Grove City Urbancrest Progress

09/16/2024

Hello Everyone.

Just a couple quick updates…

First, if you are seeing this post anywhere except the Grove City Area Progress group, please make sure you follow that page. That’s where the real action is 😉. Click here to go straight to that group and follow! https://www.facebook.com/share/g/JWXXVnKtN7nHuNE8/?mibextid=K35XfP

Second, This is a great time to become a member of our private group because we use the $25 dues to help with efforts around our city like Get Out the Vote efforts, Postcards and Postage, Booths at events, Printing, etc. You can find all the info about becoming a member on the Progress Grove City website (https://progressgrovecity.com)

Third, we have a run of events coming up in the next few weeks. They are all on the event calendar on the website (which you can easily map right to your normal calendar) but I’m going to list out the highlights below:

Recurring events:

- Thursday Happy Hour - every Thursday we meet at Grove City Brewing Company. Reminders are posted every week.
- Coffee Talk - Each Friday we meet at Panera at 10:30 AM. Again…reminders are posted every week.
- Sunday Funday/Hour of Action - every Sunday we meet at the part (details in the reminders) to do an hour of postcard writing for candidates/issues/get out the vote, and then we gather for a few hours to let the kids play and enjoy some quality time together!

Special Events:

- Voter Registration Booth - This Sunday we’ll have Voter Registration Drive outside the Farm Table. We’ll have a table set up and we can check voter registration, register people to vote, order absentee ballots, etc. If someone in your lift is voting for the first time or has recently moved, please swing by!
- PrideFest - We’ll have a booth at Pridefest this year, and we have special edition T-Shirts (all proceeds to Pride in GC) available on the website. Please come out and see us and help us celebrate our friends in the Pride in GC group!
- Speed Activism Training - That’s right…another great training session with bite sized session that will help you get active today! This ever will be on 9/30 at 6:30PM. Watch for more details, but save the date!!!

05/20/2024

05/18/2024

Right now you can get a small vase with a peony arrangement in front of The Farm Table! It’s a no brainer to make a great weekend for that special someone!

05/15/2024

Today was a great morning. I listen to podcasts every morning when I do my 3 mile constitutional, and I love it when 2 people I really enjoy meet up 1 on 1 on a podcast. Today was one of those days.

Tim Miller is now the host of the Bulwark podcast. As a center right never-trumper, he gives me some balance in my perspective and keeps me honest.

Today his guest was Eddie Glaude, who is a professor of African American Studies at Princeton. Eddie is a special mix of both historian (especially in terms of James Baldwin) and forward thinker when it comes to how we move forward around race in our country. I particularly love that he is close to his students and can play interpreter when we have generational collisions between those of us with more experience (older people) and those just entering adulthood.

Please do yourself a favor and listen to this conversation and how they challenge each other on certain things but just shine a light on multiple topics from protests on campus to trump trials to the upcoming election. I’d love to chat about it if anyone listens and has some thoughts.

Joe has to tell campus protesters it’s OK to disagree with him—and that they can hold him to account.

05/10/2024

Look who’s willing to sell out America AGAIN! (And this is Fox News folks…)

12/29/2023

Have you heard the news? Grove City Urbancrest Progress now has a new public Facebook group called Grove City Area Progress. This current page will no longer be active as we will use the new public group instead.

12/28/2023

🚨🚨Tomorrow is Governor DeWine’s deadline to veto HB 68. Have you made your call and sent your email?

Keep calling again and again! Thank you to the thousands of Ohioans who’ve already called at least once, emailed, or signed the Ohio Is Home letter.

Thank you to everyone who continues to speak out. It is clear that this bill does not reflect the people of Ohio.

NOW: Call either phone number:

☎️614-466-3555 OR 614-644-4357

✉️Email: governor.ohio.gov/contact (also linked in our bio).

Your message: “Veto HB 68”. If you’d like to add more about why this is important, please do, but the main message is clear: Veto HB 68.

