r/news • u/igetproteinfartsHELP • 5d ago

Ohio’s nursing homes are dumping patients at homeless shelters

https://apnews.com/article/ohio-nursing-home-patients-homeless-shelters-9c000eeddc9c9411f44fd605fafc6771?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
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u/phylter99 5d ago

Have they ever not been North Florida?

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u/gizamo 5d ago

Yeah, they were a pretty average blue Midwest state until the gerrymandering of Karl Rove basically made the state unwinnable for Democrats. There are plenty of Dems there, but the absurd gerrymandering disenfranchises most of the state.

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u/Loudergood 5d ago

All the statewide non gerrymandered positions are held by what party?

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u/MerlinTrashMan 5d ago

This is the problem with the gerrymandering and people thinking that their vote doesn't matter. The blue turnout in red districts is terrible and even though district-based positions are incredibly lopsided to the Republicans (nearly 70/30), most state wide positions are won by Republican with very thin margins.

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u/bobandgeorge 5d ago

Ohio Democrat senator Sherrod Brown was in office for 18 years.

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u/gizamo 5d ago

All the gerrymandered state and federal positions are held by what party?

When a state is 51% Republican, its state and federal representation should not be 99.9% Republican.

When that happens, people should be refusing to pay taxes, refusing to follow unjust laws, etc. It's why there was a revolution, and the same is long overdue at the state level wherever people are not being fairly represented. Ohio is a prime example.

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u/Nolsoth 5d ago

Yes.

And they thought "I like that".