David Niven
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Teach American politics in @spia_uc at @uofcincy . Wrote speeches for @Ted_Strickland , @MartinOMalley and @GordonGee . Personal account.
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Because that would give 12,000 Ohioans an all-encompassing veto power over the preferences of 11.7 million Ohioans. Which seems, I don't know, radical and undemocratic.
Ohio does not have “flyover” counties. Far-left progressive groups against Issue 1 don’t want to include all 88 counties when changing our constitution. Why??
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Ohio Republicans defied their own law to create this August election...
Then ran around trying to sell Ohio voters on the idea they needed to protect themselves from themselves...
And all that just to take this drubbing.
Possibly the greatest political self own of all time.
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Ohio is spending a billion dollars a year to subsidize private schools....and a 9th grader in Youngstown public schools can't get on a school bus.
But of course, this was the point of vouchers in the first place.
So, man of the people that you are
@DaveYostOH
, defend this...
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Federal court tells Ohio Republicans if they refuse to draw a new map, Court will impose the old map Republicans already want to use. The Court should write a guide to parenting: "Go clean up your room..and if it's not clean when I get up there I'm going to make you eat cookies."
A federal court says without action in the latest legislative redistricting process by May 28, they will institute a previously rejected map into the 2022 election.
The Ohio Redistricting Commission's next deadline with the Ohio Supreme Court is May 6.
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Lucy and Charlie Brown gerrymandering update: All the Republicans on the Ohio Redistricting Commission firmly promising to hold the football down this time
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John Lewis risked his life on that bridge to protect our most fundamental right.
@mikedewine
, were you listening to what he was telling you?
#VetoHB458
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As was every district in Ohio, in every election, for 10 years. The map now officially retires, still undefeated, 82-0, the all-time heavyweight champion of gerrymandering.
BREAKING: Ohio's two congressional special elections were won by the candidate of the party they were drawn for.
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Check out the list of ballot drop box sites in Monmouth County, NJ.
It isn't one site. Or two. Or three. Or thirty.
They have 35 drop boxes in a county about the size of Butler County, Ohio.
Remarkable what can happen when lawmakers act without hostility to voting and voters.
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I worked in the OSU president's office. Commencement folks would tell us the speaker's name. Gordon Gee would nod & politely inquire if we could get Tom Hanks next time.
That was it. No veto. No inserting con artists. Just a polite (and unfulfilled) request for Tom Hanks.
The Speaker Advisory Committee considered names like LeBron James, Kamala Harris, Jeni Britton the Ice Cream Tyrant, and Jim Tressel.
President Ted Carter overruled them and selected an obscure Bitcoin freak that brought national shame to Ohio State.
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They actually wrote down -- on paper -- the instruction not to write anything down on paper.
Handwritten notes on how to lobby DeWine on his PUCO chairman pick were included in the indictment.
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This bill bans one girl from playing high school sports.
One.
The entire power of the state of Ohio unleashed against one Ohioan.
If the legislature continues once a day to ban one of us from doing one thing, it will take them 32,093 years before they can get to us all.
BREAKING: HB 68 clears the Ohio Senate 24-8. chants of “shame” from just outside the doors can be heard from inside the chamber.
@stateofohioshow
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Let me get this straight. You're suggesting Ohioans pass Issue 1 to protect us from you?
I wonder if the opponents of Issue 1 have ever sat down to think about the kinds of constitutional amendments that could pass with 50% in Dewine +25 Ohio if conservatives start playing the amendment game like the liberals do?
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Gerrymandering is the erasure of the views and values of the majority in favor of the views and values of mapmakers. 90% of Ohioans want universal background checks for gun purchases...what they get is a guns-everywhere legislature. Gerrymandering is every issue you care about.
On the Ohio House floor today:
HB 227, which would "allow a person age 21 or older to carry a concealed deadly weapon without a license"
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I've studied Michigan's process. It is striking how much the redistricting commission members actually listened to the public. People would testify about the nature of their community -- and the commission tried not to split them! Imagine drawing maps with the goal of coherence.
