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Why Senate Bill 5 Will Help Taxpayers – Or What is Wrong With Our System?

Student and TeacherCommentary as posted in the Columbus Dispatch

My wife and I are both retired schoolteachers, and we are divided about Ohio Senate Bill 5 and Gov. John Kasich. I’m for the proposal, but she doesn’t like it.

While at my wife’s retirement potluck dinner recently, I spoke to her family about the present state of education in Ohio, and then my mind started working. I taught in a district that had 85 percent reduced-price lunches. We were one of the poorest districts in the state, which means that for every dollar I was paid as a teacher, the state of Ohio paid 85 percent and the local residents paid 15 percent.

But herein lies the problem. Continue reading Why Senate Bill 5 Will Help Taxpayers – Or What is Wrong With Our System?

Ohio Senate Bill 5 Additional Stories – Continued

In a second follow-up to how the interactions between the pro-SB 5 groups and anti-Senate Bill 5 groups. This first hand report was also brought forth by Tom Zawistowski of the Portage County Tea Party. His account is as follows:

Canton, OH – Tuesday, February 22, 2011

After the experience in Columbus, we were looking for ways to be more effective. We then heard that the unions had decided to implement another Alinsky tactic and start protesting Governor Kasich everywhere he went in an effort to scare people away from meeting with him.  As Glenn Beck says, “Isolate them, then destroy them.”  So, the Governor was going to speak to the Chamber of Commerce in Canton.  We decided we could be more effective at these local meetings as opposed to going to Columbus again.  Stark 9.12 led the effort, supported by the Portage County TEA Party and the Summit 9.12 groups. When we arrived on the scene, at 4:30 PM on a Tuesday, it was clear the union people had been in position for a long time.

Having been to Columbus, I immediately went straight up to the ranking Swat officer and introduced myself as one of the leaders of the group. I had my Portage County name tag with my title clearly displayed and I was wearing a Portage County TEA Party hat.  I said to him, “Our goal is to make sure that there are no incidents at this event today and that everyone gets out of here safely. Continue reading Ohio Senate Bill 5 Additional Stories – Continued