Republican Ohio Governor Calls Special Session to Get Biden on November Ballot
Maybe the DNC should check every state’s ballot certification deadline.
Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine called for a special session of the General Assembly to get President Joe Biden on the ballot.
Ohio’s ballot certification deadline is August 7.
The Democratic National Convention is August 19-22, and the party formally nominates Biden as its nominee.
That means Biden wouldn’t be on Ohio’s ballot.
“Ohio is running out of time to get Joe Biden, the sitting President of the United States, on the ballot this fall,” said DeWine. “Failing to do so is simply unacceptable. This is ridiculous. This is (an) absurd situation.”
Maybe the DNC should check every state’s ballot certification deadline.
The special session should happen on Tuesday. From WBNS:
The question of whether Biden will appear on the ballot has become entangled in a partisan legislative fight to keep foreign money out of state ballot campaigns, a year after cash tied to a Swiss billionaire boosted a successful effort to enshrine abortion rights in the solidly red state’s constitution.
The Democratic National Convention, where Biden is to be formally nominated, falls after Ohio’s ballot deadline of Aug. 7. The convention will be held Aug. 19-22 in Chicago.
Since Ohio changed its certification deadline from 60 to 90 days ahead of the general election, state lawmakers have had to adjust the requirement twice, in 2012 and 2020, to accommodate candidates of both parties. Each change was only temporary.
This year lawmakers were unable to come up with a fix by the May 9 cutoff set by Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose.
DeWine said he spoke to LaRose on Thursday and he said we’re “up against a wall.” LaRose told him next Wednesday is the drop-dead deadline.
“I’ve waited. I’ve been patient. And my patience has run out,” DeWine said.
DeWine said his proclamation will allow for passing a Senate version of the bill that also bans foreign nationals from contributing to Ohio ballot measures.
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Fuck the democrats: if they can’t sort their shit out then so be it. They did this to themselves.
Nah. Never let a crisis go to waste.
Democrats are in a huge bind.
Agree to the one time change,
BUT
They need to agree with school vouchers equal to 80% of what is spent per child.
Biden should be on the ballot.
There are too many ways for Dems to break any promises they make. They screwed up and they should suffer the consequences. Let them write in Quisling Joe..
Would you say the same if Trump made the same mistake and didn’t get on the ballot?
Flip it around the other way, so you think Democrats would be so accommodating for Republicans?
😂😂😂
Do unto them what they would do unto you.
So yeah, my heart bleeds purple piss for Democrats 😂
That’s the ticket, Charlie. Lucy will let you kick the ball this time.
There’s a good reason why Melania refuses to sleep in the same bed and the same bedroom as Donald Trump. She is a beautiful and classy woman, but Trump is a whore monger, who prefers slutty porn stars with sexually transmitted diseases. Good for Melania for refusing to be part of his sordid life.
Jr you are totally off subject there.
I get that you hate Trump, lots do, but if you do want to compare the morality of the two top contenders actually compare them, don’t complain about the motes in T’s eye whilst ignoring the tree trunks in B’s eye.
I’m thinking specifically of Brandon’s known proclivity to sniff underage girls and (by his own daughter’s account) take naked showers with same.
Glass houses, B…….
Whereas Dr. Jill is happy to share a bed with a pedophile…
And apparently she’s fine with her sisters “loving” Joe when she doesn’t. At least according to Joe.
WTF are you on about now?
The fact that you’re in a sexless marriage with your right hand, leaving you constantly focused on Donald Trump’s sex life, has nothing to do with this post.
We all know you have a crush on Trump and want to take Melania’s place in his bed… but it’s not going to happen… just deal
Part of running for office is following the rules to get on the ballot. If Quisling Joe can’t manage that then he shouldn’t be on the ballot.
Most likely President Trump snores which makes it hard for his wife to sleep. Only a progressive fascist would try to use this to make a personal attack. You’re sickening!
