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Hal Marshall

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Aug 8

Abhorrent behavior from a top elected official in Ohio. Democracy is not a game.

"On Twitter, Bill Seitz, the majority leader of the Ohio House, jeered at his Democratic opponents: 'Too bad so sad. We win again.'

"He continued, 'Now I know it’s been a tough night for all you libs. Pour yourself a glass of warm milk and you will sleep better. The game is over and you lost.'

"Ohio Democrats, including David Pepper, are outraged. 'The most corrupt state in the country was told more than five times that it was violating the law, and then the federal court said it was O.K.,' he told me.

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Hal Marshall

@HalMarshall2309

Aug 8

"This past spring, an extraordinary series of legal fights were playing out. The Ohio Supreme Court struck down the map—and then struck down four more, ...

"after the Republican majority on the redistricting commission continued submitting maps that defied the spirit of the court’s orders. The chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court was herself a Republican.

"Russo told me, 'If norms were being obeyed, we would expect that there would have been an effort to follow the first Ohio Supreme Court decision. But that simply didn’t happen.'

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Hal Marshall

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Aug 8

"The vast majority of Ohio residents clearly want legislative districts that are drawn more fairly. By 2015, the state’s gerrymandering problem had become so notorious that 71% of Ohioans voted to pass an amendment to the state constitution demanding reforms.

"As a result, the Ohio constitution now requires that districts be shaped so that the makeup of the General Assembly is proportional to the political makeup of the state.

"In 2018, an even larger bipartisan majority—75% of Ohio voters—passed a similar resolution for the state’s congressional districts.

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Hal Marshall

@HalMarshall2309

Aug 8

"In a phone interview, Baer told me that his mother and father, who divorced, were Jewish Democrats. But his father converted to Christianity, and became a Baptist pastor. After a rocky adolescence, Baer himself converted to a more conservative form of evangelical Christianity.

"He told me that the only 'real hope for our nation is in Jesus, but we need safeguards in the law.' He described gender-confirming health care for transgender patients as 'mutilation.'

"Baer believes that the Supreme Court should overturn the legalization of same-sex marriage, and he opposes the use of surrogate pregnancy, which he called 'renting a womb,' because it 'permanently separates the children from their biological mothers.'

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Hal Marshall

@HalMarshall2309

Aug 8

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The Center for Christian Virtue "works in concert with about a hundred and thirty Catholic and evangelical schools, twenty-two hundred churches, and what it calls a Christian Chamber of Commerce of aligned businesses.

"In 2015 and 2016, the left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center classified the organization as a hate group, citing homophobic statements on its Web site that described 'homosexual behavior' as 'unhealthy and destructive to the individual' and 'to society as a whole.'

"The group subsequently deleted the offending statements, and, according to the Columbus Dispatch, it has recently evolved into 'the state’s premier lobbying force on Christian conservative issues.'

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Hal Marshall

@HalMarshall2309

Aug 8

"Teresa Fedor, a Democratic state senator who has served in the General Assembly for twenty-two years, described Ohio’s new gun and abortion laws as the worst legislation that she has ever witnessed being passed.

" She told me, 'It feels like Gilead' —the fictional theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s novel 'The Handmaid’s Tale.' Fedor added, 'We’ve got state-mandated pregnancies, even of a ten-year-old.'

"The issue is personal to her. Fedor, a grandmother, is a former teacher; in her twenties, when she was serving in the military, she was raped. She had an abortion. Fedor was a divorced single mother at the time, trying to earn a teaching degree.

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