Eric Holder & Maureen O’Connor’s 30 page mess of a redistricting amendment would create a panel made up of “commissioners,” consultants, lawyers, & full-time bureaucrats - all w/ mandated pay on the taxpayers’ dime. There’s nothing “citizen-led” about it. 🙄
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The upshot: these maps violate the Ohio Constitution.
The upshot: Ohio will have legislative maps for the next four years that preserve GOP supermajorities (>60%) in a state that's 55%-45% Republican
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Just give us 2 years, what's the big deal. A) This is a 4 year map. They're asking for half of the entire life-span of the map, B) This is such cynical ploy to wait out court membership changes in the hope DeWine Jr. can cobble together a majority to assert there are no rules.
Redistricting Commission response: "The Commission respectfully requests that if the Court is unable to decide this matter by Feb 11, the Court should consider staying the matter until after the 2022 General Election, allowing the Revised Plan to remain in effect in the interim"
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The most radical anti-union bill ever passed in Ohio-- Senate Bill 5, a bill that would eviscerate collective bargaining rights in Ohio -- passed the Ohio Senate by ONE VOTE.
@KeithFaber
was that vote.
On
#LaborDay
we honor the American worker. The men and women that have built our communities, transport our goods, and who power American greatness. A worthy cause for celebration - Happy Labor Day!
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In 2022, Michigan voters were 6 times (!) less likely to skip over their state house races when they voted than Ohio voters all because in Michigan they had more real races in real districts.
This proposal is based on the plan Michigan operated under in the last cycle. It takes elected officials out of the redistricting process entirely. And it works. In Michigan, voters choose their elected officials, instead of elected officials choosing their voters.
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Says the man who wouldn't come within a mile of a debate stage with Nan Whaley
“We have to focus on what’s in front of us…and we shouldn’t be afraid of a spirited debate.” DeWine says.
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The issue, Scott, is that a "free ID" is not really free, It doesn't show up on your doorstep and hand itself to you.
It costs people money and time to go the BMV office. If you lack a single required document -- like a birth certificate -- it costs money to get one.
The bill permits anyone 17 and over to receive a free photo ID card. What's the issue?
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This is a breathtaking defiance of the redistricting reforms that are in the Ohio Constitution. Can't legally split Cincinnati, so take all of the city and pair with Warren County...instead of pairing Cincinnati with, say, the county it's in, all to dilute the city's Democrats.
Congressional map uploaded to House committee expected to review House GOP map.
#ohio
#redistricting
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@JessicaEMiranda
Roughly 800,000 Ohio voters lack a photo ID.
800,000.
It is breathtaking to witness Ohio Republicans' commitment to disenfranchise 800,000 of the most vulnerable Ohioans to prevent ZERO cases of identity fraud.
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To be clear, grand juries routinely, reflexively hand up indictments on every case presented to them in a given day. To refuse to indict is a huge repudiation of the prosecutor.
BREAKING: The grand jury has decided NOT to indict Brittany Watts. She's the Warren Ohio woman facing charges after miscarriage.
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@JessicaEMiranda
When
@MikeDeWine
signs Ohio's new Voter Photo ID bill, Ohio will have the most restrictive Photo ID requirement in the nation.
Even in Alabama, you can vote with a student ID. Not in Ohio.
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The Congressional District map Republicans now propose for Ohio has an efficiency gap in the 96th percentile -- 96th! -- meaning this is among the best maps ever at wasting Democratic votes to maximize the election of Republicans
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Gerrymandering is kind of boring.
Maps, jargon, funny shapes and a lot of math.
But gerrymandering is also the answer every single time you look to the Ohio legislature and ask "Why?"
.
@CecilThomasOH
asks why lawmakers are sponsoring bill when Ohioans support keeping abortion procedures legal,
@kristinaroegner
: "We believe in the sanctity of life."
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Before the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, 93% of African Americans in Mississippi were kept from registering to vote. Is that the system you have faith in, Frank?