Why don’t to try to improve the quality of your Dear Leaders? Crooked Hillary, Obama the Liar and Quisling Joe are lying scum. Somehow you can support them without criticism while pretending to care about Republicans!
Why can’t you demand that they stop lying?
Obama promised that people could keep their insurance while he and Grubber were writing the regulations that forced insurance companies to break his promise! When asked about his lie he laughed and said that we were too stupid to realize he was lying
We don’t have to, he’s not a retard.
JR,
The problem with the ‘whataboutism’ argument you make is this date for certification is a well KNOWN issue. The DNC and the Biden campaign knew the dates for certification for each of the States. Instead of opting to comply with KNOWN deadline they simply proceeded to act as if these deadlines didn’t matter or were not applicable to them.
Each State can set the rules for the elections they run. Congress could always act to override these dates and set a uniform certification date for Federal elections or just for Presidential elections. The Biden WH could ask Speaker Johnson nicely and as the Speaker of the House he might throw his support and the support of the GoP HoR majority behind the Federal legislation to disk which would preempt State Statutes. That is the real solution; political officeholders with the authority to do so acting to issue a political remedy and not the CT jumping in. Certainly not a Gov bending over backwards with a special legislative session to benefit one candidate.
The true problem here IMO is that the Ohio legislature already considered the issue and chose not to act to make a fix during the regular legislative session. My own State of Alabama had a similar certification deadline of 82 days prior to the election but in regular session they made a temporary change for the due date to 77 days prior to accommodate the very late DNC nominating convention schedule…just as they did in 2020 for the Trump and the GoP Nominating convention also held in Aug. Both major policy parties are aware of the potential problem.
Here the Ohio legislature refused to act in regular session and DeWine, after PO the GoP base with his veto and after he riled up many members with his botched handling of the East Palestine derailment and toxic spill is calling the legislature into SPECIAL session. Then he arrogantly chides them about him ‘losing patience’? If I was a member of the Ohio legislature that alone would would cause me to vote no on this or any other damn thing the Gov arrogantly demanded, eff that crap. He.already failed to garner support for a fix with his crappy attitude. Maybe he should have chosen to support house bill 68 instead of folding to the transgender mob and d/prog and issuing a VETO? Horse trading is the name of the game and DeWine doesn’t seem to have any horses to trade and he certainly isn’t offering any up as yet. Catching fly requires honey not vinegar.
Yes, I would. Democrats know full well when the cut off lines in every state are and if they can’t or won’t meet them then screw them. We saw multiple states try to keep Trump off the ballots, this is a self inflicted wound. Have it happen once and it would not happen again.
It’s not Biden’s mistake, it’s the Democrat party’s mistake for arrogantly ignoring Ohio law when they scheduled their convention.
Whilst I get that position, there’s a quote from “Man for all seasons” I’m reminded of. About selling your soul but settling for a payout of Wales instead of The World,
We (conservatives) WANT Biden on the Ballot.
We don’t want another election decided by intervention of SCOTUS.
The way to play this is fix the Dem screwup whilst mocking them AS screwups. It’s funny because it’s true. And the Devil hates being mocked.
It would be wicked funny if the DNC did in fact dump Biden for someone else during the convention, and Biden’s name still had to appear on Ohio’s ballot because of this.
They’re the ones who screwed up publick edumakashun. They should suffer.
Friends in Ohio tell me dewine is dem moderate even though he’s an R on ballots.
Do the dems run dem light candidates in the repub primaries?
Ohio is safe for Trump and any other Republican so for Democrats to win Ohio it really would take every Republican willing to run dying at the same time.
What this shows is how arrogant the Democrats are in not thinking they need to follow rules or even know the rules.
If the governor did not do this the supreme court would just order Ohio to put Biden on the ballot so it isn’t unreasonable to want to avoid that.
“What this shows is how arrogant the Democrats are in not thinking they need to follow rules or even know the rules.”
Why should they? Democrats always get on the ballot despite any of the rules, and even despite Republican objections based on the incontrovertible rules. It’s called the Torricelli Exception.
