Which Will Protect Ohio Children?
The Shea Resolution or the McGuire Inspirations
The Ohio State Board of Education met on October 12th. On the agenda was the vote on Resolution 27, Shea’s Resolution, a parent-friendly resolution in support of parents, schools, and districts in rejecting harmful, coercive & burdensome gender identity policies. According to the Ohio School Board Constitutional Coalition, forty-one people, including retired teachers, lawyers, pastors, professionals, school board members, and state representatives, gave public testimony in favor of passing Shea’s Resolution, and thirty people were against it. The video of public testimony begins at 2:11:00. In addition to the public testimonies, thousands of Republican County Central Committee members, school board members, and citizen groups signed petitions in support of the Shea Resolution.
After some discussion, Tim Miller, a DeWine appointee, motioned to send the Resolution to Executive Committee. Doing so indefinitely postponed bringing the Shea Resolution before the full board for a vote.
The key objectives of Shea’s Resolution are to support Attorney General Yost in rejecting Biden’s radical mandates meant to strip parental rights, threaten students’ safety and privacy, gives minors access to experimental cross-sex drugs without parental knowledge or consent, and discriminates against people of faith. It also called for the Superintendent of Public Instruction to notify school board members and superintendents that they are not legally required to abide by guidance documents published by the U.S. Department of Education.
There is overwhelming support from Ohio parents to keep inappropriate gender identity mandates out of Ohio schools. Sadly, the majority of the State Board of Education thinks otherwise. In this video Vice-President of the State Board, Martha Manchester, discloses her lack of knowledge of the most fundamental facts of human sexuality - male and female.
On October 31, the Board’s Executive Committee met, supposedly to discuss the Shea Resolution, and then vote it out of committee and send it to the full Board for a vote. Instead, Charlotte McGuire, President of the Ohio State Board, introduced a counter resolution - one based upon her “inspirations” that fails miserably when it comes to protecting minor children from being aided in social transitioning.
For the sake of our children and grandchildren, urge SBE members to vote NO on the McGuire Resolution and vote YES on the Shea Resolution. The latter intends to protect parental rights and minor children from harmful gender identity policies.
Republican State Central Committee Leaders send Open letter to ORP Chairman Bob Paduchik
On October 11th, forty-five members of the Republican State Central Committee sent an open letter to Chairman Paduchik expressing their support for Resolution 27, Shea’s Resolution. They urged Governor DeWine to “reaffirm his commitment to reject attempts by the U.S. Departments of Education and Agriculture to gut Title IX by issuing rules inconsistent with the law” and “to encourage [his] appointees to vote for State Board member Shea’s original Resolution or any amended version approved by him.”
View full text of the letter at the Ohio Press Network.
On behalf of the forty-five supporting State Central Committee members, I had the opportunity to provide testimony in support of Shea’s Resolution before the State Board of Education at the October 12th meeting. Testimony begins at 2:25:00.
Town Hall with Congressman Mike Carey
On October 18th, members of Miami County Liberty held a Town Hall meeting to provide Miami County voters an opportunity to meet their new congressman, Mike Carey. Carey is a veteran and former coal lobbyist endorsed by President Trump during his special election campaign in 2021.
After Ohio’s redistricting in May, most of Miami County has been redrawn into the 15th Congressional District (Carey’s district). The area of the county that will remain in the 8th Congressional District (Warren Davidson’s district) is the southwest corner of Miami County - all of Union and Newton Townships and portions of Concord Township.
While attendees appreciated Carey’s strong stance on securing our borders, supporting our military, energy independence, and defunding the IRS, constituents expressed their disapproval of Carey’s recent voting record regarding his support for a $40 billion aid package to Ukraine and his support for the codification of gay marriage. Attendees also questioned him on his decision not to join the Freedom Caucus.
Carey explained his decision not to join the Freedom Caucus was due to him not wanting to be forced to vote a certain way, defining it as “blind following.” Carey defended his decision to support H.R.8404 Respect for Marriage Act because the bill included language that protected interracial marriages. When questioned about the $40 billion aid to Ukraine, Carey said that he supported it because part of the funding would be used to support our military.
After the Town Hall, I had the opportunity to speak with several constituents to gauge their first impressions of Congressman Carey.
One attendee did not hold back with his disappointment of Carey’s decision to send aid to Ukraine, “Americans are suffering from historic inflation. We’re struggling to put food on the table and gas in the tank-and he wants to piss away money on Ukraine. What about us?” A second attendee was relieved that Carey addressed the wall and border security, “I’m glad he’s got the bead on securing our borders and is addressing the fentanyl crisis.” In regard to Carey’s support of the Respect for Marriage Act, a third attendee commented, “I’m not buying it. We’re not stupid. This is not about protecting interracial marriage. This is about catering to the left’s liberal woke agenda. Has he even read the RNC platform?”
With mixed reviews following Carey’s Town Hall debut, one thing is clear - Carey’s Miami County constituents will be watching him closely to see if he will be working to push conservative legislation further down the political playing field or if he will compromise to the progressive left’s agenda.
November 8th Election Results!
Federal, State, and District 5 outcomes
Federal Races
Ohio Democrats were projected to lose 1-3 Ohio Congressional seats following the redrawing of congressional districts in May. Unfortunately, Democrats maintained their seats, while the Republicans lost one congressional seat (Steve Chabot, District 1).
While JD Vance won the U.S. Senate district race against Tim Ryan by a larger margin than initially predicted, U.S. Congressional Representative candidates, Steve Chabot (District 1), Madison Gesiotto Gilbert (District 13), and JR Majewsk (District 9) all lost their races.
