Col Dispatch: Pro-union coalition to deliver more than a million signatures for SB 5 referendum !

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 11:23 AM
BY JOE VARDON

The Columbus Dispatch

BEN MARRISON | DISPATCH

The coalition leading the effort to repeal Senate Bill 5 will deliver nearly 1.3 million signatures to the secretary of state today to place Ohio's new collective bargaining law on the November ballot.

A parade of more than 6,000, led by a banner proclaiming the "million signature march," rumbled through Downtown this morning.

We Are Ohio, the group leading the referendum effort, organized the march up Broad Street to Fourth Street, where a semi-truck carrying the 1,298,301 signatures in 1,502 boxes collected will be unloaded. The parade also included retired fire trucks, a drum line, bagpipes and loud motorcycles. It took about 15 minutes to pass.

Secretary of State Jon Husted has a staff of 60 ready to work on the signatures. Meeting the threshold also would stop the law from taking effect until the November election

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:woohoo:

Now we just need to show up at the ballot box to vote these right wing radicals out of office.

:mad:

they needed about 230,000 signatures and got 1.3 million.
and this will keep the new law from taking effect until the november election when voters can overturn the law.
sounds to me like the citizens of ohio might have out maneuvered the kocks on this one.