An Attorney General in Texas, Persistently Trying to Harness the Media: A Case Study of a Candidate that Caught a Lambda in the Browse
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It is a theme that is playing out across the country. While most GOP attack ads focus on issues like the economy, the border and crime, some Republicans have looked to counter Democratic messaging on abortion rights, hoping to cut into what has become a motivating issue for Democrats since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.
More than an hour later, as Paxton exited the home through the garage, Herrera said he approached him. He went back to the house through the same door that I had called his name when he saw me.
Minutes later, said Herrera, Paxton and his wife exited the house again, climbed into a truck parked in their driveway and drove off without taking the document.
Paxton, for his part, doesn’t dispute that he ran. But he says he ran from a shady stranger outside of his house, and not from the subpoena. The media should be ashamed of themselves, as this is a ridiculous waste of time. Conservatives across the country have faced many threats that received little or no coverage from the mainstream media.
He explained that the media attacked him for avoiding a stranger outside his home because they wanted to drum up another controversy about his work as Attorney General.
It is frightening to have your privacy invaded, and upsetting when people attempt to interfere while you are trying to protect your family. Women in Texas can certainly relate.
The Problem of Proper Proper Treatment of Abortion in Arizona and other Democratic States: Why Democrats and the American Red Committee are Frustrated about Pro-Life
Arizona’s Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters used to champion fetal personhood laws, which would fully criminalize abortion and potentially IVF as well, along with some forms of contraception; recently, though, that information was deleted from his website.
Mark Ronchetti is a pro-life candidate who is challenging New Mexico’s Democratic Gov. Lujan Grisham, and he is using the ads to say that he is a pro-life candidate.
Barbara Kirkmeyer, a Republican who is running for Colorado’s state legislature, had her support for defending the sanctity of life removed from her website along with a speech she gave at the March for Life.
Americans do not support broad abortion bans. When you poll voters, even many who identify as pro-life and vote Republican, and even majorities in conservative states, hedge when it comes to actually criminalizing abortion.
These laws are wildly unpopular, and they may cost Republicans at the ballot box. It is simple to stop passing laws that are wildly unpopular. So far, though, Republicans continue to do just that – and then they raise their hands in a cartoonish “it wasn’t me!” gesture when pressed on it.
In both purple and blue states, most voters folded abortion into a comprehensive assessment of the candidates, according to Democratic analysts. Only in those places, they believe, more voters tended to see a candidate’s desire to ban or severely restrict abortion as a marker of a broader cultural agenda unacceptable to them.
Democrat politicians have damaged America by ruining the economy, causing chaos at our border, and increasing the rate of crime in our cities. They changed our lives. But one thing hasn’t changed: abortion in Nevada,” the spot says.
Laxalt, who prior to the Supreme Court ruling called the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision a “joke,” wrote in an August op-ed that abortion should be decided at the state level. He said it was a “a falsehood that I would support a federal ban on abortion as a U.S. senator” but noted he would support a potential state referendum banning abortion after 13 weeks of pregnancy.
The Democratic senator is running an ad telling people she will always fight for a women’s right to make their own health care decisions.
In Washington state, a Republican Senate candidate has run several ads opposing a federal ban. “Patty Murray has spent millions to paint me as an extremist,” Smiley says of the longtime Democratic senator in one of her spots. “I’m pro-life, but I oppose a federal abortion ban.”
Shortly after Roe was overturned, Murray began airing a straight-to-camera ad, in which she says, “It is a horrifying reality: Extreme politicians across our country, now in charge of the most private health care decisions.”
This campaign season, a coalition of national abortion groups is spending $150 million and hundreds of millions more in the abortion-focused ads of Democratic candidates themselves.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee has advised their candidates to not allow the issue of abortion to distract them from the real issues in the election.
“The Democrat position is extreme and strident, our position should be based in compassion and reason,” read an NRSC memo sent to GOP Senate campaigns in the wake of the Dobbs decision. The group said that Democrats should be called out for holding extreme views on abortion.
Joe ODea, the Republican nominee for the Senate in Colorado, has dealt with the issue in his race against Michael Bennet, a Democrat.
