Prepare for Legal Challenges PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 Contact: Tom Zawistowski, [email protected] Ohio Voters Approve Issue 1 Putting Right to Abortion into the Ohio Constitution & Issue 2 Legalizing Marijuana Akron, OH: Today, Tom Zawistowski, President of the Ohio based National We the People Convention (WTPC) organization, reacted to the passage in Ohio of Issue 1, which puts into the Ohio Constitution the right of an "individual" to abort a baby up until the day of birth for any reason, and the passage for Issue 2, which legalizes the right to use Cannabis. Both issues passed by nearly identical margins of 57%-43%. Zawistowski said, "The voters, who turned out, have spoken and the culture of Ohio has been changed. While many are talking about a near 50% turnout as something to celebrate, the fact is that a small minority of 27% (2,186,962) of Ohio citizens have managed to impose their radical agenda on the 73% of their fellow citizens who did not vote for either Issue (1,675,728) or worse yet did not vote at all (4,125,442). It is profoundly disappointing that any Ohio Citizen would not vote on Issues that will impact themselves and their families and our state in such profound ways when they had over a month and multiple ways to vote." Zawistowski continued, "Now we will see significant legal challenges to Issue 1 in the courts due to its incredibly vague language. The courts will be pressed into service to decide if the Amendment actually will not impact parental rights, partial-birth abortions, or eventually allow minors to pursue sex change drugs and procedures without parental consent as the left's advertising and messaging claimed. You can bet that, just like with gay marriage, once the law is passed, the left pushed the limits of what that law meant and it is still being litigated nearly 10 years later. We expect that the trans-activists will be challenging parents rights almost immediately even though they claimed no such rights existed in Issue 1." Zawistowski added, "Now that the Left has successfully managed to "Legislate via Constitutional Amendment" with the passage of Issue 1, we can expect them to repeat this process in nearly every election going forward to impose their far-left agenda on Ohio. Voters can expect to see Constitutional Amendments defining minimum wage, gun rights, voting rights, and more starting in 2024. The Conservative Right is now confronted with the need to counter Issue 1, and these other possible amendments, with their own Constitutional Amendments protecting our rights and even reversing or modifying the Amendments passed by the Left. Doing this marks the death of our "Representative Form of Government" and establishes government by "Direct Democracy" as I argued prior to the vote on Tuesday. You will now see much less effort and money going into electing Ohio House and Senate Members and more money, both from in-state and out-of-state, going into funding Constitutional Amendment campaigns on both the Left and the Right." Zawistowski concluded, "This a not the form of government given to us by our founding fathers, for good reasons, or that has served our State so well since our founding in 1803. The result will be rule by the minority instead of by the majority as we have just witnessed. With dramatic shifts in laws that used to take years of debate and discussion to be slowly passed, that will now be imposed or changed with little debate or discussion by massive media influence campaigns over a few months - bypassing the Legislature and going directly to the people. Which is why our organization will join with others to work to Amend the Ohio Constitution to raise the bar for passing a Constitutional Amendment to 60% of the vote as we attempted to do in August. Without some of the negative issues that were contained in that effort. The fact that neither Issue 1 or Issue 2 met that 60% bar yesterday demonstrates how important making that change is to preserving and protecting our "Representative Form of Government" and stopping this radical move toward "Direct Democracy." #30# Click to See Many More Stories and Videos on our Website We the People Convention | P.O. Box 6211, Akron, OH 44312 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by [email protected] powered by Try email marketing for free today!