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Independent Voters Alliance (hamcoOHIVA) Hamilton County Issues on the 11-04-03 Ballot
Planned Petition Activities
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Partial Public financing of campaigns for City Councilman and Mayor will be on the ballot again by a new grassroots effort, in November 2003 or 2004. This issue affects every person who lives and works (income tax), or shops (sales tax) in Cincinnati, Ohio and Hamilton County. Issue 8 was put on the ballot on November 8, 2002 to "gut" the Campaign Finance Reform that was passed in November 2001 as Issue 6, just one year before. The FAT CATS want to stay in control. They wanted to defeat PARTIAL PUBLIC FINANCING before it was tried, so no one could be elected to represent the people of Cincinnati on city council.They wanted to keep on buying elections. They won on Issue 8. They will not win the next round. The FAT CATS paid for petition signatures to put Issue 8 on the 2002 ballot. In 2001 the voters approved Campaign Finance Reform. The 2001 petitions were completed by average citizens for no pay, not by paid petition circulators. The effort was grassroots and democratic with a small "d." Issue 6 passed with "3,000" more votes than the votes that passed Issue 8. When we have a bigger voter turnout in the next round, the charter amendment with Partial Public Financing will again pass. The issue must pass if we want free elections in Cincinnati. Vote YES when the issue again appears on your ballot. And it will. The next referendum will contain a ban on any paid petition signatures obtained to put a referendum on a City of Cincinnati ballot. Buying petition signatures is equivalent to buying votes on election day. Neither should be tolerated.
Vote "YES" on Issue # ?, on the ballot in 2003 or 2004 (In 2001, the petition to alter the City of Cincinnati charter to allow public financing of City Council and Mayoral elections was voted onto the ballot by Cincinnati City Council on September 6, 2001. A total of 6,845 valid Cincinnati voter signatures were needed, and 11,700 were obtained. A lot people worked to get the signatures. The signatures for Issue 8 were paid for by Cincinnati Fat Cats.) Now, we will need to work to get out the vote to pass the issue again when we put it back on the ballot. Public financing of Cincinnati elections will make equal representation a reality in Cincinnati. No new taxes will be required. Tax money already collected in Cincinnati Employee taxes from Employees all over the tri-state will pay the costs in the amount of less than $3 per person per year based on city population. The large number of employees who live outside of the city increases the taxes collected, so the cost per city voter will be much less than $3 for residents and employees combined. The most it will cost for democracy in Cincinnati is 0.2% of the city budget, a very small amount for all the corruption it will eliminate. With a less corrupt election system, not awash in money, each person in the tri-state may have saved much more than $3 per year in the past few years. The stadiums cost about $3 per person for every million dollars in stadium cost overruns and stadium financing. The IVA figures the cost at three thousand dollars per family for the sole benefit of private enterprise (Bengals and Reds). Cincinnati area families could have saved big on taxes. The stadiums are just one example of costs passed on to the citizens of Cincinnati. Public financing of elections will save everyone a lot of money over time. The fat cats will lose their free access to our tax dollars. The public financing of campaigns will open our elections up for candidates who will represent the people of Cincinnati.The Cincinnati Business community fights public financing because they will no longer control city council persons. Cincinnati will be able to build a better tax base to improve and maintain our Cincinnati public schools. Our city government will no longer be run for the sole benefit of private interests. "Big Bucks" Flyers are available to use in the new petition effort. Call the Fair Elections Cooperative to obtain petitions and the flyers needed to put the issue back on the ballot. You can help in other ways too! PETITION: Learn to be an expert petition circulator in about one hour. Classes are being set up to give you a voice in local government. Poll Workers: After the issue is on the ballot, we will need to get out the vote to pass the issue. To show support, you can work at the polls for a few hours on election day to pass out literature and ask for a "YES" vote when the issue is back on the ballot, and it will be. Your help will pass the issue next time. Meet some new friends who believe in true democracy. Contact the IVA or Citizens for Fair Elections. Bill Woods or Alice Schneider, 381-4994 Web Site: http://www.fairelectionscincinnati.orgDo your part for Fair Elections in Cincinnati. Learn to, and then circulate a petition. Put the issue on the ballot. Get out the vote. Friends, family, and neighbors. VOTE "YES" on ISSUE #? Coming soon to a polling place near you. ---------------- TOP FUTURE CINCINNATI REFERENDUM ISSUE --------------------- Petition Coordinator Contacts — Check progress on petitions you have chosen to circulate. --------- PETITIONS TO FORM OHIO POLITICAL PARTIES ---------
Minor Party Ballot Access Petitions , if shown below as a link, can be downloaded so you can help obtain valid petition signatures to put the party(s) you choose on Ohio ballots for the year 2002. The party will have to get 5% of the popular vote in the gubernatorial election to maintain ballot access for the party beyond the year 2002. A lot of work to have just one year of ballot access. So we need to get 5% of the vote for Ohio Governor for each of the parties we support.The alternative is to face impossible petition requirements for ballot access to all of the public offices in the state. We do nothing to loosen the stranglehold of the two-party monopoly. Three minor party committees are known by the IVA to be petitioning to form Ohio political parties this year for ballot access in the elections of 2004. If you are reading this and know of another minor party committee petitioning to form an Ohio political party for 2004, please advise so the petition or link to the petition can be added to this page. Provide an Adobe Acrobat file of the original petition and we will post it here for IVA and independent volunteers to download and circulate to form the new Minor Party. If help is needed with scanning the petition or making the Adobe Acrobat file, IVA volunteers will provide some instruction or assistance as needed. The IVA wants to help.( hamco at cs2pr.us) for help.Click the links below to download and print the petitions. You must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader Program on your computer. See top of page.Green Party Independent Voters Alliance (IVA) Natural Law Party --------------- TOP PETITIONS TO FORM OHIO POLITICAL PARTIES ------------------ Petition Coordinator Contacts — Check progress on petitions you have chosen to circulate. ---------------- "OTHER" CANDIDATES ------------------------------- Independent and Minor Party Candidates Petitions/Web Sites for minor candidates are located on: The "Other" Candidates on Your Ballot (Petitions/Web Sites) ---------------- "OTHER" CANDIDATES ------------------------------ Ballot access petitions will be available on IVA web pages and other web pages for use by nonpartisan independent citizens. Freedom is participation in power. Be a proactive petition circulator and Election Day participant. Be a proactive citizen in your voting precinct. A Little Effort. A Lot of Liberty Welcome to the Proactive Voter Movement. |
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Issue
#1(Ohio): VOTE
NO.
Amendment to the OH Constitution. This is proposed to be a Jobs amendment.
However, the only thing new in the change is public policy to allow bond issues
to increase Corporate Welfare. This is just one more strategy to divert money
away from education and needed infrastructure investments. The IVA recommends a
no vote on Issue#1. Public money should not be diverted to the benefit of
private financial interests. The net effect of this issue is to act against the
public interest. ISSUE
FAILED (50.52%) in Hamilton County. Failed state wide also. 