afl-cio, which has poured $1 million into this astroturf front group we are ohio, slash, we are one there this ohio are putting all are of their rank and file on the ground there. they are squeezing deuce out of a lot of members who disagree, not only with their tactics, but with their ideology. you interviewed a member of the ohio education association, a teacher named jay thompson, earlier this year who blew the whistle on how her union, the oea, the ohio education union, was using her own deuce to campaign against her husband, who happened to be a republican state legislation candidate who agreed with the need for this kind of reform. they are we lling brass knuckles. i posted a picture yesterday on my website of yes on issue two sign that had been torn down. and usually, yeah, there s some measure of that that goes on in
percent of the vote about the survey was taken in august. and things are no different for cain. one poll has him on top with 28% of the vote, leading romney by 5 points, and ron paul with 8% of the vote. what s interesting in a three-way primary race in ohio, cain defeats romney by 7 points and perry by 30. joining me to talk about his rise to the top is businessman, republican presidential candidate, the one and only herman cain. those numbers have to make you feel pretty good. well, they make me feel pretty good, but also means that we have to still continue to work hard. we are very pleased with that but we are not letting up and we are sticking to our strategy. what do you think is the reason for this incredible rise you have had? and the question a lot of us had early on, pawlenty was up, down-and-out, michele bachman had a surge, perry had a surge. you seem to be maintaining it.
it s fear. and we know how difficult it is for any rank and file union member to challenge this forced deuce racket. it takes an incredible amount of courage, moxie, a lot of legal fees that rank and file teachers simply do not have. and there really needs to be an internal revolt among rank and file teachers to overthrow these regimes that are causing their demise. i mean it s because of these bad decisions that all of these school districts are as bad a shape as they are in. it s not john kasich s fault, it s not scott walker s fall. look in the mirror or. that s what these big labor organizations have to do. michelle malkin, as always, thank you for being with us. appreciate your investigative work. you bet. and let not your heart be troubled. our great, great, great american panel from columbus, ohio coming up next. the employee of the month isss. the new spark card from capital one.
it is so hard for small businesses to be successful, and when you raise their cost of doing business, they are going to go somewhere, and that s why ohio has been getting clobbered for ten years. sean, we ve lost 6,700,000 jobs in ten years and 400,000 jobs over the last four years. now we are beginning to win. and i wanted to give the local governments these tools so that they could be successful in being a partner with us. if this goes down, and we don t know yet, elections are farther away, we will work with local governments to figure out how to control their costs because we can t bail them out. we don t have money to send to them. you are getting demonized. you are getting beaten up and you have millions of dollars of ads, they are busting in union people from around the country. i know because i met one of the bus drivers and unions are given free weekends in ohio for people who will protest you. good, i hope they spend money in the state. we can use that. if you are a teach
when you look at the states that grow the fastest, like texas, they have very few regulations and like no taxes. so what we are trying to do is give local government the tools to cope with a tighter budget. we had to reduce some of the money we sent to local governments. the federal government even got rid of revenue sharing. so as we reduced that money we were giving to local government, we gave them the tools to cope with those reductions. okay. so people decide they aren t going to have local state local employees, government employees, pay for their pensions or contribute to the pension and healthcare. okay. so that means what for those local municipalities? in one community just south of columbus they just laid off 14 firefighters today because they don t have enough money to meet the budget. the other alternative is you raise taxes. up this cleveland we saved a company called american greetings, the greeting card company. the community of ohio rayed taxes and get what they