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“Nobody in Ohio is advocating this,” Husted said in a telephone interview.Let’s hope this is the case and that Democrats and Independents in Ohio aren’t futher insulted and taken advantage of by extending gerrymandering to the Electoral College.
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“Nobody in Ohio is advocating this,” Husted said in a telephone interview.Let’s hope this is the case and that Democrats and Independents in Ohio aren’t futher insulted and taken advantage of by extending gerrymandering to the Electoral College.
“You’re never going to fix the elections process in Ohio as long as we are the most important swing state in the country…. The way that you could minimize that is that you could fix redistricting so that we had fair Congressional districts and then you could apportion all of our electoral votes according to Congressional district so that it wouldn’t be a winner take all state. And if you did that you would take the importance of Ohio out of this and all of those elections problems would go away”While he later backtracked and said this was just a comment, not a proposal, it may just be a matter of time before similar legislation finds its way to Ohio. As for fair congressional districts in Ohio, we know what the GOP really thinks of that idea. In the lame duck session of the last General Assembly there was a brief bipartisan effort to work on a more fair way to redistrict after every decennial census. There were two major roadblocks: House Speaker Bill Batchelder (a Republican) and general Republican refusal to consider any bill that would take effect before the next U.S. Census – in 2020.
Snitchler appears to be falling right into line with the Kasich/Oil and Gas industry line. It’s a shame, because they refer to oil and gas patches as “plays” for a reason. In ten, fifteen or 20 years Ohio will be played out. Natural gas will not be $3 forever. Snitchler inhabits an office that could be doing good for all of Ohio and the future by giving renewables their due.We highlighted a non-partisan report that was released this week which showed that the Medicaid expansion in Obamacare would provide coverage to 456,000 currently uninsured Ohioans and actually create revenue for the state over the next ten years. Original analysis from IO showed that new horizontal wells in Ohio during 2012 came well under Department of Taxation estimates. We looked at the numbers and asked how this hampers the administration’s ability to pay for an income tax cut with severance tax revenue. More and more evidence is coming to light that Republican gerrymandering is the only way the GOP retained control of the U.S. House and in state legislatures around the country and they’re bragging about it. Finally, we released our original analysis of fracking permitting in Ohio during 2012 and looked at some of the implications from the data. Don’t forget to ‘like’ us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter to get up-to-the-minute analysis and commentary.