00:00:37 | >> AFTER MONTHS OF CAMPAIGNING, MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND |
00:00:40 | MOUNTAINS OF ADS, THE ELECTION OF 2012 IS OVER. |
00:00:42 | WE'LL RUN DOWN THE KEY RACES IN OHIO AND HOW THE VOTE BROKE OUT. |
00:00:46 | AND WE'LL PREVIEW WHAT'S AHEAD NOW THAT WE KNOW WHO WON. |
00:00:50 | ALL THIS WEEK IN "THE STATE OF OHIO" |
00:00:53 | BY NOW, IT'S OLD NEWS - PRESIDENT OBAMA DEFEATED GOV. |
00:00:59 | MITT ROMNEY BY 107,241 VOTES, ACCORDING TO THE UNOFFICIAL |
00:01:06 | TALLY FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE. |
00:01:07 | THAT'S A MARGIN OF EXACTLY TWO PERCENT AMONG 5,364,324 VOTES |
00:01:11 | CAST IN THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE. THE MAP LOOKED LIKE A TYPICAL |
00:01:18 | DEMOCRATIC WIN - OBAMA WON THE STATE'S SIX BIGGEST COUNTIES, |
00:01:21 | AND TWO THIRDS OF THE VOTE IN THE BIGGEST CITIES. |
00:01:23 | ROMNEY WON THE REST OF THE STATE, WHICH INCLUDED THE |
00:01:27 | SUBURBS AND RURAL AREAS, INCLUDING SEVERAL TRADITIONAL |
00:01:32 | BELLWETHER COUNTIES SUCH AS LAKE AND STARK. |
00:01:33 | NONE OF THE MINOR PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES CRACKED |
00:01:37 | THE 1% MARK - LIBERTARIAN GARY JOHNSON BROUGHT HIS PARTY |
00:01:40 | CLOSER TO THAT THAN IT'S BEEN IN A WHILE WITH .88%. |
00:01:44 | BUT ALL TOGETHER, THE ALTERNATIVE PARTY CANDIDATES |
00:01:48 | ONLY TOOK A LITTLE OVER ONE AND A HALF PERCENT OF THE VOTE. |
00:01:49 | VOTERS ALSO SENT INCUMBENT DEMOCRAT SHERROD BROWN BACK TO |
00:01:53 | THE US SENATE BY A WIDER MARGIN - OF THE 5.2 MILLION VOTES CAST |
00:02:00 | IN THAT RACE, 50% WENT FOR BROWN, 45% FOR MANDEL. |
00:02:04 | ON ELECTION NIGHT, BROWN WAS JUBILANT BUT SO HOARSE HIS |
00:02:13 | WIFE, COLUMNIST CONNIE SCHULTZ, HAD TO HELP HIM WITH HIS SPEECH, |
00:02:16 | WHILE MANDEL WAS APPRECIATIVE BUT A BIT SOMBER. |
00:02:22 | >> THEY RAN 50,000 ADS AGAINST MY HUSBAND |
00:02:24 | ALL OF THE SAME TIME, THERE WERE POISONING OUR AIR WAVES. |
00:02:33 | YOU KNOW WHAT? THESE GROUPS, THEY DID NOT KNOW |
00:02:39 | OHIO. [APPLAUSE] |
00:02:41 | HERE IS WHAT THEY DO NOT KNOW. THEY DID NOT KNOW WE HAVE THE |
00:02:51 | BEST GRASS ROOTS EFFORT IN AMERICA. |
00:02:53 | THEY DID NOT KNOW THAT WE HAVE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF VOLUNTEERS. |
00:03:02 | [APPLAUSE] THEY DID THAT NOW WE HAVE MORE |
00:03:07 | THAN 100,000 CONTRIBUTORS. AND THEY DID NOT KNOW THAT YOU, |
00:03:22 | OUR FELLOW OHIOANS, COULD NOT BE BOUGHT. |
00:03:23 | >> I AM PROUD TO STAND UP HERE. I BELIEVE WE LEFT IT ALL ON THE |
00:03:25 | FIELD. I CANNOT THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE |
00:03:26 | WE COULD'VE DONE TO WIN THE CAMPAIGN. |
00:03:27 | I AM PROUD OF THE EFFORT WE PUT FORTH. |
00:03:30 | I BELIEVE WE PUT FORTH EVERYTHING WE COULD IN HONOR AND |
00:03:35 | INTEGRITY. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO TELL |
00:03:39 | EVERYONE HERE THAT THIS IS NOT THE END OF THE FIGHT. |
00:03:41 | THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF A FIGHT. |
00:03:44 | THE ISSUES WE FIGHT FOR CONTINUE TONIGHT. |
00:03:55 | THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN, THOSE LONG NIGHTS, TO IN THE MORNING, |
00:04:02 | COMING TO BED, WAKING UP, WE WERE PUTTING IN THE SWEAT |
00:04:05 | BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IN SOMETHING. WE BELIEVE IN SOMETHING GREATER |
00:04:08 | THAN OUR OWN SELF INTEREST. WE BELIEVE IN ISSUES THAT AFFECT |
