SB 5 and....public servants, I know where I will never buy auto insurance!

From John Curry, October 9, 2011
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/10/08/private-groups-back-supporters-of-sb-5.html

“We support Issue 2 because we believe the policy is important to preserving the well-being of the state of Ohio,” said Paul Richards, spokesman for Motorists Mutual Insurance Co."

Private groups back supporters of SB 5

Darrel Rowland and Alex Stuckey
Columbus Dispatch, October 8, 2011

Even though the battle over state Issue 2 centers on public employees, Ohio’s private sector apparently is weighing in with its wallet.

“We support Issue 2 because we believe the policy is important to preserving the well-being of the state of Ohio,” said Paul Richards, spokesman for Motorists Mutual Insurance Co.

The Columbus-based insurer has given $50,000 to the Building a Better Ohio campaign, which is backing the state issue that would preserve collective-bargaining limits on state and local government workers in Senate Bill 5.

One of the questions going into the fall campaign was whether private Ohio businesses would ante up for the campaign to restrict public employees’ bargaining rights.

Richards said company officials wanted the two sides to come to a compromise, but contributed to the proponents of Issue 2 when no agreement was reached. Although Building a Better Ohio has not publicly divulged its donors or how much they’re giving, hints of the group’s support are evident in a handful of filings with the Ohio secretary of state required of corporations or unions giving directly from their treasury.

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