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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Ohio statue campaign offers lesson plans to get out the vote
The campaign to pick a new famous Ohioan to represent the state in Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C., is providing lesson plans for teachers in a get-out-the-vote effort.
Teachers can download the lesson plans at www.legacyforohio.org, the National Statuary Collection Study Committee and others involved in the campaign announced on Wednesday, April 21. The goal is to provide more information on the candidates and encourage public voting, a press release said.
There is no age requirement for voting. The committee will consider the results of the voting in making a final recommendation.
Balllots to vote for a new Ohio representative also are available at the Web site. Voting also is going on through June 12 at the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus
The Wright brothers, the aviation pioneers from Dayton, and former U.S. Rep. William McCulloch, a champion of civil rights legislation from Piqua, are among the 10 finalists for a new statute to represent the state.
Also, the Ohio Historical Society, through a partnership with eTech Ohio, has developed biographical podcasts for each of the finalists that are available for download at iTunes University, a press release said.
Other finalists are:
*Congressman and abolitionist James Ashley
*Inventor Thomas Edison
*President and Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant
*Suffragist Harriet Taylor Upton
*Olympic track star Jesse Owens
*Astronaut Judith Resnik
*Abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe
*Dr. Albert Sabin, developer of the oral polio vaccine.
The new statue will replace Gov. William Allen, whose pro-slavery, anti-Abraham Lincoln views caused officials to bring his statute back to Ohio. Ohio’s other Statuary Hall representative is President James Garfield.
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TweetDeWine not on the GOP slate card
The Ohio Republican Party is mailing out slate cards with listing endorsed candidates for statewide offices for the May 4 primary: Dave Yost for auditor, Jon Husted for secretary of state, John Kasich for governor, Mary Taylor for lieutenant governor and Rob Portman for U.S. Senate.
Absent from the card is one of the best known Ohio Republicans: Mike DeWine, who is running for attorney general. DeWine is a former lieutenant governor and served in the U.S. Senate from 1995 to 2006.
The state party opted not to endorse a candidate in the attorney general’s race when DeWine was pitted against Yost in the GOP primary. But Yost switched to the auditor’s race where he is now facing a primary challenge from state Rep. Seth Morgan, R-Huber Heights.
DeWine and a spokesman for the GOP could not be reached for comment.
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TweetDarke County T.E.A. Patriots endorse Yost in GOP auditor primary
The Darke County T.E.A. Patriots have endorsed Delaware County Prosecutor Dave Yost for state auditor, Yost’s campaign announced on Wednesday, April 21.
Yost is running for the Republican nomination for auditor against state Rep. Seth Morgan, R-Huber Heights, in the May 4 primary.
“Dave Yost shares the values of the Tea Party movement, limited government, personal and fiscal responsibility and lower taxes and we are excited to stand with Dave to become the next Ohio auditor of state,” Lyn Bliss, a member of the Darke County T.E.A. Patriots, said in a press release.
Yost has been endorsed by the Ohio Republican Party, but the Ohio Tea Party PAC, a political action committee of the Ohio Liberty Council, has endorsed Morgan. The Ohio Liberty Council includes some but not all of Ohio’s Tea Party groups.
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TweetFOP backs ballot plan to move Columbus casino
The Ohio Fraternal Order of Police, the state’s largest labor organization for law enforcement officers, on Wednesday, April 21, announced its support for state Issue 2 on the May 4 ballot.
Approval of the Issue would authorize changing the location of a proposed Columbus casino from the Arena District near downtown to the site of a former auto plant on the city’s west side.
“These are tough economic times for Ohio’s cities and counties,”Mark Drum, FOP-Ohio treasurer, said in a press release.
“The sooner all four Ohio casinos are underway, the sooner Ohio counties, cities and school districts will begin to see the benefits of hundreds of millions of dollars each year in casino tax revenue.”
Voters statewide last November approved a constitutional amendment authorizing casinos at specific sites in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Toledo.
In Franklin County, which includes Columbus, the issue lost, however, and community leaders reached agreement with the casino developer on the proposed new site. The change, however, requires voter approval.
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TweetVoters “confident” Obama will make right Supreme Court pick
A majority of American voters - 53 percent - are “very confident” or “somewhat confident” that President Barack Obama will make the right choice to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday, April 21.
The poll also found that voters trust the Democratic president more than Senate Republicans - 46 to 43 percent - to make the right choice for the high court. Still, voters said by a 48-41 percent margin that senators who do not agree with Obama’s pick should filibuster the president’s choice.
Obama is considering candidates to replace Justice John Paul Stevens who is retiring.
On the court pick question, 27 percent were “very confident” Obama would make the right choice and 26 percent were somewhat confident. Also, 18 percent were “not too confident” about the choice and 28 percent were “not confident at all.”
While voters showed confidence in Obama’s high court pick, they disapproved of his job performance. Forty six percent disapproved, compared to 44 percent who approved, his lowest approval rating in the poll since his inauguration last year.
Other poll findings:
*By a 49-21 percent margin, voters approved of the job Chief Justice John Roberts is doing.
*Voters approved of Obama’s earlier nomination of Justice Sonia Sotomayor to the court, 52-32 percent.
*29 percent said the court was too liberal; 19 percent said it was too conservative and 40 percent said it was about right.
*By a 78-16 percent margin, voters said high court justices allow political views to enter into their decisions.
*By a 79-14 percent margin, voters disapproved January’s Supreme Court ruling lifting limits on the what corporations and unions could spend attacking and boosting political candidates.
The poll was taken from Wednesday, April 14 to Monday, April 19 with 1,930 registered voters nationwide and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.2 percentage points.
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