Tea Party Groups SHOULD Be Alarmed at Issue 1 & Issue 2

“At the general election to be held in the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, and in each twentieth year thereafter, the question: ‘Shall there be a convention to revise, alter, or amend the constitution[,]” shall be submitted to the electors of the state; and in case a majority of the electors, voting for and against the calling of a convention, shall decide in favor of a convention, the General Assembly, at its next session, shall provide, by law, for the election of delegates, and the assembling of such convention, as is provided in the preceding section; but no amendment of this constitution, agreed upon by any convention assembled in pursuance of this article, shall take effect, until the same shall have been submitted to the electors of the state, and adopted by a majority of those voting thereon.


A majority yes vote is necessary for passage.
Shall there be a convention to revise, alter, or amend the constitution?”


Look at this again. Do you see any mention of the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission that plans to “review” Ohio’s Constitution in November? No? Why not?

The Ohio Constitution Modernization Commission is already in place! It includes 12 elected officials and 20 non-elected officials that will suggest changes and improvements to OUR State Constitution. Who will these non-elected bodies answer to? Not you and I. The People will be removed from the process except that we will have an opportunity to vote on their recommendations. How long will it be before that changes because the vote of the People is simply too costly?

In an earlier writing, I copied the following from an email I received from the Heritage Club of NE Ohio;

2012-10-12 14:21:45

Source: http://politicsarepersonalblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/tea-party-groups-should-be-alarmed-at.html