Another Poll Shows Americans Against Republican Agenda

Update:   Trenton, New Jersey was the location for a rally today.


AsburyParkPress:

Up to 12,000 off-duty and retired New Jersey police and firefighters have finished a rally in front of the state Capitol to protest staff cuts and promote public safety.

The public safety workers say budget cuts and layoffs have thinned their ranks to unsafe levels....

.....Public safety workers began setting up for their rally before dawn. The state Police Benevolent Association had 110 buses.....

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Americans do not like the scapegoating that Republicans across the country have been using against middle class union workers.

CBS NEWS:

...Polls indicate national public opinion favors unions in the dispute.

The latest New York Times-CBS poll found Americans oppose efforts to weaken the collective bargaining rights of public employee unions by a margin of almost two to one — 60 percent to 33 percent. The nationwide telephone poll of 984 adults had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points....


Gov. Kasich has been doing some fundraising off the backs of his attacks on unions.  If Kasich said he was a "one termer" then why is he fundraising?  I'd like to see a poll done like the one that was conducted in Wisconsin...... "If the election for Ohio governor were held today......."


Greg Sargent talks about all the polls in the Plum Line in the Washington Post. The concluding paragraph sums up where the American people stand regarding public employees:

...Indeed, the verdict is clear: Americans support public employees in this standoff. Whether that will impact the outcome of the fight, of course, remains to be seen. But the bigger story here -- one that will ripple far beyond what happens in Wisconsin -- is that public employees are not proving the easy scapegoat many predicted they would be, and when faced with the question of whether their fundamental union rights should be taken away, Americans have stepped up and answered with a firm No.


Republicans need to back off on their attacks on the hardworking people who are public employees.