The shame of Ohio: Corrupt, gerrymandered Statehouse Republicans assault voters, again

[RandySF]

Just moments after I watched Ohio Senate Republicans pass a resolution for 41% minority rule over the Ohio Constitution on Wednesday, I walked past a field trip of Ohio children touring the Statehouse.

Seeing those kids’ faces as their eyes explored the beautiful Ohio Statehouse Rotunda, a sharp, stabbing pain of shame for our once-great state pierced into me, knowing what the unscrupulous, morally, ethically, and intellectually bankrupt GOP lawmakers and Senate President Matt Huffman in the nearby chamber just did.

In so many ways, from higher education to the power of voting, those children were touring our historic Statehouse while Ohio Republican lawmakers were busy assaulting their futures.

Ohio Republicans are in a full-court press on their attempt to make it harder for voters to amend our Ohio Constitution by raising the threshold for passage from 50% to 60%.

On Wednesday, the Ohio Senate passed their version of the resolution and made way to put the question to voters on a special August ballot. These same lawmakers just eliminated August special elections months ago, but they need to put it on the ballot in August in an attempt to undermine an abortion-rights amendment slated for November. Abortion-rights amendments were passed in 2022 by voters in Kentucky with 52.3%, Montana with 52.5%, Michigan with 56.6%, and Kansas with 59%.





https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/04/19/the-shame-of-ohio-corrupt-gerrymandered-statehouse-republicans-assault-voters/

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1. "The shame of Ohio" is aka Jim Jordan N/T