theprogressivist Jun 3, 2024

Ohio's Republican governor signs measure ensuring Biden appears on the fall ballot

https://lemmy.world/post/16150494

Ohio's Republican governor signs measure ensuring Biden appears on the fall ballot - Lemmy.World

>Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a measure to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state ballot in November. >DeWine, a Republican, signed the measure — which relaxes a state candidate filing deadline — Sunday along with a related bill that imposes a ban on foreign nationals contributing to state ballot campaigns. Both will take effect Aug. 31. >The Republican-dominated Legislature had approved the two measures last week during a rare special session. The contribution ban had been demanded by the Senate, which approved the measures Friday, a day after the House passed them.

Show threadGoddessOfGoudaJun 4, 2024

Ohioan here.

This came at the consequence of a nebulous “anti foreign funding” bill for ballot issues. Sounds harmless but 1) we already have laws against this and 2) republicans’ story around the abortion amendment that passed last year is that it was funded mostly by out of state entities, so we know that’s a card they want to play with more force.

Mike Dewine is a republican but is truly prolly the most moderate guy I’ve seen on that side of the aisle. He did a really good job of handling covid here, and other than the usual republican stances on weed or abortion, he’s generally likable.

That said, our republican legislator is not likable. They fought tooth and nail to keep from even having to make this decision, and when they finally did, they had to do it on their own terms.

Show threaddeweydecibelJun 4, 2024

He did a really good job of handling covid here,

He absolutely didn’t.

He did at first, but the moment the kickback started from his party and Trump, he folded, like the spineless worm he is.

Show threadGoddessOfGouda

Source? He kept up mask mandates, closures, and vaccine recommendations.

I’m no republican but I’m not about to not give credit where it’s due lol. Our red state behaved quite blue during that time.

Jun 4, 2024 at 11:41amWeb