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Controversy Over Issue 2 Television Ad Continues

The furor continues over the use of a 78-year-old great grandmother in a TV ad produced by activists promoting a “yes” vote on state issue 2, Ohio’s new collective bargaining law. The woman is actually an opponent of the law, and she had starred earlier in a vote no television ad. Ohio police and firefighters say her words and image have been twisted like a pretzel, and they’re furious. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen reports.