Debate has begun on whether Democrats can rig the rules of the Senate in an effort to shift power from the people to the bureaucrats.
I have faith that the system which has served our nation well will prevail.
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This map does not even approach the Ohio Constitution's proportionality requirement. Does not approach it.
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Is this satire?
Is running the state an insufficient challenge for
@JonHusted
?
Was
@jonhusted
worried we were suddenly going to run short on corrupt Ohio officials headlines?
Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted takes paid corporate board job with community bank
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Last time Ohio held an August special election (2022)...13 out of every 14 Ohioans stayed home.
They're trying to permanently empower minority political rule with the consent of half of a sliver of Ohioans.
Ohio Senate GOP just passed their proposal for 41% rule over the Ohio Constitution, and on the floor cited abortion and gerrymandering proposals
They aim for an August election, which they eliminated just months ago, and costs $20 million. The last August election had 8% turnout
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We saw Hope Trautwein get one past her former
@OU_Softball
teammate
@78jocelyn_alo
last night in
@wprofastpitch
.
After the game, all the players signed autographs and took pictures with the kids.
There is no more fan-friendly sports experience than women's pro leagues.
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The schools Cirino cites to justify his attack on Ohio's public universities are: Harvard, MIT, and Penn.
Works out, these schools are a) not in Ohio, and b) not public.
Why SB 83 is so important on today's woke campuses. Read
@OhioSenateGOP
@SenatorCirino
My Bill to Reform Higher Education is One Big Step Closer to Becoming Law in On The Record with Ohio Senate.
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good news for
@franklarose
-- I have a nominee for worst campaign in Ohio this year, and it's not yours.
@NirajAntani
's massive expenditure to come in 9th in OH-2 has to be the single biggest stink bomb in the state.
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Good news!
With the $11,124 annual savings in rent *,
@FrankLaRose
will save taxpayers enough to pay for that August special election...in just 1,797 years.
*(Not counting one time moving expenses that render this move a net loss to taxpayers for the several decades)
NEW: The Secretary of State's office is moving. The new SoS office will be at the same address Frank LaRose lists for his U.S. Senate camp. His office says reasons for the move are: lease expiring, security concerns & the need to improve efficiency:
@nbc4i
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We're headed to court.
So we're headed for a four-year map.
@EmiliaSykesOH
: "To have before us today, a map that summarily and arrogently eliminates the ability for women like me, the women of the past, to engage in the process and have their votes heard is not only offensive. It is plain wrong."
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Note to
@KeithFaber
, member of the, ahem, Ohio Redistricting Commission. Had the commission done its job and drawn a map, you no doubt would have learned that Ohio will only have 15 districts. So whatever Max Miller runs for, it will most decidedly not be the 16th District.
.
@MaxMillerOH
will make a great congressman for Ohio’s 16th Congressional District. He will be a voice in Washington DC for policies that will protect American jobs and promote the American way of life.
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The governor, a fixture in Ohio politics for 50 years, is bragging on a list of endorsements from the likes of township trustees. I maintain, and I maintain strongly, the Ohio commentariat continues to overlook how much trouble
@MikeDeWine
is in.
Thank you!
@JonHusted
and I are proud to have the support of such strong elected officials and community leaders across Southwest Ohio.
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Hi Frank -- kindly direct me to a single poll, ever, showing Ohioans supporting voter id requirements more exclusionary than Alabama or Idaho.
Not even asking for your made up 80%, just show me one poll with a majority of Ohioans saying it is too easy to vote in Alabama.
Here are a few of the facts you’re ignoring:
- 80% support requiring photo ID (which would increase confidence and participation).
- 98% of Ohioans already use a photo ID to vote in-person. And now they’re free!
- The 2021 November election had 18 tied races, so every vote
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Let's keep in mind that the Republican caucus believes that Ohio counties do not have the bandwith to operate two ballot DROPBOXES...but
@matthuffman1
and colleagues want them to orchestrate two PRIMARIES for the same general election.
