BREAKING: OH Lt. Gov. Jon Husted to Replace JD Vance in the Senate

Husted will bring the GOP’s Senate majority up to 53. 

By Liberty Nation Authors | Jan 17, 2025 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags:  Articles, Politics

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced Friday, January 17, his choice to replace soon-to-be Vice President JD Vance in the US Senate. Lt. Governor John Husted will fill the hole left by Vance’s resignation from the US Senate.

Vance, who will be sworn in on Monday as vice president, resigned from Congress effective January 10, ten days before his and President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. Husted was elected to his current position in 2018 and re-elected in 2022, and had previously served as Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, Ohio Secretary of State, and as a state senator. Once sworn in, Husted will bring the Republican majority in the upper chamber to 53.

Before officially naming Husted as his choice, Governor DeWine spoke on what he looked for in choosing a senator: someone who knows Ohio intimately, understands the interactions between state and federal governments, and will be a “work horse” in the upper chamber to work for the people of Ohio. “I believe, and know, that Jon is prepared to be the United States senator from this state,” DeWine concluded, adding that he’ll be “right at home in the United States Senate.”

One day prior, on Thursday, January 16, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced that state Attorney General Ashley Moody would take over for Sen. Marco Rubio. Moody, however, can’t be sworn in until after Rubio resigns – something he has yet to do. That resignation should come soon, however, as he’s expected to be confirmed as US secretary of State.

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Democrats Scramble to Get Joe Biden on the Ohio Ballot

Bending one state’s election laws doesn’t bother the defenders of democracy.

By Graham J Noble | May 29, 2024 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Opinion, Politics

As precarious as Joe Biden’s chances of winning a second White House term in November seem now, there is one significant obstacle standing in his way. This particular roadblock, if not overcome, could prove decisive in his bid for re-election. The incumbent is not on the general election ballot in one of the most important battleground states, Ohio. If the Democratic Party fails to resolve the issue and Biden’s name doesn’t appear on the Ohio ballot, the Buckeye State’s 17 Electoral College votes – down from 18 in 2020 – are as good as gift-wrapped for Donald Trump.

Trump supporters need not get too excited, though, because it appears that Democrats have come up with the solution to the problem. Biden was set to officially receive his party’s presidential nomination at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, which is scheduled to be held in Chicago, Aug. 19-22. Ohio law states that political parties must confirm their presidential nominees 90 days prior to the general election — meaning Democrats were on track to miss that Aug. 7 deadline.

The new plan, announced by Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Jaime Harrison, is for Biden and Kamala Harris – presumably – to be nominated via a virtual roll call, which will be held before the convention – and, of course, before the Ohio ballot deadline.

Ohio Ballot Snafu Was Whose Fault?

Harrison, in a statement, laid the blame for the snafu squarely on Republicans. “Joe Biden will be on the ballot in Ohio and all 50 states, and Ohio Republicans agree,” he said. “But when the time has come for action, they have failed to act every time, so Democrats will land this plane on our own.” It’s a somewhat disingenuous statement. The Republicans’ failure to act, as Harrison puts it, was, in fact, their refusal to alter or at least bend Ohio law to accommodate Biden.

However, that bill also contained a ban on foreign contributions to ballot initiatives, which was rejected by Democrats. Two other bills that would have created a permanent fix for the Ohio ballot deadline problem both failed to make it as far as a vote on the Ohio House floor.

Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose wasn’t having any of the Democrats’ blame-shifting. In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, he wrote:

“As Ohio’s chief elections officer, I refuse to bend the rules to benefit a candidate. Critics allege that my decision to uphold the law will deprive Ohio voters of the opportunity to choose their president. Never mind that I didn’t create this problem, nor do I wish for that outcome.”

Perhaps the scheduling of the DNC convention to a date after the Ohio ballot deadline was a mere oversight. Against a backdrop of near-constant objections by Democrats to any measures that secure and protect the integrity of US elections, however, an outside observer could be forgiven for thinking that this is one more example of the contempt they appear to hold for state-level election laws.

 

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Is Biden Bucking the Buckeye State?

Risky presidential strategies afoot in Ohio. 

By Mark Angelides May 23, 2024 @ Liberty Nation News, Tags: Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics

Editor's Note:  Ohio's Governor DeWine is all upset over this, and isn't going to tolerate it, as is demonstrated in this article.  RINO Dewine Demands Ohio Change Election Law to Accommodate Biden.  Make no mistake, if this was in New York, California, Washington, Oregon, Illinois, or any one of the other leftist sewers, and it involved Trump, they would celebrate him not being on the ballot, and would not make one bit of effort to change it.  DeWine is a disgrace and has always been a disgrace.  Governor DeWine is a Disgrace, and He's Not Alone: Part I,  Governor DeWine is a Disgrace, and He's Not Alone: Part II.  RK

The Ohio Democratic Party has been put on notice that President Joe Biden risks not being on the November ballot. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose this week issued the latest in a string of warnings that unless the party gets its act together, the commander-in-chief might just miss out on the deadline to file as a candidate.

Ohio law requires that candidates are certified by their parties at least 90 days before voters go to the polls; however, the Democratic Party Convention will not take place until August 19, when attendees will converge on Chicago – just 65 days before Election Day. The question has become: Who will jump first?

Is Biden the Nominee or Not?

Officially, Joe Biden will not become the nominee for his party until the national convention, which means he will miss the certification cut-off date. LaRose warned in a statement that:

“I’ve said from here to Colorado that it’s in the best interest of voters to have a choice in the race for president. I’m also duty-bound to follow the law as Ohio’s chief elections officer.

