Our evil governor's latest Machiavellian deceit: if the people rise up against you, then try to confuse the issue.
In record time, the opponents of "Governor Opaque's" draconian union busting bill SB 5 have been able to raise THREE TIMES the number of signatures needed to put it's recall on the ballot this fall.
So, faced with certain defeat, he's been trying to find some "end around." At one point, the GOP was going to try and launch their own anti-union ballot referendum, in an effort to confuse voters. Well, that went over like a lead balloon. Then they tried to put an anti-healthcare reform measure on the ballot. Result? Epic fail.
So now, what would Machiavelli do?
Try to divide the recall referendum question in four or five pieces to confuse voters and to try to keep at least parts of this horrid legislation.
To break what appears to be strong, unified opposition to Senate Bill 5, Gov. John Kasich and his allies might seek to have the umbrella law that would weaken collective bargaining for public employees divided into multiple ballot questions.
What he'll do next is to bring in MILLIONS of dollars from the Koch brothers to buy ad time to try and save SB 5 through deception. He'll stop at NOTHING. So we've got to stop HIM!
12:33 PM PT: And already Jon Husted, the GOP Ohio SoS says "no." This is PERFECTLY emblematic of the fractures that Kasich provokes amongst old line GOP power brokers.
It seems like the Columbus Dispatch servers are overloading but here's the link:
http://www.dispatch.com/...
Hat tip to glhf
There seems to be problems with the "Dogpatch" web servers, so here is an alternative link:
http://www.toledoblade.com/...
BTW, this is not the only issue where Husted has come out against the current regimes uber neo-con policies.
http://www.cleveland.com/...
Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted, Ohio's elections chief, also came out against the photo ID requirement in the bill. Husted, a Republican, said voters should be allowed to give their full social security number if they don't have an ID.