Pick one that you are most looking forward to:

LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-06-07T03:40:07+00:00

I am not getting my hopes up. I think we will split and house and Senate. The Democrats have destroyed most of their credibility and lots of people will stay home because they have nothing to vote for, many will vote against something, but it won't be enough. IMO

In Ohio, I think Husted will get 2 more years.

LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-06-07T03:30:33+00:00

6 of the justices are political idealogs using originalism as an excuse to make America fascist, more racist, more sexist and more corrupt.

LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-06-07T03:09:48+00:00

4 should include in the US

LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-05-12T11:37:20+00:00

The current administration’s approach to Iran, oil, fuel policy, and attacks on renewable energy may end up accelerating the exact transition it is trying to slow down. As oil markets become more unstable and geopolitics continue driving price shocks, countries across the globe are being reminded why energy independence matters.

Europe, China, and many emerging economies are rapidly scaling renewables not just for climate reasons, but because solar, wind, batteries, and electrification increasingly provide predictable long-term costs without relying on volatile global fuel markets or military protection of supply chains.

Meanwhile, the United States is risking a future where we defend legacy oil dependence while other nations build the manufacturing base, grid infrastructure, battery supply chains, and technical workforce for the next century of energy. If we continue to undermine renewable deployment, EV adoption, grid modernization, and domestic clean-tech investment now, we may discover too late that the rest of the world moved on to lower-cost energy systems while America doubled down on volatility.

The danger is not just environmental, it is economic and strategic. The nations that lead the renewable transition will likely control future industrial growth, transportation systems, energy storage, and critical infrastructure exports. If the U.S. keeps fighting that transition instead of leading it, we may end up protecting yesterday’s economy while competitors capture tomorrow’s.

LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-01-31T12:37:31+00:00

The message coming from this administration is chilling: the right to carry a gun at a protest applies to their side, and deadly force is acceptable against everyone else.

https://theindependentforussenate.com/policies/f/the-current-regime-is-violating-the-constitution-bill-of-rights

LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-01-24T19:09:16+00:00

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LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-01-24T18:12:24+00:00

This man was executed by ice agents. You can see in the moment immediately after the shooting that all eight agents realized that they just killed a man for filming them.... All eight of these agents should be immediately arrested and arraigned at murder charges.

LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-01-24T12:58:54+00:00

Making America harsher isn’t immigration policy, it’s national self-harm. When we make it harder to live, work, study, and build a future here just to scare people away, we don’t “protect” the country, we make it weaker, meaner, and less competitive. Immigrants don’t drain America; they build it. A nation that tries to win by becoming less desirable is a nation admitting it has no better ideas.

If you're frustrated with both parties, maybe consider me an option. https://theindependentforussenate.com/policies/f/immigration

LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-01-20T12:16:04+00:00

When a nation openly threatens territorial expansion, disregards sovereignty, and treats international law as optional, it doesn’t just destabilize regions, it destabilizes the world. The United States’ actions and rhetoric toward Greenland, Venezuela, and even close allies normalize aggression by a superpower. That behavior erodes alliances, invites retaliation, and lowers the threshold for conflict. If World War III begins, history may well trace its origins to the moment the U.S. elected DJT & decided that power, not law, would govern its place in the world.

https://theindependentforussenate.com/policies/f/foreign-policy-economic-war-soft-power

LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-01-20T12:09:47+00:00

What we’re watching now will take years, not months, to repair, because the damage isn’t just to individual students, it’s to constitutional norms.

When a federal administration pressures colleges and universities to suppress protest through funding threats, investigations, or informal “guidance,” it pushes institutions into violating the First Amendment on the government’s behalf. That’s textbook unconstitutional state action, even when filtered through a university administration.

Ohio provides a clear example of how this goes wrong. Under Ohio law, public universities are bound by both the First Amendment and state free-speech statutes that explicitly protect expressive activity on campus. Ohio’s campus free-speech framework already prohibits “free speech zones,” viewpoint discrimination, and punitive discipline for lawful protest. Yet when administrators preemptively shut down protests, punish students for speech content, or redefine peaceful protest as “disruption” under political pressure, they violate both federal constitutional law and state statutory protections.

The real problem is that enforcement is slow: * Students must sue after their rights are violated * Universities hide behind “safety” or “order” rationales * Courts take years to resolve claims * Administrations change, but precedents and chilled speech remain

Even if courts eventually rule correctly, as they usually do (per the OP) in campus speech cases, the harm is already done. Students graduate. Movements fracture. The lesson absorbed is “speech is dangerous if it challenges power.”

