Former Ohio Supreme Court justice Yvette McGee Brown remembers when the Ohio General Assembly was run by Vern Riffe and Stan Aronoff, bipartisan leaders in the days before term limits and the Republican supermajority.
Former Ohio Supreme Court Justices Yvette McGee Brown and Maureen O’Connor stand outside a room at the Columbus Athletic Club, where they pushed for support of a ballot initiative to reform redistricting. The former justices want to see changes that increase transparency in redistricting, and prevent the stranglehold of a supermajority on Ohio.
A graduate of Ohio University and Ohio State University, Brown has spent her whole life in the state. The initiative to bring a redistricting commission made up of Ohio citizens, rather than elected officials, is currently in thebefore its July 3 deadline to submit those signatures to the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office. The aim is to have the ballot measure to voters in the November general election.
McGee Brown and O’Connor think reforms to the process will bring about greater transparency with “televised” commission activities, and a process led by those not elected to their positions, bringing about a better product with greater representation. No matter the political party, the two former justices see a state with every position of power filled by the same party as a failure of democracy, because the decisions become about staying in power, rather than making change for the better. and takes into consideration just the people that put them there, as opposed to everybody in the district, that’s not leadership and that’s not representation,” O’Connor said.
“You look at what the legislature tried to do there, because they thought nobody would be paying attention, and you heard the voters of this state speak,” McGee Brown said.
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