00:04:12 | REGULAR FAMILIES AROUND THE STATE AND COUNTRY EVERY DAY AND |
00:04:16 | WE ALSO BELIEVE IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY. |
00:04:18 | >> THIS RACE GOES DOWN AS THE MOST EXPENSIVE US SENATE RACE IN |
00:04:21 | OHIO HISTORY, AND THE FOURTH MOST EXPENSIVE SENATE RACE IN |
00:04:23 | THE COUNTRY. THE WATCHDOG SITE |
00:04:26 | OPENSECRETS.ORG REPORTS THE CANDIDATES SPENT NEARLY 32 AND |
00:04:28 | A HALF MILLION DOLLARS, WHILE OUTSIDE GROUPS SPENT MORE THAN |
00:04:31 | 36 MILLION DOLLARS, TOTALING NEARLY 69 MILLION DOLLARS IN |
00:04:35 | THAT ONE RACE. BUT OHIO'S SENATE RACE WAS |
00:04:39 | STILL BEHIND THE SENATE RACES IN WISCONSIN AND MASSACHUSETTS, |
00:04:43 | WITH THE VIRGINIA SENATE RACE THE COUNTRY'S MOST COSTLY. |
00:04:45 | OHIO ALSO SAW THE 3RD AND 7TH MOST EXPENSIVE US HOUSE RACES - |
00:04:52 | THE 8TH DISTRICT RACE, WHICH FEATURED HOUSE SPEAKER JOHN |
00:04:55 | BOEHNER AND NO DEMOCRATIC OPPONENT. |
00:04:56 | BOEHNER RAISED NEARLY 21 MILLION DOLLARS AND SPENT 20 |
00:05:01 | MILLION - CONTRIBUTING 12 MILLION TO OTHER REPUBLICAN |
00:05:05 | CANDIDATES AND COMMITTEES TO MAKE SURE HIS PARTY KEPT THE |
00:05:08 | MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE, AND THAT HE KEPT HIS JOB AS SPEAKER. |
00:05:10 | AND THERE WAS THE 16TH DISTRICT, WHICH WAS ONE OF TWO |
00:05:14 | IN THE NATION PITTING A PAIR OF INCUMBENTS AGAINST ONE ANOTHER. |
00:05:17 | IN THAT RACE, REPUBLICAN JIM RENACCI NARROWLY BEAT DEMOCRAT |
00:05:22 | BETTY SUTTON, WHICH MAKES OHIO'S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION |
00:05:25 | NOW 12 REPUBLICANS AND FOUR DEMOCRATS. |
00:05:26 | $9.8 MILLION SPENT BY OUTSIDE GROUPS. |
00:05:35 | IN THE OHIO SENATE, REPUBLICANS KEEP THEIR MAJORITY |
00:05:42 | WITH THE SAME NUMBER OF SEATS NEXT YEAR AFTER A DEMOCRAT |
00:05:45 | FENDED OFF HIS GOP CHALLENGER. STATE SEN. |
00:05:47 | LOU GENTILE, OF STEUBENVILLE, BEAT REPUBLICAN SHANE THOMPSON, |
00:05:51 | OF ST. CLAIRSVILLE, TO KEEP HIS SEAT |
00:05:52 | IN EASTERN OHIO. REPUBLICANS HOLD A 23-10 EDGE |
00:05:56 | IN THE SENATE, AND THEY WILL CONTINUE WITH THAT MARGIN NEXT |
00:05:59 | YEAR. IN THE HOUSE, IT'S STILL |
00:06:02 | UNCLEAR WHAT THE FINAL BREAKDOWN WOULD BE. |
00:06:03 | THE GOP CAME INTO THE ELECTION WITH A 59-40 MAJORITY, WITH 14 |
00:06:07 | APPOINTEES RUNNING FOR THEIR SEATS. |
00:06:09 | THOSE 14 WERE ALL RE-ELECTED, AND THE ONLY APPARENTLY LOSS |
00:06:13 | WAS CASEY KOZLOWSKI, WHO LOST TO RETIRED TEACHER JOHN |
00:06:15 | PATTERSON. TWO OTHER RACES ARE TOO CLOSE |
00:06:21 | TO CALL - REPUBLICAN MIKE DOVILLA OF BEREA IS LEADING |
00:06:23 | CHALLENGER MATT PATTEN BY 305 VOTES, AND AL LANDIS OF DOVER IS |
00:06:28 | AHEAD OF DEMOCRAT JOSHUA O'FARRELL BY 270 VOTES. |
00:06:32 | BUT DEMOCRATS EXPRESSED CONFIDENCE WEDNESDAY THAT NOT- |
00:06:37 | YET-COUNTED BALLOTS WOULD GIVE THEM THE SEATS. |
00:06:39 | IN THE OHIO SUPREME COURT RACES, THE PARTY BALANCE STAYS |
00:06:43 | THE SAME, AFTER A REPUBLICAN INCUMBENT AND A DEMOCRATIC |
00:06:47 | JUSTICE WERE KNOCKED OFF. JUSTICE ROBERT CUPP FELL TO |
00:06:51 | FORMER JUDGE BILL O'NEILL, WHO WAS ON HIS THIRD TRY TO GET ON |
00:06:56 | THE HIGH COURT. THE TWO HAD BEEN IN A BATTLE |
00:06:59 | THAT HAD GOTTEN SURPRISINGLY NASTY FOR A SUPREME COURT RACE. |
00:07:01 | AND JUSTICE YVETTE MCGEE BROWN, WHO WAS IN HER FIRST RACE FOR |
00:07:05 | HER SEAT ON THE BENCH AFTER BEING APPOINTED BY FORMER GOV. |
00:07:07 | TED STRICKLAND, WAS OUSTED BY CHALLENGER SHARON KENNEDY, WHO |