“As it stands today, the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee will not be on the Ohio ballot. That is not my choice. It’s due to a conflict in the law created by the party, and the party has so far offered no legally acceptable remedy.”

One might argue that the state could change its rules to accommodate the sitting president, but there appears no such appetite in the Ohio legislature for this action. The process for doing so, however, was already nixed by local leadership.

Ohio House Speaker Jason Stephens, a Republican, said: “There’s just not the will to do that from the legislature.” His position was echoed by his Democrat counterpart, Minority Leader Allison Russo, who held out little hope that a solution would come through bipartisan legislation. “We’ve seen the dysfunction here in this place,” she stated. “And I think we’ve seen that folks have not been able to put aside partisanship and hyper-partisanship and infighting… I think at this point, you’re probably going to see either, you know, some sort of inner party effects or perhaps court action.”

The Governor Disagrees

Republican Governor Mike DeWine believes that the state apparatus can resolve the situation, however. He argued:

“I have every confidence that it’s going to get done. No one should worry, they’re going to be able to vote for the president or the former president, whoever they want to vote for. You know, this is not going to be a situation where the president’s name is not on the ballot. So, it’s either going to be done by the court, or it’s going to be done by the legislature.”

While the legislature has been working towards a solution, efforts in that arena are currently stalled.

A Biden spokesman assured voters in response to LaRose’s plea that all would be well come Election Day. “Joe Biden will be on the ballot in all 50 states,” he said. “Election after election, states across the country have acted in line with the bipartisan consensus and taken the necessary steps to ensure the presidential nominees from both parties will be on the ballot.”

Indeed, Alabama faced a similar situation earlier this month and came to an agreement to move the certification deadline from 82 days before the election to 74.

But what can the American public glean about the players in this quasi-farcical comedy of errors?

Ohio Matters

As Kyle Kondik – managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball – writes in his book The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President, the Buckeye State has only deviated by roughly two points from the national voting average in the last 30 presidential election cycles. In fact, Ohio has the best track record of electing presidents of any other state since 1896 – missing out on only Thomas Dewy in 1944, Richard Nixon in 1960, and Donald Trump in 2020.

The lack of action to the repeated requests by Secretary of State LaRose hints at a hubris within the administration and the state Democratic Party, almost a sense of entitlement that states should fall in line behind the federal government’s lead. Yet, this presents a fundamental misunderstanding of how the nation works.

It is not one grand election for the president of the United States but rather 50 state elections. It is not the states’ responsibility to ensure that a candidate has access to the electorate, but the candidate’s duty to ensure he or she complies with the individual rules.

 

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Buckeye Institute Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 24, 2021 Lisa Gates, Vice President of Communications, (614) 224-3255 The Buckeye Institute: Emergency Powers Are Not Limitless Columbus, OH – Robert Alt, president and chief executive officer of The Buckeye Institute, issued the following statement upon the Ohio General Assembly’s override of Governor Mike DeWine’s veto of Ohio Senate Bill 22.   “The Buckeye Institute has consistently asserted that governors have broad—but not limitless—constitutional authority during a state of emergency. The use of extraordinary emergency powers must be subject to democratic checks and balances, and Buckeye applauds Ohio’s General Assembly for enforcing this check while still allowing Ohio to respond to genuine emergencies.”  # # # Founded in 1989, The Buckeye Institute is an independent research and educational institution – a think tank – whose mission is to advance free-market public policy in the states. The Buckeye Institute is a non-partisan, non-profit, and tax-exempt organization, as defined by section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue code. As such, it relies on support from individuals, corporations, and foundations that share a commitment to individual liberty, free enterprise, personal responsibility, and limited government. The Buckeye Institute does not seek or accept government funding. Donate Today! Support The Buckeye Institute Support The Buckeye Institute by setting us as your designated charity through AmazonSmile. Every time you make a purchase, Amazon will donate 0.5% of the total to The Buckeye Institute at no extra cost to you! AmazonSmile and the AmazonSmile logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

BREAKING: Republican Lawmakers Override DeWine Just One Day After SB22 Veto

March 24, 2021 Jack Windsor @ Ohio Star

COLUMBUS, Ohio – One day following Governor Mike DeWine’s veto of Senate Bill 22 (SB 22) – legislation aimed at rebalancing power by giving the Ohio Legislature oversight of government rules and orders – the Senate and House both took up the bill and both chambers voted to override the veto.

SB22 will become law in 90 days.

The Senate was first and voted 23-10.  Minutes later the House began floor debate and then voted to override 62-37.

House Majority Floor Leader Bill Seitz (R-Cincinnati) addressed questions about the constitutionality of SB22 in a floor speech Wednesday citing the Joint Commission on Agency Rule Review (JCARR) – a bicameral, bipartisan commission primarily responsible for reviewing rules of Ohio’s 100-plus agencies.  Seitz surmised that if a joint commission can make decisions regarding agency powers, then SB22 can check administrative rules and orders with a concurrent resolution (the law allows the General Assembly to cancel orders by concurrent resolution – which wouldn’t require a governor’s approval).

Seitz acknowleged the bill isn’t perfect, but noted that “changes down the line” that lawmakers could make “shouldn’t obfuscate the reason” SB22 was passed.

House Minority Leader Emilia Sykes (D-Akron) delivered a speech against the bill, claiming that voting to override the veto was akin to “dragging 11.7 million Ohioans” into an argument over whether someone [DeWine] didn’t call you back [legislators] – saying that the General Assembly is out of their lane in matters of public health, as evidenced by non-mask wearing, non-social distance honoring members.

