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To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, there they go again. In their relentless war against workers, in their union-busting fanaticism, Republicans are now attacking firefighters and police as well as those who teach Johnny and Susie in our classrooms.

I refer, of course, to the Ohio Republicans. First the Republican governor of Ohio had to apologize to the men and women who protect our communities serving with the police for comments he unwisely made. Now the Ohio Legislature, acting more extreme than the extreme Republican governor of Wisconsin, has added firefighters and police to the list of their demons whose rights to collective bargaining they seek to destroy.

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