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?
Middletown is laying off 9 firefighters, despite the city’s police and fire budgets both increasing by nearly 1/3 in the past decade....The unions made this bed, and Ohio voters were gullible enough to climb into it.
Cleveland City School District is eliminating preschool, high school busing, and 75 security positions...
Westerville City School District is firing 62 support staff, cutting busing, and eliminating all sports...
One of Lancaster’s three city firehouses was closed last month after the mayor laid off 13 firefighters to help balance the budget. The 68 firefighters remaining have predicted response times will increase in the city of about 37,000, but they could not say by how much....
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