DeWine Tries to Encourage People to Move to Ohio

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DeWine Tries to Encourage People to Move to Ohio

February 1, 2021 at 4:59 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 205 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/02/01/dewine-tries-to-encourage-people-to-move-to-ohio/

"SNIP......

“Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) announced Monday that he wants to spend $50 million on a marketing campaign to convince East Coast and West Coast residents to live, work and spend their money in Ohio,” the Cincinnati Enquirer reports.

Said DeWine: “We want to position Ohio as the place to be. Ohio is a welcoming place. I don’t care who you are, we want you to come to Ohio. It’s a progressive state.” 

“Well, not exactly. Ohio’s GOP-controlled Legislature hasn’t passed many progressive policies in years.”

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[maxsolomon]

1. 2021 will mark 30 years I'm gone from Ohio.

It's only gotten worse, and it was unbearable then.

No.
Fucking.
Way.

[LisaL]

4. Hey, some of us live in OH.

[maxsolomon]

5. So does most of my family.

Steve Chabot's gerrymandered district.

[Demsrule86]

8. I like Ohio...it is a wonderful place to live. We went twice for Obama...the trouble is jobs.

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It makes folks hard to be scratching for a living all the time. And good for DeWine...he is the only Republican I can recall that even tried. Ohio should be getting green jobs and wind will be back with Biden. It has a great deal to offer...we have a wonderful theater district in Cleveland , Museums, Botanical Gardens, enough restaurants to feed an army, lots of green space...and the schools my kids graduated from were very good.

[maxsolomon]

13. It may be a wonderful place to live for you, but it wasn't for me.

From about 11th grade on, I wanted to leave.

Dewine will have a hard sell to reverse the brain drain/emigration trend; Ohio went for Trump twice.

[Silent3]

2. Since Ohio has gone from swing state to Alabama with a lot more snow...

...I'm in no hurry to relocate.

[LisaL]

3. But if lots of people from the coasts move to OH, it might turn blue again.

NT

[Silent3]

6. I have to sisters living there now.

The only thing I'd find appealing, besides being closer to family, is how cheaply I could retire there compared to where I live now.

But I can save money in much warmer places too, and perhaps Georgia is turning blue faster than Ohio will get there.

[roamer65]

7. No thanks.

I prefer Michigan.

[Tribetime]

10. I'll stay in Ohio better football especially college 😁

[roamer65]

14. We have the better lakes.

Michigan, Huron and Superior.

We also got the UP, you got Toledo.

[Tribetime]

17. Yeah I can't believe my state voted for Trump

They Voted for Obama twice I don't get it

[roamer65]

20. Neither do I.

But with MI, PA and WI it didn’t matter.

[dsc]

9. They were literally the last state which legalized marriage equality

and had to be dragged kicking and screaming to do so.

[Tribetime]

11. If he was offering 50 million for every family to move there it might work

[hatrack]

12. Come for the lake effect snow, stay for the heavily armed rednecks!!

Good luck, Mike.

Of course, like I should fucking talk, being from the state that shat both Roy Blunt and Josh Hawley upon the world . . .

[Generic Brad]

15. Then he should highlight Miami, OH

The bait and switch with Miami, FL might trick a few suckers.

[blueinredohio]

16. I've lived here for 50 years and if not for my grandkids being here

neither would I.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

18. Uh huh. Your ideas of "progressive" don't match...

... mine, DeWorm.

I wish more coastal people moved here, though. It would surely be an improvement over the ones from former coal-mining towns that I've seen the last few decades.

[msfiddlestix]

19. I think that is a really good idea!

Let's help DeWine promote this campaign. My daughter lives in Oakland, and she's sort of looking for a more economical purposes.

And then we can have a normal political dynamic with a population of sane potentially liberal humans.

[Dawson Leery]

21. Landlocked with 19th century views on sexuality.

I'll pass.