This will be a short diary which only reports a bit on the Ohio effort to overturn, or exercize the People's Veto over Ohio SB5, an ALEC inspired attempt to break public employee unions, demonize public employees, most particularly school teachers, fire fighters and EMT's, and police officers. The backers for the side to retain the law have raised a firestorm with GrannyGate, an ad which twists the words of 78 year old Marlene Quinn, who was featured in a Repeal SB5 ad concerning fire fighters who saved the life of her great grandaughter Zoey, and made it appear that she supported SB5. Marlene was far tougher than the radical republicans imagined she might be, and with the help of the repeal group, We Are Ohio, made all of Ohio, and indeed, most of America know that the radical republican support group "Building a Better Ohio" just how unprincipled radical republicans can be.
In a front page story with the headline "Poll:Issue 2 sinking", the Columbus Dispatch, a very Republican newspaper reports that a Quinnipiac poll shows the Repeal SB5 campaign leading by 25 points, 57 to 32. Further, the internals show only Republican voters opposed to repeal. Among every other grouping of Ohio citizens, SB5 repeal leads by large margins. The internals are in a block quote below the fold.