Ohio Politics

Taft supports not ''stigmatizing'' ex-cons; insisted on stigmatizing CHL-holders

Sickening. Gov. Bob Taft has no problem with making it harder for the public to obtain information on persons who have broken the laws he is sworn to protect. Yet in a last-ditch attempt to kill HB12 last November, he began insisting that law-abiding citizens who obtain concealed handgun licenses (CHLs) have their privacy violated, and their identities available to the public. No mention of a...

Counties prepare handgun warnings

UPDATE: The Associated Press has picked this story up - it will likely be published in news outlets across the state. Please forward reports of any potentially illegal bans to [email protected] . Officials debate details of keeping guns out of government buildings March 23, 2004 Columbus Dispatch Central Ohio counties are scrambling to prepare and post signs reminding conceal-carry permit...

State sold Ohioans’ driving records to Florida database

The ACLU rightly objects to this as a right to privacy issue, but was strangely silent when Bob Taft raised the spectre of making law-abiding CHL-holders subject to media scrutiny. March 14, 2004 Columbus Dispatch Story edited for space - click here to read the entire story. The Bureau of Motor Vehicles has sold Ohioans’ driving records to a Florida company that is building a federal law-...

President Bush steers clear of Taft on Cleveland visit

(Compiled from Columbus Dispatch campaign report, March 11, 2004) Gov. Bob Taft, Ohio chairman of the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign, often introduces President Bush to Ohio audiences. But Taft was absent yesterday when Bush spoke to businesswomen in Cleveland. Taft, who’s approval rating was just 47 percent in a February Ohio Poll conducted by the University of Cincinnati, remained in Columbus...

Attacked at work: Robber shoots at employee during chase

One more citizen who may have felt that Ohio's affirmative defense law was inadequate as a means of legal self-defense, even though she carries large amounts of cash for her job. April 8 cannot come soon enough for Ohio's crime victims. March 11, 2004 Dayton Daily News DAYTON | A robber shot at an employee of Benjamin's Burger Master, 1000 N. Main St., after the employee chased him into the...

Attacked at work: Police seeking vendor's shooter

March 9, 2004 Cincinnati Enquirer MONROE - Police are asking for the public's help to find clues to the shooting death of a veteran vendor at the popular Trader's World flea market. It's this city's police department's first homicide case in nearly three years. A police officer early Monday found William E. Doolittle, 41, of Findlay, dead in the back of his van in the parking lot of the Stony...

Editorial points out that ''so many nowadays carry guns'' illegally

Editors at the Cincinnati Enquirer seem to comprehend the problems facing their city. Gun control and Ohio's concealed carry ban has done nothing to deter criminals from using guns to commit crimes. We are left to wonder if the Enquirer has a plan to publish all the names of people illegally carrying concealed, since they advocated an amendment to House Bill 12 which will allow law-abiding CHL-...

Slaby sworn in as representative

Mar. 10, 2004 Akron Beacon Journal COLUMBUS - Marilyn Slaby was sworn in Tuesday as state representative from the 41st District. Slaby, a Republican, will finish the unexpired term of Bryan Williams, who resigned after being named director of the Summit County Board of Elections. "I welcome the opportunity to serve the citizens of the 41st House District and the chance to meet the challenges...

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