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Word on the Street: Report from an Ohio rally

Pete DiBiase (America Votes) – Columbus, Ohio

I was at the Ohio Statehouse last Tuesday morning helping to prepare for that day’s events surrounding SB 5 (the bill was being voted out of House Committee that day). I had been talking to various people directing them where to go and answering any questions people had for me. I spoke to one gentleman who was telling me how he had been really frustrated about the state of affairs in Ohio and concerned for the future. He has several union employees in his family, many who serve in the public sector. He also mentioned that he remembered living through the sixties but was concerned that that movement was lost and he thought never really returned.

His final words to me were that with all these thoughts in his mind a Working America canvasser had knocked on his door two days before the rally and had a conversation with him about these very concerns. He said after talking to this canvasser that he felt much better, and that there still was hope for things to get better. He also admitted that it was that canvasser that finally moved him to action (which he had previously lamented he never took in the 60’s) and led to him attending the rally on Tuesday.