12/27/2023

Reminder that we are indeed meeting tomorrow…we’ll be at Grove City Brewery starting at 6. Please feel free to come join us! We’d love to see a few more new faces before the new year…

We’ll be at the long high top in the main room tomorrow, so come hang out, enjoy the great food and drink, and see what we’ve got cooking for 2024!!!

12/21/2023

Copied from Indivisible Central Ohio.

Candidate filings for 2024 have started to be posted! I’ll update this post as info becomes available.

This is sourced from Boards of Elections filings and journalist Jeremy Pelzer’s reporting.

Here are a few key takeaways:

(1) Because the new state legislative maps favor incumbent protection, there will be very few competitive or potentially competitive districts in central Ohio in the general election. The 2022 map had 4 Ohio House seats that were within 10 points, but the 2024 map is down to 3 Ohio House seats within that margin. (Statewide, the number of Ohio House seats within 10 points has decreased from 27 to 19 seats.)

(2) Because there are so few seats that could be competitive in the general election, we may be seeing an increase in the number of contested primary elections and the number of independent candidates in the general election.

(3) **TO BE UPDATED** Key gaps seem to remain where we still need progressive candidates in HD61, HD68, HD73, HD86, HD87, SD22, and SD26.

Most Competitive Local Ohio House Districts

HD10 (R+1; Grove City/Southwest Columbus): Ahmet Ali, Sarah Pomeroy, and Mark Sigrist in the D primary vs Dave Dobos (R-incumbent), John Frye, Brian Garvine, and Shafi Shafat in the R primary

HD11 (D+9; Dublin Area): Crystal Lett (D) vs Stephanie Kunze (R) (Anita Somani switching districts)

TO BE UPDATED HD60 (R+9; Southern Delaware County): Rachael Morocco (D) vs potentially Brian Lorenz (R-incumbent) with a potential primary

Democratic-Favored Local Ohio House and Ohio Senate Districts

HD1 (D+63; Bexley/Near East Columbus): Dontavius Jarrells (D-incumbent) vs No R opponent

HD2 (D+53; Whitehall/Far East Columbus): Latyna Humphrey (D-incumbent) vs potential independent opponents vs No R opponent

HD3 (D+64; Linden Area Plus): Abdirizak Diini, Ismail Mohamed (D-incumbent), and Julie Trabold in D primary vs potential independent opponents vs no R opponent

HD4 (D+11; Gahanna/New Albany/Westerville): Beryl Brown Piccolantonio (D) vs Jason Allevato (R) and potential independent opponent (Mary Lightbody retiring)

HD5 (D+14; Canal Winchester/Reynoldsburg/Southeast Columbus): Leo Almeida, Meredith Lawson-Rowe, and Marco Miller in the D primary vs No R opponent (Rich Brown term-limited)

HD6 (D+13; West Columbus): Brandon Barcus, Patrick Barnacle, Eli Bohnert, Christine Cockley, Adhanet Kifle, Kawther Musa, and Elijah Williams in the D primary vs Hussein Jabiri (R) (Adam Miller term-limited)

HD7 (D+39; Upper Arlington Area): Allison Russo (D-incumbent) vs No R opponent

HD8 (D+27; Worthington Area): Anita Somani (D-incumbent but switching districts from HD11) vs No R opponent

HD9 (D+42; Columbus Northland Area): Munira Abdullahi (D-incumbent) vs Corban Qualls (I) vs No R opponent

SD16 (D+15; Northern Franklin County): Beth Liston (D) vs Besa Sharrah (R) (Stephanie Kunzie term-limited)

Republican-Favored Local Ohio House and Ohio Senate Districts

TO BE UPDATED HD12 (R+42; Madison County/Pickaway County/Southwest Franklin County): Brad Cotton (D) vs Brian Stewart (R) with potential primary

TO BE UPDATED HD61 (R+24; Eastern Delaware County/Western Knox County): TBD vs Beth Lear (R-incumbent) with potential primary