A first-time candidate is making a case for abortion in the early stages of a pregnant woman’s life, saying he is an outsider not a politician.
(O’Dea has also said he would have voted for Obama nominee Elena Kagan, a liberal justice who dissented in the Dobbs ruling, as he wants to end the “blood sport” over the Supreme Court confirmation process.)
Proponents of Arizona and South Dakota Measures Concerning Abortion Rights and the Fairness of the State Legislature: The Case of North Carolina Budd
“If it is an issue in the district and it is showing up in your polling, talk about. If it is not an issue that shows up in your polling, talk about issues like the economy that are more advantageous to you,” the operative said.
“The Supreme Court made it clear: This is a Raleigh decision, not a Washington decision,” North Carolina GOP Senate nominee Ted Budd said in a local interview in September.
But shortly after making that point, the congressman co-sponsored the House companion bill to Graham’s proposal, which would let elected officials in Washington, and not the North Carolina capital of Raleigh, decide how to regulate abortion.
In South Dakota, voters this year decisively defeated Republicans’ push to pass a constitutional amendment requiring most voter-initiated referendums to pass with 60 percent of the vote, rather than by a simple majority. More than a third of voters did not approve of the measure.
In Arizona, there are three proposed restrictions to ballot measures on this year’s ballot: Proposition 128, which would allow the Legislature to amend or repeal ballot measures even after they are approved if a judge rules that provisions within them are unconstitutional; Proposition 129, which would limit citizen-initiated ballot measures to a single topic; and Proposition 132, which would require any ballot initiative that would raise taxes to pass by 60 percent.
Supporters of the ballot measures in Arkansas say they are necessary to rein in abuses of the process. Critics say they are intended to lock in the power of a Legislature that was gerrymandered to favor Republicans despite an independent redistricting commission’s best efforts to make the maps fairer.
Liberal groups have found ballot measures to be a powerful, if expensive, tool to promote their policies — even in red states. They say their successes in raising the minimum wage and expanding health care coverage via what they call “direct democracy” have caused Republicans to push back by changing the rules. In Maine, Idaho, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Utah, voters have expanded access to Medicaid via ballot measure, going over the heads of the states’ legislatures.
In the red state of Kansas, supporters of abortion rights saw a major and largely unforeseen win in August when voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure that would have stated in the constitution that there is no protection for abortion rights. But that was around six weeks after the decision was out.
What do democrats believe about the future of the United States? The presidential midterm elections in 2018 and 2020, as predicted by the National Poll, are a classic VUCA moment
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The Ukraine war is a classic VUCA moment. So is Tuesday’s midterm election in the US. The vote for all of the seats in the House and a third in the Senate is very uncertain and potentially ambiguous.
Will it be a verdict on the leadership of President Joe Biden and the Democrats who control Congress? Will it strengthen or weaken the election denialism many Republicans adopted after former President Donald Trump refused to accept his 2020 election loss? What would control of one or both chambers of Congress do about America’s future and the final years of Biden’s term?
The two opposing parties differ on some issues in the election. Republicans are stressing inflation, crime and immigration in their campaigns, while many Democrats see threats to democracy and the overturning of Roe v. Wade as key reasons to elect their candidates.
On a national basis, Democrats defied the history of big first-term midterm losses for the president’s party – and pervasive media predictions of a towering red wave – by largely reassembling the winning coalition of voters who turned out in massive numbers in 2018 and 2020 to oppose former President Donald Trump’s vision for America. Women in the coalition are more Democratic than the men, because they are more educated and live in urban areas.
Democrats think their warnings about the future of democracy are amply justified. “We all understand inflation is temporary but losing our democracy could be permanent,” wrote Dean Obeidallah. He cited the Washington Post’s recent reporting that majority of the GOP nominees on the ballot his year for the House, Senate and statewide office doubt the results of the 2020 election. We have never seen anything like this in our lifetimes – if ever in the history of the United States.”
The economy is a top priority for voters. “It’s nothing new,” wrote historian Meg Jacobs. She pointed out that the first televised political advertisement was for the wining Republican presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower. He talked to an average housewife who said her high prices were driving her crazy and Eisenhower promised to fight on her behalf. That was at a time when inflation was less than 2%!”
