Quinnipiac just released it latest polls on Ohio:
"Ohio voters disapprove 49 - 38 percent of the job Gov. John Kasich is doing, compared to 46 - 30 disapproval in March, while by 54 - 36 percent they say that SB 5 should be repealed, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.Registered voters disapprove of Kasich's handling of the state budget 53 - 35 percent compared to 51 - 31 percent disapproval in a March 23 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University.
And by 53 - 36 percent they say the governor's proposals are unfair to people like them, identical to the March 23 survey findings. "
Some activists around here feel that the Ohio anti-union law S.B. 5 is actually WORSE than the Wisconsin law and that Ohio is actually more important to the 2012 elections than Wisconsin, yet because of the mass demonstrations in WI. , most media and blogosphere coverage focuses up there and not here.
Right now, we are working to get the signatures required to put a Recall SB 5 (AKA "Kill the Bill") referendum on the ballot. And clearly, voter sentiment is on our side. A significant number of GOP leaning voters feel that Kasich has egregiously overreached, and not just on this issue.
The only struggle that I see with the Referendum is just the logistics of gathering so many VALID signatures in so little time. The last elections handed control of the election process at the state level and in many counties back to the GOP. I expect them to invalidate every signature that they can... and then some more.
And sadly, in some important counties, BOTH parties have failed to ensure a "clean" board of elections free of nepotism, cronyism and incompetence. (And it hurts to say that.) Fortunately, there are still many other counties (like mine) where the BOE and their paid staffers, still do their best to "get it right" despite often erratic direction from the SoS and the legislature.
Oh how we miss having Jennifer Brunner at SoS... The loss of that one state level ministerial position may ultimately have consequences heard around the world. I expect that this referendum will make it to the ballot, but there are a lot of other controversy that I see between now and the fall 2012 elections, not the least of which is redistricting and reapportionment.