Political Outcomes Over People-The Issue 1 Gerrymander
The Issue 1 Gerrymander is designed to fool voters into giving their basic rights away to an unelected, unaccountable panel appointed by retired politicians.
“It’s all about the balance of power.”
That’s the message from League of Women Voters, Executive Director, Jen Miller this week at a forum in Columbus held by the Federalist Society.
What she really means is that it’s all about the balance of their power.
Not the power of the voters, but rather the balance of progressive leftist power.
The liberal League and its D.C. cronies removed the fairness filter and stated it is all about gerrymandering fixed outcomes from the beginning of the redistricting process.
This will be hard for them to understand because they are so blinded by their quest for guaranteed power that they haven’t been able to earn.
Simple question.
Who decides the balance of power?
The people do.
The people decide the balance of power, not an unelected, unaccountable panel that would be established by the Political Outcomes Over People Campaign.
Senator Michele Reynolds, R-Canal Winchester joined Detroit Democrat Represenative Sherry Gay-Dagnogo, and the former Chair of Michigan's Independent Voters Redistricting Panel for an online town hall meeting last week.
They exposed the true disenfranchisement danger Issue 1 represents to minority communities, especially Black neighbohoods.
Watch our coverage here.
The story in the Toledo Blade quoted Miller as complaining that “Legislative Republicans are so powerful that they can override the governor’s will, and they can ignore the Supreme Court even when they gave them that job,”
Correct. That’s called the Separation of Powers.
The legislative branch has the constitutional authority to override the executive branch. And the judicial branch doesn’t get to prescribe a laundry list of laws for the legislative branch to pass. Conversely, the legislative branch doesn’t get to pass a law telling the judicial branch how to rule on a case.
That is basic 9th grade Government class.
The League of Liberal Disinformation must have been absent that day in high school.
The League wants to rig power from the start, because the current system that produced maps with a unanimous, bipartisan vote for the remainder of the decade worked for the voters. It just didn't work for the League.
During the forum, Election Law attorney, and nationally known redistricting expert, Frank Strigari laid down the law.
“These arbitrary numbers…nobody can script this out,” he said. “Mandating this in the constitution, saying you’ve got to have 55[Republicans in the Ohio House], plus or minus two or three, and you’ve got to have 45 Democrats? That’s insane.”
Correct. Insane, because the voters would no longer matter.
Competition would no longer matter.
We strongly believe that campaigns, candidates, and the issues matter.
There are 15 seats in the Ohio Senate that lean Democrat.
Of those, Republicans have won 8 of those seats. Campaigns, candidates, and issues matter.
Voters decide the balance of power.
And voters can change the balance of power on the current redistricting commission by electing Democrats to the three statewide offices that serve on the redistricting commission.
That would mean running a quality candidate, who runs a quality campaign for Governor, Auditor and Secretary of State.
But the League, The NDRC and progressive leftists don’t want to make the effort to do that.
They just want to rest on a $37 million campaign designed to fool voters into giving their power away. The Columbus Dispatch took the time to report the astounding out-of-state contributions backing Issue 1. In fact, less than 1% of its contributions came from inside Ohio. 0.77% to be exact.
By the way, the self descirbed "non-partisan" League of Women Voters contributed more than $140,000 to the Issue 1 Campaign.
Issue 1 will create more “Snakes on the Lake” and sprawling districts across Ohio to achieve proportionality, otherwise known as gerrymandered fixed outcomes. All at the expense of minority voters and Black neighborhoods.
Senator Michele Reynolds, Republican from Canal Winchester was joined by former Representative John Barnes, Democrat from Cleveland, along with Rebecca Szetela, the past chairman of Michigan’s Independent Voters Redistricting Panel at a recent news conference and exposed how Issue 1 would disenfranchise minority voters.
Watch the dire message they delivered about the disaster that resulted in Michigan.
Detroit was divided 22 times and now does not have a Black member of Congress for the first time in 20 years. That’s for a city whose population is 78% African American.
Watch our President’ Podcast with them.
Issue 1 will do three things.
It will generate Gerrymandered Fixed Outcomes based on proportionality.
It comes with Zero accountability from an unelected, unaccountable panel with an unlimited bank account provided by Ohio taxpayers.
It attacks democracy in Ohio by subtracting all the anti-gerrymandering protections passed by more than 70% of the voters.
President Trump made the case to Ohio voters to defeat Issue 1 and send a message to the D.C. swamp that Ohio’s Constitution and democracy is not for sale.
For a complete breakdown about the true danger Issue 1 brings to Ohio, watch our President's Podcast featuring President Matt Huffman, Senator Rob McColley, Secretary of State Frank LaRose, and Governor Mike DeWine
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