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[profeminist]

NICE JOB OHIO! ABORTION RIGHTS ENSHRINED IN STATE CONSTITUTION

Dave Wasserman

@Redistrict

"I've seen enough: in a victory for the pro-choice side, Ohio Issue 1, a measure to establish a right to an abortion in the state constitution, passes."

[tomorrowusa]

Tuesday is Election Day in many parts of the US.

VOTE! 🗳 🇺🇸

A number of sites provide you with an opportunity to see who is on your ballot and what issues are being contested. They don't include an actual image of your ballot but they do let you know what's on it.

VOTE411 Voter Guide

Sample Ballot Lookup - Ballotpedia

Vote Informed on the Entire Ballot - BallotReady

Of course check the site of your local election authority. In some places it's the county clerk and in others it's a board of elections. The elections mentioned in this post are a small number of those around the US on November 7th.

Because of the GOP SCOTUS overturning of Roe v. Wade, state legislatures now determine whether a state supports reproductive freedom or not. State governments have been badly neglected by liberals for decades — and that situation needs to end.

Both chambers of the state legislature in Virginia are up for election on Tuesday. If both fall under Republican control then the state will join the rest of the South in restricting abortion.

Virginia is not the only state having elections for its state officials.

STATES HOLDING ELECTIONS FOR STATE LEGISLATURE

Virginia

New Jersey

Mississippi

Louisiana

STATES HOLDING ELECTIONS FOR GOVERNOR

Kentucky

Louisiana

Mississippi

There are numerous municipal elections, special elections, ballot measures, and constitutional amendments to be decided on Tuesday.

The biggie is the Ohio constitutional amendment on reproductive freedom. Voters in Ohio have the opportunity to overturn the gerrymandered Ohio Republican legislature's ban on abortion. Vote YES on Ohio Issue 1.

A very local but important contest is the special legislative election in New Hampshire to fill a vacancy in Hillsborough County District 3 (in the Nashua area). Right now Republicans have a one seat advantage in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. If Democrat Paige Beauchemin wins this seat then Republicans will be forced to share power with Democrats in the chamber.

Good candidates for federal office often emerge from state and local government. Before he was elected to the US Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served several terms in the Illinois legislature.

There is no such thing as an unimportant election.

[allhailthe70shousewife]

VOTERS IN OHIO: TOMORROW IS YOUR BIG DAY!

Please get out and vote YES on Issue 1.

[afloweroutofstone]

Ohio: Vote No on Issue 1 today

August 8, 2023

Issue 1 is a Republican-backed effort to make it more difficult for citizens to vote to pass initiatives and amend the state constitution. This is aimed at weakening voters’ ability to vote on defending abortion rights in Ohio later this year. Voting “no” on Issue 1 will defeat this effort and allow voters the chance to strengthen abortion rights in Ohio this November, as well as allowing them to vote on other important issues in the future.

[solradguy]

WE FUCKIN DID IT OHIO!!!!! ABORTION'S IN OUR CONSTITUTION NOW!!!

CW for mentions of rape and descriptions of abortion processes in both articles: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ohio-issue-1-voters-pass-abortion-rights-amendment/ar-AA1jtXPR https://abc13.com/election-day-2023-ohio-results-issue-1-voting/14024254/

The vote was SUBSTANTIALLY in favor too. Look at this!! (via CNN)

Issue 2, the vote for recreational marijuana in Ohio, also passed!! Obviously a lot of people wanted that to pass for party reasons, but the bill is also going to establish a bunch of stuff that's going to be wonderful for Ohio's economy in the long run:

Allows medical marijuana businesses in Ohio to grow, process or sell recreational products. 

Awards cultivation and dispensary licenses through the social equity program, which aims to help business owners who have been disproportionately affected by prohibition. That includes those who have been arrested or convicted of marijuana crimes. 

Instructs the Division of Cannabis Control to set rules for licensing, testing, product standards and more. As part of that, the division will set a THC content cap of at least 35% for plant material and 90% for extracts. 

Prohibits driving while high and sales to people under 21. 

source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/11/06/ohio-issue-2-live-election-results-2023-state-votes-on-recreational-marijuana/71205541007/

I cannot believe these both passed. In Ohio!!!! Our entire government is red right now and abortion AND weed both got legalized!!! What a relief. There's hope for this state yet

[thepro-lifemovement]

Just a reminder to pray for Ohio tomorrow!

