Ohio medical marijuana patients say they’re happier with state program, but still want lower prices: Capitol Letter

Rotunda Rumblings

Blame Michigan: Whereas a brand new research reveals sufferers’ general satisfaction with the Ohio medical marijuana program is increased than in earlier years, they nonetheless assume costs are too excessive. Laura Hancock checked out Michigan’s marijuana program, the place costs are considerably decrease than in Ohio, as a result of the state by no means capped hashish enterprise licenses. Michigan costs are prone to improve, nonetheless, and Ohio’s costs will seemingly proceed to lower, with extra dispensaries set to open quickly.

Pay delay: Between April 2020 and March 2021, solely 43% of Ohioans who filed for conventional unemployment advantages started receiving them inside three weeks. That’s the third-worst charge of any state within the nation, in response to a brand new report from the U.S. Division of Labor’s Inspector Normal. As Jeremy Pelzer writes, the report illustrates how overwhelmed Ohio’s unemployment workplace was by a tsunami of COVID-caused claims, resulting in lengthy delays in advantages and prolonged wait instances to talk to the workplace’s name heart.

In settlement: Republican state Rep. Tom Patton and Democratic opponent Troy Greenfield, talking with The Plain Supplier/cleveland.com editorial board Tuesday, discovered a whole lot of widespread floor on points from abortion to freezing property values for seniors. Patton stated he “completely” would advocate for his fellow Republicans to not prohibit abortion past the “heartbeat” legislation – which he stated he was already “vastly troubled” by. Greenfield, a former vice chair of the Cuyahoga County Democrats, stated a brand new state legislation permitting hid firearms and not using a allow (Senate Invoice 215) is “reckless and harmful”; Patton, who voted for SB215, stated he would like background checks and coaching in an effort to get a conceal-carry allow and famous he efficiently pushed to amend the invoice to assist shield law enforcement officials. The 2 are operating within the newly drawn Ohio Home District 17, which leans barely Democratic.

Household feud: A cousin of congressional candidate Max Miller penned an op-ed in Ahead that declared the Rocky River Republican “belongs to a political motion that’s endangering America and endangering Jews.” Daniel Miller wrote that he was horrified when the aspiring congressman spoke eventually month’s Trump rally, and a few within the crowd gave Trump a straight-armed salute that resembled a Nazi Sieg Heil. “Trumpism, with its xenophobia, conspiratorial worldview, and courting of white supremacists, helps to rework this nation from one the place Jews are comparatively secure to at least one the place Jews are extra in peril,” Daniel Miller pronounced, forecasting he’ll face household repercussions at upcoming Jewish vacation get-togethers for publicly expressing his views.

Advert buys: Republican congressional candidate Madison Gesiotto Gilbert is out with a new campaign ad that accuses “liberals in Washington” of promoting out the USA and says that supporting American employees, as she would do in Congress, “is the one manner out of Biden’s recession.” Her marketing campaign says it’s operating the adverts on broadcast, cable and digital media. In the meantime, the Democratic Congressional Marketing campaign Committee introduced a six-figure broadcast purchase of an advert that cites the case of a 10-year-old Ohio lady who was raped and needed to depart the state for an abortion to denounce Gesiotto Gilbert as an “extremist” who backed the state’s ban on abortions, even in instances of rape and incest. A spokesperson for the candidate stated Democrats are resorting to deceptive assaults to “distract voters from Biden’s failed agenda.”

Swap it up: U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, a Democrat operating for U.S. Senate, introduced that a number of Republican leaders are supporting his marketing campaign, together with Jim Petro, the Republican former Ohio lawyer basic and Ohio auditor. The group was assembled by the Democratic political motion committee referred to as the Welcome PAC, which the marketing campaign of Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance referred to as far-left, Ohio Public Radio’s Andy Chow stories.

E mail debate: As a part of discovery in FirstEnergy traders’ lawsuit over the Home Invoice 6 scandal, attorneys for ex-FirstEnergy CEO Chuck Jones and Industrial Vitality Customers-Ohio have reached a partial settlement for the legislation agency of McNees Wallace & Nurick to show over info associated to IEU-Ohio emails involving Sam Randazzo, a former IEU-Ohio counsel whom FirstEnergy says accepted bribes whereas chair of the Public Utilities Fee of Ohio. In an order issued Tuesday, Justice of the Peace Choose Kimberly Jolson gave the 2 sides a further week to iron out their remaining variations and acknowledged she would contemplate an in-person listening to to rule on any unresolved disputes.

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Full Disclosure

5 issues we realized from state Sen. Cecil Thomas’ March 31, 2022, monetary disclosure. Thomas, a Democrat from Cincinnati, is operating for Ohio Home District 25 towards Republican John Breadon.

1. Along with his legislative wage of $78,732, Thomas reported receiving $25,000 to $49,999 from the Ohio Police & Hearth Pension Fund and $1,000 to $9,999 from a rental property.

2. He owed at the least $1,000 sooner or later final 12 months to Wells Fargo mortgage, Constancy mortgage, Cincinnati Ohio Police Federal Credit score Union, American Categorical, Nice Lakes Debtors and Visa.

3. Final 12 months he acquired $2,945 in mileage reimbursements from the Ohio Senate. The Ohio Chamber of Commerce paid for lodging value $286 for its Coverage Convention at Salt Fork.

4. The Cincinnati Reds gave Thomas opening day tickets value $170 final 12 months.

5. Final 12 months he owed his marketing campaign committee at the least $1,000.

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Straight From The Source

“Ohio will finish abortion and make it unthinkable.”

-State Rep. Jena Powell, a Darke County Republican, Tuesday on Twitter. The Republican-led Normal Meeting may cross a legislation usually outlawing abortion after the Nov. 8 election. Abortion rights supporters stated they wish to put earlier than voters in coming years a constitutional modification enshrining abortion rights within the state.