Upcoming Election Issues

November 8th, Ohio is holding elections and a number of statewide issues will be decided. Last night my wife and I were watching Leno and they had competing ads regarding the ballot issues running almost back to back. Each ad featured five or six supposedly "regular folks" saying we should vote yes or no on the various issues. Afterwards I asked my wife did either of those ads tell you anything about what the new laws would do? She agreed that none of ads, whether on TV or radio, told her anything about the issues. So I did a little research. Here is a link to the Ohio Secretary of State's info on the issues with arguments both for and against each issue.

Coincidentally, BizzyBlog has an post today which contains State Rep. Diana Fessler's position on the issues titled:

NO-NO-NO-NO-NO on Ohio Issues 1,2,3,4,5: Great Synopsis of Why to Oppose Each One

Make up your own mind. Myself, I'm leaning towards no on most of these. Biggest problem I see with any additional law or regulation is the fact that they invariably lead to expansion of government with all the attendant costs. A couple of these measures are tantamount to a blank check. You give a blank check to any bureaucracy (even one with a good and valid purpose) and you can count on the number of dollars on the check to be ever increasing. Issue three is a strong no vote because it would lead to increased union involvement in funding political races.

There are also dozens of local races and I'll post a link and my opinion on those later. There are 14 pages of political gobbledygook explaining 48 issues to read through so don't look for it until Monday or Tuesday.