ICYMI: Ohio Senate president suggests state should split primary into two different dates
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If there is one trait Republican legislators in Ohio have in common -- it is an all-encompassing lack of empathy.
They simply cannot fathom -- do not want to know, do not care to know -- about the lives of anyone who isn't either exactly like them or giving them piles of money.
Brenner says he is "baffled" by anyone who says this is "detrimental to kids." Witness shares importance of confidentiality in safe spaces & the right of a student to share their story and identity with trusted adults when they are ready.
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Would be fascinating to sit today's
@MikeDeWine
down for a conversation with the March through May 2020
@MikeDeWine
who was actively trying to save Ohioans lives. I assume the current version would demand an apology for incurring the political costs of responsible governing.
Can you imagine knowing that people will die so that you can get through your next political primary with less worry?
Because that’s what’s happening here.
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The proportionality score for this map is 0...on a scale of 0 to 100. I've never seen a zero before.
"The general assembly shall not pass a plan that unduly favors or disfavors a political party"
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If the faculty at the Seven Hills School in Cincinnati want to combine phys ed and civics lessons -- take the students out to the school's soccer field -- where the goal you defend will be in a different congressional district than the goal you're shooting on
#gerrymandering
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The ballot question to overturn the corrupt HB6 never happened in part because Householder's hired goons physically disrupted signature gathering. Now imagine replicating that effort needing only to succeed in 12,000 person Vinton County. No amendment would ever make the ballot.
The real poison of Issue 1 is the country requirements. They could dump millions of dollars in ads in any one county to stop any ballot measure any time. Further anti-gerrymandering reform in Ohio would be dead on arrival. Anything our gerrymandered lawmakers don’t like would be.
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The rest of "us."
The rest of "US."
You are pulling down twice the per capita income of Ohioans in salary alone.
THEN, you simultaneously draw a full state pension for the very same job.
Sorry to break this to you, Dave, but your us is most people's them.
The rich have always had school choice—It’s the rest of us that have to send our kids where we’re told.
Condolleza Rice nailed it.
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Yes, the bank was robbed. Yes, I was caught running out the door with bags of money. But I had 4 accomplices. So really, did "I" do anything wrong.
Basic argument: The commission, not individual commissioners, were ordered to draw new maps so you can't punish individuals.
"The Speaker and the President have not been ordered to do anything and have therefore not violated any order."
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Meet the Member: Get to know Representative Gary Click with these Fast Facts!
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In my Ohio Politics class tomorrow...
When Ohio's 'most partisan in the nation' Legislature added partisan labels to the judicial ballot, the correlation between Justice Brunner's 2022 vote % in each precinct and the vote for the Republican ticket went to .994
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Gerrymandering 101: Jam more people into districts favoring the minority party.
@OhFairDistricts
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The last Democratic presidential candidate to win Delaware County, Ohio was Woodrow Wilson.
A 100 year red county voted 57% no on Issue 1.
@matthuffman1
and his Republican colleagues in the Ohio legislature have never truly heard the word no before. They've heard it now.
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When I say that gerrymandering has given Ohio a legislature that is to the right of Mississippi's -- I am not joking.
.
@AlCutrona
says there is no bait and switch. “Ohio should start acting like Florida. Perhaps we’d be better off.” That gets cheers from GOP and sarcastic laughs from Dems.
@SpectrumNews1OH
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"I'd be lying if I said I knew anything about it."
So
@JDVance1
can't be bothered to scan a newspaper or watch 20 minutes of news a week. And, he obviously doesn't spend his time raising money for his senate campaign.
Literally, what does this guy do all day?
Asked about veterans burn pit legislation that Senate Republicans delayed with a procedural vote, Vance said he hasn't followed it closely. "The specific legislation, I'd be lying if I said I knew anything about it other than it took care of veterans, which is a good idea to me."
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Metrics on these maps are slightly, slightly less biased than the original Republican map. But there is no way these maps would pass the Ohio Constitution's proportionality standard. They have about a 10 point bonus built in for Republicans.