00:07:12 | HAD RECEIVED A "NOT RECOMMENDED" RATING BY THE OHIO |
00:07:14 | STATE BAR ASSOCIATION. AND BOTH THE STATEWIDE ISSUES |
00:07:18 | FAILED. ISSUE 1 WOULD HAVE CONVENED A |
00:07:21 | CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, AND STATE LAWMAKERS WERE HOPING IT |
00:07:25 | WOULDN'T PASS SO THEY COULD CONTINUE WITH AN APPOINTED |
00:07:28 | COMMISSION WHICH WILL MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS ON CHANGES TO |
00:07:30 | THE CONSTITUTION. AND THEN THERE WAS ISSUE 2, THE |
00:07:34 | PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO REVISE OHIO'S REDISTRICTING PROCESS BY |
00:07:37 | TAKING THE AUTHORITY TO DRAW DISTRICT BOUNDARIES FOR FEDERAL |
00:07:40 | AND STATE LAWMAKERS OUT OF THE HANDS OF ELECTED OFFICIALS AND |
00:07:45 | PUT IT WITH A 12 MEMBER CITIZENS COMMISSION. |
00:07:46 | OPPONENTS OF THE REDISTRICTING AMENDMENT - THE OHIO REPUBLICAN |
00:07:51 | PARTY, ALONG WITH BUSINESS AND SOCIALLY CONSERVATIVE GROUPS - |
00:07:54 | RAISED MORE THAN 7 MILLION DOLLARS TO FIGHT IT. |
00:07:55 | COALITION SPOKESMAN CARLO LOPARO SAYS EVERYONE AGREES THAT |
00:07:58 | THE MAP DRAWING PROCESS CAN BE IMPROVED, AND THIS COMPLICATED |
00:08:03 | AND CONVOLUTED ISSUE DIDN'T DO IT. |
00:08:04 | >> THE VOTERS TOOK A LOOK AT THE ISSUE AND DECIDED IT'S NOT |
00:08:12 | A BETTER SOLUTION THAN THE CURRENT PLAN. |
00:08:14 | IF WE IMPROVE THE SYSTEM, WE SHOULD AT LEAST IMPROVE THE |
00:08:17 | PART OF THE SYSTEM THAT EVERYBODY HAS A CONCERN WITH. |
00:08:19 | >> ISSUE 2 WAS BACKED BY DEMOCRATS AND UNION GROUPS AS |
00:08:23 | PART OF A COALITION CALLING ITSELF VOTERS FIRST. |
00:08:24 | SPOKESMAN BRIAN ROTHENBERG SAYS THE OTHER SIDE RAN A DECEPTIVE |
00:08:33 | CAMPAIGN, BUT IT WASN'T A WASTE. >> DID NOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. |
00:08:45 | THEY DAY WILL COME WHEN PEOPLE WILL HAVE A VOICE IN THEIR |
00:08:48 | GOVERNMENT. RELEASED THIS WEEK |
00:09:00 | BY VOTERS SHOWED>> THEY ADMITTED THERE IS A PEOPLE WILL HAVE A |
00:09:02 | VOICE IN THEIR GOVERNMENT AGAIN. SUPPORTERS WILL PRESSURE |
00:09:06 | LAWMAKERS TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS ON HOW TO CHANGE REDISTRICTING |
00:09:09 | MAPS ARE DRAWN. THE SAME WAS TRUE FOR 97 OF 99 |
00:09:11 | OHIO HOUSE DISTRICTS. THE DEFEAT OF ISSUE 2 HAS A LOT |
00:09:12 | OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT REDISTRICTING - AND WHETHER IT |
00:09:15 | SHOULD BE PART OF THE AGENDA FOR THE CONSTITUTIONAL |
00:09:16 | MODERNIZATION COMMISSION, OR IF IT SHOULD COME BEFORE THE |
00:09:19 | LEGISLATURE. TWO DAYS AFTER THE ELECTION, |
00:09:23 | THE BIG IMPACT OHIO CONFERENCE CONVENED - IT HAPPENS AFTER |
00:09:25 | EVERY BIG ELECTION, BRINGING TOGETHER SOME OF THE BEST-KNOWN |
00:09:29 | AND LONGEST-SERVING POLITICIANS, LOBBYISTS, |
00:09:30 | STRATEGISTS, JOURNALISTS AND OTHERS INVOLVED IN POLITICS. |
00:09:34 | AT A PANEL ON THURSDAY MORNING, MIKE CURTIN, RETIRED FROM THE |
00:09:39 | COLUMBUS DISPATCH, CELEBRATED HIS STATUS AS A NEWLY ELECTED |
00:09:43 | DEMOCRATIC STATE REPRESENTATIVE FROM COLUMBUS BY TAKING A |
00:09:46 | QUESTION ABOUT ISSUE 2. CURTIN HAD CAMPAIGNED FOR IT, |
00:09:50 | AND TOLD THE CROWD THAT THERE IS STILL A CHANCE THAT THE |
00:09:52 | CURRENT MAPS MAY BE THROWN OUT BECAUSE OF A COURT CASE THAT'S |
00:09:54 | STILL PENDING AND IS LIKELY TO BE RESOLVED SOON. |
00:09:56 | >> I BELIEVE THERE IS A VERY GOOD CHANCE THAT THIS OHIO |
00:10:00 | SUPREME COURT BEFORE THE YEAR IS OVER, BECAUSE |
00:10:06 | IT MUST BE BEFORE THE TERM IS UP, THAT WE HAVE AN |