Senator Terry Johnson, SB22 co-sponsor, said during his floor speech in the Senate “it intrigues me when the word science is brought up.”

Johnson, a student of science who has practiced medicine for over 30 years, pointed out that opinion and emotion are not science – and the fact that the votes for and against the bill go along party lines is “politics, not science.”

Johnson, as he did in his first floor speech in favor of the bill before it went to DeWine for a veto, highlighted the 300 Ohioans who testified in favor of the bill when it was in committee.  “These are people who wanted to be heard.”  He continued, “I challenge the media to not do the stories about Terry Johnson” but to look into the 300 proponent testimonies.

“Ask them, ‘What happened to you over the last year?’ ‘What’s your opinion?’ Crickets are what I hear from the media.”

Major elements of SB22 include:

• 90-day limit to declarations of health emergency unless General Assembly chooses to extend
• General Assembly can act to rescind emergency declarations after 30 days with a concurrent resolution
• Orders and agency rules can be rescinded immediately by concurrent resolution of the House and Senate
• Oversight of orders applies to all state agencies, not just the Ohio Department of Health
• Oversight of orders applies to not just the Governor, but every state employee empowered to issue an emergency rule or order
• Ohioans who contest an order, rule or mandate will have the court case heard in their home county, as opposed to a Franklin County court
• Ohioans who bring legal action against rules, orders and mandates will be reimbursed for legal fees if the citizen wins the case
• Health departments cannot issue public health emergency orders or rules against a broad group or class of people – SB22 defines quarantine and isolation and thus applies lockdown restrictions to people infected or in direct contact with a medically diagnosed person
• Health orders have no automatic expiration date – a 120-day expiration is already part of Ohio Revised Code

The Ohio Star reached out to Ohio Governor Mike DeWine for comment on the override and to find out if he intends to legally challenge the law.  Through his Press Secretary Dan Tierney, DeWine released the following statement:

It is too early to tell if there will be legal action. Governor DeWine will review the issue with legal counsel.

Governor DeWine, through his letter Monday and his veto message yesterday, made his serious concerns regarding Senate Bill 22 known to the members of the General Assembly and to the public.  In addition, those who provide healthcare and public health services across Ohio, as well as colleges, local officials, and community organizations, also expressed their deep concerns about Senate Bill 22. Governor DeWine remains focused every single day on doing all he can to ensure every Ohioan who wants a COVID vaccine can get one in the coming weeks, which is truly what will help Ohio put this pandemic behind us.

Jack Windsor is the Statehouse Reporter at The Ohio Star. Windsor is also an independent investigative reporter. Follow Jack on Twitter. Email tips to jwindsor@theohiostar.com.

EXCLUSIVE: One Year Into Mandates Ohio Still Can’t Back Up Policies When Under Oath, Maurice Thompson Says

March 19, 2021 Jack Windsor @ Ohio Star

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Monday will mark one year since Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced the statewide stay at home order signed by then-Director of the Ohio Department of Health Dr. Amy Acton.

Soon after, the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law began litigating to challenge the lawfulness of the orders, “winning many cases,” according to Maurice Thompson, an attorney for the firm.

“One year later, the Department of Health – when under oath – still cannot justify the Director’s ‘Stay at Home Orders,’” said Thompson in a press release similarly titled that he shared exclusively with The Ohio Star on Friday morning.

The 1851 Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan legal center dedicated to protecting the constitutional rights of Ohioans from government abuse. The 1851 Center litigates constitutional issues related to property rights, regulation, taxation, and searches and seizures.

The press release states that the 1851 Center won a preliminary injunction in 2020 stopping the state from forbidding the opening of amusement parks. During that case, the State of Ohio was asked to provide responses to legal questions under oath and penalty of perjury.  Those responses were just recently provided.

In them, Thompson contends, it is displayed that “the State remains unable to provide evidence supporting policies, failed to track relevant data and was at times outright ‘bluffing’ to the public.”

The full press release can be viewed below. The summary of its points is as follows:

• Ohio Department of Health (ODH) stands by Ohio Attorney General’s statement to a federal court that 29% of confirmed COVID cases result in hospitalizations and approximately 4% result in death;
• ODH still maintains no evidence that “non-essential” businesses and activities increased the risk of COVID, cannot identify a single instance of COVID-related harm caused by non-essential businesses and presented only “rational speculation” as reasoning behind the related mandates.
• ODH asserts stay at home orders reduced serious harm based solely on the assertion that cases statewide never reached initial “guesstimates” Amy Acton provided at the beginning of the pandemic.
• Despite saying regulations were driven by hospital capacity, ICU bed capacity and hospital staffing, ODH concedes it has no metric or benchmark to determine what constitutes an “overwhelming” and “no information” as to capacities of hospitals.
• Despite providing no evidence that non-essential businesses and activities constituted a risk, Governor DeWine and the Attorney General’s office deride Ohioans wishing to open and operate, saying they are putting profit over the lives and health of employees and patrons.
• State continues to declare that non-essential business restrictions did not cause any public or private health harm or economic harm.
• ODH concedes it failed to track data related to coincidence of hospitalizations and deaths with comorbidities, such as obesity.
• ODH evidence in support of the efficacy of the mask mandate and the curfew policies is “evidence of reduced cases, hospitalizations and deaths after mask and curfew orders went into effect.”
• ODH refuses to disclose to Ohioans the process involved in producing orders, who writes them and who reviews them, citing “attorney client privilege.”
• The end-date of the pandemic will be determined by the Governor alone and not public health experts.