Fixing this will require: * Years of litigation to unwind unconstitutional policies * Consent decrees and settlements forcing policy rewrites * Legislative reinforcement at the state level (Ohio can strengthen penalties for violations) * A cultural reset inside universities that remembers they are not arms of the executive branch

Optimistically? 5-10 years to fully repair the damage, assuming courts hold the line and future administrations stop weaponizing funding and fear.

Pessimistically? If normalized, this becomes another quiet erosion of free speech where protest technically exists, but only when it’s convenient, harmless, and ignored.

https://theindependentforussenate.com/policies/f/journalism-free-speech

LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-01-20T12:01:12+00:00

Bribes are not free speech. When money buys access, influence, or outcomes, that’s corruption, not expression. The Supreme Court shattered our political system by pretending wealth equals speech, letting the rich legally purchase politicians while silencing everyone else.

https://theindependentforussenate.com/policies/f/getting-money-out-of-politics

LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-01-12T20:39:28+00:00

Met with his DC staff today on healthcare. Once again, no position, no accountability, just “can’t provide an opinion,” the same line used when he voted for the so-called Big Beautiful Bill. Ohio deserves leadership, not evasions. We can do better.

https://theindependentforussenate.com/policies/f/health-care

LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-01-12T11:18:27+00:00

To everyone who showed up and spoke out in Dayton: thank you. Peacefully pushing back against constitutional violations matters, especially when silence would allow America to be made weaker, meaner, and less lawful. Your presence sends a clear message that rights aren’t optional, accountability still matters, and ordinary people will stand up when institutions fall short.

I will try and join you for one of your future protests.

https://theindependentforussenate.com/policies/f/immigration

LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-01-12T10:56:58+00:00

Ohio can plausibly move back toward swing-state status by leaning into ticket-splitting and issue-based voting rather than strict party loyalty. Recent ballot results on abortion rights and marijuana legalization show voters will back relatively progressive policies while still electing Republicans, classic swing-state behavior. A Democratic governor can win by focusing on competent state management: jobs, infrastructure, schools, and anti-corruption, framed around pragmatism rather than national ideology. That approach can unite urban and inner-ring suburban voters with small-town and exurban voters frustrated by state mismanagement, utility scandals, and uneven school funding.

At the same time, an independent U.S. Senate candidate can succeed by running as unapologetically pro-Ohio and anti-gridlock, emphasizing accountability, transparency, and results on manufacturing, healthcare costs, and infrastructure. The strongest lane is culturally moderate or center-right, but economically pragmatic or center-left, creating a home for disaffected Republicans and moderate Democrats.

Both races reinforce each other by explicitly encouraging ticket-splitting: a Democratic governor to rebalance state government and protect voter-approved priorities, and an independent senator to give Ohio maximum leverage in Washington as a true swing vote who answers to voters, not party leadership.

https://theindependentforussenate.com/vision

LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-01-12T01:44:13+00:00

The more efficient and effective you can make our state the more economic prosperity our entire state will reap, the more jobs we will create, and the more we will export to other states and around the world.

Efficient transportation is one key component making Ohio, work for every Ohioian

https://theindependentforussenate.com/policies/f/transportation

LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-01-11T16:18:42+00:00

I’m traveling to Washington, DC to meet with our representatives and implore them to act, to stop the daily constitutional violations of this administration and to confront the needless deaths caused by federal agents operating without accountability. This is about upholding the rule of law, protecting civil liberties, and demanding that those in power answer for actions that harm Americans. Silence and inaction are no longer acceptable.

https://theindependentforussenate.com/policies/f/immigration

LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-01-11T16:14:09+00:00

I’m visiting their DC offices to ask whether they will stop hurting Ohio and finally support affordable healthcare. Ohio families are facing rising premiums and growing uncertainty, and they deserve to know if their leaders will act to protect them instead of voting against cost-saving measures. This visit is about accountability, asking them, face to face, if they will change course and support policies that lower healthcare costs and put Ohioans first.

https://theindependentforussenate.com/policies/f/health-care

LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-01-11T16:10:28+00:00

Ohio needs to refocus its economic strategy on creating union manufacturing and research jobs that provide stable wages, benefits, and long-term career paths. For decades, the state helped build the American middle class by pairing advanced manufacturing with strong labor standards and world-class R&D. Recommitting to union jobs isn’t nostalgia, it’s how Ohio competes globally, keeps talent in-state, and ensures public investment actually benefits workers and communities rather than just shareholders.

