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Monday, February 14, 2011
Tea Party groups praise plan to curb collective bargaining; foes of legislation plan to speak out
Supporters and opponents of Senate Bill 5, which would curb collective bargaining rights for public employees, on Monday announced plans to flex their political muscles.
The Ohio Liberty Council, a coalition of 60 Tea Party groups and like-minded organizations, supports the bill, sponsored by Sen. Shannon Jones, R-Clearcreek Twp.
“Unions are protecting entitlements and the last time I checked we are a society driven by merit and achievement, not entitlement and extortion,” Chris Littleton, Ohio Liberty Council co-founder, said in a press release.
The group will gather at 9 a.m. Thursday on the west lawn of the Statehouse to show support, the release said.
The Dayton Tea Party plans on having car pools going to the rally, Rob Scott, Dayton Tea Party president, said in an email.
Meanwhile, firefighters, teachers, retirees and small business leaders opposed to the bill on Tuesday are to hold a 10 a.m. press conference at Dirty Frank’s Hot Dog Palace in downtown Columbus to outline their criticism, a press release said.
The release called the bill a “partisan assault on working families in Ohio.”
The dueling releases come as the Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor Committee on Tuesday starts two days of hearings on the bill.
The bill would eliminate collective bargaining for state employees and limit bargaining rights for teachers, police, firefighters and other local government workers.
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TweetSen. Brown lashes out at Obama plan to kill Marine assault vehicle - would hurt Lima
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Monday lashed out at President Obama’s plan to eliminate the Marine Corps’ next generation assault vehicle, known as the Expeditionary Fight Vehicle, which is scheduled to be produced in Lima.
“The president’s proposed elimination of the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) is a wrongheaded move that’s bad for the Marines and western Ohio,” Brown said in a press release.
“….It would be penny wise and pound foolish to eliminate a program in which the government has already significantly invested, which is why I have urged the president to hold off on any decisions until the testing phase is complete.”
In a separate release, Brown praised Obama’s plans in his budget proposal for the NASA Glenn Research Center near Cleveland. The space research center’s budget would increase by more than $100 million in the next fiscal year, a Brown press release said.
To read about Obama’s plan to eliminate the Marine vehicle as part of his budget proposal, click here.
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TweetUPDATED with Speaker Boehner react -Sen. Portman blasts President Obama’s budget proposal
House Speaker John Boehner, R-West Chester, on Monday sharply criticized Democratic President Barack Obama’s 2012 budget proposal.
“The president’s budget will destroy jobs by spending too much, taxing too much and borrowing too much,” Boehner said in a press release…
“The president’s budget isn’t winning the future, it’s spending the future.”
U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, was out of the political box quickly on Monday to blast Democratic President Barack Obama’s budget request.
“America is in need of real leadership to address our fiscal threat,” Portman, a member of the Senate Budget Committee, said in a press release.
“Unfortunately, the budget the president presented does not rise to the challenge. It is a political document that rejects the serious recommendations of the president’s own commission.”
Portman was budget director under former Republican President George W. Bush.
Meanwhile, the president praised his budget proposal during remarks at a middle school in Baltimore:
“Even as we cut things that we can afford to do without, we have a responsibility to invest in those areas that will have the biggest impact in our future - and that’s especially true when it comes to education.”
To read an Associated Press story on the president’s proposal, click here.
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