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Ohio GOP politicians have gone to extraordinary lengths to subvert and deceive on Issue 1
Quietly purging nearly 27,000 Ohioans from the voter rolls late last month, even as some voting had already begun in the Nov. 7 election, was dirty pool. The questionably timed expulsion of inactive voters — ahead of a statewide vote on abortion rights — was ordered by a vocal opponent of that ballot referendum without […]
The DeWines are gaslighting Ohioans in their dishonest anti-Issue 1 ad
They’re lying. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and wife Fran cut a homey anti-Issue 1 ad with warm lighting and soft music that features the couple as honest-to-goodness people with heart-felt concerns about the abortion rights amendment on the ballot Nov. 7. Then the lovely pair proceed to lie through their teeth. “Everywhere we go, folks […]
Childish antics take priority over serious governance in the Ohio Statehouse and U.S. Congress
Grow up. Is that too much to ask of a slim Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives or a Republican super majority in the Ohio House? Arrested adolescence is not a preferred trait in vital positions of government leadership but is increasingly standard fare in GOP-controlled legislative branches on the federal and state […]
Jim Jordan betrayed America with his actions surrounding Jan. 6. Now he wants to be House Speaker
In the before-things-went-horribly-sideways times, character and commitment to the rule of law were considered baseline prerequisites for public office. A fraudulent grifter and sexual assault braggart, for example, would never ascend to the highest office in the land. Certainly, a thoroughly disgraced, twice-impeached ex-president — who tried to steal an election he lost and sat […]
Ohio Senate Republicans throw online temper tantrum over being held accountable by media
Finally. News you can trust. From politicians with a grudge. Ohio Senate Republicans made a foray into counter-media programming with a new website called “On the Record” featuring partisan content and podcasts that they assert “will deliver the real story directly to the people.” It’s the gospel according to Ohio Sen. President Matt Huffman preaching […]
Ohio Republicans work to politicize our schools, destroy power of elected state school board
Last fall I voted for a serious candidate to be my levelheaded voice on the Ohio Board of Education. Like many voters, I was fed up with the far right craziness that had infiltrated the ed board at the expense of real issues roiling public education in the state — unconstitutional school funding, under-resourced schools, […]
Vouchers awards public Ohio tax dollars to discriminatory private religious schools
Public financing of parochial school prejudice is the law in Ohio. Take a minute to process, I’ll wait. The state has opened its coffers to Catholic schools that discriminate. The overwhelming amount of Ohio’s voucher money — free taxpayer money to offset private and religious school tuition — goes to Catholic schools. The Catholic Diocese […]
Jim Jordan uses weaponization of government committee to weaponize government, persecute prosecutors
Bullies expect their targets to cower and comply. When the bullied show backbone their intimidators often buckle. That’s how it’s done. Last week it happened to Ohio U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, (R-Urbana). The MAGA Republican got owned by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for his outrageous abuse of power. She tore into the jacketless […]
JD Vance is one of the top recipients of oil and gas money. Now he’s shilling for their interests
J.D. Vance, the wealthy venture capitalist who moved back to Ohio to become a U.S. Senator as a reborn MAGA zealot, owes his deep-pocketed benefactors big time. Chief among them are the titans peddling fossil fuel. Vance was among the top 20 of all recipients of oil and gas donations in the 2022 campaign. He […]
LaRose pushes unfair, inaccurate language for voters on November Ohio reproductive rights amendment
Play fair or play dirty. Issue 1 showed Ohio voters how state Republicans play when they can’t persuade. Extremists know most Ohioans support the right to abortion within limits. The outright ban on abortion gerrymandered pols seek is wildly unpopular. Convincing rational minds otherwise is pointless. So Ohio’s GOP overlords cheat to win. Lawmakers rushed […]
Ohio native Vivek Ramaswamy can’t slick talk his way past his disturbing authoritarian mindset
Ohio’s horse in the first Republican presidential primary debate struts with the confidence of a Preakness thoroughbred. Cincinnati native Vivek Ramaswamy is turning heads as a slick, self-assured newcomer with all the charm and charisma of Harold Hill, the fast-talking traveling salesman in The Music Man. Hill is a poser trying to con the naïve […]
Issue 1 exposed the rot in Ohio government. And the people now still have the power to fix it
When former Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich got his hat handed to him by incensed voters over a restrictive collective bargaining law he championed, he was duly chastened. Ohioans sent a loud message to the overreaching first-term governor on Senate Bill 5 in 2011, the anti-union legislation that would have gutted the political power of […]