Sick Days Initiative Off Ballot
Submitted by Nick D on Thu, 09/04/2008 - 9:54am.
So that's what was being annonuced at 9:15 today. From the Columbus Dispatch:
Ohioans for Healthy Families, the group that backed the paid sick-day amendment, said today that it has asked that the proposal be pulled off the Nov. 4 ballot.
Officials with the Serice Employees International Union were holding a press conference this morning with Gov. Ted Strickland and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, to announce the decision.
Strickland and Brown said they would push for a separate law requiring paid sick days.
SIEU District 1199 President Becky Williams said the union was "absolutely optimistic" about the possibility of a national sick-day law. "I believe we are all committed to make it not just the law of Ohio, but the law of the land."
Brown promised that a sick-day law would be "part of a Democratic agenda starting in January." He said, "We know this works and needs to be done nationally."
The elected officials, all Democrats, said they were counting on the election of Barack Obama, who supports a national sick-day proposal, to provide the impetus to pass the legislation.
Payday Lending
Submitted by Nick D on Thu, 09/04/2008 - 1:43pm.
Demgal, I have to believe that the payday lending thing will drive Democratic turnout in this election, especially since so many people were blatantly deceived by the petition circulators.
i can't imagine
Submitted by RMC2000 on Thu, 09/04/2008 - 4:24pm.
that anyone who wouldn't head to the polls to vote for barack obama would just to vote for a payday lending initiative. who gets excited about payday lending, but is ambivalent about the presidential race?
Yes On Issue 5
Submitted by Regular on Fri, 09/05/2008 - 10:47am.
Payday lending may very well bring folks out to vote on both sides of the aisle. Enumerable Ohio voters have been deceived by the payday lending circulators and many more can see when they are trying to be manipulated on TV. 391% interest is financial freedom? Are you kidding me?
There are a lot of people who are upset for having signed the petitions under false pretenses, some even believing that they are signing to lower interest rates or some falling for the jobs line. I have to agree with Nick D on this one!
Vote yes on issue 5, everyone!
http://www.yesonissue5.com
Here comes the payday lending industry smear campaign!
Submitted by Regular on Fri, 09/05/2008 - 4:34pm.
Looks like a reasonable discussion on the issues has attracted the payday lending industry's interest! They get caught lying to voters, telling them that signing a petition will lower interest rates, and now they want to try to turn the tables. Well, it's not going to work! You've violated the peoples' trust by lying to them repeatedly. Thousands upon thousands of those signatures you refer to were collected from voters signing under false pretenses.
The "government" (Republicans and Democrats together, mind you), decided to fix the free pass that the payday lending has had for over a decade to bilk hard working Ohioans from their hard earned cash. Now the industry is trying to overturn one of the best consumer protection laws in the nation because it threatens to decrease their profit margin. We can't let this happen! Vote yes on issue 5!
Just curious