00:10:11 | UNCONSTITUTIONAL MAP, AND THAT THE STATE APPORTIONMENT BOARD, |
00:10:15 | AS IT EXISTS, WILL BE SENT BACK INTO ACTION TO DROP 33 NEW |
00:10:19 | SENATE DISTRICTS AND 99 NEW HOUSE DISTRICTS, WHICH COMPORT |
00:10:24 | WITH THE CLEAR LANGUAGE OF ARTICLE 11, SECTION SEVEN. |
00:10:29 | >> REPUBLICAN SECRETARY OF STATE JON HUSTED WAS ALSO RELISHING A |
00:10:33 | FAIRLY SMOOTH ELECTION NIGHT PERFORMANCE BY THE STATE'S |
00:10:35 | ELECTIONS SYSTEM. HUSTED SAID EVEN IF THE COURT |
00:10:37 | DID THROW OUT THE MAPS, THEY WOULD BE REDRAWN BY WHAT HE |
00:10:40 | CALLS THE SAME BROKEN SYSTEM. >> I THINK THAT THE FAILURE OF |
00:10:43 | ISSUE 2 MAKES IT VERY DIFFICULT ON TWO |
00:10:51 | LEVELS TO GET ANYTHING DONE IN THE SHORT TERM. |
00:10:55 | ONE, BECAUSE BOTH SIDES SAID A LOT OF TOUGH THINGS ABOUT EACH |
00:10:59 | OTHER, AND ARE NOT GOING TO BE UNNECESSARILY -- DID NOT |
00:11:06 | NECESSARILY CREATE A CLIMATE TO GET BACK AT THE TABLE COME AND |
00:11:12 | TWO, A LOT OF FOLKS WENT OUT AND RALLY A LOT OF SUPPORTERS TO BE |
00:11:17 | IN FAVOR OF DEFEATING OR ADVOCATING IN FAVOR OF THEIR |
00:11:24 | PARTICULAR POSITION, AND IT WILL BE HARD TO GET BACK TO THE SAME |
00:11:28 | FOLKS TO SING NOW WE ARE GOING TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT. |
00:11:30 | >> BUT HUSTED SAID HE'S A BELIEVER THAT THIS WILL CHANGE |
00:11:33 | BECAUSE - QUOTING HIM HERE - IT'S AN OUTDATED PROCESS THAT |
00:11:35 | LEADS TO A TOXIC POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT. |
00:11:37 | HUSTED ALSO SUGGESTED THAT THE WAY TO DEAL WITH SOME OF THE |
00:11:40 | PROBLEMS THAT OHIO HAS FACED WITH ELECTIONS LAWS IS TO CHANGE |
00:11:43 | OHIO'S STATUS AS A KEY BATTLEGROUND STATE. |
00:11:45 | >> YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO FIX THE ELECTIONS PROCESS IN OHIO AS |
00:11:49 | LONG AS WE'RE THE MOST IMPORTANT SWING STATE |
00:11:54 | IN THE COUNTRY. THE WAY THAT YOU -- IN TERMS OF |
00:11:59 | NOT HAVING CONTROVERSY AROUND IT, WHETHER IT IS A SECRETARY OF |
00:12:04 | STATE OR WHATEVER -- IT WILL JUST NOT GO AWAY. |
00:12:06 | THE ONLY PLACES THERE WERE CONTROVERSIES ARE IN SWING |
00:12:10 | STATES, THE -- BECAUSE PEOPLE CREATE THEM INTENTIONALLY. |
00:12:14 | THE WAY THAT YOU COULD MINIMIZE THAT IS YOU COULD FIX |
00:12:18 | REDISTRICTING SO THAT WE HAVE THEIR CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS, |
00:12:22 | AND THEN YOU COULD APPORTION ALL OF OUR ELECTORAL VOTES |
00:12:25 | ACCORDING TO CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS, SO IT WOULD NOT BE A |
00:12:28 | WINNER-TAKE-ALL STATE. IF YOU DID THAT, YOU WOULD TAKE |
00:12:31 | THE IMPORTANCE OUT OHIO AND ALL THE ELECTION, WOULD GO AWAY. |
00:12:35 | >> SO WE WANT TO BECOME THE BREAST AND MAINE? |
00:12:39 | >> IF YOU WANT THE PROBLEMS TO GO AWAY, FIX REDISTRICTING, A |
00:12:45 | PORTION OHIO POSTULATE WORLD BOOK ON THE BASIS OF THOSE |
00:12:49 | CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. IT WOULD NOT BE A WINNER TAKE |
00:12:52 | ALL STATE AND YOU WOULD NOT HAVE ANOTHER ELECTION CONTROVERSY |
00:12:54 | ABOUT OHIO BECAUSE WE WOULD NOT MATTER AS MUCH ANYMORE AND WE |
00:12:58 | COULD GO BACK TO OUR NORMAL LIVES IN THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN. |
00:13:01 | >> THE PANELISTS ALSO TALKED ABOUT OTHER THINGS THEY'D LIKE |
00:13:03 | TO SEE IN THE UPCOMING GENERAL ASSEMBLY. |
00:13:05 | CURTIN DIDN'T DIRECTLY MENTION THE RESULTS OF THE OHIO SUPREME |
