Today I went to the local Portage County Tea Party meeting to protest against what I see to be an anti-education, anti-worker organization. I'm worried that the Tea Party Republican backed Congress will cut or take away the Pell Grants I rely on to help fund my education. I don't want Governor Kasich to cut funding for for higher education in Ohio, since the recession caused massive unemployment here, our many good universities are the one of our best hopes for the future.
Coincidentally, Ohio State Senator Tim Grendell was speaking at the meeting that night, a Republican who voted against the anti-worker bill SB5. In the speech on the Senate floor here, Grendell said that SB5 would turn collective bargaining to "collective begging", and spoke in defense of police, firemen, and teachers, that it would allow muncicpalities to "impose their will" on public employees, and make city councils free to make "stupid decisions."