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Election Letter #1

Michael Ceraolo

To the Voters of Ohio,

Again we had our chance,
and again we blew it
Every twenty years we get a chance to vote
on whether to hold a constitutional convention,
and though a generation has changed
for the fifth straight time we’ve rejected
the chance to re-write or revise our basic law
Our ancestors were better citizens:
holding conventions in 1851
(new constitution adopted),
                            1873
(new constitution rejected),
                            and in 1912
(thirty-three of forty-one amendments passed)
                                             But
too many of us listened to the elites,
those demonizers of demos,
                            who,
rightly fearing reduction of their power,
once again were uniformly against it

And we had a second chance
to rein in the political class,
and blew that too,
                 rejecting
a measure that would have taken the power
to protect themselves and their cronies
away from self-serving politicians
(sorry for the redundancy)
and given it to independent citizens
                                    Again,
the elites were uniformly against it;
                                 again,
too many of us listened
                        Well,
at least we don’t have to wait twenty years
to have another chance on this one

Better luck next time,
Michael



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