A recent study revealed effects of COVID misinformation – particularly the deep misunderstanding of the severity of the virus for the average infected person and the misrepresentation of deaths per age group.

According to the report, the percentage of people infected needing hospitalization is somewhere between one percent to five percent.

The essence of the finding is that COVID knowledge, policy preference and behavior is shaped by political alignment and media consumption.

Despite early warnings that COVID would be 10-times to 20-times deadlier than influenza, the fatality rate is much lower, measuring  0.1% – 0.35% per the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine; while the CDC estimates a rate of .0003% to 5.4% (based on age).

“We have not faced an enemy like we are facing today in 102 years. You have to go back to the 1918 influenza epidemic,” DeWine said in a briefing the day the order was issued.  He compared the state response to a war and said it was a crucial time in the battle – the order was issued to slow the spread of COVID so healthcare systems would have time to treat COVID patients and others needing care.

In the order, Acton chose essential businesses and shuttered those she deemed nonessential; the order was set to expire two weeks later.  Businesses closures were not designed to be punitive but were also “not a suggestion,” said DeWine.

Just prior to issuing the stay-at-home order DeWine declared a public health state of emergency, saying “I wouldn’t read too much into the state of emergency,” that it was a “legal necessity” making it easier to procure medical supplies without going through the required state bidding process.

Dr. Acton’s modeling drove policy decisions in March 2020.  The Health Director guessed that the medical community could face 62,000 cases per day by mid-to-late March if Ohioans didn’t follow mitigation strategies. According to Acton and DeWine, if people heeded State of Ohio guidance, cases would be spread out and lessened,  predicting a peak in mid-April of 10,000 cases per day. A third guess revised that number down to 2,000 cases per day.

DeWine said hospitals would need  to scale up their capacity to double or triple their norm in order to handle the rush. According to Ohio COVID dashboard data, cases were registering over 300 in March and around 500 per day in April (with one blip due to concentrated prison testing).

Nonetheless, an emergency was declared, shelter-in-place ordered, nonessential businesses closed, an election canceled and in-person education stopped.

An early investigative article pinpointed the economic dangers of closing businesses, the mental health impact of stay-at-home orders, the certain spike in suicides and the differences between COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic.

However, shut-it-all-down policies were implemented instead of exact measures that protected the most vulnerable, accounted for economic, emotional and physical consequences of focusing only on COVID.

A study of all 50 states and the District of Columbia ranked each locale by mandates and COVID outcomes. Ohio came in at number 23 of 51 despite being one of the first states to intervene and impose mandates with legal consequences for violations.

There were states with fewer restrictions that did better at handling the virus – but the opposite was also true.  A set of findings that proves the words of Ohio Senator Terry Johnson (R-District 14) during his floor speech in favor of Senate Bill 22 (providing legislative oversight of Governor and agency orders).  Johnson said stopping the virus is like telling the waves to stop or stopping the wind; and the varied results around the world given different mitigation strategies proves the efficacy of strict mandates are “a farce.”

In Ohio, the statewide mask mandate was imposed July 23 when cases were already on a downward slope.

The Star reported, according to Ohio Department of Health records, the high point in cases occurred on November 30, 2020 when the state logged 13,468 – this after a statewide mask mandate had been in effect for 131 days with the Ohio Investigative Unit measuring mask compliance at well above 90% around the state.

While the mask mandate was in effect with high compliance, Ohio racked up its worst numbers in cases, hospitalizations and deaths according to the Ohio COVID dashboard.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released results of their tracking project spanning March – December 2020 that showed masking stopped COVID spread by two percent.

Thompson said that one of the State’s arguments was that their mitigation efforts resulted in fewer cases and helped deter the early estimate that Ohio would lose more than 100,000 people to death from COVID.

However, the State’s case estimates without mitigation were astronomically inaccurate (62,000 at a high point) and their case estimates with mitigation were still exponentially incorrect. Additionally, there isn’t a state in America near a death toll of 100,000 people, regardless their mitigation strategies. In fact, a couple states near the top in death toll – California, New York and Pennsylvania – enacted comparatively strict mandates.

However, DeWine still urges Ohioans to mask, even after vaccination – guidance echoed by President Biden.

The Ohio Restaurant Association estimated 60% of Ohio establishments would close and never re-open. The Star reported on four non-essential businesses and the impact to their businesses, employees and families.

60 minutes came to Columbus to report on the “unequal recession” caused by the shuttering of non-essential businesses (restaurants, hotels, theaters, shops, to name just a few) and how those policy decisions disproportionately affected women and minorities – and how the Congressional Budget Office estimates the first to lose their jobs will be the last to recover, reporting it will take until 2024.

Ohioans filed more unemployment claims in 2020 than they did the previous five years combined. To make matters worse, school closures exacerbated unemployment woes – unemployment is 12% higher for parents whose children learn remotely as compared to parents whose kids learn in-person.

This despite the American Academy of Pediatrics pleading for kids to get back in the classroom, the CDC repeatedly indicating that kids were not extending the transmission of the virus and a large amount of data showing very low COVID infections among enrolled school children (and evidence that teachers contract the virus at rates similar to their non-teaching contemporaries).

Meanwhile, a crisis from COVID policies grips our kids – masses of students from Mason to Hilliard were hospitalized for suicide ideation, mental struggles and a prestigious medical journal reported that 13.8 million of years of life will be lost in kids aged five to 11 due to education disruption from, not COVID, but COVID policies.

