Sherrod Brown’s Shameful Record
By: Jason Hart (Diary) | January 21st at 02:05 PM |
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) served 7 terms in the House – starting in 1993 – before his 2006 election to the U.S. Senate. I’m 28, and Yale graduate Sherrod Brown has been peddling his blue-collar class warfare elixir in Washington since I was in 4th grade. Does his record merit reelection this November? If you have any vaguely conservative beliefs, the answer is a resounding | Read More »
Big Labor Partisanship at Teacher Expense
By: Jason Hart (Diary) | January 21st at 01:33 PM |
However they market themselves, public unions are political by nature, brimming partisanship that goes beyond their skewed campaign spending. Every Republican teacher, public safety worker, and government employee forced to pay “fair share” dues should be outraged. My state’s National Education Association (NEA) affiliate, the Ohio Education Association (OEA), takes millions in fees from non-members each year. Operating on NEA’s model, OEA insists all teachers | Read More »
Ohio Workers Keep Losing Thanks to Big Labor’s Win
By: Jason Hart (Diary) | January 17th at 09:08 PM |
In Wisconsin, Governor Walker’s public union reforms are pummeling the Big Labor narrative by saving taxpayer dollars and teachers’ jobs. Meanwhile, the professional class-warriors who get rich pushing “solidarity” force districts into layoffs by refusing to revisit unaffordable contracts. After similar reforms failed in Ohio thanks to a smear campaign exceeding $30 million, Ohio’s public workers are enjoying the sort of union victory that’s often | Read More »
Is Chairman DeWine Misleading Ohio GOP Donors?
By: Jason Hart (Diary) | January 5th at 09:30 AM |
During the flood of uniformly annoying December 31 fundraising mailers, Kevin DeWine and the Ohio Republican Party (ORP) sent an email titled, “Every Dollar Raised in Ohio, Stays in Ohio.” Does this mean ORP has severed ties with Brett Buerck and his Florida consulting firm, Majority Strategies? As recently as November 2, 2011, The Columbus Dispatch covered ORP’s Buerck connection: Ohio GOP Chairman Kevin DeWine | Read More »
Old Guard GOP May Hand Ohio to Obama
By: Jason Hart (Diary) | December 29th at 10:00 AM |
As brutal election results reflected, the Ohio Republican Party (ORP) was a scandal-plagued outfit circa 2006. I don’t relish the current ORP leadership fight, but if we don’t want second terms for President Obama and Senator Sherrod Brown we must avoid repeating our mistakes. Party chairman Kevin DeWine’s old-guard ways – combined with his public betrayal of Governor Kasich – make it hard to believe | Read More »
Ohio GOP Chair Attacks Governor Kasich’s Staff
By: Jason Hart (Diary) | December 19th at 09:00 AM |
For America to have any hope of averting fiscal collapse, the GOP presidential nominee will need to win Ohio in less than 11 months. Each day of Ohio Republican Party (ORP) infighting improves the odds for President Obama and Senator Sherrod Brown, redistributionist extraordinaire. I’ve already given my two cents on the conflict between ORP chair Kevin DeWine and Governor Kasich, so I won’t belabor | Read More »
Union Bosses Win, Ohio Workers Get Fired
By: Jason Hart (Diary) | December 15th at 04:16 PM |
One month ago Ohio voted with its heart against reforms portrayed as an attack on public workers. Ohio, DC, and New York union bosses spent more than $30 million drenching the airwaves in images of sad firefighters, sad police officers, and evil Republicans, convincing voters to overlook a broken status quo. A month later, how are local governments celebrating the union victory on Issue 2? | Read More »
Ruckus in the Ohio Republican Party
By: Jason Hart (Diary) | December 13th at 06:37 PM |
A month after an election with mixed results for the small-government cause, Ohio conservatives are suffering through a very public GOP power struggle. Governor Kasich’s push to replace Ohio Republican Party (ORP) chairman Kevin DeWine has national implications: the Issue 2 campaign proved how low Democrats, Progressives, and unions (but I repeat myself) are willing to go to win the Buckeye state. Sherrod Brown and | Read More »
Sherrod Brown Smears Big Labor’s Critics as McCarthyists
By: Jason Hart (Diary) | December 10th at 10:00 AM |
Always happy to attack Big Labor’s enemies, Sherrod Brown (D-OH) did so from the Senate floor during the debate over Craig Becker’s appointment to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). After being placed during a recess, Becker has driven NLRB’s lurch to the Progressive fringe, shoring up the power of key Democratic Party donors at the expense of workers and businesses across the country. The | Read More »
Sherrod Brown’s Shameful Mediscare Routine
By: Jason Hart (Diary) | December 9th at 06:00 PM |
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) doesn’t have a voting record ranked as far left as Socialist Bernie Sanders by accident; Sherrod thinks a bigger central government is the answer to every problem. In this video, Senator Brown applies his trademark class warfare to the issue of Medicare, instructing a gathering of teachers’ union members to indoctrinate their family, friends, and students against cruel conservatism: Like the | Read More »