Ohio voters overturn Republican union-busting law

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Good for Ohio voters! Well done!

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A year after Republicans swept legislatures across the country, voters in Ohio delivered their verdict on a centerpiece of the conservative legislative agenda, striking down a law that restricted public workers’ rights to bargain collectively.

The landslide vote to repeal the bill — 63 to 37, according to preliminary results from Ohio’s secretary of state — was a slap to Ohio’s governor, John R. Kasich, a prominent Republican who had championed the law as a tool for cities to cut costs. The bill passed in March, on a wave of enthusiasm among Republicans fresh from midterm victories. A similar bill also passed in Wisconsin.

Update: and the Mississippi "fertilized eggs are persons" state constitution amendment (meant to outlaw any abortion or birth control, and challenge Roe v Wade) is going down to crashing overwhelming defeat.