Nov 8, 2023
Ohio Governor Loses BIG As Devious Ballot Scheme Backfires Spectacularly
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine's ridiculous attempt to scare voters into voting against ballot measures that would protect abortion rights and bolster marijuana rights completely backfires in his face after general election results revealed. Jayar Jackson and Trae Crowder break it down on The Damage Report.
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Democrats had a good election
night on Tuesday, and
they won just about every key contest.
In Ohio, there was issues one and two,
very generic names, but meaning a lot.
Democrats won majorities in
both chambers in Virginia,
still leaving now the governor
there on his own.
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And also they won the Supreme Court
seat in Pennsylvania.
More big news.
Also, Kentucky Governor Andy Bashir,
he also won his race.
And although the governor candidate down
in Mississippi for the Democratic side had
lost, it was much different and closer
than people maybe would have expected.
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So since I started talking about
issues one and two in Ohio,
let's go in backwards order and talk about
issue two first, I believe is the one.
We'll start with this win
about marijuana possession and
growing even in the state of Ohio.
Let's go here.
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Look at that map.
So Ohio voted to legalize
the possession and sale of marijuana.
57% of the folks who voted did so, I think
that's pretty determined fact there.
So what happens now,
now that they voted this way?
We'll see.
Let's go to these details
here from the Hill.
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This measure, which is known as issue two,
would allow adults aged 21 and
older to possess up to two and
a half ounces of marijuana and
grow up to six marijuana plants at home.
Not sure how the monitoring
process will be with that.
It also establishes a 10%
tax on marijuana sales.
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And this comes after the state legalized
medical marijuana years prior in 2016.
But legalization in
Ohio is not guaranteed.
Even though the measure passed since
it was a citizen initiated measure,
state law will allow the legislator
to modify or repeal it.
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So since citizens, those folks who
are elected, are supposed to represent,
since they initiated this entire process,
they don't have the final say.
I guess this is how America works.
So many Republicans also in
the legislature, and Governor Mike DeWine,
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they expressed opposition to
that legalization ofcourse.
So that whole fight has to find its
way into, hopefully, the news and
the way people will talk about it.
And actually understand how ridiculous it
is that they're gonna put some time and
energy into undoing what
the people of Ohio voted for.
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So just a pause there,
because there's lots going on.
I want your first thoughts on
the marijuana legalization out there,
cuz this is one of those things we just
talked about a minute ago, Trey, off air.
And how many of these races and
these results, I think,
have a lot to do with the type
of folks that are voting now.
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And maybe the folks who are in office or
in power don't realize it.
What are your thoughts?
>> Speaker 2: Yeah,
I think you're onto something there.
I mean, I feel like the opposition to
the marijuana legalization thing has
been dwindling for a while.
From my perspective, you don't really see
much, like, reefer madness stuff anymore,
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and rightfully so,
cuz I feel like at this point, even,
like old mammals have realized
that it's not that bad.
It's not exactly bath salts or
whatnot, but
there's still been opposition to it with
lobbyists and whatnot, cuz I know, like,
law enforcement lobbies and
prisons and stuff like that.
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They stand to gain a lot by
keeping marijuana illegal,
which is one of the primary
reasons it should be legalized.
It's not just so people can get stoned and
think about the moon or whatever.
I mean, I'm for that, too, but we just
don't need to be locking people up or
jamming up the works of the justice
system for weed stuff anymore.
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And I feel like people are generally
coming around to that.
But the important part that you
pointed out is I mean, this is Ohio.
The legislature there, they've
demonstrated already that they have
a pretty low opinion of democracy or
the will of the people.
They tried to get the people to
vote against their own ability
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to have voting power a few months ago.
They tried to limit the power of
democracy in their state already.
I fully expect them to do whatever
they can to just ignore the will of
the people they ostensibly represent and
try to mess this whole thing up anyway.
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Cuz that's just chapter one of their
playbook, so we'll see how it plays out.
But I'm proud of the people of Ohio,
though.
>> Speaker 1: It shows, at least cuz I
always talk about how we overestimate
the general intelligence and knowledge of
American people because they get duped and
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fooled into so
many different thoughts that aren't real.
But at least this is hopeful, at least as
people seeing through a lot of the weeds
and things, ironically, that the
smokestreams they put in front of people's
faces about the reality of things and
how they are.
I think in states like know,
Nevada, wherever else,
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it's been legalized already.
It doesn't have to be right next door,
but people understand it.
We're much more.
Our societies know each
other more than we used to.
Those barriers have been
broken down with the Internet.
So people may understand in Ohio and
see neighboring states or
states that aren't too far with
legalization and go, so wait,
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what's wrong with this
not being here again?
Like, the narrative changes
because we see how it
hasn't destroyed the states
that actually already have it.
Next step, though,
here in Ohio was also issue one.
Maybe it should be called issue one
because it was a little bit more important
than the previous, but
this was about abortion and
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access to that right as well, too.
And that also won in the state as well,
too.
Look, 56.6% said yes on overturning this
law that they put forward that was right
after Roe v Wade was passed by the supreme
or overturned by the Supreme Court.
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And led them to then put forward
their heartbeat bills and all that.
More details from the Associated Press
on that cuz now that it's passed.
The passage of issue one undoes that 2019
state law passed by Republicans that bans
most abortions after around six weeks into
pregnancy, with no exceptions for rape and
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incest.
That law, also referred to as the
Heartbeat bill, is being held up in court,
and it was one of roughly two dozen
restrictions on abortion that
the Ohio Legislature had
passed in recent years.
Again, I don't know if the folks who
are part of this thing that just got
overturned because the voters
don't want your garbage.
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If they're understanding,
they may begin to relate that to you and
understand that you represent them.
I don't know if they're gonna
figure that part out yet.
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