Read the full statement by the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law:

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Jack Windsor is the Statehouse Reporter at The Ohio Star. Windsor is also an independent investigative reporter. Follow Jack on Twitter. Email tips to jwindsor@theohiostar.com.
Photo “Small Business” by spurekar. CC BY 2.0.

 

 

DeWine is a Conservative on the Same Order as John Kasich! Both Are a Disgrace!

By Rich Kozlovich

Editor's Note:  This was forgotten sitting in my draft file, so some of the information is dated.  I came across it today and it's dated but the thoughts are current and valid, especially in light of Kasich's current comments and De Wine's tyrannical decisions regarding this coronavirus issue.  RK

Governor Mike DeWine is fond of telling people he's a conservative.  He seems to have the same problem John Kasich had:  Defining conservatism as they see fit.  Which in the case of both of them is to act like far left Democrats.

On July 19, 2016 Eric Scheiner posted the article, Gov. Kasich: We Want Immigration - Population is Stagnant in Ohio saying: 

Ohio Gov. and former Republican presidential candidate John Kasich (R-Ohio) told an audience in Cleveland that he looks at immigration as an opportunity because Ohio has a “stagnant growth of population – we want people to come to Ohio.”  “When I look at immigration I look at a new level of energy,”....... “I look at immigration as an opportunity. One of the things that we face in Ohio is a stagnant growth of population – we want people to come to Ohio.

 

Okay....I wonder who this "we" is he's talking about?  And why do we need more people in Ohio? Are we getting a bunch of new factories to replace all those that closed over the last 20 years?  I haven't seen them.   And why are they immigrants and not people from other states?  There's a reason why is it Ohio is in the top five states people are moving out of?  Does anyone besides me think there's something wrong with Kasich?  I think he's weird and stunningly arrogant. 

He's gone from being a "conservative" - at least that's what everyone thought until he became Governor of Ohio, then he started acting like .....well..... Obama!  He bypassed the expressed will of the legislature regarding Obamacare issues, which will end up costing Ohio billions of dollars we don't have.  His justification?  He says he has to support Obamacare otherwise he'll have to answer to God for not doing so.  Is this another Twilight Zone episode? 

He claims he cut taxes, but what he did was shift them to the "rich".  He cut taxes on small businesses, but he didn't cut the volumn of taxes being collected - he merely shifted them to bigger companies.  That's classic leftist class warfare, and claiming to have cut taxes is a lie. He subsidized large corporations that threatened to move out of Ohio, like Bob Evans, thereby forcing all the other restaurants in Ohio to support Bob Evans financially - along with the rest of us.  Did anyone see Bob Evans cut their prices as a result?  No, and you won't. 

There are some consolation to all of this - he's not going to the convention, so we won't have to listen to his gibberish and logical fallacies, and he's term limited.  He's gone after 2018 and we won't have to listen to anything he babbles about again.  In the meanwhile - It appears to me John Kasich is now in the service of Mordor and the dark lord Sauron. 

He claims we're isolationists when we "just take care of us", but the fact of the matter is when we take care of us the rest of the world benefits.  If we throw more good money after bad money we'll go broke and the world will spiral into dystopia. 

Personally - I think there's something seriously wrong with him, and I'm not all that crazy about his Lieutenant Governor, Mary Taylor.  She actually thinks after accepting Obamacare they can (and I heard her say this in a meeting I attended) back out of it if they please.  Is it possible she's not the brightest pebble in the brook either?  Or is it she's just another political hack?  

Then we come to DeWine.  What a prize he's turned out to be.  The booby prize!

List Of Cowardly Republicans Who’ve Deserted Trump...Asked Him To Concede To Basement Joe

By Patty McMurray | Nov 29, 2020 Read More Here

When Republicans across the nation needed help to boost their popularity during an election, they knew they could rely on President Trump to have their backs. Even two-faced, insanely jealous Republicans like Mitt Romney got the backing of the most powerful Republican since Ronald Reagan during his run for US Senator in Utah.

The Red Elephants– Many republicans that hold office today, were elected solely because of the support from President Donald Trump. Now that they hold office, many of them have completely turned their backs on the President, even going so far as to publicly call for him to concede the election to Joe Biden before any audit can occur.

Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia for example owes his entire election victory to President Trump. Since November 4th, Kemp has done little to help the President in his fight to overturn an election that most Republicans and a plurality of Americans agree was stolen.

Lin Wood, who’s been fighting to uncover voter fraud in Georgia, has been threatening that he will expose ties to Dominion with Governor Brian Kemp, whose former chief of staff is a top lobbyist for Dominion and Republican Secretary of State Raffensperger.  Wood has also been coming down pretty hard on Rep. Doug Collins for abandoning President Trump.

 

Rep. Doug Collins, formerly a staunch defender of President Trump, has remained silent on the battle Trump and his lawyers have been fighting in GA. conceded to GOP rival Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) on the eve of the election.................

Governor Mike DeWine of Ohio, who Trump brought up on stage during his rallies on several occasions, is another Turncoat according to Trump’s supporters. Recently DeWine urged President Trump to allow a peaceful transfer of power to Joe Biden.

Here’s a List of Republicans Who Have Turned Their Backs on Trump, Calling for Him to Concede

Outside of Kemp and DeWine, there are countless others who refuse to support Trump in his challenging of the election, and the list has been growing over the past several days.

Here’s a list of elected republicans who either have directly called for Trump to concede, called for a peaceful transfer of power and for Biden to receive intel briefings, or outright attempting to sabotage any real audits of every single signature and vote.

