Ad likens elections law, SB 5 to Jim Crow
By Joe Vardon
As Democrats work to place Ohio’s Republican-backed elections law on hold through a referendum, they’r e arguing that the measure is akin to poll taxes, grandfather clauses and other footnotes from America’s Jim Crow past.
But does the same argument apply to Senate Bill 5, the GOP-sponsored limits on collective bargaining for public employees that is currently subject to a referendum as state Issue 2 on the November ballot?
Democratic, labor and African-American leaders say yes.
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New districts favor GOP
Republicans redrew the maps and say they followed the law.
By packing as many Democrats into as few of the state’s House and Senate districts as possible, Ohio Republicans have created enough safe GOP seats to likely ensure domination of the Statehouse in the next decade, a Dayton Daily News analysis shows.
Round two of redrawing political boundaries — the Legislature approved the new congressional map last week — had a similar result.
State Rep. Ross McGregor, R-Springfield, Tuesday joined forces with Rep. Nickie Antonio, D-Lakewood, to introduce legislation that would ban discrimination in housing and employment based on sexual orientation and gender identify.
House Bill 335 is identical to legislation the House, then controlled by Democrats, approved in the last General Assembly, House Bill 176.
That bill died in the Senate, controlled then as now by the Republicans.
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House Passes Nonprofit, Probate Code Updates; Batchelder Defends Legislative Map
Hannah Report 9/27/11
The House passed four bills with little opposition Tuesday updating Ohio's nonprofit corporation laws and probate code, among other moves.
HB267 (McKenney) adopts the Revised Uniform Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act, while SB124 (Bacon) makes changes relative to the state's probate code. The chamber added an amendment introduced by Rep. Richard Hollington (R-Chagrin Falls) that removes an obligation for a fiduciary authority to invest in foreign governments.
Rep. Dennis Murray (D-Sandusky) opposed the amendment, saying it "institutionalizes and codifies xenophobia." He said there is a time and a place for such transactions and that he doesn't think it is appropriate to tie the hands of those investing.
The House passed four bills with little opposition Tuesday updating Ohio's nonprofit corporation laws and probate code, among other moves.
HB267 (McKenney) adopts the Revised Uniform Unincorporated Nonprofit Association Act, while SB124 (Bacon) makes changes relative to the state's probate code. The chamber added an amendment introduced by Rep. Richard Hollington (R-Chagrin Falls) that removes an obligation for a fiduciary authority to invest in foreign governments.
Rep. Dennis Murray (D-Sandusky) opposed the amendment, saying it "institutionalizes and codifies xenophobia." He said there is a time and a place for such transactions and that he doesn't think it is appropriate to tie the hands of those investing.
http://www.hannah.com/DesktopDefaultPublic.aspx?type=hns&id=187244
Asked during a break in session if he thought the new maps were fair, the speaker acknowledged they were drawn up to favor the GOP's continued dominance of the two chambers while stating that former House Speaker Vern Riffe engineered a similar strategy for Democrats to keep them in power for more than two decades.
http://www.gongwer-oh.com/programming/news_articledisplay.cfm?article_ID=801870201&newsedition_id=8018702&locid=2
SPEAKER SAYS NEW DISTRICTS CONSTITUTIONALLY FAVOR GOP; HOUSE PASSES PROBATE UPDATE
Gongwer 9/27/11
Speaker Bill Batchelder (R-Medina) defended the Apportionment Board's favored revisions to House and Senate districts Tuesday, maintaining the result of the Republican-controlled process was no different than when Democrats ran the show a few decades ago.Asked during a break in session if he thought the new maps were fair, the speaker acknowledged they were drawn up to favor the GOP's continued dominance of the two chambers while stating that former House Speaker Vern Riffe engineered a similar strategy for Democrats to keep them in power for more than two decades.
http://www.gongwer-oh.com/programming/news_articledisplay.cfm?article_ID=801870201&newsedition_id=8018702&locid=2
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