Sample Letter State Senator SB5

For what it's worth, this is a sample letter to my Ohio State Senator regarding Republican attempts to by-pass the strong effort to put SB to a voter referendum by putting its provisions into the state budget (which cannot be subjected to a voter referendum:

Feel free to copy and paste and edit as you please:

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Dear Senator [See below for determining who your senator is and how to contact him or her],

It is my understanding that there are current efforts to include provisions from SB 5 in the State Budget.

I urge you to reject those efforts.

Given the strong volunteer voter efforts to put SB to a voter referendum, to put SB provisions into the budget would be a disreputable effort to bypass the likely express will of the voters.

In addition, to do so would be to violate a pledge made by Republicans last fall to the American people.

In the Republican Party's "Pledge to America" you all* promised:

"Advance Legislative Issues One at a Time
"We will end the practice of packaging unpopular bills with “must-pass” legislation to circumvent the will of the American people. Instead, we will advance major legislation one issue at a time."

Pledge To America, page 33 (page 35 in the online .pdf format version.)

For those two reasons, I believe integrity dictates resisting attempts to insert SB 5's provisions into the budget.

Respectfully

/Name/

City

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* The Pledge was issued by the Republican National Committee on behalf of all Republicans - in the public's view, that Pledge spoke for all Republicans - not just Congressional Republicans. I believe all Republicans, including at the state level, are are either bound by the Pledge or must overtly reject its provisions.

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