Romney Flip-Flopping on Ohio Unions Referendum?

Ohio Dems & Gov Perry Accuse Romney of "Flip-Flopping"
By Nick Kalman, Fox News
Created 2011-10-25 18:24

Tuesday morning, Mitt Romney [1] visited a group of volunteers at an Ohio call center working to keep a state bill limiting the collective bargaining rights of about 350,000 Ohio state workers on the books. But what could have just been another stop on the Romney schedule has since drawn an onslaught of accusations that he is "flip-flopping" his stance on Ohio Governor John Kasich's collective bargaining legislation.

When asked about his position on SB-5, a bill scaling back collective bargaining for public employees that was passed by a Republican-controlled legislature and signed by Kasich in April, Romney said he didn't have one.

But in June Romney seemed to be singing a different tune, writing on his Facebook [2] page, "My friends in Ohio are fighting to defend crucial reforms that the state has put in place to limit the power of union bosses and keep taxes low. I stand with John R. Kasich and Ohio's leaders as they take on this important fight to get control of government spending."

Ohioans head to the polls on November 8th to decide if the law should be repealed. A Quinnipiac poll out Tuesday morning indicates state voters continue to overwhelmingly oppose SB-5 57 to 32 percent.