00:13:07 | COURT RACE, BUT HINTED AT THEM WHEN HE SAID HE'D LIKE TO |
00:13:09 | LAWMAKERS RECONSIDER MERIT SELECTION OF JUDGES - AND HE |
00:13:12 | ALSO BROUGHT UP THE EVER- POPULAR TOPIC OF TERM LIMITS. |
00:13:14 | >> I THINK THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE MAY BE THINKING DIFFERENTLY |
00:13:19 | ABOUT MERIT SELECTION TODAY THAN THEY WERE A FEW DAYS |
00:13:23 | AGO. I WAS OPPOSED TO MERIT SELECTION |
00:13:27 | 10 YEARS AGO, 15 YEARS AGO, I IMPORTED TODAY, AND I DO NOT |
00:13:32 | NEED TO EXPLAIN ALL THE REASONS WHY I THINK MERIT SELECTION IS |
00:13:35 | ON THE MOVE AND WE CAN EVENTUALLY GET THERE. |
00:13:38 | I WITH A TO SEE THE MODERNIZATION COMMISSION TACKLE |
00:13:41 | IT. TERM LIMITS, I AM NOT A |
00:13:43 | PESSIMIST. I THINK WE CAN APPEAL TERM |
00:13:46 | LIMITS. IF YOU DID A POLL TODAY TO BE |
00:13:50 | AGAINST. BUT I THINK THAT IS MISLEADING. |
00:13:54 | YOU CAN HAVE A STRONG BIPARTISAN CENSUS TO GET RID OF TERM |
00:13:57 | LIMITS. YOU CAN LIST ALMOST EVERY |
00:14:00 | ORGANIZATION IN THE ROOM THAT WOULD SUPPORT IT. |
00:14:04 | ALMOST EVERY ORGANIZATION THAT DEALS WITH THE STATE HOUSE AND |
00:14:07 | IS KNOWLEDGEABLE WOULD SUPPORT IT. |
00:14:09 | PROPER EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN WOULD WIN IT. |
00:14:11 | WE SHOULD GIVE IT A SHOCK AND NOT BE TIMID ABOUT IT. |
00:14:14 | TERM LIMITS ARE AWFUL. >> SENATE MINORITY LEADER ERIC |
00:14:20 | KEARNEY OF CINCINNATI SAID HE AGREED WITH CURTIN ON TERM |
00:14:22 | LIMITS. >> THEY'RE CONSTITUTIONAL - IF |
00:14:24 | PEOPLE WANT THEM I THINK THEY'RE TERRIBLE, BUT |
00:14:28 | PEOPLE WANT THEM, SO WE JUST HAVE TO LIVE WITHIN THAT |
00:14:31 | ENVIRONMENT. REDISTRICTING, I THINK, WOULD BE |
00:14:36 | A WONDERFUL THING IF WE COULD RESTRICT OUR STATE. |
00:14:40 | I THINK, MORE COMPETITIVE ELECTION WOULD BE BETTER FOR |
00:14:44 | EVERYONE. WITH RESPECT TO SOMETHING THAT |
00:14:49 | SECRETARY HUSTED SAID, I THINK THERE ARE THE THINGS TO BE |
00:14:56 | COULD DO TO LIMIT THE CONTROVERSIES IN OHIO. |
00:14:57 | THE ATTENTION REGARDING OHIO IS WONDERFUL FOR OUR STATE, IN |
00:15:02 | TERMS OF THE NATIONAL PRESIDENTIAL AND FEDERAL |
00:15:06 | ELECTIONS, SO THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD THING FOR US TO HAVE, BUT |
00:15:11 | MAYBE JUST ON THE LEVEL OF CONTROVERSY AND ANIMOSITY AROUND |
00:15:17 | IT. >> AND ON MERIT SELECTION OF |
00:15:19 | JUDGES, REPUBLICAN FORMER OHIO HOUSE SPEAKER JOANN DAVIDSON - |
00:15:21 | WHO'S ALSO ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL MODERNIZATION |
00:15:23 | COMMISSION - SAID IT MAY BE TIME FOR A RE-EXAMINATION OF THAT |
00:15:26 | IDEA. >> I FEEL A LITTLE LIKE MIKE |
00:15:28 | CURTIN DOES ABOUT PEROT AND EFFICIENT, |
00:15:33 | THAT PERHAPS IT IS TIME TO HAVE ANOTHER GOOD DISCUSSION. |
00:15:37 | OUR FORMER IT CHIEF JUSTICE IS DEDICATED TO THAT, MADE SOME |
00:15:40 | STRONG ARGUMENTS. I HAVE BEEN PRETTY MUCH OPPOSED |
00:15:44 | TO MERIT SELECTION, THINKING IN THE TO BE PART OF THE SYSTEM, |
00:15:48 | BUT I THINK IT IS WORTH DUSTING IT OFF. |
00:15:52 | I HOPE THE MODERNIZATION COMMISSION TAKES ANOTHER LOOK AT |
00:15:54 | IT. >> BUT KEARNEY IS SKEPTICAL. |
00:15:56 | >> TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, I'M A LITTLE BIT HESITANT |
00:15:58 | , RELUCTANT ABOUT MERIT SELECTION BECAUSE I DO NOT KNOW |
00:16:05 | HOW, FOR INSTANCE, MINORITIES MIGHT DO IN TERMS OF SELECTIONS. |
00:16:11 | I SAY THAT WITH THE REALIZATION THAT JUSTICE BROWN, |
