Axios: Ohio redistricting fight resumes this week

09.12.2023 / By Tyler Buchanan
Axios: Ohio redistricting fight resumes this week

What they're saying: Catherine Turcer, executive director of the government watchdog group Common Cause Ohio, says the reforms of 2015 and 2018 were not enough to keep partisan officials from being "drunk on power." "What we've learned is it's not enough to have good rules in the Ohio Constitution," she tells Axios. "We need independent mapmakers who aren't influenced by loyalty to party."

What they’re saying: Catherine Turcer, executive director of the government watchdog group Common Cause Ohio, says the reforms of 2015 and 2018 were not enough to keep partisan officials from being “drunk on power.”

  • “What we’ve learned is it’s not enough to have good rules in the Ohio Constitution,” she tells Axios.
  • “We need independent mapmakers who aren’t influenced by loyalty to party.”

 

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