next year and beyond.

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While labor groups such as the Ohio AFL-CIO and the Ohio Education Association almost always support Democratic candidates and causes, public safety forces, especially at local levels, are as open to supporting Democrats as they are Republicans. Until now.

"I think what is going to end up happening is you are going to make a lot of conservative-leaning safety forces liberal-leaning. It is going to make a lot of Democrats out of Republicans," said Cleveland police union president Stephen Loomis, who said 70 percent of the officers in his membership are conservatives.

"They are setting the framework for the Democrats to take back the House next year," Loomis said
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2011/02/police_and_fire_unions_say_the.html

[IamK]

1. It would have been better to "make them pay" before they were elected...

[dem3550]

2. +1

[we can do it]

3. Yes Indeed - Maybe Now the Eyes Have Opened

[ckimmy57]

7. Well....

Lets hope so

[realisticphish]

4. +1

[cmd]

5. The tide is changing

Some of my non political republican leaning friends will be in Columbus tomorrow.

[Deep13]

6. I just hope we don't pit union voters against each other.

We don't want a situation where by amendment to the House bill, referendum or througha new legislature in 2013 we get an exemption for police and fire, but everyone else is screwed.