New York Times story on the defeat of Prop 1.
Two themes:
This is really about abortion.
The way the GOP tried to do it was sneaky and underhanded.
One quote:
“I’m 89 years old, and I’m fed up with old men telling women how to take care of their reproduction and their sex lives,” said Thomas McAninch, a Democrat, who cast his vote in the Mason Municipal Center. “If men was having babies, there wouldn’t be none of this nonsense.”
Gift link:
More good news out of Ohio: the state medical board has indefinitely suspended the license of Sherri Tenpenny, known for claiming that Covid-19 vaccines magnetize people, floating a theory about vaccination being tied in to 5G towers and saying that metro areas are liquefying bodies and pouring them into the water supply (it’s twue! it’s twue!).
They didn’t however cite the need to protect the public from a practitioner making demonstrably insane claims, but acted on her failure to cooperate with the board’s investigation.
As a lifetime Buckeye, I’m very glad we defeated this cynical, conservative, elitist, anti-democratic power grab. We, the People, spoke up, and we were heard. Now onto November, to write Roe v. Wade into the Constitution of Ohio for good!
And see:
She sounds authentically mentally ill.
Yes, here and in Oklahoma, the People have said loudly they do not want an Abortion ban.
True, the People want some"reasonable" abortion controls, but the idea of a total ban they hate.
From her statements she sounds even loonier than Meryl Nass M.D., another antivax practitioner who was ordered by the medical board in Maine to undergo a neuropsychiatric examination. Nass was the subject of six days of recent hearings by the board, which has yet to decide on her final license status (it’s currently suspended). Nass, according to the board, said that “Operation Warp Speed is the result of an agenda that “seems to be the same one that has been in play since 2001, you know, the 9/11. Which is increased surveillance, right, increased central control, and some blurring of national borders and national sovereignty, which we haven’t seen much of yet but the close collusion of many countries with the same program indicates that there is international collusion going on at high levels”; and…“if you did not know that the CDC was a criminal agency by now, this ought to get you going.”
Actually that seems almost sane in comparison to Tenpenny.
Nass has garnered support from RFK Jr.'s Children’s Health Defense, the Epoch Times and Dr. Drew, because of course she has.
Missouri had the same battle plan as Ohio, with a proposal to raise the requirements for amending the state constitution, Now it looks like they’re reassessing their options.
I hope some Ohio media outlet will use the headline TENPENNY NAILED.
Well played.
Heheheh. Thanks!
I would revise this headline, too, to “Frank LaRose’s horrible, awful, no-good, very bad day.”
Agreed!
with the nitpick: “terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad”
Right you are. And a further nitpick: I now see that “no good” isn’t hyphenated. 
Ha! I just assumed you were right about that part and didn’t bother to look it up.
Obviously, not the right call on my part. Thanks for the nitpick to my nitpick and for fighting my ignorance…
“There were limas for dinner and I hate limas. I also hate the people in Lima* and Cleveland and Toledo and all the other stupid people in this stupid state who didn’t vote the way I told them to. So I had a tantrum.”
*Yes, I looked it up, and Allen County, which includes Lima, voted yes. Poetic license.
How embarrassing. You should move to Australia.
You mean “no good” isn’t hyphenated…even in Australia?
Inside joke. It was a running gag in the book @Elendil_s_Heir was referring to.
Yes, I knew that 
Check the book’s last line.
My children are in their 30s. A long time since !'ve read it.
Fair enough! It’s something like “My mother says some days are like that. Even in Australia.”
Indeed they are!