A great group for Progressive Change is looking positively back at 2014, so should we!

[RiverLover]

2. Thanks Enthusiast! I love your enthusiasm. :)

I'm trying to get more enthusiastic myself. Look for the good, and more good will come!

It is sad though that we need a Democratic wing for our Democratic party. LOL I don't understand how so many here don't get the problem. The sad irony...

But right, we're being enthusiastically optimistic! It really does seem like small strides across most of the country are happening, and we just don't hear about them as often. Negative stuff is much more clickable. For ex, in Ohio where its almost all bad news all the time, we have groups organizing together to change a MAJOR problem in our state, like in others, gerrymandering.

Check this out for another feel good 'change is happening' accomplishment~

THANK YOU

ProgressOhio’s Sandy Theis and the staff would like to thank the following individuals & organizations to make this a reality:

Members of the Voice of the People Coalition
Former State Rep. Joan W. Lawrence
Catherine Turcer & Sam Gresham of CommonCuase Ohio
League of Woman Voters
Former State Sen. Jeff Jacobson
OSU Professors Richard Gunther & Dan Tokaji
House & Senate Leaders and Staff
Everyone who helped along the way

From: http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2014/12/redistricting_reform_plan_pass.html

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio House on Wednesday gave final approval to a bipartisan plan changing how the state draws its legislative districts, sending the measure to voters next year for approval.

The House voted 81-7 to approve changes made to House Joint Resolution 12 by the Senate early Friday morning.

Changes to Ohio’s redistricting process have been introduced in every legislative session since 1978, but Wednesday’s vote marks the first time both chambers have agreed on a plan. The plan does not change how congressional districts are drawn.

Critics of the current method and the proposal’s supporters say it will make the process less partisan and more transparent.

“I think it will be a new day in Ohio in terms of how apportionment happens,” Rep. Matt Huffman, a Lima Republican, said on the House floor. “It will be a clearer process, one I think fairer to the general public and most importantly, I think the general public will understand how these things happen.”

http://www.progressohio.org/2014/12/we-did-it-redistricting-reform-one-step-closer/

Baby steps...