You union members who are about to go to the polls tomorrow to vote against Issue 2 ought to be aware that your union overlords blow an awful lot of your dollars on guess who? themselves.
Like, for example, partying in Vegas:
- Flamingo Las Vegas – $175,476
- Flamingo Las Vegas Adv. Dep. – $129,859
- Harrah’s Las Vegas – $71,716
- Harrah’s Entertainment – $77,500
- Flamingo Las Vegas – $28,592
- Harrah’s Las Vegas – $10,511
- Harrah’s Entertainment – $12,500
- Mirage Hotel-Lodging – $6,152
Remember that unions have exempted themselves from Obamacare (for a while anyway) while YOU won't be.
Things don't look good for Issue 2. It looks like a resounding defeat.
The millions of dollars poured into this campaign had no opponent, as far as advertising the truth of what Issue 2 represents.
People don't know what it entails.
Even the Columbus Dispatch editorializes that the union ads have been terribly dishonest:
The claims of the anti-Issue 2 campaign have been intellectually dishonest. Chief among them is the suggestion that, with some bargaining-table leverage restored to them, state agencies and local governments instantly will begin slashing positions for firefighters and police and stop buying the equipment needed to keep the public safe. What possible motivation would a politician have for decimating safety services?
In fact, the opposite is more likely. With more ability to control the escalation of salary and benefit costs, governments won’t be forced as often to impose layoffs, and might be able to afford to keep even more police and firefighters on the streets.
An anti-Issue 2 ad featuring a nurse claiming that Senate Bill 5 will cause bosses to thin their ranks and endanger patients is even less credible, because only a small percentage of nurses in Ohio work for government-worker unions.
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