Mitt Romney – UT

Marco Rubio – FL

Mike Shirkey – MI

Mike DeWine – OH

Brian Kemp – GA

Brad Raffensperger – GA

Pat Toomey – PA

Liz Cheney – WY

Doug Ducey – AZ

Larry Hogan – MD

Fred Upton – MI

John Cornyn – TX

James Lankford – OK

Lisa Murkowski – AK

Ben Sasse – NE

Susan Collins – ME

Jim Durkin – IL

Dan Young – AK

Francis Rooney – FL

John Shimkus – IL

Adam Kinzinger – IL

Paul Mitchell – MI

Don Bacon – NE

Tom Reed – NY

Will Hurd – TX

John Kurtis – UT

Denver Riggleman – VA

 

Ohio Notes: Massive Political Corruption in Ohio, and DeWine Never Noticed! Imaging that!

By Rich Kozlovich 

Daniel Greenfield is one of my favorite writers, who I refer to as a friend, and who I think is brilliant!  We've exchanged e-mails over the years, and he allows me to publish his work when it appears on his personal blog,  Sultan Knish Blog.   I don't know if this will be one of them so I linked this piece from the original post on FrontPageMagazine to P&D.  How a Trump Prosecutor Took Down a Third of the Cincinnati City Council.  

Also, you may wish to review my Daniel Greenfield file. The question that keeps coming to mind as all this corruption in Ohio's political realm keeps turning up is this: How is it our last Attorney General, AKA, Governor Mike DeWine, never noticed all this corruption?  In both parties!  Did all this corruption just start after he was no longer the Attorney General?  It appears, as far as I can tell, was ongoing while he was Attorney General!   Corruption so massive every lobbyist in the state knew it was going on, but Mike DeWine didn't notice. 
To quote the kid in the Little Rascals - Remarkable! 

I found him to be contemptible when he was in Congress, and I think he's still contemptible.  Humm, it appears consistency counts to Republican leaders because they chose him to be Governor, although he just barely beat one of the most far left candidates ever to run for the Ohio Governorship.  The conservative base wasn't fooled and didn't vote for him in large numbers, and conservative friends say they will not vote for him again.... if he runs.   So what does that say about the Republican leadership? Which brings me to the second question we should be asking:  What's wrong with Ohio's Republican leadership?  

Kudos to Senators Rob McColley (R-01) and Kristina Roegner for their bill to bring DeWine's tyranny under rein.  The fact this took from May until now for this bill to come to fruition is - at least in my mind - a clear indication there's something rotten with Ohio's Republican leadership as they can't seem to find a Ronald Reagan.  

Maybe we need a Maggie Thatcher! I have more coming but I've been in so much pain I find it hard to read, to think and correspondingly, I just can't seem to write, but I've saved a ton of information regarding this fraudulent election, along with this coronavirus fraud, and I want to deal with them both this week.  In the meanwhile you may wish to review my DeWine file.

‘Patently Absurd:’ Governor DeWine’s Office Says of Ohio State Rep. Becker’s 10 Criminal Charges Against the Republican Governor

September 29, 2020 Jack Windsor

During a Tuesday COVID press conference Ohio Republican Governor Mike DeWine was asked by WMFD-TV:

Governor, Five Texas Republicans sued Texas Republican Governor Abbott over a $295 million contact tracing deal signed during the early months of Coronavirus pandemic. Legislators say the Governor skirted separation of powers , agreeing to a contract without following state statutes.

As you know, I’ve been waiting for months now for information on our contract with the company assisting Ohio with contact tracing – Partners in Health. I have to assume that is a multimillion dollar contract and our audience is interested in understanding the length and value of the deal.

How much have we paid Partners in Health, how much are we obligated to pay them and how long is the contract?”

Governor DeWine answered:

I don’t know the answer…but we certainly can get that answer. I don’t see any reason why we can’t get that answer next – on Thursday.  I would point out Partners in Health – while you’ve kind of highlighted them with some questions – and I talked about them several times because they have done this worldwide, this type of activity.

But, the tracing relies really on our local health departments – they’re the ones that are doing most of the hiring.  We have come in and hired tracers so that we can – if a county is overrun, if something happens – so that we can put tracers in there. So we hire, they hire, Partners in Health have played some role as far as advising because we respect the work they do in that particular area. But we will get you that information.

A record request was made to the Ohio Department of Health on April 26 regarding the state’s agreement with Partners in Health (PIH).

On May 21 the reporter from WMFD-TV asked Governor DeWine about the relationship with Partners in Health, particularly if it made sense given the organization’s penchant for altering the fundamentals of capitalism, citing it as a source of structural violence resulting in many societal ills.............To Read More.....

COVID: Major case filed against Ohio governor and the state of Ohio for restricting freedom without legitimate justification

By Jon Rappoport

Ohio attorney, Thomas Renz, on behalf of plaintiffs, has filed a case against the state of Ohio and Governor Mike DeWine. Renz is asking for a jury trial.  This case, in the current climate, should provoke intense interest from the public, and from every lawyer within hailing distance.

Here is the impressive opening salvo in the court filing:............Read more

How COVID Is Infecting American Liberty

By Dr. Peter A. Kerr | September 11, 2020

 Sir Winston Churchill’s maxim “never let a good crisis go to waste” has never been more apropos.
Some are applying it in the short-term to maximize civil strife so as to create mass compliance and political turmoil during a presidential election year. This includes a media blitz that has people confusing the destruction of racism with selfish rioting and the destruction of the rule of law.
The long-term application will challenge the bedrock values upon which the United States was built. Over the next decade, a slew of socialist policies will emerge to reshape America from being the land of the free and home of the brave into the land of the monitored and home of the financially enslaved.