I had to look it up and for those who don't know:

If approved, the amendment, titled "The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety," would protect any person or entity that helps a patient receive reproductive medical treatment and prohibit Ohio from "directly or indirectly burdening, penalizing or prohibiting abortion" before viability, generally considered to be between 22 and 24 weeks of pregnancy. The proposal allows the state to ban abortion after viability, except when it is considered necessary to protect the life and health of the mother. 

So Issue 1 will allow abortions up until 22-24 weeks. For those in Ohio, make sure you vote against this. Let's hope the state citizens don't let this pass.

[defundthepolicedestroythegop]

House GOP seeks billions in cuts to rail, water infrastructure spending

Two years after approving a bipartisan $1.2 trillion law, Republicans are looking to scale back spending that some in their own party previously supported

By Tony Romm and Ian Duncan

Updated July 18, 2023 at 12:12 p.m. EDT|Published July 18, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

It took decades for Congress to deliver on its promise to pour new money into the nation’s roads, bridges, pipes, ports and internet connections.

Now, House Republicans are trying to slash some of the same funds.

A series of GOP bills to finance the federal government in 2024 would wipe out billions of dollars meant to repair the nation’s aging infrastructure, potentially undercutting a 2021 law that was one of Washington’s rare recent bipartisan achievements. The proposed cuts could hamstring some of the most urgently needed public-works projects across the country, from improving rail safety to reducing lead contamination at schools.

Some of the cuts would be particularly steep: Amtrak, for example, could lose nearly two-thirds of its annual federal funding next fiscal year if House Republicans prevail. That includes more than $1 billion in cuts targeting the highly trafficked and rapidly aging Northeast Corridor, which runs between Boston and Washington, prompting Amtrak’s chief to sound early alarms about service disruptions.

In recent days, Republicans have defended their approach as a fiscally responsible way to reduce the burgeoning federal debt. They’ve largely tried to extract the savings by slimming down federal agencies’ operating budgets next year, technically leaving intact the extra funding that lawmakers adopted in the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

But the effect would be the same: The GOP bills would reduce the federal money available for repairs. The cuts would come at a time when the country is grappling with the real-life consequences of its own infrastructure failures, from train derailments in Ohio and Pennsylvania to the collapse of a key portion of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia last month.

“I guess no one reads newspapers,” said Rep. Mike Quigley of Illinois, the top Democrat on the appropriations panel that oversees transportation and other key infrastructure programs. “When big infrastructure issues are blowing up in our face, we’re doing the opposite.”

They opposed the infrastructure law. Now, some in the GOP court its cash.

The emerging House battle underscores the massive chasm between Democrats and Republicans over the nation’s fiscal health, only weeks after the two parties brokered what was thought to be a political truce.

In a deal to stave off a potential first-ever federal default, Biden worked out an agreement with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in June to pursue modest voluntary spending caps on federal agencies and programs starting in the 2024 fiscal year. In exchange, Republicans permitted lawmakers to raise the debt ceiling, allowing the United States to resume borrowing money to pay its bills.

Even as Republicans touted that vote as a victory, however, some in the party’s far-right flank signaled they planned to continue the fight. They pledged to force Democrats to accept massive spending cuts through the annual appropriations process that funds the government — or risk a shutdown if lawmakers fail to act by the Sept. 30 deadline.

So far, the standoff has largely simmered behind the scenes. In recent weeks, Rep. Kay Granger (R-Tex.), the chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, has worked methodically to process a dozen funding bills, which McCarthy on Monday said he hopes to start bringing to the chamber floor as soon as next week.

In a sign of the acrimonious debate to come, each of the House appropriations bills features sharp spending cuts that Democrats vehemently oppose — even targeting some federal infrastructure programs that until recently had enjoyed bipartisan support.

Two years after Congress approved $55 billion to improve the nation’s water supply, for example, House Republicans last week proposed to eliminate $1.7 billion from the two primary federal sources for drinking water and wastewater grants to states.

Those programs had received supplemental funding as part of the bipartisan infrastructure act. Rather than undo that law, the GOP bill would dramatically reduce the initiatives’ annual budgets, compared with what they received in the 2023 fiscal year, while underfunding a slew of other federal water infrastructure operations. That includes two programs to help schools and low-income communities reduce lead contamination, which together could receive about $85 million less next year than lawmakers previously had authorized, according to an analysis of data released in January 2022 by the Congressional Research Service.

