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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Updated with Strickland response Rep. Morgan asks for mediation in Strickland case
State Rep. Seth Morgan has asked the Ohio Supreme Court to refer his ongoing effort to get public records from Gov. Ted Strickland about Strickland’s “evidence-based” school plan to mediation.
Strickland said on Wednesday, April 29 that he was not sure that there was a problem to be mediated but added:
“….if there’s something that needs to be mediated, I believe in mediation and people coming together…so I’m not ruling out mediation.”
The Supreme Court last week ordered Strickland to continue turning over records to Morgan “within a reasonable time” in the case. In a separate, concurring opinion, Justice Paul Pfeifer, said the court should have ordered mediation.
“Given the fact that it took Supreme Court action to get the governor to follow Ohio law, it seems only reasonable that the court would assist the people of Ohio, through my office, to see the full picture of what the governor used to produce this ‘evidence-based’ education plan,” Morgan said in a press release.
Strickland said the court last week “indicated that we were responding to the good representative and they told us that we should continue to do so and that’s what we’ve been doing….”
Strickland’s office said more than 9,000 pages or records already have been turned over to Morgan. Strickland has dismissed Morgan’s lawsuit as “little more than a disappointing attempt to detract from” the discussion about modernizing Ohio’s education system.
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Committee OK expected on bill sparked by mother’s slaying
The House Insurance Committee next week is expected to vote out legislation that would strike a car owner’s home address from the owner’s vehicle registration form, Committee Chairman Dan Dodd, D-Hebron, said on Wednesday, April 29.
Dodd’s announcement came after Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer testified in support of House Bill 50, which Plummer called a “safety issue” and related it to the shooting death of Jenny Nelson, who was killed in her Harrison Township home in January.
Plummer said that Charlie Myers got Nelson’s address from the registration form in the car he stole while Nelson and her husband attended a concert in Columbus.
Plummer said that removing the addresses from the registration forms wouldn’t hurt law enforcement efforts. Law enforcement officials still would be able to get motorists’ addresses by running license plate information through a computer data base, Plummer said.
Myers has admitted to the robbery and being in the Nelson home at the time of Nelson’s death. He is in jail and awaiting trial on murder charges.
Plummer has said Myers tied up Nelson, assaulted her 4-year-old son and was stabbed in the back after Nelson broke free. Myers grabbed a gun he brought and shot Nelson, Plummer has said. Myers then kidnapped the son and dropped him off at a rest stop along Interstate 70 in Madison County.
Dodd, the committee chairman, said he didn’t know when the bill would come to the House floor for a vote.
State Rep. John Domenick, D-Smithfield, the bill’s sponsor, has cited Nelson’s slaying in proposing the legislation.
