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"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
--Edmund Burke
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Election March 2012
CHESCA Members,
Please review the list of candidates for your consideration on Tuesday, March 6, 2012. Here is the CHESCA PAC endorsed candidates for the March 2012 Primary election. The endorsed candidates are all on the Republican ballot, as there were no suitable candidates on the Democratic ballot.Rick Santorum, Republican President of the United States (home schooling dad)
Josh Mandel, Republican US Senator
Hombre Liggett, Republican US 7th Congressional District
Marisha G. Agana, Republican US 13th Congressional District
Jim Rennacci, Republican US 16th Congressional District
Robert R. Cupp, Republican Supreme Court 1-2-13
Jeanette Moll, Republican Court of Appeals 5th Dist. 2-11-13
Beth A. Williams, Rep. State Central Committee Woman 29th
Monique Moore, Republican State Rep. 49th Dist.
Christina M. Hagan, Republican State Rep. 50th Dist.
Lawrence A. Dordea, Republican Sheriff
Mark A. Butterworth, Republican County Recorder
Alexander A. Zumbar, Republican County Treasurer
Richard Regula, Republican County Comm. 1-3-13
Todays outcome wil not end GOP race New process focuses on winning delgates, not states
By Laura A. Bischoff, Columbus Bureau Updated 9:54 AM Tuesday, March 6, 2012
COLUMBUS ? Regardless of what happens in today?s Super Tuesday contests, the race for the Republican presidential nomination will not be buttoned up by the time the polls close and votes are counted.
Not even close.
Although it may feel like this presidential race has been dragging on, it still has a long way to go. To seize the nomination, the winner needs 1,144 delegates and the GOP front-runner in the delegate race, Mitt Romney, only has 118 delegates so far, according to a Republican Party tally.
A whopping 424 delegates are up for grabs today in the 10 Super Tuesday states, including 66 in Ohio. But even if Romney managed to sweep the 10 states, he wouldn?t necessarily pick up all the delegates because of a new GOP system.
New party rules penalize states that schedule early primaries and caucuses or that stick with winner-take-all formats for awarding delegates. States that break the rules get docked half of their delegates.
?The whole dynamic has shifted. It?s not about winning states. It?s about winning delegates,? said Christopher Maloney, spokesman for the Ohio Republican Party.
?It was designed to drag out the primary process so it wouldn?t end in South Carolina ... You wouldn?t have a presumptive nominee after the first few states voted,? said former Ohio GOP Chairman Bob Bennett, who sits on the Republican National Committee?s panel that worked on delegate-selection rules.
Ohio is following the new rules and switched to awarding a portion of its delegates based on which presidential contender wins in each of the 16 congressional districts.
This means Ohio?s primary is like 16 mini-elections, with three delegates awarded in each of the state?s 16 congressional districts. There are 15 at-large Ohio delegates that will be awarded through a formula based on the popular vote. Meanwhile, three other unpledged delegates ? high-level party officials like Ohio Republican Party Chairman Kevin DeWine ? can support the candidate of their choosing.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is ineligible to win as many as 16 of the 48 proportionally allocated delegates in Ohio. He can?t win congressional district delegates in three districts and he fielded an incomplete delegate slate in another six, Maloney said. The only Dayton-area district where Santorum filed a full slate is the new 1st District, which includes Warren County and part of Hamilton County.
Because of the delegate issue, Santorum could win the popular vote and still lose out on a majority of the 66 delegates. Voters throughout the state will cast two votes ? one for a candidate?s at-large delegates and a second for the candidate?s congressional district or proportional delegates. In the three districts where Santorum did not field delegates, voters can cast a ballot for him only in the at-large category.
He does have a small out: If he wins congressional districts where he didn?t run a full slate, the Ohio GOP Central Committee could decide to award him all the delegates in those districts.
Santorum didn?t make the ballot at all in Virginia and failed to submit a full slate in Tennessee so he is ineligible to capture 16 percent of the 391 pledged delegates.
According to the Romney campaign, this spells trouble for Santorum. ?The bottom line is the Santorum campaign goes into Super Tuesday severely hobbled by his lack of organization and planning, and systemic problems will only continue to plague him ... .,? said Rich Beeson, Romney?s political director, in a memo.
Florida, Michigan, Arizona, South Carolina and New Hampshire did not follow the GOP rules, so they?ll lose half of their delegates that would normally be seated at the Republican National Convention in Tampa in August.
The new system also draws out the process and allows underdog candidates a chance to compete. Michigan illustrates the point: It broke a GOP rule and held an early primary, but included proportional allocation. So Michigan went from 59 delegates to 30, and Santorum and Romney walked away with 15 each ? although a last-minute reinterpretation of the rules gave 14 to Santorum and 16 to Romney.
Some of the largest states ? California, Texas, New York and Pennsylvania ? aren?t scheduled for their primaries until April and June. Combined, those four states will award 494 delegates.
Bennett predicted that Super Tuesday will give Republicans a good read on who will be the likely nominee, and he argued that the drawn-out selection process is healthy for the GOP.
Ohioans for Educational Freedom wins seats on the SBE!
Thursday, February 10, 2011 - Ohioans For Educational Freedom has recently won 2 elected seats on the Ohio State Board of Education in Nov. 2010. Kathleen McGervey in District 2 and Debe Terhar in District 4. Additionally, just yesterday, Angela Bennett was appointed by Governor Kasich. You may remember the CHESCA PAC interviewed and endorsed Angela in 2008, when she lost to Mary Rose Oakar in District 11. Because of the CHESCA PAC's prior knowledge of Angela's positions on issues related to educational choice, we believe it had direct bearing on Angela's appointment. This is how vital OEF has become, in just a year.
Please e-mail OEF at OEF Director. Plans are being laid out and soon to be released. Go to their web site at Ohioans for Educational Freedom. Here is a map of Ohio's State Board of Education and the elected districts.
OEF will also be working on legislative initiatives related to home education. This is the kind of work OEF will be working on in the coming months. OEF takes donations of any size. Their address is:
Ohioans for Educational Freedom
PO Box 8777
Canton, Ohio 44711-8777
The Director is Mark Stevenson, longtime homeschooling advocate with over a 25 year record. Mark has a wide range of experience in legislative and policy matters and is tied to several conservative causes, including Right To Life. The CHESCA Political Action Committee supports OEF to bring on home education friendly board members. We are asking you to pass this information other homeschooling families that you know, personally. OEF is readying for the 2012 elections and needs the resources, now, to make a difference. Several things may come down the pipe, and OEF is preparing. You can be the first to find out what is happening if you go to their web site and join an e-mail list now.
Thanks for protecting your home education rights in Ohio by supporting OEF.
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