“I’ll be real honest with you: If you’re looking for a pretty bill, this is not it,” acknowledged Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), the chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that produced the proposal, at a hearing last week.

“Cutting funding is never easy and can often be an ugly process. … But with the nation’s debt in excess of $32 trillion and inflation at an unacceptable level, we have to do our jobs to rein in unnecessary federal spending,” he said.

After weeks of haggling, House appropriators are expected to finalize that bill this week. Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine, the top Democrat on the panel, described the spending measure in a recent hearing as “one of the most harmful attacks on America’s efforts to tackle climate change.”

Congress approves $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, sending measure to Biden for enactment

The proposed cuts to infrastructure spending come at a time when new federal money has started to flow more rapidly. The White House estimates it has announced about $225 billion in awards under the 2021 law, which has benefited roughly 35,000 projects nationwide, a figure Biden has touted regularly as he tours the country to promote his economic agenda.

For both parties, the $1.2 trillion packagemarked a major achievement after years of false promises and jokes about botched “infrastructure weeks.” It took months of late-night negotiating sessions among a small group of moderate Democrats and Republicans before they could reconcile their competing visions about the size and scope of new federal spending.

Even then, though, lawmakers acknowledged their compromise addressed only a small fraction of the United States’ true needs. In its latest national report card, the American Society of Civil Engineers projected the nation faces a roughly $2.6 trillion, 10-year backlog in projects to repair the country’s roads, bridges, pipes, ports and internet connections — a gap about twice the size of the infrastructure law.

“There’s a lot of work to be done,” said Emily Feenstra, the chief policy and external affairs officer at ASCE. “We need every cent.”

Some of the greatest needs are in transportation, where House Republicans on Tuesday convened a hearing to finalize a 2024 spending bill that includes $6.6 billion in cuts. The spending reductions predominantly target transit and rail, while curbing Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s work to promote environmental and racial equity.

“This bill is another example of the real progress we’re making to reduce overall spending while funding our highest priorities,” Granger told committee lawmakers.

Amtrak would take one of the heaviest blows, potentially losing $1.5 billion in funding next year if the GOP plan becomes law. In a statement last week, Stephen Gardner, the passenger railroad’s chief executive, said such a cut would force Amtrak to “radically reduce or suspend service on various routes across the nation.”

Republicans would extract another $2 billion from a federal infrastructure program used to fund the construction of new transit lines. That could jeopardize a slew of projects now underway — including the Gateway tunnel system between New York and New Jersey, one of the largest infrastructure endeavors in the nation, which hopes to receive $7 billion to make urgently needed repairs.

The GOP bills also provide no new funding in 2024 for a series of grant programs that Republicans historically have supported. That would equate to a roughly $800 million cut from the initiative known as RAISE, which provides money to cities and states so they can construct bridges over rail lines, create new pedestrian paths and finance street redesigns.

The program is so popular the Transportation Department received $15 billion in requests last year, though the agency could award only 162 projects totaling $2.2 billion in funding in June. Some of those requests came from GOP lawmakers on the House Appropriations Committee: 17 panel members wrote the Biden administration in search of funds for dozens of local projects in 2022 and 2023, according to letters backing requests for funds that the department released to The Washington Post last week.

The members include Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa), who wrote in support of five RAISE applicants in her state. Her office accused the Biden administration of “playing political games” in releasing the letters and said the congresswoman “will remain focused on bringing investments back to Iowa while reining in overall government spending.”

Biden, for his part, only sought in 2024 to fund the RAISE program at the level adopted under the infrastructure law. But the president did request — and Republicans ultimately denied — $1.2 billion in new money for infrastructure megaprojects. That would have included funds for the long-sought overhaul of the Brent Spence Bridge between Ohio and Kentucky and the Calcasieu River Bridge, which carries Interstate 10 in Louisiana.

In an early hearing last week, the top Republican overseeing transportation spending — Rep. Tom Cole (Okla.) — defended the bill as one that “meets the challenge before us to reduce spending and get our debt under control.”

On Tuesday, he added of the fierce debate to come: “These things tend to start out in one place. They always tend to end up some place else.”

Taken from The Washington Post because this shit is too important to put behind a paywall. Link is in the title.