Both freedom of speech and freedom of religion have already been assaulted, with social media outlets censoring posts by senior government officials and churches being told they have to close to prevent the spread of COVID. In coming years, you can expect more of the same, along with a healthy dose of minority rights legislation that will enshrine reverse racism into law and will protect the rights of the LGBTQ community over the rights of religious communities who simply wish to follow their 4000-year-old belief systems.

Both freedom of speech and freedom of religion have already been assaulted, with social media outlets censoring posts by senior government officials and churches being told they have to close to prevent the spread of COVID. In coming years, you can expect more of the same, along with a healthy dose of minority rights legislation that will enshrine reverse racism into law and will protect the rights of the LGBTQ community over the rights of religious communities who simply wish to follow their 4000-year-old belief systems...........To Read More...

Ohio's pro-life governor makes another bizarre pro-abortion appointment

By Peter Skurkiss September 12, 2020 . More

Gov. Mike DeWine, Republican of Ohio, has stepped in it again. Dr. Amy Acton resigned as director of the Ohio Health Department in June and then again in August as the governor's health adviser.DeWine subsequently nominated Dr. Joan Duwve to head the state's healthdepartment.In nominating Duwve, who most recently served as director of public health in South Carolina, DeWine is quoted as saying: "Dr. Duwve shares my passion for and commitment to children's issues and many other pressing public health issues[.] "

This turned into another embarrassment for the governor.  Going back to Acton, during her tenure as health director, she came under fire for exaggerating how lethal the Wuhan virus was, her role in the ensuring state lockdowns, and her previous pro-abortion activism.  You would think DeWine, a career politician, would have learned a lesson.  But no: It turns out that his Dr. Duwve's passion for "children's issues" doesn't extend to the unborn, as the woman once worked for the nation's foremost abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. ...............To Read More....

My Take - It's clear Mike DeWine is a disgrace, and I've advocating his impeachment from the beginning.  The question is why?  Why does he do the things he does?  Is he an underground ally of Kasich, Flake, Whitman, Mitt Romney and the rest of the NeverTrumpers?  I do think so.  He calls himself a conservative, but so did Kasich, who also said he had the right to define conservatism as he sees fit, and apparently do too does DeWine.....and their actions show their definition of conservatism is to talk conservatism and practice leftism. 

• Governor DeWine is a Disgrace, and He's Not Alone: Part I
• Governor DeWine is a Disgrace, and He's Not Alone: Part II

 

A Tale of Two COVID Treatments

September 11, 2020 By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.

 COVID-19 is a nasty virus, damaging or killing the unfortunate few who caught it and became extremely ill. Preferring the elderly and those with preexisting medical conditions, many died or had their lives and families upended.

Far more have been ravaged by the downstream effects of the Wuhan virus - socioeconomic destruction following the economic shutdown which persists to this day in many locales as well as delayed or deferred medical care from a several month-long ban on elective medical care.

Deaths and hospital resource use peaked in mid-April nationally, with occasional local resurgences, generally mild and short-lived, yet in September many schools remain closed, large gatherings prohibited, businesses shuttered, and masks remain the fall season’s fashion accessory.

There are only a few ways out of this quagmire. Herd immunity has been the traditional endpoint for past viral pandemics as it occurs relatively quickly. Sweden has likely achieved herd immunity without shutting down as did their neighbors.

Israeli Professor Isaac Ben-Israel used statistical analysis demonstrating, “The spread of COVID-19 peaks after about 40 days and declines to almost zero after 70 days — no matter where it strikes, and no matter what measures governments impose to try to thwart it.”

Other options include therapeutics or a vaccine. Viruses are notoriously difficult to cure with medications. Vaccines provide varying degrees of protection against viruses but take many months or years to develop and earn FDA approval..........To Read More....

Are Democrats Hiding the Truth about COVID?

September 9, 2020 By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.

COVID is not the first viral flu pandemic America has faced, yet the reaction is unprecedented. The entire economy has been shut down for months, some sectors still closed. Elective yet necessary medical care has been postponed leading to excess sickness and death well beyond that caused by the Chinese virus.

Many schools remain closed, as do restaurants, hair salons, and churches. We are forced to keep six feet away from each other at all times and are expected to wear masks, whether outside and alone or inside sharing an intimate moment with a loved one.

Are these rules and restrictions for the public good or are they a means of power and control over the people? The most draconian measures are being pushed by Democrats at the local, state, and national levels. Yet personally they often ignore the mandates they impose on the rest of us.

Do they know more about the dangers, or lack of, than they are letting on? Are they hiding the truth about the Wuhan virus for political reasons? Such as data from a UCLA/Stanford study finding the risk for a 50 to 64 year old of hospitalization is 1 in 790,000 and of death only 1 in 6,670,000. This is not what the media is telling us........ These rules are not simply inconveniencing but potentially the difference between life and death, as we are continuously told. For example, masks have become mandatory and those defying have been called murderers. ..............To Read More...

The Failed Experiment of Covid Lockdowns

September 4, 2020 by Donald L. Luskin WSJ

Six months into the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. has now carried out two large-scale experiments in public health—first, in March and April, the lockdown of the economy to arrest the spread of the virus, and second, since mid-April, the reopening of the economy. The results are in.

Counterintuitive though it may be, statistical analysis shows that locking down the economy didn’t contain the disease’s spread and reopening it didn’t unleash a second wave of infections.

Considering that lockdowns are economically costly and create well-documented long-term public-health consequences beyond Covid, imposing them appears to have been a large policy error. At the beginning, when little was known, officials acted in ways they thought prudent.

