When Buckeye Firearms Association's Larry Moore first sounded the alarm bells about why gun owners needed to pay attention to State Issues 2, 3, 4, and 5, many Second Amendment supports probably wondered what the Issues had to do with their gun rights. Our answer was simple - a fair and open elections process has everything to do with our gun rights, and the anti-gun people who were trying to change all that needed to be exposed for what they were.

Back in September, Moore warned voters that "these issues will make participation in PACs, such as the Buckeye Firearms Association, more difficult and limit our free speech in the political process." He told readers of this website that alarm bells should be ringing over knowledge of who was behind this push for Issues 2 through 5.

"Almost 94% of the money raised in support of [Reform Ohio Now] has come from out of state," Moore said in September. "Even more concerning to gun owners should be the fact that just over 48% has come from organizations that are funded by George Soros."

Now that the election is over, the press is finally coming clean on all the liberal, anti-gun money men who were behind this attempted power-grab.

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The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that Rep. Linda Reidelbach, considered one of the most conservative members of the General Assembly, told party officials last week that she will not run for re-election in 2006.

From the story:

The Columbus Republican could have run for one more two-year term before being forced out by term limits.

"She said she was heading into her last term, and there are a lot of things important to her in her life in addition to public service," said House Speaker Jon A. Husted, R-Kettering. "She thought long and hard, talked to family and prayed about it, and felt there were other things she wanted to do going forward."

Husted said he didn’t talk to her about whether she will fill out the remaining year of her term. He presumes that she will.

"Linda was a strong conservative voice and she always represented the issues she cared about well, and we’ll certainly miss that about her," Husted said.

The Dispatch article named two front-runners which it says have emerged to replace Reidelbach: Blendon Township Trustee Kevin Bacon and Columbus lawyer William Todd. Doug Preisse, chairman of the Franklin County Republican Party, said endorsements will be made Jan. 11.

Rep. Reidelbach is a two-time endorsee of this political action committee. We join with Speaker Husted in expressing how much she will be missed.