Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a measure to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state ballot in November

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a measure to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state ballot in November.

DeWine, a Republican, signed the measure — which relaxes a state candidate filing deadline — Sunday along with a related bill that imposes a ban on foreign nationals contributing to state ballot campaigns. Both will take effect Aug. 31.

The Republican-dominated Legislature had approved the two measures last week during a rare special session. The contribution ban had been demanded by the Senate, which approved the measures Friday, a day after the House passed them.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    971·
    6 months ago

    Mike DeWine, deserving of praise for clearing the lowest bar… but that bar is one that a lot of GOP asshats couldn’t clear so… sort of semi-genuine thanks?

    • elliot_crane@lemmy.world
      38·
      6 months ago

      Yep. That’s what we get in a post-Trump world. If we were back in the 2010s, any governor helping the sitting POTUS/a major party presumptive nominee fix what amounts to a scheduling issue would be non-news.

      • Baron Von J@lemmy.world
        6·
        6 months ago

        I don’t think a Republican governor helping Obama’s reelection campaign in 2012 would have been quietly accepted.

        • elliot_crane@lemmy.world
          10·
          6 months ago

          There would have been a vocal minority on the right wing pissing and moaning about it on fox, but I don’t think the expectation would be that this hypothetical governor would deliberately obstruct.

          • Baron Von J@lemmy.world
            1·
            6 months ago

            Yeah I was referring to the hemming and hawing from the sidelines, especially from the birther crowd in Congress and right-wing media.

        • El Barto@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 months ago

          Quietly? Probably not. (Tan suit and all that.) But those are very different times. Remember when McCain defended Obama in one of his (McCain’s) town halls? That’s the level of decorum that’s been lost.

          • Baron Von J@lemmy.world
            2·
            6 months ago

            Right, but the fact that it was noteworthy in the news cycle then that McCain had that level of decorum against his own voting base is what I was speaking to. DeWine came out with tact and decorum to handle this non-issue, too. Voters back then were hanging and burning Obama in effigy.