Change Needed to HB 33…Central Committee Member Must Live in Precinct

LFC Comments by Brian Massie:

Current state law states that each person appointed to a central committee position MUST reside in the precinct they are going to represent. HB 33 will change that by stating appointed local central committee members do NOT have to live in the precinct that they are to represent. Ohio Precinct Strategy wants to remove that change from HB 33, and asks for your help.

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In the last couple weeks we put out a couple calls to action about HB 33. Last Tuesday, three people within the Ohio Precinct Strategy network testified to the State Senate. Jonathan and Sheila were there to support us as well!

Please take 20 minutes to watch the testimony and learn what HB 33 means. Then contact your state Senator and ask them to remove the language on page 1497, line 46001 through page 1500, line 46082 of HB 33.

Click here for to watch:

To read about HB 33 click on this link:

https://www.ohioprecinctstrategy.org/legislation/alert-oh-budget-includes-dangerous-changes-to-county-central-committee-seats/

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Community activist Jonathan Broadbent weighs in our changing the language in HB 33

Jonathan Broadbent Urgent Alert:  Contact Jonathan at:    jon@protectohiochildren.net

Sources are reporting that legislation has been introduced to change the way county central committee vacancies are filled and inserted into the massive HB 33 state budget bill. 

This language MUST BE removed before the Senate version of the budget is passed and goes to a conference committee in early June. These changes would enable hundreds of seats in many counties to be filled by hand-picked cronies who do not represent the people in the jurisdiction to which they reside. 

Ohio’s Constitution clearly states that a representative must reside in the district they are elected to represent.

Please call the members of this Committee and ask them to remove this language from the Budget bill.

Senate Finance Committee:

Matt Dolan, Chair                   614-466-8056

Jerry Cirino, Vice-chair           614-644-7718

Louis Blessing                        614-466-8068

Theresa Gavarone                 614-466-8060

George Lang                          614-466-8072

Nathan Manning                     614-644-7613

Bill Reineke                            614-466-8049

Mark Romanchuk                   614-466-7505

Kirk Schuring                          614-466-0626

Vernon Sykes                         614-466-7041

Hearcel Craig                         614-466-5131

Paula Hicks                            614-466-5204

Andrew Brenner                     614-466-8086

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