Activist: Ohio's GOP Legislators Will Keep Democrat Governor in Check
by Chad Groening
December 11, 2006
(AgapePress) - - An Ohio pro-family activist believes the state's newly elected Democratic governor will have a difficult time advancing an anti-family agenda once he takes office next month. Phil Burress, president of Cincinnati-based Citizens for Community Values (CCV), was disappointed that pro-family Republican Ken Blackwell lost to Ted Strickland. Burress says Strickland is an ultra-liberal who supports same-sex marriage and virtually every other anti-family issue imaginable.
However, the Ohio citizens advocate believes the newly elected governor of Ohio will have a difficult time getting that liberal, anti-family agenda through the still conservative-controlled Ohio legislature. "I'm not concerned about Strickland," he says. "I'm really not."
Since the Ohio House and Senate are still controlled by the Republicans, Strickland "may try to push anything he wants to," Burress asserts, "but he doesn't have the power as governor to push any legislation through." Meanwhile, the pro-family leader adds, "we'll have the ability with our friends in the House and the Senate to kill anything that he may try."
With Republicans in charge of both chambers of the Ohio legislature, the ultra-liberal Strickland has "pretty much got his hands tied behind his back," Burress notes, "even though he's ultra-liberal and pro-same-sex marriage and everything else you can name that's anti-family." Nevertheless, the CCV spokesman says his organization will work hard to stop the governor-elect during the next two years.
And there is a possibility of a voter backlash in response to Strickland, Burress suggests. "Quite frankly," he says, "this may mean that in '08 Ohio would go for the Republican or conservative presidential candidate, because in two years this guy is going to really mess things up."
Chad Groening, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