As drawn, the Dave's Redistricting App analysis says these likely would lead to 65 House Republican seats out of 99, 23 Senate seats out of 33.
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One would struggle to come up with a better metaphor to convey prospects for Democratic success in Ohio in 2022 than this:
After securing the Democratic nomination for governor of Ohio, Nan Whaley's campaign manager quit the campaign today to go to cooking school.
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Oh Anthony. You didn't pay a penny for your education. Allowing people to go to school for free didn't seem like such a bad idea when you were the beneficiary.
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Redistricting commission gives Columbus voters the finger...literally
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The cosmic irony of passing bills so fast he couldn't even relieve himself, when one of those very bills aims to use the full force and power of the state to prevent trans kids from ever relieving themselves, was apparently lost on
@CincySeitz
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Brian, I know the vitriol is a way to show off for your tribe. But over here in functioning society, we find it off-putting.
As for Issue 1, you want Ohioans to stifle themselves. That's no easy ask - that's why you are having such trouble coming up with a coherent sales pitch.
This about about the level of reasoning I’d expect from a Ted Strickland political hack now playing college professor, but no, I’m suggesting that a 60% margin benefits both sides since it helps ensure constitutional amendments need broad-based, bipartisan support to pass.
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It's only more complicated when you're trying to manipulate the outcome....otherwise it is exactly drawing squares and blocks.
.
@SpeakerCupp
on congressional and legislative redistricting: "This is a lot more complicated than getting your Etch A Sketch out and drawing squares or blocks in the state of Ohio."
@SpectrumNews1OH
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This is, of course, the bank run by the guy who "warned" Ohioans in 2018 that our elections would be rigged unless
@FrankLaRose
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And this is gerrymandering's bottom line.
It is not simply that the ideas favored by a majority of Ohioans go unheeded.
Rather, ideas favored by a majority of Ohioans are never even considered.
Here are the gun laws Ohio legislators are considering this General Assembly. There are 29 in total. Overall, Republican bills expand gun rights while Democratic ones put forward safety regulations. GOP bills get heard, and Dem ones don’t.
By
@MorganTrau
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Now, noodle on this Scott. If I want to pretend to be someone, wouldn't it be easier to vote by mail than in person.
Now get this--
THERE IS NO PHOTO ID REQUIRED TO VOTE BY MAIL.
This bill is not about non-existent identity fraud. It is about voter harrassment. Pure and simple
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When you are operating under entrenched minority-rule, the last thing you want to hear from - or even see - is the actual public.
There used to be more significantly seats in this Ohio Statehouse committee room. Is the Ohio GOP trying to literally reduce the number of people who can attend public hearings?
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@FrankLaRose
,
@KeithFaber
and
@MikeDeWine
all express significant discomfort with the process. As the saying goes, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.
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Beside their place in literary history, what do the city of Lorain (birthplace of Toni Morrison) and the village of Hicksville (once mentioned by Mark Twain) which is 140 miles west, on the border with Indiana, have in common? The the same Congressional district.
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@MikeDeWine
statement expressing discomfort with this map and the process will be interesting for the Republicans to have to deal with in court.
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This, of course, is the real bottom line. It's not about swindling 20 state legislative seats. It's about defying the 90% of Ohioans who want gun safety laws and the 80% of Ohioans who want a commitment to renewable energy. It's about billion dollar swindles. We all pay for this.
.
@DrVernonSykes
says “with this process, at some point you just get tired of being mistreated.” He says not just he and Russo but the people of Ohio.
@SpectrumNews1OH
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Note to Republicans (Re: future)
Most common age (mode)
White: 55
African American: 24
Latino: 8
Multiracial: <1
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To understand the profound sincerity of
@DaveYostOH
here...understand that you have to go back all the way to last week to find him taking precisely the opposite position when he asked a single federal judge to wield more power than the president and all other Americans combined.
In arguing the order is too broad, Yost said the plaintiffs didn't challenge the athlete ban specifically.
