If this is an indication of anything, how does the GOP feel about their chances going into next year knowing that they're the party that gutted abortion rights? Yeah you're not winning presidency and you can kiss those mid-terms goodbye too, assholes.
The only way these assholes are gonna win anything, is if they abuse their power within Congress and the Supreme Court.
One part of the proposal that wasn’t getting as much attention is that it upped the requirement for ballot measures from having to get signatures in 44 districts (half of them) to needing signatures in all 88. That was to try and suppress grass roots efforts from even getting on the ballot. Such an undemocratic bunch of chucklefucks.
Holy shit. That would have meant almost no grassroots ballot measures would get off the ground. People would be forced to hire groups all across the state to drive and get signatures from random rural fuck off counties.
It also removed the signature curing period, meaning that there is no second chance to get more signatures or any of the originals get thrown out. For example, there is a recreational marijuana initiative that people are trying to get on the ballot in November. When they turned in signatures, it was found that they were, iirc, 639 signatures short. Under the current rules (which will remain) they had 10 days to come up with what they needed. Last I saw, they had gotten over 6,000, so that’s cool.
It was always part of Issue 1. The 3 big changes for issue 1 were:
Change the number of counties requiring signatures for ballot measures from 44 (half the counties in Ohio) to 88 (all of the counties in Ohio). If I remember correctly, that’s 5000 signatures from each county.
Remove petition curing period so that if some counties fell short of the required number of signatures or if some signatures were rejected or disputed for whatever reason, there would be no time to get more. I think the current curing period is a week.
Require a super-majority (60%) for a ballot measure to pass, rather than a simple majority (>50%).
To me, the least troubling of these was the super-majority part that’s been so hyped up, because the first 2 changes would have made it near impossible for voter-led initiatives to even get on the ballot to begin with. The only ballot measures we’d ever have a chance to vote on would be whatever the state house deemed worthy. All to prevent a ballot measure this November that would allow abortions for non-viable fetuses.
Regarding point 2, it’s interesting to note that the cannabis organization initiative fell short by nearly 700 signatures just a couple of weeks ago. During that curing period nearly 7000 signatures were obtained.
This initiative easily had enough support to get put on the ballot, but issue 1 sought to make it so bills in this situation would be dead in the water. An active subversion of the will of the people.
I think you’re almost right, but you forgot about the lady from Texas on it. It’s actually a pretty well known thing among vexilologists because it’s such a crazy anachronism.
She did it knowing that her family would be lambasted by the public as well. Maybe dont try to shame them or group them together–she did the right thing. The next mom might not if everyone dogpiles onto this one.
Because its one if the few places you can be nearly 100% certain no one will fire back. Shoot up a restaurant, mall, church, park, etc you will receive return fire from lawful carriers almost immediatly, especially in Texas.
There are more guns in the US than people (some estimates have it at nearly 2 to 1). You cant stop people from getting them any more than the war on drugs stopped people from buying weed.
What really needs to happen is solving the root issue of violence. Poverty and a lack of access to healthcare (which includes mental healthcare).
its true, making something illegal and actually enforcing it has never resulted in less of that thing anywhere ever
these guns are not magically appearing in the hands of killers and these kids are not buying their guns through their extensive maffia connections
theyre being mass produced legally, imported legally, advertised legally, sold legally and carried legally at a scale that would be entirely impossible to match illegally
i honestly have no idea how folks can genuinely believe that letting mossberg and glock set up multimillion dollar factories and buy ads online, on tv or in the paper has 0 effect on the amount of guns in the USA, or that guns being a totally legal and normal thing for regular, law abiding dads to buy and own without having to contact their friendly neighborhood gang representative has no effect on the amount of kids getting their hands on them
it’s so entirely ridiculous of a view to have that you have to be lying
That’s not just out of touch, that’s Stalinist purge level dystopian. And those despicable fucks have the gall to go on about how they’re in favour of “freedom”.
At the least this law will protect teachers that bully trans students, at the most they could start actively prosecuting teachers for using a student’s preferred pronouns.
This is the roadmap for swing states. Especially rust-belt or blue-collar states. Abortion, personal freedom and autonomy. These elections are better than polls. This is how you win, dems. Branch off of it, but for goodness’ sake hammer it home.
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