Don't have the votes? Remove the voter, says GOP

When the Ohio senate took Senate bill 5 into committee, they were facing a deadlock for the committee vote 6-6. But that isn't a problem for Republicans.

If the vote isn't going to go their way, they simply remove the Senator casting the vote and replace him with someone who will vote in their favor.

Sen. Bill Seitz, of Cincinnati, who opposes the bill, has been removed from the committee and replaced with Sen. Cliff Hite, of Findlay. The switch was made to ensure the Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor Committee passes the bill, said Sen. Kevin Bacon, chairman of the committee.

Then the bill moved on to a second committee where again it faced a deadlocked vote.

No problem for the Republicans who simply removed yet another elected representative and replaced him with someone who would vote in their favor again!

It took the removal of two -- count 'em -- union-sympathetic Republicans from Ohio state Senate committees, but supporters of Gov. John Kasich's (R) plan to limit collective bargaining rights for state workers were able to move their plan one step closer to Kasich's desk today.



In order to ensure a vote that would go Kasich's way, the leader of the GOP-controlled state Senate removed Sen. Bill Seitz (R) from the Insurance and Labor Committee and Sen. Scott Oelslager (R) from the Rules Committee. Both Republicans are opposed to Kasich's collective bargaining plan, and their votes against it would have deadlocked their respective committees, thus keeping the bill from moving ahead.

So there you have our Representative government at work. There you have the Republican response to "You don't have the votes." There you have the Republican response to the "will of the people." And there you see the depths of deceit and corruption of the Republican agenda.

Elected officials, elected Republican officials, removed from their committees in order to insure the vote goes in their favor.

They just spit on the voters who elected these two Republican State Senators to represent them. This is beyond the pale.