Ohio voters just took firm positions on abortion and reproductive rights and adult-use recreational marijuana Tuesday, but gerrymandered Ohio lawmakers are already planning to flout, ignore, challenge, and abuse the voters’ wishes. This is what gerrymandering brings. This is why it’s a fundamental poison in the lifeblood of our republic.
Mere hours after Ohio voters passed the Issue 1 reproductive rights amendment with 56.62%, according to unofficial results, and the Issue 2 recreational marijuana law with 57% (both getting nearly 2.2 million votes), Ohio Republican legislative leaders signaled they would not respect the will of the people.
Maybe this way the people learn that Republicans cannot be trusted with democratic decisions.
FTFY.
When I lived in Arizona, I tried my best to inform people EVERY TIME the state Republicans fought back against voter initiatives (which was nearly every time).
They don’t care. Arizonans even voted recently to make voter initiatives harder to pass
https://www.azcentral.com/elections/results/2022-11-08/state/arizona/
But at least they (barely) voted against the other bill Republicans put on the ballot: That their government be allowed to alter passed voter initiatives.
Fuck Republicans
Expecting republican voters to learn… I admire your optimism.
They have a reason to learn, and they have the chance to do so. Whether they take this chance is an entirely different question.
Hey, hope springs eternal, but if we look at past experience and try to guess at what the future will hold…
That’s why I said “maybe”. Those MAGA-heads are slow learners, and with some of them the speed is to low to measure.