Well off the top of my head arrogant people have a tendency to do their jobs poorly and create a negative work culture that rots the entire structure.
I am glad for Democrats to suck in Ohio, if they want to suck badly I would be glad to give them a hand.
It is still worth noting they suck.
Just an interesting contrast. You posit that the Supreme Court would rush [if you are lucky it still takes quite a bit of time to get on their docket] to get Biden on the Ohio ballot. Yet that same Supreme Court could not be bothered to respond to allegations of nationwide vote fraud that installed Biden in 2020.
Subotai Bahadur
Supreme Court only deals in cases actually brought to them. Nobody alleged voter fraud to them which means they could not have taken up a case that was never brought.
The Dems were able to change the ballot regulations to make it impossible to detect cheating.
Gov DeWine is a very good example of how the chamber of commerce brand GoP operates. This is why the libertarian and populist brands within the GoP should assert themselves to preclude more establishment GoP self inflicted wounds. The establishment GoP types can’t seem to stop themselves from simping for d/prog.
Whatever label one gives these pukes — “Chamber of Commerce”-type Republican; “RINO;” “cuckservative;” — they are worse than worthless. “Simping” is accurate. Always bending over backwards, to accommodate the Dhimmi-crats and to facilitate their agenda. They are a disgrace.
How would you like it if I referred to Trump supporters as “Trump cock conservatives”. Not that there is anything wrong with that, of course. But Trump and his supporters here on LI are always bending over backwards. Maybe they just want a back rub. Who am I to judge?
How do you think Powerline feels about gay jokes in the LI comments, JR? Maybe they’ll quote it again.
Your comment is asinine and childish. I mean, grow up, man.
I supported DeSantis in the primaries; he’s out of the race. Now, I unequivocally support President Trump. Given Biden’s and the Dhimmi-crats’ totally lawless, destructive, callous and insane agenda and policies already enacted, I think that’s the appropriate posture for rational conservatives to take.
Your obsession with expressing your anti-Trump animus at every opportunity is infantile and foolish. If you’re not supporting President Trump, that’s fine, but, we don’t need to to constantly listen to you whine about it.
Are you in your 70’s, as you have advertised, or are you actually a sexually-frustrated 15 year old?
This post is disgraceful even for you. And that’s saying a lot.
“Trump cock conservatives”.
Is that the BEST you can come up with?
We get called worse than that on a daily basis.
Now toddle off, progtard.
Your inflatable Biden doll is not going to patch all of those holes your needle dick left in it by itself.
Your homophobia finally comes out and it is disgusting. When are we going to get treated to black or Jew jokes? Know any good ones about Pollocks?
It’s ‘Polack’
‘Pollack’ is a fish or a crappy artist.
Speaking as a Polack– How many Polacks does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Two- but they have to be really small.
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Democrats pervert the rule of law with republic ending lawfare and the republican establishment response is to bend over backwards to relieve them of the burden of actually complying with the law? WTF??
That abortion constitutional measure saved the state for Republicans. Women vote abortion first of all and if it’s in doubt they vote Democrat.
My wife votes pro life first of all. As do her sisters, her mother, my sister, and my mother. I’m sorry that you only know such low quality women.
There are a many women with intelligence and integrity that can see through the repulsive democrat exploitation and push for no-limit abortion. But, to our national shame, there is a also a demographic(s) out there that support all abortion all the time, or is just too stupid and/or lazy to question these planned parenthood sponsored state amendments for unlimited abortion. Whatever it is, just say “abortion” and they vote democrat like abused dogs in a Pavlov experiment.
Woman here…,who the hell do you think you are saying such a moronic and frankly insulting thing about women. Let me set you straight right here and now….real women do NOT only think about and vote for being able to kill their babies. Did you get that little gem from MSNBC or something. We actually vote for what will result in better lives for our children. You’re an utter jackass …keep your ignorance to yourself.
