Last year I urged people not to vote for Trump for President. I pointed to Project 2025 and his pledge to become a dictator. Few Ohioans recognized the true threat Trump posed and a large majority voted for him. He has proceeded to implement Project 2025: cut off food to starving children around the world; cut off healthcare to veterans here at home; and attack the seperation of powers, claiming dictatorial authority for the President. Also, the economy is crashing. The country would be better off if more people had heeded the warnings.
Today, however, I have an even more urgent warning, because our State Senator Theresa Gavarone, is Vice Chair of a Committee that is currently hearing testimony on SJR 3. This bill which would literallytear up the US constitution. It calls for the creation of a constitutional convention. Its purpose? To tear up the Constitution and write a new one.
Conservative Republicans used to stand for the Constitution, for Liberty, for America first (before Russia). But this bill threatens everything Republicans used to hold sacred. Why are they doing this? I watched proponent testimony over the weekend. One woman nailed it. She said, “…to help DOGE.” In other words, admitting that what Musk is doing to the country is unconstitutional. So, the constitution has to go so that an unelected billionaire bureaucrat can do whatever he wants to America.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Republicans have had absolute control over the Ohio state government for 14 years, now. They have become corrupt. We got a peek at that corruption with HB6 which sent the Republican Speaker of the House to prison for 20 years. His defense? The $65 million in bribes he took were just “business as usual” in Ohio.
SJR3 is just the latest corrupt legislation, but it is by far the most dangerous. Letting Musk rewrite our Constitution would destroy our Nation. I call on all Republicans to remember who you are! Defend our Republic! Defend the Constitution! Tell Gavarone to withdraw SJR3!
Joe DeMare
Bowling Green
