BREAKING NEWS: Ohio votes to overturn (ISSUE 2) new collective bargaining law [View All]

[kpete]

Source: Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Washington and Columbus, Ohio—
Ohioans voted Tuesday to overturn the state's new law limiting collective bargaining rights for public employees, a victory for organized labor and their Democratic allies in the key electoral battleground.

With 25% of precincts reporting, the "no" votes for Issue 2 -- votes for repealing Senate Bill 5 -- had a 63-37% advantage. The Associated Press called the race at 9:16 pm ET.

The vote marks a setback for Ohio Gov. John Kasich who, along with other newly-elected Republicans this year, sought to limit public sector workers' ability to collectively bargain. A similar effort in Wisconsin spurred a slate of recall elections of Republican state senators, and another potentially coming next year targeting Gov. Scott Walker himself.

A union-financed petition drive put the measure on the Ohio ballot this spring shortly after Kasich enacted the law. The contest over the initiative was perhaps this fall’s most expensive, and closely watched, fight.




Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-ohio-issue-2-20111108,0,63215.story

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With 18% of the vote in, the AP calls it: SB5/Issue 2 has been defeated.
http://crooksandliars.com/breaking-news/win-unions-ohios-issue-2-defeated

RACHEL MADDOW ANNOUNCED IT TO THE CROWD

i am shaking with excitment
THIS Is What Democracy Looks Like
kpete

MORE:
http://www.fox19.com/story/15990754/ap-ohio-voters-reject-issue-2

DECISION 2011: Issue 2 Rejected in Ohio
Issue 2, also known as the collective bargaining law, has been rejected by Ohio voters.
Posted: 9:22 PM Nov 8, 2011
Reporter: The Associated Press
http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/132543538.html
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COLUMBUS — Ohio’s new law limiting the collective bargaining abilities of 350,000 unionized public workers has been defeated after an expensive union-backed campaign that pitted firefighters, police officers and teachers against the state’s Republican establishment.

The law hadn’t taken effect yet. It was thrown out today amid high turnout in a year without a presidential election.
http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2011/11/08/issue-2-defeated-ap-reports/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/08/ohio-us-unions?newsfeed=true

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19288942

Republicans in the state who supported the measure will also have to carry the baggage of vouching for something that was overturned. And looking ahead to 2012, that's something that could potentially affect races at the federal level, as Democrats will surely blast Republicans who supported SB 5 and cast its repeal as a rejection of the GOP agenda.
http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2011/11/ohio-voters-rep.php


Ohio Voters Emphatically Reject Kasich’s Anti-Union Law
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/ohio-voters-emphatically-reject-kasichs-anti-union-law.php?ref=fpa

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President Obama has issued his congratulations to:

...the people of Ohio for standing up for workers and defeating efforts to strip away collective bargaining rights, and commends the teachers, firefighters, nurses, police officers and other workers who took a stand to defend those rights.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/08/1034507/-Working-people-win-in-Ohio-with-rejection-of-anti-union-Issue-2?via=blog_1