The wild desperation of the lobbyists and politicians attacking voters and the Ohio Constitution

[RandySF]

Ohio Issue 1 is not about any one issue, it’s about majority voter power over every issue. Issue 1 is asking Ohio voters to go to the polls, put our hands around our own necks, and strangle away our own power to hold out-of-control Statehouse lobbyists and lawmakers accountable.

This is being asked by lawmakers sitting in unconstitutionally gerrymandered districts, amid a backdrop of the largest political bribery and racketeering scandal in Ohio history, where energy lobbyists and executives conspired with Ohio’s most powerful lawmakers to rake Ohioans out of $1.3 billion dollars.

Certain special interest lobbyists largely run the Ohio Statehouse, funding Republican candidates and issuing coveted endorsements for lawmakers in districts where gerrymandering makes it so that only the primaries matter.

In return, the Republican politicians carve out sweetheart legislation on everything under the sun: utilities, fossil fuels, the privatization of education, the gutting of government services to finance bigger and bigger tax handouts for the wealthy and well-connected, attacks on women’s access to health care, attacks on LGBTQ+ access to health care, opening up our gun laws in every way conceivable despite continuously rising gun deaths.

But now, unsatisfied, Republicans and their lobbyist friends are attempting to execute the largest, most anti-democratic, Big Government power grab in state history.



https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/07/21/the-wild-desperation-of-the-lobbyists-and-politicians-attacking-voters-and-the-ohio-constitution/

[AZLD4Candidate]

1. I have a feeling this will pass. If it does, people need to leave Ohio in droves

[ECL213]

2. The August election will certainly not help matters...

The polling indicates it will go down in flames, but it will all hinge on GOTV measures.

[True Blue American]

3. I do not people

Are early voting in droves. This is similar to Kasich trying to kill the Teachers Union. He tried to
Cover that his bill would also kill Firemen and Police Unions. I have necver seen so many angry Foremen. They went around the state with huge signs on their trucks. Got 1.3 million signatures, hand carried them to the 😥State House, put it on the Ballet where we ,illed it. Kasich had to come out and say,” The people have. Spoken!”
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LaRose is trying the same thing. Thinking if he put it on the ballot in August no one would vote.

[True Blue American]

4. Latest

Urban and suburban voters are voting in droves. Thet leaves rural.