“Battles over inflation — what’s the cause, who is to blame, what is there to do — get to basic fights over who should have what. Should corporations make more profits, should workers be paid higher wages, and should consumers shoulder the burden?
“The message is clear: As energy companies continue to rake in massive profits, energy has become increasingly unaffordable for lower-income Americans. The federal government needs to take action now to help families maintain access to affordable energy throughout the winter.” He argued that the US should follow the European Union by taxing the excess profits of fuel companies, directing the money toward consumers struggling to pay their bills.
He warned it would be an undecessarily painful recession. The Federal Reserve Bank hiked interest rates by three quarters of a point this week, the fourth straight time, due to the unusual pace of monetary policy tightening. Higher rates are rapidly slowing the housing market and putting pressure on companies to cut staffing, he argued. The Fed has a very bullish stance on its policies because of the troubled world economy and high inflation. The Fed has indicated they may reduce the pace of interest rate hikes.
CNN: Following the Votes of the Kryptonite Candidate Barack Obama: Midterms Are Vucae Elections Collineant
“Obama served up the perfect closing question for voters: ‘Who will fight for your freedom?’” The former president delivered a message to the Democrats pointing to threats to reproductive rights and same-sex marriage by some Republicans.
Having Obama make the closing argument “might not be such a great idea,” wrote Republican Marc A. Thiessen in the Washington Post. “Hindsight can be rosy, but Obama’s record of helping down-ballot Democrats is … less than stellar. More seats were lost in the U.S. Congress than any president in history thanks to Obama. Many Democrats do not want Biden to join them on the campaign trail. Obama may not be the ideal candidate to save the world. To the contrary, based on this disastrous record, he may be electoral kryptonite.”
On Tuesday, crucial races will decide who will control the House, Senate, and dozens of governors across the country. CNN has a tool that will allow you to follow contests and build a dashboard. To get started you must log in or create a CNN account.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/06/opinions/midterms-are-vuca-election-opinion-column-galant/index.html
When the Insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021 Kills: Michael Fanone, 83, and the War on the U.S. Capitol
Former Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone, who was injured in the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, wrote, “When I speak privately with fellow officers who defended the US Capitol on January 6, the conversation often turns to why so many Americans remain indifferent about the insurrection. Most Americans don’t seem to care. Is it an attempt to end our democracy? It’s Meh…
I don’t think the violent attack on Paul Pelosi will be a turning point. We are no longer talking about isolated incidents or seeing universal condemnation of violence by our leaders. The 82-year-old husband of the woman who is third in line to the US presidency was beaten in his own home for political reasons, and right-wing media and some Republicans reveled in the violence,” Fanone added.
In any case, this precarious equilibrium may not last. Although Democrats likely will not have the votes to pass through Congress legislation restoring abortion rights in every state (or overriding the red state actions on other fronts such as voting and LGBTQ rights), their stunningly strong showing across the blue and purple battlefields will encourage the party to continue pushing for such measures in the 2024 campaign. I wrote about how Congressional Republicans had introduced proposals to impose their views on blue states, such as prohibiting schools from discussing sexual orientation in early grades.
About a third of the states have some type of initiative up for a vote. “Democracy itself is on the ballot in 2022,” wrote Joshua A. Douglas. There are candidates who have questioned the 2020 election and refuse to say they will accept defeat this year, but many states and localities will also vote on ways to change how elections are run or who may vote in them.
Midterms Are Vuca-Election-Column-Galant: When Donald Trump is a White House Candidate
The word was that Donald Trump could make an announcement about his White House bid in the next few weeks. Zelizer said Democrats should not underestimate the threat that Trump poses.
The Republican party is a very strong united party. It can’t shake the unity. … the ‘Never Trump’ contingent failed to emerge as a dominant force. Liz Cheney was kicked out of the party.
“If Republicans do well next week, possibly retaking control of the House and Senate, members of the party will surely feel confident about amping up their culture wars and economic talking points going into 2024. And given the number of election-denying candidates in the midterms, a strong showing will likely create the tailwinds for the GOP to unite behind Trump.”
