https://redstate.com/freedom-foundation/2023/02/08/union-money-not-ohio-voters-decided-the-state-agenda-n700031
22 Republicans to join 32 Democrats and choose Householder crony Jason Stephens, R-Kitts Hill, over the presumptive next speaker, Derek Merrin, R-Monclova Township, it’s easy to see why the majority in the Republican caucus would want to rein in the
speaker’s powers.
Ohio voters went to the polls in November and voted overwhelmingly across the state for an agenda that would return parental rights in education, get a handle on state government spending, and lower taxes on everything from gas to groceries.
Now, with the control of the speaker’s gavel based on support from the Democrats, that agenda seems to have taken a significant hit.
Ohio Democrats, in fact, are still very much the pawns of Big Labor, and its agenda favors teachers’ union priorities over parents while expanding state government spending rather than helping families in the Buckeye State keep more of their own
paychecks.
Thus, it’s noteworthy that the 22 Republican defectors who joined the Democrats to elect Jason Stephens have something significant in common — union money, particularly government union dollars.
Collectively, the 22 GOP lawmakers who supported Stephens have, since 2017, collected more than $347,000 from government unions, including the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), the Ohio Education Association (OEA), the Ohio Nurses
Association (ONA), the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association (OCSEA) and the Ohio Federation of Teachers (OFT).
During the same time period, the 11 Republicans who took government union money but did not support Stephens accepted barely $54,000 from the IBEW, OEA, ONA, and OFT.
During their last election cycle, the 22 defectors received a combined $139,000 from government unions, while only 11 Republicans who did not support Stephens accepted money from the unions, totaling only $29,000.
And everyone is freaking out over Santos.....while these scumbags should truly be tarred and feathered and run out of office.
ScottW
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