[when-did-this-become-difficult]

OHIOANS VOTE JULY 2023

JULY 11, 2023 EARLY VOTING OPEN TODAY IN OHIO

Skip the lines and go to your early vote location! The last day you can vote is August 8, Election Day (it's an early election day, yes we also have a November election because the Ohio state legislature is so so so so stupid) but anyways

VOTE NO ON ISSUE #1 🙏🙏🙏

a) it's the right thing to do

b) it's pretty easy cause you have a whole month to get it done early

c) fuck em

[mariacallous]

On August 8, Ohio voters rejected Issue 1, a measure which would have immensely raised the signature and approval thresholds for citizen initiatives to amend the state constitution. Supporters of abortion rights have reason to celebrate the result, since Issue 1 was intended to derail the passage of an abortion rights measure on the November ballot, which will likely pass under majority rule.

Whether you believe abortion should be legal, and whether you think ballot measures are a good way to make policy, the results in Ohio should remind us of a broader and highly concerning political trend. For democracy to function, political actors must agree upon the rules of the game, and not alter those rules when they suspect they might lose.

To be clear: the problem with Issue 1 was not that the initiative process is a sacrosanct cornerstone of democracy. In fact, despite the lofty intentions of the Progressive-era proponents of direct legislation, initiative elections — which exist in 26 states — often feature low turnout, special interest spending, and low-information voters. But Issue 1 was not the result of a deep consideration of institutional reform; it was rushed onto the ballot to stop Ohioans from approving a state constitutional protection for abortion rights.

In the year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Ohioans for Reproductive Rights collected more than twice the number of signatures needed to put the abortion rights amendment on the ballot for November 2023. Anticipating the success of that campaign, Republican state legislators moved to change the rules at the last minute, by calling for a special election on a constitutional amendment that would raise the signature numbers, require signatures from each of Ohio’s 88 counties, and raise the approval threshold to 60%. Campaign finance data reveals, unsurprisingly, that organizations concerned with abortion viewed this initiative as a key fight. As Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose admitted, “this is 100% about keeping a radical pro-abortion amendment out of our constitution.” Thus, though there are perfectly sound reasons to reform the initiative process, those rationales have nothing to do with the measure Ohioans considered yesterday.

What is more, the specific reforms proposed in Issue 1 draw on some of the worst traditions of anti-democratic governance in America. Requiring a supermajority of voters to agree to a policy is an approach straight from the “Jim Crow” playbook. Issue 1’s voter approval requirement was unusually high and the proposed signature requirement was also singularly onerous. No other state requires an initiative campaign to collect signatures from every county, a procedure that would give disproportionate weight to small, rural counties.

The substantive problems with Issue 1 were exacerbated by the decision to hold the election in August. Decisions about the rules of the democratic game, the basic processes by which citizens can engage in political reform, should certainly not be put before the voters when a relatively small fraction of the public is likely to participate. Off-cycle elections generally have exceptionally low turnout — a fact Ohio legislators surely know, since they passed a bill that eliminated almost all August special elections only last year. Even with the exceptional interest Issue 1 received, less than half of Ohio’s registered voters turned out.

From the standpoint of democracy, the results last night were reassuring. But in the long term, what really matters is that major political actors in Ohio and elsewhere have shown themselves willing to change the rules rather than lose an election. Particularly given the broader trend of voter suppression and democratic erosion in many states, this trend bodes very poorly for the functioning of our democratic system. Voters should remain vigilant.

[kagekanecavi]

If you're from Ohio don't forget to vote in the special election Tuesday, August 8th

Here's some info on Issue 1, the only issue on the ballot:

Issue 1 was introduced in response to a proposed constitutional amendment to enshrine our right to make our own decisions about reproductive heath

https://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_Right_to_Make_Reproductive_Decisions_Including_Abortion_Initiative_(2023)

Vote no on issue 1

[tomorrowusa]

Election Day is Tuesday November 7th.

One of the more high profile contests is the effort to place reproductive freedom into the Ohio Constitution.

If you're in Ohio, be sure to Vote Yes on Issue 1. If you're outside Ohio, send people you know there a friendly reminder to vote in favor of the measure.

Take abortion out of the hands of the gerrymandered GOP-run Ohio legislature!

Ohio is not the only place elections are taking place next week. Go to this site and scroll down slightly to here...

A strong Yes vote on Issue 1 may encourage further ballot initiatives in Ohio such as one to end gerrymandering.

There is no such thing as an unimportant election. Even school board elections have an impact on things like book banning and suppression of accurate history.

