Hey, Governor, Martin wants to know......

....why you left out the FOP and the Ohio Association of Professional Firefighters placards at your table setting....SB 5 affects them also? Did you intentionally forget about that because you realized that you bit off more than you could chew and you knew that Ohio's firefighters and cops vs. you would not make a winning picture?

THEY DIDN'T!

http://www.chillicothegazette.com/article/20110827/OPINION03/108270312
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Chillicothe Gazette, August 27, 2011
Editor, the Gazette:

On Aug. 19, Gov. John Kasich stood in a room with Senate President Tom Niehaus, House Speaker William G. Batchelder and a lot of reporters.

The three Republicans representing our state government who had originally opined on Aug. 18 that they did not want to get into a position of "negotiating in the press," began negotiating in the press on Aug. 19.

The stage was set; the room had six seats with fancy placards denoting the Ohio Education Association, the AFL-CIO, AFSCME, SEIU and others. Of course, the Fraternal Order of Police and the Ohio Association of Professional Firefighters had no seats or fancy placards because that wasn't part of the script for this particular commercial.

Basically, the room looked like the statehouse did back in February when the governor locked the doors so the citizenry couldn't enter to state their case.

This little vignette, staged by the state's leaders, is now going to be used, as planned, in commercials to portray teachers, prison workers and the very people guarding Gov. Kasich himself as unyielding and mean.

William Pitt said, "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."

Prepare yourselves to hear numerous pleas of necessity from Gov. Kasich and wealthy interests from outside of Ohio that he represents this coming fall, with this very setting used as the backdrop.

Martin Smith, Chillicothe