Is anyone surprised that DeWine does not approve of new method for drawing Ohio's district maps?
Former Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor has offered to sit down and explain it to him. She will need to.
DeWine voted 7 times to approve egregiously gerrymandered maps. He has no business all of a sudden claiming that Ohio needs to end gerrymandering and only HIS solution will end it!
COLUMBUS, Ohio — While Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine does acknowledge that the state needs a new political mapmaking system for congressional and Statehouse representation, he does not support the proposed constitutional amendment that will be on the ballot in November.
"We must put an end to gerrymandering once and for all," the governor said during an hour-long press conference on redistricting Wednesday. "We must give the voters a system that they can trust and have confidence in."
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Former Republican Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court Maureen O'Connor, who while on the bench consistently ruled against what she claimed were overtly partisan maps, has been one of the leaders of Citizens Not Politicians' effort. She released the following:
"The disinformation from the Governor today is insulting to everyone in Ohio, and especially insulting to the half a million Ohioans — Republicans, Democrats and Independents — who put the Citizens Not Politicians Amendment on the November ballot.
"Gov. DeWine voted with his fellow politicians seven times for unconstitutional maps, and now says what Ohio really needs is what he calls 'The Iowa Plan,' a system where the Governor and other politicians get the final say on maps. For nearly a year, we have been publicly collecting signatures in all 88 counties and now — 97 days before the election — he tells Ohioans that he and his friends in the legislature are already scheming to overturn what voters will pass in November.
"We're done listening to self-serving politicians tell us how they want to keep rigging the game. On to November.
"Since the Governor demonstrated in his rambling and disjointed press conference today that he does not understand our amendment, I am offering to sit down and meet with him to explain it."
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