Longtime lawmaker's advice: Break up the sticky stuff
Wooster Daily-Record
COLUMBUS -- Rep. Lou Blessing has been around the Statehouse block more than a few times.
The Cincinnati-area Republican has served nearly three decades in the legislature and is finishing up his final term in the Ohio House.
He's like the other long-timers -- that list includes Reps. Ron Amstutz and Lynn Wachtmann, from Wooster and Napoleon, respectively; Reps. Ron Gerberry and Bob Hagan, Democrats from the Mahoning Valley; and, of course, Speaker Bill Batchelder -- who have fought some good fights, stepped on some toes and inked some deals in their day.
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Democrats on Tuesday took aim at gun-related bills in the legislature that they said would jeopardize public safety and put police in harm's way,
During a press conference, Rep. Ted Celeste (D-Grandview Heights) and Rep. Tracy Heard (D-Columbus) criticized a fundraiser flyer for a "Machine Gun Social" sent out by Rep. Margaret Conditt (R-Liberty Twp.) in which supporters are invited to shoot firearms. The lawmakers were joined by Toby Hoover, executive director of the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, Progress Ohio Executive Director Brian Rothenberg and Rev. Tim Ahrens of First Congregational Church.
However, Republicans responded by saying that Democrats were trying to score political points at the expense of law-abiding Ohioans.
Rep. Celeste said he was concerned about the fundraiser's message after three students were killed by a gunman at Chardon High School earlier this year.
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