But now evidence proves that lockdowns were an expensive treatment with serious side effects and no benefit to society.

TrendMacro, my analytics firm, tallied the cumulative number of reported cases of Covid-19 in each state and the District of Columbia as a percentage of population, based on data from state and local health departments aggregated by the Covid Tracking Project.

We then compared that with the timing and intensity of the lockdown in each jurisdiction. That is measured not by the mandates put in place by government officials, but rather by observing what people in each jurisdiction actually did, along with their baseline behavior before the lockdowns. This is captured in highly detailed anonymized cellphone tracking data provided by Google and others and tabulated by the University of Maryland’s Transportation Institute into a “Social Distancing Index.”...........To Read More.....

Commentary: Four Life-Threatening Unintended Consequences of the Lockdowns

by Brad Polumbo

When policymakers across the country decided to “lock down” in response to the March outbreak of the novel coronavirus, they took a leap into the unknown. Not only did we know little about COVID-19 itself at that time, but we knew almost nothing about how shutting down nearly all of society would affect people.

Policymakers focused on their models predicting how lockdowns could help limit the spread of COVID-19; an important factor, to be sure. So, too, many acknowledged the negative economic ramifications of lockdowns. But in the months since, we’ve seen many other dire consequences stem from the unprecedented shutdown of society.

Future public health policy should take these four life-threatening unintended consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns into account.

 1) Massive Spikes in Suicide Rates and Mental Health Crises.........
 2) Uptick in Drug Overdoses and Substance Abuse............
 3) Economic Devastation Leads to Hunger.........
 4) Surge in Domestic Violence Under COVID-19 Lockdowns...........

 These dire unintended consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns are tragic, but frankly, they aren’t so shocking. We have long known that sweeping government interventions have ripple effects that extend far beyond their intended goals.

Why? Because of what economic philosopher Friedrich Hayek called the “knowledge problem.”........ Simply, the knowledge problem means that central planning efforts are doomed to fail. Only those closest to a problem know the ins and outs of it..............The deadly unintended consequences of sweeping COVID-19 lockdowns remind us why.............To Read More.....

Governor DeWine Still Not Disclosing All Details on Partners in Health

August 26, 2020 Jack Windsor

During a Tuesday COVID press conference Ohio Republican Governor Mike DeWine was asked by WMFD-TV:

Governor, Five Texas Republicans sued Texas Republican Governor Abbott over a $295 million contact tracing deal signed during the early months of Coronavirus pandemic. Legislators say the Governor skirted separation of powers , agreeing to a contract without following state statutes.

As you know, I’ve been waiting for months now for information on our contract with the company assisting Ohio with contact tracing – Partners in Health. I have to assume that is a multimillion dollar contract and our audience is interested in understanding the length and value of the deal.

How much have we paid Partners in Health, how much are we obligated to pay them and how long is the contract?”

Governor DeWine answered:

I don’t know the answer…but we certainly can get that answer. I don’t see any reason why we can’t get that answer next – on Thursday.  I would point out Partners in Health – while you’ve kind of highlighted them with some questions – and I talked about them several times because they have done this worldwide, this type of activity.

But, the tracing relies really on our local health departments – they’re the ones that are doing most of the hiring.  We have come in and hired tracers so that we can – if a county is overrun, if something happens – so that we can put tracers in there. So we hire, they hire, Partners in Health have played some role as far as advising because we respect the work they do in that particular area. But we will get you that information.

A record request was made to the Ohio Department of Health on April 26 regarding the state’s agreement with Partners in Health (PIH)...........

If the PIH philosophy and thirst for its definition of social justice wasn’t intriguing enough, when Founder Paul Farmer was discovered to be a purveyor of liberation theology, the lid of public interest blew off.  Then, Ohioans discovered the roster of PIH donors included Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Open Society Foundations, that the Clinton Foundation had contributed previously – and Chelsea Clinton is a Trustee.........To Read More....

Ohio Representative Jena Powell: ‘Ohioans Deserve Better Than They Are Getting Now’

August 22, 2020 Jack Windsor

Representative Jena Powell (R-Arcanum) is a freshman legislator from Ohio’s 80th District with the tenacity of a rookie and the strategic thinking of a veteran. During a Friday afternoon phone call with The Ohio Star, Powell said “everyone can speak on things, but it takes a plan to get there. I am not the kind of person that says ‘open Ohio’ and doesn’t have a plan – you have to have a plan to get to the endpoint.”

Powell laid out a plan she believes will get Ohioans to the endpoint they want – an open Ohio.

Her plan is comprised of seven legislative priorities – initiatives crafted after talks with District 80 business owners, non-profit directors, church leaders and families. “These changes will be good for our district and they also make sense for all of Ohio,” she said...........“Whether you agree with Governor DeWine or not, the governor has taken his hand at legislating and the legislators need to be involved – to get bills into committees and onto the floor to debate and then get them passed on behalf of our constituents,” she said............ “I can’t get 99 people to change their minds, but I believe a frank discussion needs to happen in the House on these points.” The freshman representative has encouraged Ohio Speaker of the House Bob Cupp (R- Lima) to call representatives back before their scheduled September date. Once back, Powell believes the following legislative priorities best address the most pressing needs facing Ohioans.

  Remove mask mandate...........
Remove stifling COVID-19 regulations on small businesses..........
Take pandemic powers out of the hands of bureaucrats.......
COVID-19 litigation reform for private businesses and schools.............
Override veto of Senate Bill 55...........
Fully and safely re-open schools this fall.........
Protect in-person voting in November election......... To Read More....