Today, the Healthy Ohioans Work coalition, a group working to expand Medicaid coverage for nearly 300,000 Ohioans announced the filing of an initiated statute to the Ohio Attorney General to begin the initiative petition process.
Today, Public Policy Polling (PPP), one of the most accurate pollsters in America, released the first public poll to show former FBI agent and Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald leading Ohio’s Governor John Kasich in a straight matchup. The poll can be found here.
Today, Nina Turner, Democratic candidate for Ohio Secretary of State, issued the following statement in response to Secretary of State Jon Husted’s opposition to the extension of a 2010 consent decree that allows voters to use the last four digits of the Social Security Number as identification to cast a ballot.
State Representative Connie Pillich talks with Rachel Maddow about Ohio Republicans with the help of Governor Kasich sneaking the most restrictive new abortion measures in the country into the state budget bill to avoid Texas-style public backlash over amendments they knew couldn’t survive public scrutiny.
FitzGerald Calls Ruling ‘Step Backwards for Voting Rights’
In response to today’s Supreme Court ruling that struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Cuyahoga County Executive and gubernatorial candidate Ed FitzGerald released the following statement:
