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Those bastards finally got me out to vote. Not to mention, a fight with my coworks and my dad.
Same here, havent voted once since i turned 18, but this one was bad enough it got me out there.
@BoneALisa @butter Oh, you should vote more! There's all sorts of fun things on the ballot this fall. We've got marijuana legalization and abortion rights as ballot issues, plus school boards and municipal governments. https://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_elections,_2023
If you're in Columbus, there's an option to unseat Mayor Ginther and parts of City Council: https://ballotpedia.org/City_elections_in_Columbus,_Ohio_(2023)
https://ballotpedia.org/Mayoral_election_in_Columbus,_Ohio_(2023)
If I may ask, what was the argument in favor of the change?
It’s almost always “I’m not into politics” until they realize that politics shape their everyday life and it comes knocking on the door.
It's always super confusing when you realize you're part of something bigger and not your own, isolated reality.
"Protect the Constitution"
never mind that they were "protecting" it by trying to gut and make useless one of the key parts of the constitution 🤷♂️
“Outside money is coming in and imposing it’s will on us..”
Election to change it drew $30 million in outside funding.
Last week I got sent some propaganda, printed like a newspaper to make it seem legitimate, especially to older folks. Articles about how BLM, Antifa, and John Legend (Ohio native that moved to 😡 California) are coming for Ohioans and our way of life by supporting not changing our constitution.
Mailed from Chicago.
"our" way of life. Who's way of life? Conservatives have been coming for minorities' way of life forever.
Do you happen to have a photo of the "newspaper". I'm very curious about it. I've heard about this before.
Here you go, Julys copy of the “Buckeye Reporter” Stuffed to the brim with boogeymen.
Just realized it’s unreadable because Imgur compressed it to shit…
I wonder if it's this.
It is exactly that. Thanks for the read.
They probably used the same organizations they setup to do similar mailings in Illinois to kill a proposed progressive income tax (successfully, unfortunately) and prevent collective bargaining for government workers (failing spectacularly).
The part that makes no sense to me about that argument is that the measure has nothing to do with money or even out of state money. For the life of me I don't know why people are allowed to donate to campaigns on issues that don't affect them directly, but issue 1 had absolutely nothing to do with money.
You'll find that almost no right wing legislation ever gets argued for on it's face. There are always these obfuscations to make it look like it's about something entirely unrelated.
Everyone I talked to said they wanted to ban abortion, so take it with a grain of salt. I had to explain that taking power from people in order to get their way is a bad thing.
This is from one of many campaign texts I got this past month.
"Small minority" = more than 50%.
That's immediately what I thought too. Apparently to them "simple majority" = "small minority"
I think what they are trying to get at is that 50% of the voting public is a small minority of the community.