A new ad has shown up on cable in Ohio from a group called OneOhioUnited. Which is advocating that we contact our state reps to get them to vote for their 'Ohio Jobs Budget'. Which is ironically named since it will be a job killer in the state. Primarily advocating gutting the state government, gutting medicaid, and closing public schools and giving vouchers to private schools. Oh and I forgot the most important bit, we need to CUT Taxes. They are attempting to gin up calls of support for this monstrosity of a proposal.
OneOhioUnited is a new group with Twitter Account etc, just going live on May 6th. As you would expect, they are trying to thrive in the shadows having applied to be a 501(c)(4), so that they can skirt election reporting laws and running their domain name registration through a privacy front. The site itself was setup by conservative astroturf organization 'rootsHQ', 'For all the best in Astroturf'... ok I made that part up however they do specialize in right wing groups like this.
The organization is headed up by your normal run of the mill down to earth people that you might sit across from at any picnic. Jim Hagedorn, CEO The ScottsMiracle-Gro Company, Samuel H. Miller, Co-Chairman of the Board Forest City Enterprises and Mike Morris (who is more than likely the CEO of AEP a major donor to the GOP).
Here is their list of supporters, just in case they decide to scrub the site.
* A-1 Nursing Care
* Access Hospital Dayton, LLC
* American Electric Power
* American Scientific, LLC
* Anant Bhati
* Ravinder K. Brar
* Surinder S. Chauhan, D.V.M.
* Chesapeake Energy Corporation
* Complete Healthcare for Women, Inc.
* Abhijit N. Desai, MD
* Bipin Desai, M.D., Inc.
* Richard T. Farmer
* Philip H. Geier, Jr.
* Nick S. Grewal
* Mohinder K. Gupta, M.D., Inc.
* Neil Gupta
* Jim Hagedorn, CEO
The ScottsMiracle-Gro Company
* Hans R. Jindal
* Logic Soft
* Ranjan Manoranjan
* NCP Finance Limited Partnership
* Neurology Center, Inc.
* Optimum Technology
* Subinderpal S. Raina
* Ramprasad Investments, LLC
* Radhika Reddy
* Satvir Sandhu
* Sushil M. Sethi
* Sushil M. Sethi, M.D., P.A., Inc.
* Dilip R. Shah
* Siraj A. Siddiqui
* Anjit Singh Walia
* Gurdas Singh Dass
* Parminder Singh, MD
* Harbans S. Sodiwal
* Transcyber, Inc.
* United Software Group, Inc.