00:16:16 | UNFORTUNATELY, LOST. BUT I DO NOT KNOW THAT THINGS |
00:16:20 | WOULD BE BETTER NECESSARILY WITH A MERIT SELECTION COMMITTEE. |
00:16:22 | >> AFTER THE LAWSUITS, THE LONG LINES AT VOTING SITES, THE FEARS |
00:16:25 | OF TROUBLE ON ELECTION NIGHT, AND ALL THE REPORTS ABOUT |
00:16:27 | ACCESS TO VOTING IN OHIO, THE TOPIC OF ELECTION LAW CHANGES |
00:16:30 | TURNED OUT TO BE A HOT ONE. CURTIN SUGGESTED THE |
00:16:34 | LEGISLATURE MAKE NO BIG CHANGES FOR A FEW YEARS. |
00:16:36 | >> MY PROPOSAL, UNLESS WE CAN GET STRONG, STRONG BIPARTISAN |
00:16:42 | AGREEMENT ON SOME TWEAKS, THAT WE AGREE TO NOT DO ANY |
00:16:50 | SUBSTANTIVE REFORM OF ELECTION LAW VOTING PROCEDURES THAT WOULD |
00:16:53 | TAKE EFFECT BEFORE 2016. WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A TIMEOUT, |
00:16:59 | WE ARE OR TO BE METHODICAL. IF WE HAVE AN EASY SLAM DUNKS TO |
00:17:02 | AGREE UPON, LET'S DO THEM. BUT IF IT IS A SUBSTANTIVE THING |
00:17:06 | LED FRIDAY, IF IT IS A SUBSTANTIVE THING LIKE HOW MANY |
00:17:11 | DAYS WE ARE GOING TO HAVE EARLY VOTING, BUT THE SUITORS WILL BE |
00:17:16 | FOR UNIFORMITY AND ALL THE COUNTIES, LET'S SAY WE WILL MAKE |
00:17:19 | AN EARLY AGREEMENT NOT TO DECIDE THIS QUICKLY. |
00:17:21 | WE WILL DECIDE THIS SLOWLY. WHATEVER DECISION WE COME TO |
00:17:25 | WILL BE IN EFFECT FOR 2016 AND NOT 2014. |
00:17:28 | >> BUT KEARNEY FELT OTHERWISE, SAYING THERE ARE CONCERNS ABOUT |
00:17:31 | CONSISTENCY AND CLEAR DIRECTION FOR VOTERS AND FOR POLL WORKERS. |
00:17:33 | >> IN TERMS OF WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO GOING FORWARD |
00:17:40 | , I THINK, WE NEED CLEAR RULES THAT ARE COMMUNICATED AT THE |
00:17:53 | LOWEST LEVEL FROM POLL WORKERS ON UP. |
00:17:54 | WORK ON THE TRUST ISSUES THAT, I THINK, WE HAVE IN THE |
00:17:56 | LEGISLATURE AND BETWEEN THE PARTIES. |
00:17:57 | >> BUT HUSTED SAID THERE'S BLAME ON BOTH SIDES. |
00:17:58 | >> REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ARE JUST AS GUILTY ON THESE ISSUES |
00:18:00 | . ON THE ISSUE OF SUPPRESSION, ONE |
00:18:06 | SIDE, FRAUD, THE OTHER. THEY EXAGGERATE THE |
00:18:11 | CIRCUMSTANCES AS A CAUSE TO GET THE POLICIES THEY WANT TO |
00:18:13 | BENEFIT THE OUTCOME THAT THEY WANT. |
00:18:16 | NEED CLEAR RULES THAT ARE COMMUNICATED AT THE |
00:18:19 | LOWEST LEVEL FROM POLL WORKERS ON UP. |
00:18:20 | WORK ON THE TRUST ISSUESAND THAE IN DEMOCRACY IN THE MOST |
00:18:23 | IMPORTANT STATE IN THE COUNTRY, AND IT HAS TO STOP, AND OUR |
00:18:29 | LEADERS -- LEADERS NEED TO LEAD. THEY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY IN THIS |
00:18:34 | LAME DUCK, BOTH MAJORITY AND MINORITY, TO BE LEADERS, AND I |
00:18:38 | HOPE THEY WILL. >> THE SUBJECT OF THE OHIO |
00:18:39 | SUPREME COURT RACES WAS A TOPIC OF INTEREST THE DAY AFTER THE |
00:18:40 | ELECTION WITH OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIR CHRIS REDFERN. |
00:18:42 | REDFERN, WHO WAS ELECTED TO HIS OLD SEAT IN THE OHIO HOUSE ON |
00:18:45 | TUESDAY, SAID ONE OF HIS FIRST ACTS AS A LEGISLATOR IN JANUARY |
00:18:47 | WILL BE TO INTRODUCE LEGISLATION THAT WOULD REQUIRE |
00:18:51 | PARTY LABELS ON THE CANDIDATES ON THE BALLOT FOR JUDICIAL |
00:18:55 | POSITIONS. JUDICIAL CANDIDATES RUN IN |
00:18:59 | PARTISAN PRIMARIES, BUT DO NOT HAVE PARTY LABELS ON THE BALLOT |
00:19:02 | IN THE GENERAL ELECTION. BACK AT THE IMPACT OHIO |
00:19:05 | CONFERENCE, THE ATTENDEES HEARD FROM ONE OF THE TOP LEADERS IN |
00:19:08 | THE OHIO SENATE, WHO HINTED AT WHAT MIGHT ACTUALLY BE ON THE |
