Ohio TrumpubliQan cult worshipping coyotes hatched their ACME plan to catch the roadrunners and got caught in their own trap.
Earlier this year, to prevent low-turnout single issue elections in August, when people are on vacation, the heavily gerrymandered Republican-dominated legislature passed legislation to outlaw such elections.
Then, PRO-CHOICE activists qualified a ballot initiative to go on the ballot in November to enshrine reproductive rights for women into the Ohio state constitution. Polls showed it passing by about 58%.
Panicked, the Ohio Republicans who scream about “FREEDOM!” and warn that “Democrats are coming for your freedoms!” decided to stop any such talk of freedom for women to control their own bodies. Hypocritical Republican insecure little boys talk about “FREEDOM” but they only mean freedom for ginormous corporations and megabillionaire elites to run roughshod over the rights of workers and consumers, not freedom for individuals.
In a panic, they passed a new law allowing a one-time exception to their prohibition on single-issue special elections and set a special election for last Tuesday to raise the threshold for that kind of ballot initiative from 50% (as it had been for over a hundred years) to 60%, just over the amount the initiative was winning by in the polls.
They sprang their trap, and then stepped in it. It backfired like the coyote’s ACME traps. Voter turnout was higher than last year’s midterm primaries and they failed by a margin of 43% yes to 57% no.
People do want freedom. They are learning that Republicans are the ones coming for your freedoms.
Ohio TrumpubliQan cult worshipping coyotes hatched their ACME plan to catch the roadrunners and got caught in their own trap.
Earlier this year, to prevent low-turnout single issue elections in August, when people are on vacation, the heavily gerrymandered Republican-dominated legislature passed legislation to outlaw such elections.
Then, PRO-CHOICE activists qualified a ballot initiative to go on the ballot in November to enshrine reproductive rights for women into the Ohio state constitution. Polls showed it passing by about 58%.
Panicked, the Ohio Republicans who scream about “FREEDOM!” and warn that “Democrats are coming for your freedoms!” decided to stop any such talk of freedom for women to control their own bodies. Hypocritical Republican insecure little boys talk about “FREEDOM” but they only mean freedom for ginormous corporations and megabillionaire elites to run roughshod over the rights of workers and consumers, not freedom for individuals.
In a panic, they passed a new law allowing a one-time exception to their prohibition on single-issue special elections and set a special election for last Tuesday to raise the threshold for that kind of ballot initiative from 50% (as it had been for over a hundred years) to 60%, just over the amount the initiative was winning by in the polls.
They sprang their trap, and then stepped in it. It backfired like the coyote’s ACME traps. Voter turnout was higher than last year’s midterm primaries and they failed by a margin of 43% yes to 57% no.
People do want freedom. They are learning that Republicans are the ones coming for your freedoms.