Zelizer wrote that Trump himself would feel emboldening. Trump is a viable political figure despite ongoing criminal investigations. … It will be difficult to prosecute Trump once he becomes a candidate. Trump will claim that any investigation is simply a politically motivated witch hunt that seeks to take him out of the running.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/06/opinions/midterms-are-vuca-election-opinion-column-galant/index.html
Why did Musk and his family decide to sell Twitter? Commentary on Musk’s inflammatory, provocative and neo-Nazi remarks
All of this made West slurring of Jews even worse. There is a scary electrical charge of intolerance in the air, and a cultural icon has decided not only to touch the live wire, but to hang it around his neck, wave it around, and run it up the flagpole of his fame.”
Elon Musk’s first few days of controlling Twitter have been tumultuous, with the Tesla CEO spreading misinformation, laying off a large share of the workforce and sharing the idea of charging users for blue-check verification status.
Marietje Schuake of the Financial Times wrote that Musk is making the remarkable power that US tech executives hold over our lives painfully tangible to all.
The number of racist and neo-Nazi messages exploded on the website after the sale was confirmed. Accounts marked as being linked to Russian and Chinese state media requested that the Twitter labels indicating as much be removed. There was lots of speculation about whether Musk would reverse the account ban for extremists or Donald Trump himself.
Rob Norman, a former advertising executive, wrote in the New York Times that, under Musk’s ownership, the inflammatory, provocative and sometimes verifiably untrue speech of others could be allowed, and he had placed no limits on his own speech.
Advertisers worry a lot about these things, as I know from being the biggest buyer of advertising space. In this case, advertisers’ worries could lead them to flee en masse, costing Twitter almost all its current revenue. Without that revenue, Twitter could be a calamitous acquisition for Mr. Musk, and the very future of the platform could be at risk.”
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/06/opinions/midterms-are-vuca-election-opinion-column-galant/index.html
The worst year of her working life: Martha Hickson, whose activism against Banned Books Week, is how America’s schools are moving forward
Martha Hickson, a high school librarian in New Jersey for more than a decade, called it the worst year of her working life. Protesters showed up at a school board meeting and protested against two books: ‘Gender Queer’ and ‘Lawn Boy’. They spewed selected sentences from the Evison book, while brandishing isolated images from Kobabe’s.”
“Next, they attacked Banned Books Week, an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. The protesters said it was a plot to lure kids to ruin.
“But the real sucker punch came when one protester branded me a pedophile, pornographer and groomer of children. It was heartbreaking that after a successful career, you are cast as a villain.
“Even worse was the response from my employer – crickets. The board sat in silence that night, and for the next five months refused to utter a word in my defense.”
CNN Opinion produced a series of personal essays titled, “America’s Future Starts Now.” The final one was written by Hickson. Nine education experts also weighed in with thoughts on how to move America’s schools forward.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/06/opinions/midterms-are-vuca-election-opinion-column-galant/index.html
Comeback from the Middle East: Benjamin Netanyahu, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the Couple Bndchen and Brady
The faces came back from the Middle East after the elections. In Brazil, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva “posted a stunning political comeback,” beating the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, Arick Wierson wrote.
“Not since the end of the military dictatorship in the 1980s have Brazilians been faced with two more starkly contrasting candidates, each with diametrically opposing political outlooks for the country,” Wierson wrote. And “it’s clear that a sizable percentage of the voting population didn’t buy into either of their visions for the country.”
Benjamin Netanyahu, the former Prime Minister, returned to power in Israel due to last week’s election.
“Likud is the most stable and durable political party in Israel’s system. Netanyahu is the master and Israel is a nation shaped more by the right wing than at any point in its history.
This isn’t only about the couple, Filipovic made clear. People end up with their own desires, jealousy, ambitions, and feelings when they have a celebrity as a role model. We don’t know why Bndchen and Brady are splitting, but the story could tell us a little bit about their marriage – and a lot about equality in American marriages.
“Bündchen’s public comments indicate a worry about Brady’s health playing a dangerous sport and a desire – after years of sacrificing so that he could thrive professionally – for him to spend more time with their family.”