00:19:12 | AGENDA FOR THE UPCOMING SESSION. PRESIDENT PRO TEM KEITH FABER |
00:19:15 | OF CELINA, WHO IS PRESUMED TO BE THE NEXT SENATE PRESIDENT, |
00:19:17 | SAID LAWMAKERS MIGHT - IN HIS WORDS - TAKE A STAB AT |
00:19:22 | REDISTRICTING REFORM, OR AT LEAST ASK THE CONSTITUTIONAL |
00:19:25 | MODERNIZATION COMMISSION TO CONSIDER IT. |
00:19:26 | BUT HE DID SAY SENATORS WOULD NOT BE RAISING TAXES AND WOULD |
00:19:29 | CONTINUE WITH REGULATORY REFORM AND STREAMLINING GOVERNMENT. |
00:19:32 | AND HE SAID THEY'D BE LOOKING AT BILLS THAT FALL INTO THREE |
00:19:36 | CATEGORIES: JOB CREATION, GROWING THE ECONOMY, OR MAKING |
00:19:40 | STATE GOVERNMENT RUN MORE EFFICIENTLY. |
00:19:43 | >> WE ARE LOOKING AT TAX REFORM . |
00:19:47 | I BELIEVE WE WILL DO AN AGGRESSIVE LOOK AT THE OHIO TAX |
00:19:53 | CODE AND FIND OPPORTUNITIES TO STREAMLINE AND SIMPLIFY OUR TAX |
00:19:58 | CODE. NOW, WHEN I SAY TAX REFORM, I |
00:20:01 | WILL GIVE YOU A BIT PART AS TO WHAT THAT MEANS TO ME. |
00:20:04 | WHAT I BELIEVE IT MEANS TO THE GOVERNOR AND THE HOUSE AS WELL. |
00:20:07 | I BELIEVE TAX REFORM MEANS, AT MINIMUM, REVENUE NEUTRAL AND |
00:20:12 | POSSIBLY REVENUE ACCRUED TO THE TAXPAYER. |
00:20:16 | SIMPLY PUT, YOU CANNOT DO TAX INCREASES, CLOSE TAX REFORM, AND |
00:20:20 | EXPECT THAT TO BE SOMETHING THE LEGISLATURE WILL SUPPORT. |
00:20:30 | SECOND, I BELIEVE WE ARE LOOKING AT BOTH HIGHER ED AND K-12 |
00:20:39 | SCHOOL FUNDING REFORM PROPOSALS. IN THAT GUISE, I WILL TELL YOU |
00:20:40 | THAT EVERYBODY IS CONCERNED, WHAT EVER WE DO WITH SCHOOL |
00:20:42 | FUNDING REFORM DOES NOT SIMPLY MEAN MORE. |
00:20:43 | IT NEEDS TO BE AN IMPROVEMENT, NOT JUST PUTTING MORE ON TOP OF |
00:20:44 | A PROGRAM AND A SYSTEM THAT PEOPLE HAVE CAUSED, FRANKLY |
00:20:50 | CONCERNED, ABOUT ITS EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFECTIVENESS |
00:20:56 | IN OHIO. WE HAVE OPPORTUNITIES IN |
00:20:59 | EDUCATION. WE HAVE OPPORTUNITIES AND HIGHER |
00:21:01 | EDUCATION REALM, COMMUNITY COLLEGES, AND K-12, BUT THOSE |
00:21:04 | OPPORTUNITIES NEED TO BE MET WITH BENCHMARKS AND EQUITY IN |
00:21:10 | OUR FUNDING PROGRAM TO MAKE SURE WE ARE FUNDING IT NEEDS TO BE |
00:21:13 | FUNDED, NOT FUNDING THINGS THAT ARE NOT ADDING TO THE IMPROVED |
00:21:16 | QUALITY NECESSARY IN OUR SCHOOL SYSTEMS. |
00:21:17 | >> HOUSE SPEAKER BILL BATCHELDER DIDN'T ADDRESS THE CROWD EARLY |
00:21:21 | IN THE DAY, INSTEAD SENDING HIS SPOKESMAN MIKE DITTOE, WHO TOLD |
00:21:23 | THE AUDIENCE THAT THE HOUSE WILL BE FACING A BUSY AGENDA. |
00:21:25 | >> IT'LL BE ANOTHER AGGRESSIVE SESSION, NO DOUBT |
00:21:28 | . WE DO HAVE A CHANGE IN |
00:21:34 | LEADERSHIP IN OUR CAUCUS. WE WILL HAVE ONE ADDITIONAL |
00:21:39 | MEMBER OF -- NEW MEMBER TO LEADERSHIP. |
00:21:42 | WE WILL BE DISCUSSING ELECTION THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS IN OUR |
00:21:46 | CAUCUS. IT BE AN EXCITING YEAR. |
00:21:48 | WE HAVE A LOT OF NEW PEOPLE COMING IN. |
00:21:51 | I KNOW OUR ENTIRE CAUCUS IS EXCITED ABOUT IT. |
00:21:54 | DESPITE WHAT YOU MIGHT CALL ANOTHER WAVE ELECTION FOR |
00:21:59 | DEMOCRATS NATIONWIDE, AND IN SOME AREAS OF OHIO, WE ARE |
00:22:02 | EXCITED TO SAY THE LEGISLATURE HAS STAYED RELATIVELY CLOSE TO |
00:22:06 | THE SAME, MAYBE EVEN EXPAND UPON THAT FOR OUR CAUCUS. |
00:22:08 | >> WE HOPE TO BRING YOU MORE ABOUT WHAT'S AHEAD ON THE |
00:22:13 | AGENDAS OF BOTH THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE IN OUR YEAR END |
00:22:14 | INTERVIEWS COMING UP IN A FEW WEEKS. |
