Here's how Ohio's unconstitutional state legislative district map played out last night🧵:

The Ohio House map was drawn to split 54 Republican-safe & 45 Democratic-safe districts, but 16 of the 45 Dem seats were toss-ups

Last night Republicans won 12 of the 16 toss-up districts Those 16 toss-up districts were projected to be within 3% of GOP vs. DEM voters

Republicans won another district where the margin was less than 4%, and another strong Democratic district

Resulting in an Ohio House Republican supermajority of 68 out of 99 total seats

Phil Heimlich, a Republican who formerly served on Cincinnati City Council and Hamilton County Commission, announces effort by a group of Conservatives that support Democrat Tim Ryan in his Ohio US Senate race The group includes:
Christopher Gibbs, former Shelby County Republican Party Chairperson
Jim Petro, former Ohio Attorney General and Ohio Auditor
Rocky Saxbe, former member of the Ohio House of Representatives

Ohio Public media outlets around the state have been turning out excellent work, looking back at the last year with the COVID-19 pandemic, What lessons have we learned? What are we still learning? Here's a thread of just some of the stories coming out of Ohio's NPR/PBS stations WOSU's @adorakn takes an in-depth look at how the pandemic impacted places of worship and how religious leaders responded to the crisis

radio.wosu.org/post/only-god-…

Gov. Mike DeWine briefing on COVID-19 in Ohio...Thursday, March 11, 2021 🧵

Starting today people 50 and older can get the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as people with Type 2 diabetes or end-stage renal disease

This increases the eligibility population in Ohio by about 1.4M Today marks the 150th press conference held by Gov. Mike DeWine since the beginning of the state's response to the coronavirus...beginning last February during a presser at Cleveland MetroHealth

Ohio legislators say Rep. Jena Powell (R-Arcanum) drafted an amendment to SB22 that would terminate states of emergency issued by the Ohio Governor after 30 days...but House Speaker Bob Cupp called for a vote on the bill before Powell could propose that amendment I asked why Cupp didn't allow Powell's amendment to be introduced on the floor, Cupp said SB22 as passed today was the version the Majority Caucus had agreed to pass before coming to the floor

Ohio House approves SB22 which puts limits on states of emergency and health orders issued by the Ohio Governor, bill passed with a vote of 57-37 Gov. Mike DeWine has said he would veto the bill...the 57 votes in the House today would fall short of a possible vote to override a veto

Today in Ohio: The Ohio House of Representatives will consider 4 bills on the floor including SB22 which would limit how long a Governor's state of emergency can remain in place, allow lawmakers to revoke the state of emergency, and allow lawmakers to rescind health orders Ohio House is also likely to vote on HB128 which eliminates the nuclear power plant bailout portion of HB6...the sweeping 2019 energy bill created $150M/year in ratepayer subsidies. HB6 is now at the center of a federal bribery case

Gov. Mike DeWine briefing on COVID-19 in Ohio...December 30, 2020 🧵

"The good news is that we continue to see people get vaccinated in the state of Ohio."

DeWine says he's asking people to have a sense of urgency to schedule themselves for a vaccine if they're eligible DeWine: "We can't control how fast the vaccine comes into the state of Ohio"

"While we can't control how much comes in every week we certainly can control how fast we get it out."

Gov. Mike DeWine briefing on COVID-19 in Ohio...December 7, 2020 🧵

DeWine going over the latest numbers which continue to see big increases in cases, hospitalizations...but DeWine says Ohio is starting to see a slower rate of increase DeWine says the slower rate of increase might indicate the curfew and mask enforcement is working but says there's still a long way to go

The federal court initial appearance based on an indictment against 5 defendants accused of racketeering related to the Ohio nuclear power plant bailout has started. Former House Speaker & current Rep. Larry Householder will not appear today Jeff Longstreth, Householder political aide, pleads not guilty to the federal charges of racketeering

Ohio Department of Health reporting there are now 26 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ohio Waiting now for Gov. Mike DeWine and Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton to hold a briefing. DeWine's staff says they did a deep clean of the press briefing room, including periodically wiping down the lectern and mic