Ohio voters on Tuesday resoundingly rejected a Republican-backed measure that would have made it more difficult to change the state’s constitution, setting up a fall campaign that will become the nation’s latest referendum on abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nationwide protections last year.
Abortion is the big ticket item and the headline isn’t wrong but it’s also more than that- it would’ve basically given the Ohio Republican Party power for decades. They already illegally gerrymander, etc. and this would’ve made them even more unaccountable.
- Current rules- 44 counties to get signatures, 10 day cure period to gather more if you fall short, 50+% to pass.
- Proposed rules- 5% from ALL 88 counties, no cure period, 60% to pass.
Essentially, grassroots initiatives already have a high hurdle and this would’ve made them effectively impossible. Only big moneyed interests could ever get anything on the ballot again.
Very, very happy it failed.
Ohio is about to get real cool. The abortion vote is going to enshrine it in the Ohio consitution, but along side it, legal marijuana is also on the same ballot.
Go register and go vote!
If Ohio gets legal abortion and legal marijuana, I will officially declare that it lose it’s “most mediocre state” title
This. Is. Wendy’s!
Who’da thunk that making women have their rapists’ babies would be a nationally unpopular proposition? One could never have foreseen such a thing.
Not just women, children too. Part of how this was sold was as a “parent’s rights” thing to enable preventing minors from having abortions without parental consent.
‘If I didn’t want my daughter to have a baby I wouldn’t have impregnated her in the first place.’
I think that if you’re in a position to make policy and your opponents are writing jokes like the one above, then surely you should be thinking about what you’re doing… except I cannot feature that they’re really that stupid. One thing I have heard recently is the idea that segregationists are segregating themselves by trying to make red states impossibly toxic to live in for anyone from the outgroups.
That’s not a theory, DeSantis outright says it.
Oh fuck, does he? Has he started talking about secession yet?
I’m hoping for an eventual situation like in the Metalocalypse episode “Dethgov”
That’s true, but also it’s important to remember that part of that goal is to brutally suppress certain out groups. Yes they want trans people to flee, so their child doesn’t have a chance of learning that transitioning is a life path open to them. They want gay people who can’t pretend to be straight gone so every bisexual can be pressured into a hetero relationship. And when those who can leave are gone the women will be forced into submission, sometimes as child brides (multiple Republican states including West Virginia have rejected laws to ban child marriage with parental consent). The trans and gay people left will be criminals forced into sex work (conservative politicians and demagogues utilizing queer sex work isn’t just an old joke, it’s a lot of stories we tell each other). And the people of color and poor white people will be pushed into labor at young ages with low wages.
Beyond the social stuff, Ohio isn’t right to work. Unions can require membership as a condition of employment here. That right is always at risk and once Democrats are driven away it’ll be gone quite quickly.
Fuck the GOP and fuck anyone who supports that trash.
Every time something doesn’t go their way, they change the rules.
This quote from the resident is spot on!
Vote this coming election and don’t let anyone tell you your vote doesn’t matter!
If it didn’t, the Republicans wouldn’t be trying bullshit like this!
#VOTE EVERY ELECTION!
Because fuck you, GOP. That’s why.
Always good for people when the GOP/Nazi party loses.
Also when they lose, but potato/tomato.
Way to go Ohio!
Keep up this energy!
I only wish it was no by 60% then it would be denied by their own standards.
By their standards, it only needed to be no by 40%
