No, the pair in the picture are not announcing a bid for governor and lieutenant governor of Ohio, USA, but it is a gubernatorial election year here, which means perhaps we can finally get rid of those stupid politician names on the welcome to Ohio highway signs. It's been about 3 years since I ran a post about this issue on the blog (you can get caught up on the now-decade-long saga here). Nothing good has happened in the meantime. The funny cartoon I sent to my state rep and state senator at the time went unaddressed (both of them, Bride Rose Sweeney and Matt Dolan, kinda sucked anyway, so I wasn't surprised). Ohio's lieutenant governor filled J. D. Vance's Senate seat, so they made the Ohio State football coach the new lieutenant governor (no, I'm not making this up--they seriously do this kind of dumb shit in Ohio--it's a bit embarrassing) and, of course, spent thousands of dollars probably to change the name on the highway signs. Worse, Pennsylvania, probably fueled by that current governor's presidential hopes, stuck his name on welcome signs.
Sigh. Well, let's see if any of the current candidates for governor will do away with the practice. I'll keep you posted if I hear back from any of them. Maybe I should hit up the new rep and senate candidates in my districts as well, but let's see how ambitious I feel this year.
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