On May 7th, many school districts in Ohio have operating levy or bond issues on the ballot. I recently spent some time studying data compiled by the conservative think tank Opportunity Ohio relating to salaries, enrollment, and expenditures for some of the school districts near where I live. Here are a few things I learned [...]
Surely you heard self congratulatory speeches from Ohio’s political leaders patting themselves on the back for doing such a great job improving Ohio’s economy and job situation? Would it surprise you to learn that the number of people working in Ohio is now less than 1999 levels? See the chart linked below from Opportunity Ohio. [...]
by Wendy Sizemore, Pickaway County 912 Project Liberty Group The National Safety Council in partnership with an organization they created, the Ohio Teen Safe Driving Coalition (OTSDC), launched a pilot program for middle school kids to ticket their parents for “unsafe” driving behaviors. SADD and the Ohio State Highway Patrol, as members of OTSDC, were [...]
May you and yours have a very Merry Christmas and a relaxing and restful holiday season! Thank you for all your efforts on behalf of your community, our state and our nation. Many of your family and friends, whom you will be with during the holidays, will have no idea about how hard you have [...]
During the holiday season, we all give to individuals and organizations we care about. We know that many of you care about the Ohio Liberty Coalition, which has provided leadership, training and analysis for liberty groups all over Ohio and far beyond in the past year. Our weekly newsletter is now delivered to more than [...]
Toledo, Ohio native and progressive radio talk show host, Mike Malloy, recently wished for the heads of “tea bag bastards” to be “lopped off” on his November 26 airing of his radio show, the Mike Malloy Show. He said the following: …these Tea Bag bastards who by the way, I just wish they would all [...]
On this very special holiday, I am writing to tell each of you how thankful I am for your commitment to the cause of liberty and for your defense of our great nation. As I reflect on recent events, I see many disappointments and many things we hope to change in the future, but I [...]
On Tuesday, October 15, Ohio Liberty Coalition Vice President, Jason Mihalick, presented a check for $3,875.54, to the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law. Mihalick met personally with the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law Executive Director, Maurice Thompson, at the Columbus office of the 1851 Center to proudly award the funds (see picture at the end [...]
Congratulations to Fred Robertson from Camden, Ohio (north of Cincinnati in Preble county) who won the OLC Bitter Clinger Summer 2012 Fundraising raffle. Out of the 413 tickets sold, Fred is the owner of the lucky winning ticket (ticket # 005) which he purchased at the We the People Convention at the end of June [...]
Congratulations to Susan Maxey of Upper Arlington, Ohio who won our Facebook Fan “Silver Bullet” Giveaway contest. In July we started the contest to give away an ounce of silver when we reached 1,000 fans on our Facebook page. Over this past weekend, we reached 1,000 fans and we drew a winner on Monday, September [...]
Hurry and get your raffle tickets! The deadline to purchase your tickets for the OLC “Bitter Clinger” collection is TONIGHT (Sunday, September 30th) at midnight and we will be drawing one lucky winner on October 2nd, 2012, the day early voting begins. Purchase your tickets NOW or… Before you buy your tickets, you can check out [...]
by Cheryl Blakely, OLC Northwest Regional Director A group affiliated with the Tea Party Patriots from Bluffton, SC have started a project to help conservative candidates in Ohio. The Bluffton SC Tea Party have 17,000 names/addresses of Ohio undecided voters supplied by FreedomWorks. Although the list is fairly small, it’s valuable because these registered voters [...]
Springboro school board president and former educator, Dr. Kelly Kohl’s, speaks to the Westerville school board at the Westerville School Board meeting at the end of August. As we have written about previously, due to the efforts of the volunteers of Taxpayers for Westerville Schools, Westerville voters will have a chance in November to repeal [...]
An update from Chris Littleton: If you or anyone you know is interested in doing some field work for conservative organizations in the 2012 elections, we are trying to help multiple organizations with multiple positions. All organizations are non-partisan and non-candidate related organizations, and all organizations are issues based organizations, not candidates or political parties. [...]
WEWS Channel 5 in Cleveland reported on Sunday evening that a student had been arrested after making a threat via Twitter to “shoot up” the Kent State campus. From the article on the WEWS website: Read the full article at Kent State University student charged with inducing panic after sending threatening tweet. Also see our recent [...]
We are pleased to announce that you can now purchase raffle tickets ONLINE for the Ohio Liberty Coalition “Bitter Clinger Collection” Summer 2012 Fundraising raffle. The raffle package includes a Springfield XD Subcompact 9mm handgun, 500 rounds of 9mm target ammo, Calfskin leather Bible, and a 1 oz. New American Tea Party Silver round. The [...]
Ohio Liberty Coalition (OLC) is proudly announcing its Summer 2012 Fundraising Raffle, entitled the “Bitter Clinger Collection” raffle. Of course the raffle is intentionally named to highlight the pompous statement that then 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama made to a group of affluent donors at a San Francisco fundraiser when speaking about those of us [...]
If you subscribe to the Travel Channel, you’ll definitely want to set your DVR or tune in to Sand Masters on Sunday night at 7pm on the Travel Channel. You won’t want to miss the Machine Gun Mayhem recorded earlier this year at the April 12 and 13 Southern Ohio Machine Gun Shoot in Scioto [...]
We just got our online store up and running! You can now purchase “Don’t Tread On Us” merchandise which many folks have requested. Currently we have T-Shirts and Window Clings available. We use PayPal for our order processing, so therefore a PayPal account is required for online purchases through our store. (If you do not [...]
The Ohio Liberty Coalition’s and Ohio Freedom Alliance’s Jason Rink will be appearing LIVE on Greta Van Susteren tonight to talk about The Ohio Liberty Coalition and our event. Set your DVRs for 10PM Eastern tonight!!! Spread the word! Jason said that he is scheduled to appear at around 10:15PM Eastern. Greta’s website: http://www.foxnews.com/ontherecord