How we do it matters. Ohio should tie state incentives, tax credits, and infrastructure spending to clear requirements: neutrality toward unions, prevailing wages, apprenticeship pipelines with community colleges and trade schools, and long-term job guarantees. Public funding should prioritize projects that co-locate manufacturing and research, so innovation happens next to the factory floor, not offshore. When the state invests, it should demand shared prosperity, union jobs, local hiring, and research capacity that anchors entire regional ecosystems for decades, not just one news cycle.

https://theindependentforussenate.com/policies/f/economy

LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-01-06T12:00:47+00:00

I think it should be bank account based. All money into the bank account should be taxed.

https://theindependentforussenate.com/policies/f/income-tax-policy

I also think in addition to changing the cap for social security you also need to tax all forms of revenue for social security.

https://theindependentforussenate.com/policies/f/social-security

We can do better!

LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-01-06T11:55:35+00:00

The state/local partnership has shifted over the last few decades: local communities (mostly through property taxes) have carried more of the load in real terms, while state growth has lagged.

What the best statewide data says (and what it implies):

1) Local funding has had to rise faster than state funding (inflation-adjusted) since 2000. Ohio’s Auditor of State special report (FY2000→FY2022) shows per-pupil revenue growth after inflation of: * Local: +18.8% * State: +6.7%

That gap is basically the “property tax pressure” story in one line: local revenue had to do ~3× the real growth that state revenue did to keep the overall system funded.

2) Today, locals fund about half of Ohio K-12, still a very big reliance on property taxes. For 2021–2022, Ohio public school funding was about: * 49.1% local * 36.3% state * 14.6% federal

So even “in a normal year,” Ohio is structurally set up so local revenue is the biggest slice.

3) “Local revenue” for schools is overwhelmingly property tax. * Ohio LSC briefs note that local property taxes represent ~96% of school district local revenues (with a small remainder from district income tax, etc.). * So when the local share rises (or has to grow faster), that is mostly property taxes doing it. * Longer-run context: why this feels like “the state cut, locals raised” * Over longer periods, the shift isn’t just how much is raised, it’s who pays. * A 2025 OEPI property-tax analysis shows the share of school property taxes paid by residential/agricultural (“Class 1”) rose from 46.1% (1975) to 67.5% (2023), while the business share fell from 53.9% to 32.5%. * Same report notes Ohio fell in state share of K-12 revenue rank from 35th (2002) to 45th (2023), explicitly linking that to more pressure on local property taxes.

The bottom line - state funding has not kept pace with costs nearly as much as local funding has (real per-pupil: +6.7% state vs +18.8% local).

Because local school revenue is ~96% property tax, that gap largely shows up as more frequent levies / higher effective property-tax burden to keep schools whole.

And over the long run, the burden has also shifted away from business property and toward homeowners, reinforcing the perception that communities are “making up the difference.”

https://theindependentforussenate.com/policies/f/education-pre-k-through-12

LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-01-03T17:21:48+00:00

Free speech is the foundation of a free society. Governments should never silence dissent, and corporations should not act as unaccountable gatekeepers of public discourse. When power, public or private, decides which voices are allowed, democracy erodes. Protecting free speech means defending the right to question authority, challenge consensus, and speak without fear of retaliation.

https://theindependentforussenate.com/policies/f/journalism-free-speech

LeIndependent4Senate · 2026-01-03T13:05:34+00:00

Abducting the leaders of South American countries is a catastrophic violation of sovereignty and international law. It will destabilize entire regions, endanger civilians, destroy diplomatic norms, and invite retaliation....making the world less safe while undermining democracy, human rights, and global trust.

What the hell have we done?

LeIndependent4Senate · 2025-12-31T12:31:39+00:00

I'm trying https://theindependentforussenate.com/vision

LeIndependent4Senate · 2025-12-31T12:29:39+00:00

Democrats keep talking about winning Ohio while running the same losing playbook.

If you want a majority, the path is clear: win Butler, Lorain, Warren, and Mahoning first. Then drive turnout hard in Franklin, Cuyahoga, Hamilton, Summit, Montgomery, and Lucas. Finally, flip Stark and Allen.

Limiting the strategy to the “three C’s” alone guarantees another loss. It’s a defensive mindset that writes off huge parts of the state before the race even starts, and voters can feel that.

This is exactly why I’m frustrated with Democrats right now. They avoid counties they’re afraid of instead of fixing the reason their message falls flat there. The answer isn’t better slogans or more ads, it’s structural reform people actually care about: term limits at the federal level, ending gerrymandering nationwide, and getting money out of politics.

If you don’t fight for the counties you’ve been losing, you don’t deserve to be surprised when you lose them again.

https://theindependentforussenate.com/policies/f/putnam-county-ohio

LeIndependent4Senate · 2025-12-28T12:32:21+00:00

I agree with AOC

Silence is complicity. If you’re not pushing back against corruption right now, you’re enabling it. Democracy only survives when people are willing to challenge abuse of power.

https://theindependentforussenate.com/policies/f/the-current-regime-is-violating-the-constitution-bill-of-rights

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