Democracy is not a spectator sport. 🇺🇸 ☒ 🗳

[rapeculturerealities]

Opponents gave input on ballot language for abortion-rights measure, Ohio elections chief says | AP News

Opponents gave input on ballot language for abortion-rights measure, Ohio elections chief says

FILE - Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose speaks to the Fairfield County Lincoln Republican Club, March 24, 2022, in Pickerington, Ohio. LaRose says he consulted with three prominent anti-abortion groups while drafting the contested ballot language used to describe Issue 1, an abortion-rights measure overwhelmingly approved by voters in November 2023's election. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon, File)

FILE - Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose speaks to the Fairfield County Lincoln Republican Club, March 24, 2022, in Pickerington, Ohio. LaRose says he consulted with three prominent anti-abortion groups while drafting the contested ballot language used to describe Issue 1, an abortion-rights measure overwhelmingly approved by voters in November 2023’s election. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon, File)

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose consulted with three prominent anti-abortion groups while drafting the contested ballot language used to describe Issue 1, an abortion-rights measure overwhelmingly approved by voters earlier this month, cleveland.com reported Wednesday.

The Republican elections chief and 2024 U.S. Senate candidate revealed having help with the wording while speaking at a Nov. 17 candidate forum hosted by the local Republican club Strongsville GOP, according to the news organization.

The constitutional amendment’s backers blasted the ballot summary offered by LaRose, in his role as chair of the Ohio Ballot Board, as “rife with misleading and defective language” intended to encourage “no” votes.

[chaoticqueertiefling]

To anyone in Ohio today, the special election for Issue 1 is today! Don't forget to go out and vote!

I tried to find the actual issue but its a pdf and im on mobile and its proving to ve difficult. Googling "Ohio Issue 1" works just fine, you can add 2023 if you really want to.

I read the guide above and it seems pretty good but always remember to do ur own research and come to your own conclusions.

[ivegottale]

DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH CO² THAT IS WITHIN THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE TODAY IN 2024? HOW ABOUT IN 2023?

In 2023, the CO² levels were at 0.03%. In 2024, it sits at 0.04%.

So "you-all" are telling me, that all...the "hoop-la" about climate change. Is all about a tenth of a percent a year increase. All the CO² caused from around the world is only 1% higher than last year enough of a priority concern. Congress decided our taxes were now also funding, yet another field lab study? In charge of documenting the rise of these levels. If our CO² levels go any lower than 0.02%. Plant life would die.

Half of Congress doesn't even recall what the level guidelines had been set into place. Yet along with what the results concluded or predicts from that study. Probably because Democrats are struggling in keeping all their lies straight.

Not the President, not an elected official, appointed authority or a politician ever receive validated results to the contrary. It's because the White House is no longer in control. Oh...No....Corporate business is in charge. They're in charge of our supply in supermarkets, control local media, our utilities, critical thinking, fuel and how much we'll pay. All along assuring that Americans paychecks are stretched just far enough where we can barely get by.

• Military = $712 billion tax dollars

• NATO. = $442 million tax dollars

• Congress= $200,000 tax dollars per official and their travel expenses with their stay's, bottled water for the White House floor, lunches, brothels and (+) what's made from inside trade.

• Illegal Immigrants = $2200 per month, per person (+) cell phone privileges, food stamp access, free medical, a credit card, Driver license, Voting registration, and shelter.

• SSI/SSDI = $1300 per month, discounted utilities, free medical, limited food stamp access, limited benefit card, free cell phone, discounted transportation and free public or managed shelter's at full cost.

• Ukraine = $75 billion dollars

• Lahaina wildfire =. $700 dollars victims, Maui. one time pay & out

• Palestine, Ohio = Received no help with clean water issues after the train derailment back in February. The 12 car derailment left the Palestine Village with unhealthy poor water conditions the town depends on. Even after 2 weeks when State and Federal officials stated water, soil and air quality met all safety standards. Residents still depended on neighbors efforts bringing bottled water into their community. Residents claimed they were still suffering from the chemicals the derailed cars from the crash spilled into their well water.

[questioningstressing]

Not seeing many people talk about this but Ohio has increased funding to public libraries, schools, and medical centers for up to 10 years, voted for better sewage and water systems, added trails to parks, legalized abortions and gender affirming care, and legalized weed.

Most are voting primarily blue, and while not a liberal I think this is important. This is great, this is important.

Gen Z is getting old enough to vote and it is showing.