Column: And so ends another lackluster General Assembly
The Columbus Dispatch
As the curtain falls on Ohio’s 133rd General Assembly, words from the Book of Common Prayer come to mind: “We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done." And — especially apt, given the Ohio House’s fecklessness about COVID-19 safeguards — “there is no health in us.”
The two-year session opened on Jan. 7, 2019, when former House Speaker Larry Householder, a Republican from Perry County’s Glenford, regained the speakership, 52-46, besting fellow Republican Ryan Smith, of Gallia County’s Bidwell, speaker for 2018’s final six months. Of the 52 pro-Householder votes, House Democrats provided 26, a fact Democrats don’t ballyhoo.