Statehouse insiders are supposed to servants to Ohio voters, not their masters, Thomas Suddes writes.
Supposedly, this is all about the potential for special interests to come into Ohio to mobilize voters to petition for constitutional amendments that would enrich the issues’ sponsors.
The officeholders who signed the official argument in favor of the 2015 antimonopoly amendment were future State Auditor, a Gallia County Republican; then-Rep., a suburban Columbus Democrat, and retired editor and associate publisher of The Columbus Dispatch; and Rep.The quartet collectively argued that the amendment would “prohibit special interests from amending [the Ohio] Constitution to guarantee financial profits for themselves or get special economic privileges.
The pivot isn’t “special interests.” The pivot is the public interest – which would be crimped by a 60% majority requirement for initiated amendments. If someone opposes abortion or fair districts, she or he should have at it, on those topics. But don’t handcuff Ohio voters: The constitution, after all, belongs to them – not to Statehouse insiders, who are supposed to be their servants, not their masters., a Lima Republican who wants to reduce its powers, isn’t the first Ohio officeholder the panel has frustrated., a Cleveland Democrat, opposed the board’s creation by voters in 1953; but voters cast 57% of their votes in favor of the board.
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