Ohio's Republican governor signs measure ensuring Biden appears on the fall ballot

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a measure to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state ballot in November.

DeWine, a Republican, signed the measure — which relaxes a state candidate filing deadline — Sunday along with a related bill that imposes a ban on foreign nationals contributing to state ballot campaigns. Both will take effect Aug. 31.

The Republican-dominated Legislature had approved the two measures last week during a rare special session. The contribution ban had been demanded by the Senate, which approved the measures Friday, a day after the House passed them.

recapitated,

Take the high road, we’re all supposed to be neighbors first.

GoddessOfGouda,

Ohioan here.

This came at the consequence of a nebulous “anti foreign funding” bill for ballot issues. Sounds harmless but 1) we already have laws against this and 2) republicans’ story around the abortion amendment that passed last year is that it was funded mostly by out of state entities, so we know that’s a card they want to play with more force.

Mike Dewine is a republican but is truly prolly the most moderate guy I’ve seen on that side of the aisle. He did a really good job of handling covid here, and other than the usual republican stances on weed or abortion, he’s generally likable.

That said, our republican legislature is not likable. They fought tooth and nail to keep from even having to make this decision, and when they finally did, they had to do it on their own terms.

deweydecibel,

He did a really good job of handling covid here,

He absolutely didn’t.

He did at first, but the moment the kickback started from his party and Trump, he folded, like the spineless worm he is.

Deconceptualist,

^^ Just corroborating this.

OhStopYellingAtMe,
@OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world avatar

This is an accurate statement.

GoddessOfGouda,

Source? He kept up mask mandates, closures, and vaccine recommendations.

I’m no republican but I’m not about to not give credit where it’s due lol. Our red state behaved quite blue during that time.

meeker,

That’s just an example of how far right the republican party has gone. Dewine used to be considered more right than the rest of his party. He had pushed for a heartbeat bill forever and was never considered a moderate. But because of how bat shit insane the Republican party in Ohio has gotten he seems moderate compared to the rest.

In reality though, it’s just that he’s one of the last Adults left in the room. So even small things like this, which have been done for democrats and republicans in past years, makes him seem moderate. trust me though, while he might respect the rule of law and believe in democracy a moderate it doesn’t make him.

SpaceNoodle, (edited )

I can’t read.

GoddessOfGouda,

That’s…… the opposite of what happened here.

SpaceNoodle,

Thanks, fixed my comment.

octopus_ink,

I will acknowledge that in this case the involved Republicans behaved in a way that I don’t hate.

Gotta go take a shower now.

xmunk,

Mike DeWine, deserving of praise for clearing the lowest bar… but that bar is one that a lot of GOP asshats couldn’t clear so… sort of semi-genuine thanks?

elliot_crane,

Yep. That’s what we get in a post-Trump world. If we were back in the 2010s, any governor helping the sitting POTUS/a major party presumptive nominee fix what amounts to a scheduling issue would be non-news.

baronvonj,
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I don’t think a Republican governor helping Obama’s reelection campaign in 2012 would have been quietly accepted.

elliot_crane,

There would have been a vocal minority on the right wing pissing and moaning about it on fox, but I don’t think the expectation would be that this hypothetical governor would deliberately obstruct.

baronvonj,
@baronvonj@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah I was referring to the hemming and hawing from the sidelines, especially from the birther crowd in Congress and right-wing media.

elliot_crane,

Easy to ignore if you just don’t consider right wing media to be news 🤷🏻‍♂️

elbarto777,

Quietly? Probably not. (Tan suit and all that.) But those are very different times. Remember when McCain defended Obama in one of his (McCain’s) town halls? That’s the level of decorum that’s been lost.

baronvonj,
@baronvonj@lemmy.world avatar

Right, but the fact that it was noteworthy in the news cycle then that McCain had that level of decorum against his own voting base is what I was speaking to. DeWine came out with tact and decorum to handle this non-issue, too. Voters back then were hanging and burning Obama in effigy.

elbarto777,

Freaking lunatics.

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