OHIO OVERWHELMINGLY REJECTS 60% REQUIREMENT TO MAKE CONSTITUTION CHANGES

 

Ohio rejects 60% vote proposal, aimed at making it tougher to protect women’s rights

 

 

“The first principal of republicanism is  . . . to consider the will of the society enounced by the majority as sacred is the first of all lessons in importance.”

-      - Thomas Jefferson in 1817

The transparent attempt to thwart the will of the majority of the Republican Party in Ohio by requiring a 60% vote instead of a simple majority was demolished by, ironically, a 60% NO vote in the August election.

Republicans and their mega-wealthy donors wanted to make it far more difficult to pass the November change that will protect women’s abortion rights.

The 60% agree with Jefferson.

Florida voters approved the 60% barrier in 2006. Colorado voters raised the barrier to 55% in 2016. Arizona requires a 60% ballot vote to increase taxes.

House Majority Whip Jim Hoops, a Republican, led the fight to ram the 60% requirement through.

Spurred by vocal support of women Ohio voted not to let the tyranny of the minority rule.

Voters in Kansas, Michigan, Kentucky and Montana voted to protect reproductive rights. Ohio joined that movement.

A CNN survey shows that 64% of adults disapprove of the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade, endangering a woman’s right to decide what to do about her body and her health, and not politicians.

Ohio voted for Trump for President twice but against restricting women’s rights in the August election.

$64 million was spent on the election with opponents and supporters each forking up about half that amount.

Anti-abortion forces outside Ohio spent $20 million but failed to get the Yes vote they wanted. Republican billionaire Dick Uihlien of Illinois put up a major of the out-of-state funding.