Statewide Races
Republicans won all statewide offices as projected. Mike DeWine defeated Nan Whaley and will be serving his second term as governor. Attorney General Dave Yost, Secretary of State Frank LaRose, Treasurer Robert Sprague, and Auditor Keith Faber also won re-election and will be serving a second term.
Ohio Supreme Court justices Pat Fischer and Pat DeWine won re-election, and Sharon Kennedy won in her race against Democrat Jennifer Brunner for Chief Justice.
Statewide Issues
Issue 1 and Issue 2, which will change Ohio’s bail and voter eligibility laws, passed by rather large margins.
District 5 Races (Miami, NW Montgomery, N. Butler, Preble, S. Darke)
Butler
Darke
Miami
Montgomery
Preble
Trump Speaks at Save America Rally!
President Trump spoke at the Save America Rally on Monday, November 7th, in Vandalia, Ohio. Many had speculated that Trump might announce his candidacy at the last rally before the midterm; however, there was no announcement given. Trump did reveal a “big announcement” coming on Nov. 15th.
Guest speakers included:
J.D. Vance, Republican Nominee for U.S. Senator for Ohio
Rep. Jim Jordan, U.S. Representative for Ohio’s 4th Congressional District
Rep. Mike Turner, U.S. Representative for Ohio’s 10th Congressional District
Rep. Warren Davidson, U.S. Representative for Ohio’s 8th Congressional District
Rep. Mike Carey, U.S. Representative for Ohio’s 15th Congressional District
Hon. Max Miller, Candidate for U.S. Representative for Ohio’s 7th Congressional District
J.R. Majewski, Candidate for U.S. Representative for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District
I had the great honor and privilege of leading my fellow countrymen in the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States of America. I am incredibly thankful and grateful for my God, my family, and my country. I am also thankful for our veterans and active duty Service Men and Women who have sacrificed so much to keep our country the home of the brave and the land of the free.
My grandfather was a Korean War veteran who served his country faithfully and heroically. He was injured during the war and was still retrieving shrapnel from his leg until the day he died. I am humbled to stand on the shoulders of giants; all gave some and some gave all. To all who have put their lives on the line in defense of the flag, thank you.
Policy Committee of the Ohio Republican Party Passes Resolution Rejecting Joe Biden’s Expansion of Title IX
On November 4th, the Ohio Republican Party (ORP) Policy Committee passed a resolution to reject Biden’s expansion of Title IX on behalf of the members of the Republican State Central Committee.
While supporters of the resolution were pleased to hear that the party took a stand on the issue, only the last two paragraphs of the original resolution were passed by the policy committee consisting of nine committee members. Unfortunately, passing only part of the resolution instead of adopting the full text did not accurately reflect the will of the committee, nor did it fulfill the purpose of the original resolution.
Originally, thirty-nine State Central Committee members agreed to call for a special meeting to adopt the full text of the resolution. According to the bylaws, a special meeting can be called at the request of fifteen members. However, members were then asked by the chairman and executive director to collect physical signatures in order to proceed with calling for a special meeting.
Proponents of the resolution then collected more than fifteen physical petition signatures requesting a special meeting to vote on adopting the resolution. Per Article V Section 1 of the bylaws, the chairman is required to set a date for the special meeting within fifteen days from the date of receiving the petition request (October 19th).
After the deadline of fifteen days passed, proponents were notified that the policy committee had met (without the knowledge of the membership) and passed part of the resolution on behalf of committee members, instead of setting the date for the special meeting as required.
As a result, the committee was left with a watered-down resolution that didn’t reflect the will of the majority because a minority of members made the decision for them.
While some may argue, “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth - they adopted a resolution [at least in part] that you wanted.” The way they did it sets a very dangerous precedent. The State Central Committee did not meet and did not vote on this matter. The chairman and a select few committee members took it upon themselves to speak for the entire committee and effectively made the committee as a whole irrelevant.
Where does the power of the policy committee begin and end if they can usurp business that the State Central Committee is going to discuss and claim it was the will of the Committee? This might pass muster when the policy committee and the State Central Committee are in agreement - but what happens when they are not in agreement?
What this means is that nine members can adopt a resolution as a majority of sixty-three committee members without a majority vote from the whole committee. That is not representative of the will of the majority or of the voters who elected the committee members to represent them.
Commentary provided by:
Jessica Franz, ORPSCC District 5
Stephanie Kremer, ORPSCC District 12
Christine Maurer, ORPSCC District 29
Ohio Republican Party Chairman Bob Paduchik will not Seek Re-election in January
The day after the midterm elections, ORP Chairman Bob Paduchik announced that he will not seek re-election in January. Paduchik stated in a letter to State Central Committee members,"I will not run for reelection for the chairmanship of the Ohio Republican Party," and "It is time for a new leader to take leadership of the party.”
Veterans Day - Friday, November 11th
Honoring All Veterans! Thank you for your service and sacrifices! We are forever grateful!
Veterans Day: 5 things to do and say to honor America's heroes
“Veterans Day is a day set aside to honor and celebrate military veterans — anyone who has served in the United States' Armed Forces. It is a federal holiday in the U.S. that deserves more attention than it gets.
We celebrate it annually on Nov. 11 because on the 11th hour of the 11th day in the 11th month of 1918, World War I hostilities ceased between the Allied Powers and Germany.
Originally known as Armistice Day, Nov. 11 was meant to celebrate world peace and the end of the first World War.”
In your service,
Jessica Franz
Ohio Republican State Central Committee District 5
JessFranz@ORPSCC5.COM
(937) 499-4435
Tired of “conservative “ fence sitters like McGuire.
VP of the board is Martha Manchester - not Susan :)