Dewine is getting ton a of pressure from the house. On Monday it was mandatory masks.
Tuesday they changed to suggesting masks because of political pressure. On Thursday he extended the Stay at home until May 29th. And ORDER is even capitalized. On Friday they claimed it's not stay at home, its Stay Safe Ohio. Once again political pressure, they looked and acted like beat pups in that Friday press conference. If this was about your health, they would not roll over on their positions 24 hours later due to polling and political pressure.
Week before last there was a conference call with the state house members and the Governor. It got extremely heated. Members of the house had a open up plan for May 1, and the governor got defiant and basically told them it was his decision, not theirs. The House Speaker then fired off that letter to the governor. The go into session on Monday. So we will see if it's just political charades or if they will actually put something to a vote to pull power away from the Governor and Dr. Acton. I am chair of the Greene Co. Board of Elections. Trust me the Governor and Dr Acton already screwed up by canceling in person voting March 17th. The legislature then put every BOE in a bad spot by agreeing to all mail by April 28 to settle a Democrat filed lawsuit. They should have said no, and let the governor and the SOS figure it out.
There are now about 6 counties that took votes to open up every business in their county May 4th. More counties all need to do this, there is a "home rule" provision in the Ohio Revised Code that allows them to do this. I think more counties need to do it, then Columbus just looks silly.
Let's be honest the Governor and the Doctor have been wrong from day one. She claimed 10,000 new cases a day on may 1. Just two weeks ago she was claiming 6000 to 8000 a day by may 1, and she is not even close to the real number. The Governor went on the news this morning and said that hospitalizations are still going up, that's false. Been going down for over a week. And why is that a cumulative number? How many have went home, tell us how many are currently hospitalized.
Either way, I think we will be lucky to see any races in the midwest until July if we are lucky.