Welcome - Bernie Moreno

• Successful Businessman - car dealership, blockchain tech

• US Senate candidate

Vote NOvember Campaign

• Ballot Initiatives, New Taxes - Just Vote NO

  • Ballot initiatives are a horrible way to “make law”

  • Circumventing the legislature, means no checks and balances

  • Outside state resources can buy the voters easier than the legislatures

Issue 1 - “Amendment Relating to Abortion and Other Reproductive Decisions”

• Check out ⁠https://seethelanguage.com/⁠

• Takes all-inclusive, vague language to a whole new level - none of the key terms are defined:

  • “Individual” - No age, sex, condition – just “Every individual”

  • “Reproductive decisions” - “including but not limited to decisions on contraception, fertility treatment, continuing one’s own pregnancy, miscarriage care, and abortion”

    • Means definition can be expanded to anything involving “Reproduction”

  • “Patients life or health” - Any limitation can be overridden for “health” but no definition of “health is given”

    • Means exception can be physical, mental, financial, basically anything that can be construed as effecting the individual.

• Most disturbing aspects:

  • Ohio will join North Korea and China as one of the few places on earth where you can legally kill a baby up to the moment of birth.

  • Permits anyone to encourage children to have abortions or gender surgeries

  • Prohibits anyone, including parents, from discouraging these procedures

Issue 2 - “Commercialize, Regulate, Legalize, and Tax the Adult Use of Cannabis” 

• Actual text of the resolution is 51 pages long!!!

  • And very, very difficult to find online

• While much is said about “cannabis” the bulk of the language deals with “Social Equity and Jobs Program” - a new effort under the Ohio Department of Development

  • Section 2:  “provide funding and social equity opportunities in the state”

  • Section 3:  “Prescribing standards and procedures in coordination with the department of development to administer and enforce the cannabis social equity and jobs program”

• The Department of Development - “Creating a better life for all Ohioans”

  • Already sounds like an “equity” focused organization

• New “Social Equity and Jobs Program”

  • Funded by legalizing and licensing cannabis

  • Easily expanded to every area of commerce, business and government activity

• Also includes language that forces cannabis into poor and impoverished neighborhoods

  • Anyone previously convicted of selling weed, can get Ohio funding to get back into the business!

• Aside from the obvious issues with widespread use of marijuana, the focus on creating a whole new “equity” program has nothing to do with the legalization effort.

• Segment 3 - National Issues

  • Senate Campaign

  • War - Ukraine and now Israel

  • DC Disfunction

    • House Speaker, Biden Corruption…

    • DOJ/FBI/IRS - federal two tier system

  • Bernie Focus/Key Objectives