Republican Gov. John Kasich has made a reputation disrespecting teachers, unionized state workers, unionized firefighters and police officers. Kasich has called them names and blamed the state's ills on union workers and binding arbitration. Teachers, state workers, firefighters, and police officers don't need this deserve this type of treatment.
How do you think that Kasich will be received when he visits Lordstown and addresses the union workers there? I hope that when he speaks that those union auto workers refuse to applaud for Kasich. If they sat there silently while Kasich talks, that would really let him know that they have just as much respect for him as he does for them.
As the Ohiodailyblog (10/26/10) reported during the campaign, Kasich called union workers "union thugs."
....Well, yesterday we learned there's another group John Kasich disdains. Union families. In a frantic, stumbling stump speech in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, Kasich stopped talking about jobs and instead, turned his eye to what he believes is really wrong with Ohio. "Union thugs."
.....Characterizing union workers, the backbone of our manufacturing and service economies, as "thugs" is one of the most mean-spirited, divisive smears this season. It sends the message that the guy working the third shift to put three kids through college is, in fact, a criminal....
I hope the UAW gives Kasich a polite but quiet welcome.