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.
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To read about HB 33 click on this link:
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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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