Readers of Clifford's hometown newspaper (Findlay Courier) blast homeboy Hite!
The Courier, March 4, 2011
VOTE AN INSULT TO WORKERS
Senator Hite, you have now shown your true colors. We thought them to be "red, white, and blue," or maybe locally "blue and yellow" for the Findlay Trojans. But no, your true color is a nasty hue of brown born of a toxic combination of treachery, insult, and greed.
Treachery in the fact that you were once a teacher in the public schools. You saw the fight for collective bargaining rights for teachers, police officers, firefighters, and a whole host of other public workers over the years that you were a teacher, and I'm quite certain that these rights were beneficial to you.
Insult, as you slap every police officer, firefighter, and teacher in the face with your vote to send Senate Bill 5 out of committee, after your party pulled shenanigans to have you replace another member of your party who would not support the bill.
And greed, with which your party has always had a close relationship (see Kasich, Wall Street crooks, etc.) and to whom you are now forever linked.
The name Cliff Hite in Findlay for years was linked with music, with love of students, with commitment to excellence in the city band program. It came from the respect this community had for your father, and for the love and respect that he had for them.
Now let it be known that the name Cliff Hite senior still stands for such. And the name Cliff Hite junior stands against teachers, coaches, firefighters, police officers, municipal workers, librarians, and many other taxpaying, hardworking, middle-class (remember them?) citizens who truly serve in the capacity that you only pretend to hold or even care about: public servant.
I am ashamed to have you as my state senator, and I think your father would be, too.
Timothy Davis
Findlay
Findlay
SENATE BILL 5 A SLAP IN THE FACE
I cannot believe that the governor and Cliff Hite support Senate Bill 5. This has turned me away from supporting all Republicans. This is a slap in the face of the working class.
For the record, I am not a public worker, and I know this issue is wrong.
While we're at it, why is our country slowly being sold to other countries? Why is our own governor turning his back on us?
Did you hear what was reported on the TV news? John Kasich said they have to be careful not to give power back to the people! What?
Don Wilcox
Arlington
Arlington
HITE SHOULD BE ASHAMED
How ironic that our newly appointed senator, Cliff Hite, a former teacher and coach, has voted against his former meal ticket and is against collective bargaining by public unions!
The Ohio Senate voted 17-16 in favor of a major overhaul of the 27-year-old collective bargaining law, which will be headed toward a vote in the Ohio House on March 15.
Six Republicans joined all Senate Democrats in opposition.
Public unions view this as an attack on the middle class. Since Sen. Hite is now a member of the "rich politician club," and assuming that he will continue to receive his teacher pension provided by a public union in addition to his Senate salary and benefits, does he not consider his "yes" vote as a direct slap in the face to the rest of Ohio teachers who still consider themselves "middle class"?
He should be ashamed.
Salena Maazaoui
Findlay
Findlay
SENATE TACTIC SEEMS UNETHICAL
According to a March 3 article in The Courier, when Senate Bill 5 was put to a vote before the full state Senate, the bill squeaked through, 17-16. Six Republicans sided with Democrats against the measure. Sen. Cliff Hite, R-Findlay, again voted in favor of the bill.
As an "overpaid" teacher and a public worker, I want to know how it is ethical to pull senators that oppose the Senate Bill 5 off the vote and replace them with senators who will vote the party line and not with a conscience?
Heather Hunt
Findlay
Findlay
HITE'S VOTE A STEEP PRICE TO PAY
The GOP gamed the committee vote on Senate Bill 5 by removing a senator who was going to vote no and putting Findlay's Cliff Hite in his place, and he voted for the bill.
I'm glad that Hite paid back the GOP for appointing him to his seat.
It was a steep price to take away the rights of union members and add jail time for striking. I'm sure he has all his teacher pension paperwork in order so it didn't matter to him, turning his back on his former colleagues.
Maybe now he will be able to do what is right for the voters in his district. Shame on Sen. Hite.
Douglas Berger
Columbus
Columbus
posted by Kathie Bracy at 7:06 PM
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