ACLU argues that HB 68 violated the single-subject rule by combining that with restrictions on gender-affirming care.
Yost also complained about injunctions in general:
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this you, Captain 1.7%?
Joe Biden’s presidential campaign
Time of death
10:31
June 27, 2024
Rest in Peace
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One of the really fascinating aspects of all this. What was the point of the 50-year, grinding march to the top job in the state if all it gets you is doing the bidding of Huffman and Cupp.
Of all Gov. DeWine's rollovers on redistricting, I'd say this was the biggest.
After the last court rejection he said he would be "taking the lead" and really pushed for the independent mapdrawers.
When Huffman and Cupp just blew that all up, he didn't make a peep of protest.
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Reminder that Republicans literally made it illegal to give so much as a cup of water to a voter in an hours-long voting line in Georgia.
Super short line to vote at the Delaware County BOE, but the Yes on Issue 1 folks are in the parking lot giving out root beer floats.
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Then, Scott, there is the issue of the disparity in who lacks ID.
The poorest among us. The oldest among us. The youngest potential voters. They are disproportionately without ID.
This action is taken very deliberately to place hurdles in front of them and keep them from voting
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Since 2014, Democrats on ballot statewide in Ohio in partisan races are 1-31.
Sherrod Brown is the 1.
Brown has a challenge but it is winnable. He brings home a lot of bacon. He has to remind people that he personally does that, not anyone else.
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LaRose will promptly plunge the dealership into ruinous debt by moving it to a location seven blocks away
Vance is veep candidate. If Trump wins and Sherrod wins then Bernie is appointed to Senate by DeWine and that means Frank LaRose will be appointed to run the Kia dealership in Aurora.
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Seismic shift in Cincinnati's congressional representation. Voters in OH-1 replaced anti-Voting Rights Act, election denier, anti-infrastructure bill in a city with a failing bridge
@RepSteveChabot
with
@VoteLandsman
, who will do precisely the opposite of Chabot.
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The incoming speaker of the Ohio House of Represenatives
@DerekMerrin
is a co-sponsor of a bill that would void all immunization requirements in Ohio...just in case you were wondering if we were going to get any let up in the 'Ohio did what?!' stories that make national news
ANALYSIS:
While Ohio’s measles outbreak climbs to 56, with 20 hospitalizations of unvaccinated children and babies, state lawmakers continue to hear legislation that would ban vaccine requirements.
⬇️
@WEWS
@OhioCapJournal
@WCPO
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Alito:“It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives."
Reality: Gerrymandering.
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Time for an intrepid reporter to find out what's going on at the Ohio Supreme Court before Justice Fischer up and throws a tantrum
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In Alabama, you can vote with a student ID. So let's be clear, Ohio is not in Alabama's league these days
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When Wyoming was admitted to statehood, it's population was 62,500 - roughly equal to modern day Lorain, Ohio. Puerto Rico's population is 3.194 million.
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And they were absolutely captivated by Huffman's magnetic presence...
Talking economic development, property taxes, and upcoming Capital Budget.
@OhioSenateGOP
President
@matthuffman1
talks with Warren County Chamber Alliance.
#OneVoiceWarrenCounty
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The newly adopted Ohio Senate map is more biased than 87% of all legislative maps passed nationwide in the last 20 years.
87%!
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Ohio is home to many wonderful natural resources...and we're going to frack every single one of them.
Ohio is home to many wonderful natural resources. On this
#EarthDay
, I encourage you to plan a visit to one of our 75 state parks to celebrate:
#OhioTheHeartofitAll
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A reminder --
@AndyBeshearKY
ran on reproductive rights...in Kentucky.
Note to candidates (and officeholders): this is no appetite for an abortion ban in this country.
