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Grass-roots pressure kills Ohio constitutional-convention resolution.(Inside Track)
On December l0 the Judiciary Committee of the Ohio House held a hearing on House Joint Resolution No. 8 (HJR 8), "Applying to the Congress of the United States pursuant to Article V of the United States Constitution to call a constitutional convention for proposing amendments." A couple days earlier, an Associated Press article had stated that there could be a "possible vote" on HJR 8 at the hearing. However, pro-Constitution citizens, including members of the John Birch Society, Campaign for Liberty, and other like-minded groups, had been alerted about the hearing late in the preceding week.
These highly networked citizens went to work immediately, and by the time of the December 10 hearing, there was so much constituent heat on the House floor leadership and on members of the Judiciary Committee that the "possible vote" morphed into a testimony-only hearing. All 10 people giving testimony at the hearing were strongly opposed to HJR 8 and to the very concept of calling a constitutional convention (con-con). As a result, no vote was taken at the hearing, ensuring no further action on the con-con resolution in the 2008 session of the Ohio state legislature.
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