00:22:15 | BEFORE THE POLLS CLOSED AND THE RETURNS STARTED ROLLING IN, I |
00:22:19 | SAT DOWN WITH TWO VETERAN STRATEGISTS TO LOOK BACK ON |
00:22:23 | ELECTION 2012 AND TO TALK ABOUT THEIR IMPRESSIONS. |
00:22:25 | MIKE DAWSON WAS A TOP AIDE AND SPOKESMAN FOR GOV. |
00:22:28 | AND THEN SEN. GEORGE VOINOVICH. HE'S NOW A REPUBLICAN |
00:22:31 | CONSULTANT. GREG HAAS WAS THE OHIO |
00:22:35 | COORDINATED CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR FOR THE CLINTON/GORE CAMPAIGN |
00:22:38 | IN 1992 AND HAS WORKED FOR GOV. RICHARD CELESTE AND US TREASURER |
00:22:41 | MARY ELLEN WITHROW. HE'S NOW THE CHAIR OF THE |
00:22:44 | FRANKLIN COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY. |
00:22:45 | HERE'S PART OF OUR CONVERSATION, DURING WHICH I ASKED THEM TO |
00:22:48 | RATE THE STRENGTHS THEY SAW IN THE OPPOSING CAMPAIGN - AND THE |
00:22:53 | WEAKNESSES OF THE CAMPAIGN OF THE CANDIDATE THEY SUPPORTED. |
00:22:55 | >> WELL, I THINK THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN HAS SOME OF THE BEST |
00:22:59 | OPERATIVES FOR DEMOCRATS IN THE STATE OF |
00:23:05 | OHIO, PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN HERE FOR A LONG TIME, THOUGH THE |
00:23:08 | STATE WELL. HOT KNOW THAT YOU HAVE TO WIN IN |
00:23:11 | ALL 88 COUNTIES -- TRIED TO WIN IN ALL 88 COUNTIES. |
00:23:13 | I THINK THEY HAVE DONE A GOOD JOB. |
00:23:16 | >> GREG, WHAT WERE THE STRENGTH OF THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN BROUGHT |
00:23:21 | TO OHIO? >> THEY DEFINITELY HAD A GOOD |
00:23:23 | MESSAGE CAMPAIGN, IN TERMS OF -- KIND OF -- BLURRING SOME OF THE |
00:23:32 | IMPACT OF THE AUTO BAILOUT, SOME OTHER THINGS. |
00:23:35 | I THINK THEY DID A GOOD JOB -- OBVIOUSLY, NOT JUST AN OHIO |
00:23:41 | THING -- BUT THE GOVERNOR DID A GOOD JOB IN THE FIRST DEBATE, |
00:23:44 | REDEFINING HIMSELF. I WOULD PUT MOST OF THE FOCUS ON |
00:23:52 | THE MESSAGE. >> PRESIDENT OBAMA HAD BEEN |
00:23:57 | LEADING IN OHIO FOR QUITE AWHILE. |
00:23:58 | THEN GOVERNOR ROMNEY CAUGHT UP. RIGHT NOW, THE RACE IS PRETTY |
00:24:02 | MUCH NECK-AND-NECK. WHAT COULD PRESIDENT OBAMA HAVE |
00:24:06 | DONE DIFFERENTLY, DO YOU FEEL? >> I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A MORE |
00:24:12 | DELIBERATE MESSAGE ON THE IMPACT OF THE AUTO BAILOUT AS IT |
00:24:15 | RELATED TO COMPANIES OTHER THAN GM AND CHRYSLER. |
00:24:21 | I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HOW THAT IMPACTED ON THE, FORD, NON-UNION |
00:24:29 | AND MANUFACTURERS AROUND THE STATE. |
00:24:30 | EVERYBODY PLEADED WITH FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH, AND THEN |
00:24:35 | PRESIDENT OBAMA -- FOR THE BAILOUT. |
00:24:38 | THEY MADE IT CLEAR IF CHRYSLER AND GM GO, THE DEMAND FOR AUTO |
00:24:43 | PARTS WOULD COLLAPSE, AND WE WOULD BE GONE, TOO. |
00:24:45 | >> GOVERNOR ROMNEY HAD A BIG PUSH TOWARDS THE END, STARTED TO |
00:24:50 | RIDE A WAVE IN OHIO. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE HIM |
00:24:54 | DO DIFFERENTLY? >> FIRST OF ALL, I AGREE, THE |
00:24:58 | DEBATE WAS A KEY TURNING POINT IN THE CAMPAIGN. |
00:25:00 | MOST EXPERTS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE IN OHIO BELIEVE OBAMA |
00:25:04 | WAS SIGNIFICANTLY AHEAD BEFORE THE FIRST DEBATE. |
00:25:08 | THE FIRST DEBATE WAS A GAME CHANGER. |
00:25:10 | YOU ALWAYS WONDER WHAT YOU COULD HAVE DONE, BUT I THINK BOTH |
00:25:18 | CAMPAIGNS ARE HAPPY. >> FRANKLIN COUNTY WILL BE A |
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