This is “a familiar and frustrating” dynamic: “The woman who steps back to care for children and make sure her husband succeeds – and the husband who doesn’t quite seem to appreciate that sacrifice and continues to push professionally far past when he needs to, at the expense of his family.”
The Impact of Supreme-Criminal-Judicial-Courtee-Roe-Dobbs Energy on Abortion Rights in the United States
The question for Democrats — who are in a historically unfavorable position as the party in charge of the White House and facing growing concerns about inflation and the rest of the economy — is to what degree the energy unleashed by this summer’s U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade can be harnessed at the polls, and to what extent that energy can overcome voters’ economic worries.
Abortion rights supporters have been pushing for passage of the Women’s Health Protection Act, designed to codify Roe’s protections in federal law. That legislation passed the House last year in a largely symbolic vote but has lacked the votes to overcome the Senate filibuster.
Marilyn Musgrave, vice president of government affairs at SBA Pro-Life America, said without a nationwide abortion ban, people will continue to travel from states with restrictions to those with more liberal abortion laws.
Even though President Biden promised to veto anti-abortion legislation in office, it would still be too close for comfort, according to the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.
We don’t want it to go that far. That’s a bad precedent,” Timmaraju said. “We’re absolutely not going to let it get to that point; that’s our goal.”
Butler, of Emily’s List, said she is hopeful abortion rights will be top of mind for voters in what many political observers are suggesting may be a difficult midterm for Democrats.
“Voters are whole people; they carry their whole selves into the ballot box,” Butler said. The economy of the country ebbs and flows, but we don’t know if we’re ever going to be able to get back what we lost when fundamental freedoms were taken away.
Source: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/07/1134535372/abortion-midterm-election-michigan-kentucky-amendment-roe-dobbs
The Democratic Midterm: How the American Voters View the Economic and Political Problems During the 2018 and 2020 Presidential Elections: A Case Study of an Anti-Abortion Agenda
Meanwhile, SBA Pro-Life America’s Musgrave says the group’s Women Speak Out Pac has contacted some 8 million voters nationwide on behalf of anti-abortion rights candidates and related ballot measures.
Voters in Democratic-leaning and swing states last week delivered a emphatic cry of resistance to the restrictive Republican social agenda that seeks to ban abortion.
But in red states where Republicans have actually imposed that agenda over the past two years, GOP governors cruised to reelection without any discernible backlash.
Compared to 2018 and 2020, the Democratic performance frayed with each of those groups, according to the exit polls conducted by Edison Research for a consortium of media organizations including CNN. The erosion was not surprising, because the exit poll found a huge majority of people had negative views of the economy and many gave Joe Biden failing grades for his performance so far.
More surprising was that despite that undertow, Democrats held just enough of their support from these key voting blocs to post a succession of unexpected victories. In the national exit poll results, Democrats, stunningly, even won a narrow plurality of independent voters, who have almost always voted in big numbers against the party holding the White House at such moments of national discontent. Democrats carried independents by even larger margins in the key blue and purple state governor races, including Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Arizona, the exit polls found.
“My main takeaway is there is a pro-freedom, anti-MAGA majority,” says Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, vice-president and chief strategy officer of Way to Win, a liberal group that pressed the party to emphasize the threats to rights in its campaign messaging. We were uncertain if it was going to show up again, as it did in the last two years, but the American voters proved us wrong and said we want to go forward.
Three-fourths of voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin said the economy was only fair or poor, and that’s something that’s striking.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/politics/abortion-midterm-voters-politics-democrats-republicans-fault-lines/index.html
Resolving the Roe Wave in South Carolina and Texas: How Representatives of the House Select Committee voted to end abortion restrictions in 2021
In places where people had used to have these rights and freedoms, the idea of them being taken away from other people was a concern.
The Republicans held unified control of the government in 23 of the states that made the Roe wave fail to break their defenses. Since 2021, those states have moved with startling speed to approve a conservative social agenda that includes restrictions or outright bans on abortion rights; laws making it more difficult to vote; bans on transgender girls playing school sports and on transgender minors receiving gender affirming treatment; censorship of classroom discussion of race, gender and sexual orientation; measures empowering parents who want to ban books from school libraries; and statutes eliminating permitting and training requirements for people who want to carry concealed weapons.
