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Issue 1 on the November ballot will remove politicians from the business of drawing voting maps. In Ohio Senate President Matt Huffman’s view, Issue I is “gerrymandering at its finest.”
The irony is striking. Huffman and Ohio’s Redistricting Commission disregarded seven orders from the Ohio Supreme Court to observe the constitutional mandate to draw maps that would not “favor or disfavor a political party” and, instead, drew maps that ...
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No one seriously questions that our immigration system is broken, but even with plenty of legitimate reasons to support comprehensive reform, Donald Trump chooses to engage in fiction to gain votes.
Why? Because lying works; voters don’t question what they hear.
And, yes, Democrats also lie. It’s just that Trump has elevated lying to a whole new level.
First, let’s look at what we’re hearing. Trump tell us, “hundreds of thousands of ...
Continue Reading →We vote for our legislative representatives, but the reality is, they select the voters who put them in office. Sounds crazy, but it’s true.
A group called Citizens Not Politicians is poised to bring real change to how state and congressional legislative districts are drawn in Ohio. Before explaining what’s coming, let’s take stock of where we are.
Gerrymandering—drawing statehouse and congressional maps to favor one party over the other—is done with ...
Continue Reading →Is there an age when politicians should leave public office? Looking at age, national leaders are out of sync with the people they represent.
The median age in the U.S is 39 years. The median age of members in the U.S. House of Representatives is 58. Sixty-one representatives are 70 to 79 years old, and 11 are 80 years old or older.
The median age in the Senate is 65. Thirty ...
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This post comes from my friend, Rev. Tim Ahrens, a strong advocate for social justice.
In 1912, it was just called “The Initiative.”
The Initiative represented the constitutional right of all Ohioans to shape fair and equitable laws through the ballot box of initiatives and referenda. The Ohio Progressive Republican League helped establish this constitutional right for all Ohioans in 1912. Under this ...
Continue Reading →In a guest column published on March 25, Ohio Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Brunner cautioned against attacks on the judiciary because they undermine confidence in the courts. In his guest column the following week, Chairman of the Ohio Republican Party Bob Paduchik criticized Brunner being a thin-skinned politician. Can both perspectives be right?
Brunner’s guest column followed on the heels of House Republican Bill Seitz and two other ...
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If you haven’t noticed, we’re being overrun by socialists. Fortunately, they’re easy to recognize. They’re the ones supporting President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure bill, which Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., tells us is nothing but “big government socialism.” Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, calls the bill an “accelerator to socialism.”
There’s lots of talk about how the bill will lead to the nation’s demise but little talk about what’s in the ...
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Every day, someone in the Catholic Church’s hierarchy wakes up says, “What can we do today to show how out of touch we are with our people and lose more of them?” The current leader of that effort is José Gomez, archbishop of Los Angeles and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The conference is considering whether Catholic politicians, like President Joe Biden, should be denied Communion—the ...
This op-ed is for all the Democrats who criticized the 191 Republican representatives who did not vote to impeach Donald Trump and the 43 Republican senators who did not vote guilty. It’s easy, even justified, to say they acted cowardly and disregarded the plain facts, but we have since witnessed the wrath of the Republican Party.
For the 10 representatives and 7 senators who voted to hold Trump accountable, their state party organizations have either censured them or are planning ...
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