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Columbus on the Record - Pro Senate Bill 5 Campaign Faces Uphill Battle
Columbus on the Record
 
 
 
This week, WOSU Public Media's "Columbus on the Record" panelists discuss how the GOP-backed Building a Better Ohio coalition has a lot of work to do to beat the efforts of the anti-SB5 campaign, headed by We Are Ohio, which collected 1.3¿million signatures to repeal the collective bargaining reform.

Other topics:

Secretary of State Jon Husted dropped a proposal to block absentee voting by people using ballot applications sent at taxpayer expense in Cuyahoga County; Republican hopes to unseat liberal Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown are riding on Josh Mandel; Mayor Coleman backs Columbus Police in latest shooting incident, but questions of race persist; and a Democratic state lawmaker is drafting legislation that would require drug and alcohol testing of statewide elected officials

Panelists:

* Julie Carr Smyth (The Associated Press)
* Reginald Fields (The Plain Dealer)
* Catherine Turcer (Ohio Citizen Action)
* Michael Miller (Former Franklin County Prosecutor)
September 2, 2011