84% of the emails Kasich got on SB 5 opposed the bill; many of the 14% in favor were out-of-state

[highplainsdem]

From the Columbus Dispatch:

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/04/03/copy/opponents-of-sb-5-fill-kasichs-email-inbox.html

During nearly two months of drama between Republican state Sen. Shannon Jones' introduction of Senate Bill 5 - which limits collective-bargaining rights for Ohio's 360,000 public employees - and Kasich's signing the bill Thursday, the governor received thousands of emails voicing strong opinions on the bill.

The breakdown: 16 percent in favor, 84percent against, according to a Dispatch analysis of more than 14,000 emails obtained through a public-records request. Hundreds of the emails either did not state a clear opinion on the measure, had nothing to do with collective bargaining, or were duplicates.

More than half the 11,716 counted emails represented some form of a standardized message suggested by the Ohio Education Association. In all, nearly two-thirds came from writers who identified themselves as a public employee or a close relative - virtually all of whom opposed the measure.

However, even without the self-identified public workers, the Senate bill was still opposed by 57 percent of those who emailed Kasich.

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The article explains that dozens of the emails supporting the bill came from out of state, and some of those people mentioned seeing Kasich on Fox News.

There were also emails from "scores of self-identified Republican teachers, police officers and firefighters" who said they wouldn't vote for Kasich again.

[iwishiwas]

1. People do not matter to greedy, ideologically driven Govenors.

[patrice]

2. Ooooo! This touches on one of my favorite questions: How come we don't get regular reports on

these kinds of communications that any/all of our elected representatives receive???

What ARE they actually doing with all of that input?

Hmmmmmmmm??????????

[patrice]

3. Kick!

[Hutzpa]

4. The proof is in the pudding.

:kick:

[upstatecajun]

5. He is in his

own little GOP world.

[Bozita]

6. Your link no longer works. Here's one that does ...

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/04/03/copy/opponents-of-sb-5-fill-kasichs-email-inbox.html?adsec=politics&sid=101