#KYGov
: The Andy Beshear campaign is up on TV with this spot --
Hadley to camera:
"This is to you, Daniel Cameron. To tell a 12-year-old girl she must have the baby of her stepfather who raped her is unthinkable"
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It turns out, it is actually possible to simply postpone the primary date when district lines are still being finalized -- rather than spending $20 million on holding a second primary to contest a handful of leftover races
cc:
@MikeDeWine
@FrankLaRose
@matthuffman1
@SpeakerCupp
The primary election was postponed from late June until July 19 as newly drawn district maps were contested in court. That three-week delay has resulted in a marathon primary season for candidates.
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Heads up, fans of political geography, or, you know, democracy. I'll be talking about Ohio's redistricting saga on
@917wvxu
Cincinnati Edition today.
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"He is talking to Dems about it."
Of the 11,785,935 Ohioans -- Matt Huffman has to rank somewhere in the 11,785,925th to 11,785,935th option for Democrats to support for speaker.
NEW: Sen. Pres. Matt Huffman has finally publicly said he is eyeing House speakership, criticizing Speaker Jason Stephens. He is talking to Dems about it, he added.
Stephens was, unsurprisingly, not thrilled by the comments.
@WEWS
@WCPO
@OhioCapJournal
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Good case to be made that DeWine, LaRose & Faber all damaged Republican court position by nodding toward unfairness of process. Huffman damaged it by admitting they didn't have a compliance process. Only Cupp didn't hurt their legal position..because he didn't say anything at all
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Alas, for the Republicans making this argument, it is not in the eye of the beholder, it's in the Ohio Constitution, which defines gerrymandering as creating district lines that reward a party beyond its average statewide support.
James Trutko, of Rocky River, says Democrats blame legislative district lines for their failure to win elections. Gerrymandering is in the eye of the beholder, he says.
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Shout out to Pat DeWine -
@MikeDeWine
's son - asking for internships for his boys from Joe Deters, a man with recurring business in the court he sat on. Good news - that conflict of interest has been resolved by Mike DeWine appointing Deters to the court
Today, I accepted an appointment to the Ohio Supreme Court from
@GovMikeDeWine
. Quite simply, it is the honor of a lifetime.
I have spent my entire career standing up for victims and protecting the rights of criminal defendants. I appreciate the trust and responsibility… 1/2
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Mann is reconstituting the entirety of the George H. W. Bush's message. Holes in this plan include: a) It is not now 1988, b) Mann is not running against Mike Dukakis, c) The voters he needs are Democrats, d) Losing was inevitable, but this is sully Mann's legacy territory now.
The first David Mann TV ad of the mayoral campaign just aired on Saturday Night Live. It accuses Aftab Pureval of planning to defund the police and “pull cops off the street.” Pureval, of course, has denied that and those words appear nowhere in his proposals.
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In basic terms -- in 2022, voter partisanship explained 98 percent of Brunner's vote. In 2020, before the party label went on the ballot, partisanship explained 58 percent of Brunner's vote.
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Many people seem to expect Mike DeWine will be the Republican nominee for governor in 2022. I have no idea why they think that.
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Ohio Republicans have vastly overplayed their hand. If they had gone with the Sykes map, they would have walked away with a map solidly biased in their favor. Instead, they opted for a map wildly biased in their favor, a maps that will be vastly harder to defend in court.
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And with that, the Ohio congressional map will retire undefeated. 160 races over 10 years - and not a single one changes hands between the parties.
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These are maps that are built to produce an inherent Republican bonus - they will land with a higher percentage of seats than votes. That is precisely what the Ohio Constitution prohibits.
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Stunning verdict.
If this behavior is convictable, every single member of Congress would go down on the same charges.
Every single one.
Sittenfeld guilty of 1 ct bribery and 1 ct attempted extortion. Not guilty 2 cts wire fraud; 1 ct bribery and attempted extortion.
@WCPO
@EvanMillward
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And with that I must now apologize to
@DaveYostOH
for thinking he was the most disingenuous voice in Ohio politics.
This is why people are losing faith in government to solve any of our problems.
How about we analyze the problem, find logical solutions, and improve them with civil debate?
Instead:
@POTUS
dictates unconstitutional, cynical, feel-good “solutions”. And the cycle repeats.
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