Ohioans For Concealed Carry first notified supporters about Prime Outlets mall's discriminatory signs on May 3. The Jeffersonville mall holds a dubious distinction on the Do Not Patronize While Armed list, as the only retailer which has had employees victimized by the Ohio "Retail Rapist".

Prime Outlets has placed "NO WEAPONS" signs at the EDGE of their property lines. This means that when you travel to Prime Outlets in Jeffersonville or Lodi (usually a 1 hour or longer drive for most of their customer base), customers are faced with a sign that prohibits them from even entering their property with their vehicle if they are concealed handgun license-holders and are carrying a firearm.

Click here to read the memo Prime Outlets delivered to each store owner announcing the ban.

OFCC's calls were referred to Peggy
Wimberley, regional Vice President for "the whole west region" according
to the Lodi management offices. We spoke with her on June 1.

Our call was answered on a speaker phone, and it was quickly apparent that Peggy Wimberley was not interested in what her customers think of Prime Outlets' policy.

Click on the "Read More..." link below for more.

by Thomas Suddes, Cleveland Plain Dealer

The one sure way to drain the Statehouse consulting- and-collecting cesspool would be to repeal General Assembly term limits. Otherwise, nothing will change in Columbus, not even if a clutch of Republicans ends up in the hoosegow.

Term limits, which voters imposed in 1992, forbid state representatives and senators to serve more than eight consecutive years. Then - in theory - they take a four-year break.

But in practice, rather than go home to Dullsville, unwined and undined, term-limited legislators seek to win a seat in the other General Assembly chamber - senators in the House, House members in the Senate. Or they coax a patronage slot out of Republican Gov. Bob Taft.

Click on the "Read More..." link below for more, and to learn how term-limits impacted our concealed handgun license law.