James Carr: An urgent need to clean house in Columbus

From James Carr

August 30, 2023

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There are somewhere in the neighborhood of 500,000 teachers in Ohio, active and retired. That's enough people to make a real impact in a state-wide election.

Our retirement system is governed by the Ohio General Assembly, and looking at the quality of our state representatives, it's little wonder that STRS is in such distress.

We have the former Speaker of the Ohio House, recently convicted of bribery, serving a 20 year sentence in a federal penitentiary. We have a ranking Ohio House officer who is the Chairman of our Retirement Committee, charged with a recent episode of domestic violence, and he's now under arrest for disobeying a restraining order. We have a Governor who illegally fired the only appointed member of the STRS Board who was working on behalf of reform.

These people can't even govern their own conduct, should we be surprised that they've played a crucial role in corrupting our retirement system?

Before the next General Election in November of 2024, we seriously need to consider the urgent need to clean house in Columbus. The incumbents need to go, they are a blight on the State of Ohio.