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Ohioans will soon be voting on
Issue 1, a ballot initiative that is ostensibly about reforming drug laws, but
actually is about giving "get out of jail free" cards to not only
drug offenders, but dozens of other kinds of criminals in Ohio's prisons. The
ballot initiative is known as "The Neighborhood Safety Drug Treatment and
Rehabilitation Amendment" and is a six-page amendment to the Ohio
Constitution.
(You can read the actual
language of the ballot, as well as pro and con arguments regarding the issue at
the non-partisan voting information site, ivoters.com.)
The premise is that too many
non-violent criminals are clogging up the courts and prison system and we need
to get them out of prisons and back into society. Supposedly this will save the
state of Ohio a ton of money. Prison expenditures should only be for violent
offenders, proponents say.
Only that's not what will
happen if Issue 1 passes. Here are three reasons Issue 1 is a terrible idea.
Then follows these bullet points, each one fully analyzed in the
report [see the link below].
1.
Drug convictions will only count as misdemeanors
2.
It will let dangerous criminals out of prison
3.
The ballot initiative is funded by out-of-state
leftists
The report concludes:
Through his Open Society
Foundation, George Soros helps fund Tides, and Tides, in turn, sends money
to things like this Issue 1 on the Ohio ballot. The Open Society Foundation
sent $1 million to fund Issue 1. Soros knows what he's doing. He knows that his
donation will allow him to own a piece of the Ohio Constitution — if Ohioans
fall for it.
Why would these progressive
billionaires — who won't have to live in Ohio and suffer the consequences of a
bad constitutional amendment — want this in Ohio?
Issue 1 has received approximately
$5 million — the vast majority of it from out of state. Now, $5 million is
pocket change to Zuckerberg and Soros and their billionaire socialist pals. Is
this a probe to see how well this kind of "under-the-radar" ballot initiative
will do in a somewhat conservative Midwestern state? Ohio is a key swing
state... wouldn't that be something if the leftists from California and New
York could turn Ohio into a "forward operating base" or testing
ground for their ideas about dealing with drugs?
If they are successful, it will
cost them only pennies (comparatively speaking). But it will cost the citizens
of Ohio plenty.
Read the rest here. And forward links to your family and friends.
(Note: The Columbus Dispatch reported on both gubernatorial candidates Mike DeWine's and Richard Cordray's positions on Issue #1 here .)
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