Thank You Buckeye Institute!!! REPORT: We've got 20 Locations Locked in we want 100! Let's get one Barn Billboard up in ALL 88 Counties! We are Bringing Back our Barn Billboard Program to Help Win Issue 1 on August 8th and YOU can be Part of it! Many of you will remember that in 2020 the We the People Convention organized the "Barn Billboard Program" to overcome social media censorship and win Ohio for Donald Trump! That year, with your help, we put up over 100 "Barn Billboards" on barns and commercial building along interstate highways and busy state routes all over Ohio. At it's peak we calculated the our signs were getting over 3 Million exposures a day - and there was NOTHING the Left could do to stop it! Today, we are announcing that we are going to roll out the "Barn Billboard Program" again to help get out our voters to vote YES on Issue 1 on August 8th! If you are Pro-Gun Rights, Pro-Parents' Rights and Pro-Small Business then we need you to offer your Barn or Business Building as a location where you would hang a large sign like in the picture below OR we need you to Donate and sponsor a "Barn Billboard" for someone else to hang! Click Here or on the image below to watch a 5 minute video that explains the whole Program or just click one of the buttons to either offer your location for a "Barn Billboard" or to make a donation. Basically the way this works is that you tell us what size sign you can hang on your property, the bigger the better, and the We the People Convention will pay to have the sign produced and shipped to you by the end of June. Once you receive it, we need you to have it hung on your building by no later than July 5th. Early voting for Issue 1 starts on July 10th with the Election is on August 8th! So we don't have a lot of time, please act now to either make a donation or to offer your building for a sign. Please forward this email to anyone you know who might be willing to hang a "Barn Billboard" on their building. Thank you! Click Here to Make a Donation to Sponsor a Sign Click Here for More Details on the Signs and to Order YOURS! The Buckeye Institute Testifies Before Congressional Committee against Destructive "Sue and Settle" Settle Tactics Columbus, OH – On Tuesday, The Buckeye Institute testified (download a PDF) before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, a subcommittee of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. In his testimony, Andrew M. Grossman, a senior legal fellow at The Buckeye Institute, highlighted the “use and abuse of ‘sue and settle’ tactics in litigation against the government,” which Grossman noted, “seeks to compel [federal] agency action, set agency priorities, and (in some instances) influence the content of regulations or other agency actions.” Noting that the federal regulators are sometimes “only too happy to face collusive lawsuits by friendly ‘foes,’” Grossman told the Subcommittee that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency entered into “more than sixty such settlements” in the first term of the Obama Administration alone, forcing the EPA to publish more than one hundred new regulations “at a cost to the economy of tens of billions of dollars.” Upon entering office, Grossman noted that the Trump Administration ended the abuse of sue and settle, declaring, “The days of regulation through litigation are over.” Unfortunately, the Biden Administration quickly revived the practice. Grossman went on to outline “common-sense reforms” that Congress can adopt to “provide for transparency and accountability in settlements and consent decrees,” recommendations which were “reflected in the Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act.” Grossman also urged Congress to consider a more comprehensive approach that “limits the ability of third parties to compel Executive Branch action” and would ensure that “the public interest” wasn’t subordinated to “special interests.” Congress isn't the only government institution that can act. Grossman recommended the Department of Justice readopt the Meese Policy. Named after Edwin Meese III, U.S. attorney general under President Ronal Reagan, the policy addressed the “fundamental problem of sue and settle” and “block[ed] agencies from relinquishing their discretionary authority to outside groups.” Grossman noted, “An administration that embraces the Meese Policy will benefit from greater flexibility, improved transparency, and, ultimately, better policy results.” In closing, Grossman reminded the Subcommittee that “collusive settlements that govern the federal government’s future actions raise serious constitutional and policy questions” and “evade democratic accountability.” In addition to serving as a senior legal fellow at Buckeye, Grossman is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Baker & Hostetler LLP. # # # Founded in 1989, The Buckeye Institute is an independent research and educational institution – a think tank – whose mission is to advance free-market public policy in the states. 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