TO BE UPDATED HD68 (R+20; Newark/Southwest Licking County): TBD vs Thad Claggett (R-incumbent)

TO BE UPDATED HD69 (R+48; Parts of Fairfield, Licking and Perry Counties): Jamie Hough (D) vs Kevin Miller (R-incumbent) with potential primary opponent

TO BE UPDATED HD73 (R+20; Lancaster/Northwest Fairfield County): TBD vs Jeff LaRe (R-incumbent) with potential primary opponent

TO BE UPDATED HD76 (R+39; Richland County): Alomar Davenport (D) vs Marilyn John (R-incumbent) and potential independent

TO BE UPDATED HD86 (R+33; Marion City/Union County): TBD vs Tracy Richardson (R-incumbent) with potential primary opponents

TO BE UPDATED HD87 (R+51; Crawford, Marion, Morrow, and Wyandot Counties): TBD vs Riordan McClain (R-incumbent)

TO BE UPDATED SD20 (R+29; Fairfield, Licking, and Perry Counties): Nick Hubbell (D) vs Tim Schaffer (R-incumbent)

TO BE UPDATED SD22 (R+32; Ashland, Medina, and Richland Counties): TBD vs Mark Romanchuk (R-incumbent)

TO BE UPDATED SD26 (R+38; Crawford, Marion, Morrow, Sandusky, Seneca, Union, and Wyandot Counties): TBD vs Bill Reineke (R-incumbent)

General Info About Federal Races

President/VP: Biden/Harris (D) vs R ticket

US Senate: Sherrod Brown (D-incumbent) vs R primary winner

OH3: Joyce Beatty (D-incumbent) vs Charles Chope and Michael Young in the R primary

TO BE UPDATED OH4

TO BE UPDATED OH12

OH15: Zerqa Abid vs Adam Miller in the D primary vs Mike Carey (R-incumbent)

General Info About Local Races

FRANKLIN COUNTY

Prosecutor: Shayla Favor, Natalia Harris, and Anthony Pierson in the D primary vs John Rutan (R) (Gary Tyack retiring)

Engineer: Adam Fowler (D) vs Cornell Robertson (R-incumbent)

(Democrats Kevin Boyce and John O’Grady for Commissioner, Maryellen O’Shaughnessy for Common Pleas Clerk, Dallas Baldwin for Sheriff, Danny O’Connor for Recorder, Cheryl Brooks Sullivan for Treasurer, and Nate Overmire for Coroner are uncontested.)

TO BE UPDATED Info from other counties

For local races, most (all?) counties will elect 2 county commissioners, county prosecutor, clerk of courts, county auditor, sheriff, county recorder, county treasurer, county engineer, and county coroner.

TO BE UPDATED For judicial races, 2 Ohio Supreme Court justices will be up for election. In Franklin County, 2 appeals court judges and 8 common pleas judges will be up for election, with most positions currently being held by Democrats. Also, several of our members of the Ohio State Board of Education will be up for election.

Some county parties are also electing committee members as well. Check out the local county party websites or Boards of Elections for more info. Many candidates have filed and are contested or uncontested.

12/20/2023

We’ve gotten some questions about our schedule for the Happy Hour during the holidays. It’s actually quite simple…if it’s Thursday, we’ll be at Grove City Brewing Company from 6-8!

We think it’s so very crucial that we have a place to support one another that we’ll always have a spot for the group to gather. They’d have to lock the doors to keep us away!

Recently we’ve had some pretty high turnout, so if you are reading this and thinking you’re the only progressive that you know, please come join us. There are many more of us than you think…and our numbers are growing every week!

This is a social event. The purpose is to meet and support (and be supported by) people who feel similarly about where our world and our city are today. We will have some petitions and candidates may come by and introduce themselves, but this is not a working meeting…it’s a fellowship…you aren’t signing up for anything.

So come hang out, enjoy the fine food and beverage that the brewery has to offer, and get to know some others who are also pushing for positive change! We’d love to add you to our family for the holidays!

See you soon…