In Ohio and Florida, DeSantis and DeWine each even won about one-third of women who supported legal abortion; that was about double the share of women with such attitudes who backed Republican governor candidates Tudor Dixon in Michigan and Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania. (Abbott and Kemp finished in between, winning about one-fourth of women who supported abortion rights.) Overall, after signing abortion bans, DeSantis, DeWine, Kemp and Abbott all won White women in their states by big margins; Kemp and DeWine each carried about seven-in-ten of them.
Yet red state Republicans will likely feel emboldened to push further on their path. With voters expanding their majorities, Republicans in the Florida state legislature are already talking about tightening the 15-week ban on abortion DeSantis signed earlier this year. Conservative Texas state legislators have floated proposals to bar companies from doing business in the state if they fund out-of-state travel for local workers seeking abortions.
Allowing states to make their own rules on contentious social issues, particularly abortion, is a value noted by veteran GOP pollingster, Whit Ayres. The decision to allow states to follow their cultural values on an emotionally fraught issue is a wise one according to Ayres. It is not possible to impose a national abortion policy that will be supported in each of the states because of the different values of each state.
“The pieces are in place for us to be able to have this coalition mobilize again in 2024,” says Fernandez Ancona. She believes young voters who voted for Democrats last week will constitute a larger share of the electorate in four years than they did this year.
But at the same time Fernandez Ancona sees reasons for optimism for Democrats about the presidential race in 2024, she acknowledges that Tuesday’s results show “it’s going to take much longer to build the kind of power” to challenge the GOP dominance in red states.
More than ever after this year’s stunning election results, however, red and blue America look like two separate nations, hurtling toward antithetical and ominously incompatible visions of what the country should be.
The citizens of most US states have the power to pass laws and amend the state’s constitution. Such ballot initiatives have become a popular tactic to change policy in states dominated by one party, often the GOP.
That backlash “really accelerated in 2021 and 2022,” says Kelly Hall, executive director with The Fairness Project. That group claims success in 31 of the 33 left-leaning ballot initiatives it has supported since 2016.
At the same time, there has been an increase in the number of bills to tweak the initiative process, from 33 in 2017 to more than a 100 in 2021 and 2022, according to the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, a group which provides research and support to groups promoting ballot measures.
While not all would restrict the process, many propose new requirements for the number of signatures needed, where the signatures must come from, or increase the threshold to pass a measure.
“Like requiring the language to be printed all on a single sheet of paper means you have to carry around a bath towel-sized petition, which is simply cumbersome,” Hall says. She says the new rules will “death by a thousand cuts” for future initiatives.
The Challenge of 2023 and 2024: Sensitivity to a 20% Supermajority in Voting for Constitutional Amendments
Just weeks after the November election, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican, and Republican representative Brian Stewart rolled out a resolution that would require all future constitutional amendments to receive a 60% supermajority at the polls, rather than the current 50%.
This comes as advocates for abortion rights, legal marijuana use, and redistricting reform are all gearing up to put their issue on the ballot in Ohio in 2023 or 2024.
Raising the minimum wage to $12 was one of the ballot initiatives that voters in Missouri approved last year. In 2022, Missouri lawmakers responded by introducing more bills to restrict constitutional amendments than any other state.
Cindy O’Laughlin, the new leader of the Missouri Senate, said the recent passage of recreational marijuana indicates it’s a little too easy to get things through an initiative petition.
In the coming elections, reproductive rights groups are looking into initiatives that would ban or restrict abortion in at least 10 states.
The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center executive director says an issue can be couched as partisan, and still be put before voters.
Changes to the process will make future wins less likely. The tallies in some of those votes fell short of the 60% threshold many Republican lawmakers are now seeking for constitutional amendments.
GOP lawmakers in Ohio didn’t pass a resolution to raise the vote threshold for constitutional amendments at the end of the year. But, they say they’ll try again in 2023.