....The bill enjoys the support of 63 percent of Republicans polled while 73 percent of Democrats favored its repeal. Independents favored repeal by a margin of 54 percent to 41 percent. Geographically, the northern half of the state with post-industrial cities like Cleveland, Lorain, Sandusky, and Toledo which were once union strongholds favored repeal. The southwest region of the state represented the highest concentration of support for the bill.
The ongoing battle over Senate Bill 5 has apparently taken its toll on Gov. John Kasich's poll numbers. Just 37 percent of voters in Wenzel's survey approved of the job Kasich was doing where 56 percent held a negative opinion of the governor. Perhaps the most troubling data for Kasich is that just 65 percent of registered Republicans approve of the job he is doing.
Senate Bill 5 opponents hope to organize and place a referendum on the November ballot. They have taken the first step by turning in more than 3,000 signatures to be allowed to submit petition language to Attorney General Mike DeWine. When the Attorney General has approved the petition language, referendum proponents will have 90 days in which to obtain 231,149 valid signatures of Ohio voters to submit to the Secretary of State. Those signatures must come from 44 of Ohio's 88 counties.
The key to a repeal is voter turnout. Start working on your friends, relatives, and businesses that you know. You might want to explain to everyone that if SB 5 remains law, you won't be frequenting the florist, dry cleaners, department stores, restaurants, movies, the local pizza shop, entertaining at home, or buying Christmas and birthday gifts because your wages will be cut. The businesses in Ohio need the buying power of 350,000 public employees. Those businesses that do not stand with public employees and against SB 5 should be noted and abandoned.