Democrats: fighting to get Trump tossed from the ballot illegally
Republicans: fighting to get Biden on the ballot after missing it legally
The state of the two parties in a microcosm.
One fights dirty, one surrenders preemptively.
You’re being much too kind, to both parties.
There are a lot of women with intelligence and integrity that can see through the repulsive democrat exploitation and push for no-limit abortion. But, to our national shame, there is a also a demographic(s) out there that support all abortion all the time, or is just too stupid and/or lazy to question these planned parenthood sponsored state amendments for unlimited abortion. Whatever it is, just say “abortion” and they vote democrat like abused dogs in a Pavlov experiment.
Mistakenly replied to the wrong comment, would like to delete but can’t so reposted above
THE DNC KNOWS THE DEADLINES
YOU GOT FOOLED AGAIN
THEY WANTED THE ATTACK BY THE GOP
so the Dems can say
look they are trying to hurt poc voting by keeping biden off the ballot
by any means necessary
Why is DeWine lifting a finger to help vile, dim-witted, ornery, incompetent and destructive crime boss, Biden, and, the Dhimmi-crats?
A few months ago, DeWine vetoed a Ohio House bill protecting kids from “trans” abuse/mutilation/exploitation/manipulation. This guy is utterly despicable and worthless.
One can only presume that through these stupid antics he’s auditioning to join MSNBC or a Dhimmi-crat-staffed venture capital firm, post-office.
Because he’s a TransRepublican. A Democrat who identifies as a Republican. I think the GOP in the legislature pretty much ignores him these days, but I may be mistaken on that.
I went to web search to find out his position on guns. I was quite surprised to find that DeWine is an exception to L Neil Smith’s ‘Vulcan Mind Meld” metric. Signing constitutional carry, arming teachers… but a mixed bag, also containing red flag advocacy and private sale background checks. Not your typical chamber-of-commerce R, but far from MAGA.
It seems like 90 days was not a good idea.
Find me a Democrat governor that would do the same for Trump or frankly any Republican.
Once again, the Dem’s fail to follow the rules. Nobody did this to them but themselves. Once again, gutless Republicans give them a life line.
There go those Republicans threatening Our Democracy yet again. /s
DeWine is a demonrat. The R’s are infested with them, especially Ohio. The decline of the R’s began at Kent State. I grew up in Cleveland. There plenty of good conservatives in the local, state and federal government. However they are hampered by this infestation. FJB
If Biden were not put on the ballot in Ohio, it would ultimately end up at the Supreme Court before this year’s election.
To steal a phrase, WWSCUSA do?*
*What would the Supreme Court of The United States do?
The Constitution is pretty clear: “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors…” It’s the state Legislatures’ Constitutional responsibility, not the Governor’s nor the courts’, to direct the manner in which Electors are appointed. That includes the ballot deadline.
And, as we saw in the Torricelli/Lautenberg fiasco (link above), even when the state legislature clearly forbids such an action, SCOTUS can and has green-lit it anyway.
Usually referred to as SCOTUS not SCUSA. I doubt SCOTUS would do anything as it is clearly the States responsibility under the Constitution. There is nothing stopping people from writing in Biden’s name if it comes to that.
But that’s Publicly-Schooled Voter Suppression!
DeWine is a retarded twerp. The democrats are working their hardest to illegally have Trump thrown off of every ballot they can think of and DeWine is working overtime to help the Dems solve problems of their own making.
DeWine disgusts me. He is midget pond scum.
This is one of the most GOP things ever. The communists fuck up and the “””opposition””” bails them out.
Can’t we just create a new party called the activists? This guy has no responsibility to coddle the democrats or republicans, but here we are.
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I agree that the Ohio legislature should amend the deadline to make sure Biden is on the ballot — but it should make it conditional on Trump being on all 51 ballots; if there is one ballot from which Trump is excluded, then Ohio should exclude Biden.
Outstanding idea. Use the leverage given (for once).