I carry the Hi Point Model C9 at my security gig.
Posted on 08/04/2009 7:28:09 PM PDT by HiramQuick
Senator Voinvich claims Ohioans can't relate to pro-gun Republicans from the South printable page Submitted by cbaus on Wed, 07/29/2009 - 00:10. Ohio Politics National Politics Guns in the News Gun Grabbers By Chad D. Baus
One week after ignoring thousands of phone calls from his constituents and helping a Democrat filibuster kill nationwide CCW reciprocity, Republican Senator George Voinovich of Ohio told editors at the Columbus Dispatch he knows what the Republican party's biggest problem is.
According to the anti-gun Senator, who has decided to retire after recognizing a 2010 re-election bid would meet the same fate as anti-gun Mike DeWine's did in 2006, Ohioans just can't relate to pro-gun Republicans from the South.
On Monday, Voinovich told Dispatch editors "We got too many Jim DeMints (R-S.C.) and Tom Coburns (R-Okla.). It's the Southerners. They get on TV and go "errrr, errrrr." People hear them and say, 'These people, they're Southerners. The party's being taken over by Southerners. What they hell they got to do with Ohio?'"
Judging by the 2006 defeat of Mike DeWine and the fact that Voinovich is not running again, the real question that has been asked, and answered, by Ohio voters is "what the hell do these anti-gun Republicans have to do with Ohio?"
Based on his comments to the Dispatch, it seems Voinovich, yet another person that left Ohio to find a job, has been gone far too long. While he is busy in D.C., projecting his own inability to relate to his pro-gun colleagues onto his constituents, roughly 160,000 Ohioans have obtained Ohio concealed handgun licenses, and voters elected pro-gun Democrats to the state-wide positions of Governor, Attorney General and Treasurer, as well as a pro-gun Democrat-controlled majority in the Ohio House.
When reflecting on Voinovich's out-of-touch and bigoted remarks, Buckeye Firearms Association Region Leader and self-described Southern gentlemen Larry S. Moore observed that "maybe instead of bitching about the way we talk, he should be looking at the way we walk the walk."
If the party is being taken over by Southerners, as Voinovich suggests, perhaps it's because so many well-educated Ohioans are moving south to escape oppressive gun laws and years of tax and spending increases in the state brought about by legislators in the Ohio GOP.
Indeed, research shows Ohio has been losing an estimated 36,500 residents on average each year to other states since 2004. Ohio's trend of losing its college graduates is so prolific it has even earned a media nickname: "Brain Drain." And to what region of the country are the largest number of our graduates moving? You guessed it - the South!
In 1988, then-Texas State Treasurer Ann Richards mocked then-Vice President and GOP presidential nominee George H. W. Bush in her best southern drawl (the same accent Voinovich insinuates Ohioans can't relate to, apparently ignorant of the fact that many Ohioans in the southern part of the state use the same dialect):
"Poor George," Richards said. "He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth."
Today, it seems Richards was almost right...she just got the wrong George.
Chad Baus is a Member of the Fulton County, OH Republican Central Committee and the Buckeye Firearms Association Vice Chairman.
Is it true? Yankees got guns?
parsy.
I know there are a lot of Ohioans packing both legal and illegal.
Whether or not people own firearms, the right to own a firearm is a symbol of our basic freedoms as Americans. It is something akin to the American flag. It is a way of saying to tyrants this is the land of the FREE, and the home of the BRAVE.
Oklahoma used to be in Middle America but I guess he moved us to the South. My brother and I grew up in Ohio and we believe in the Right to Bear Arms and agree with DeMint and Coburn (my Senator).
Voinivich is a poor excuse for a Republican and should have joined the Dems a long time ago. Guess he doesn’t remember history where the northern Republicans used to vote with the Southern Democrats. Bet he also didn’t like Everett Dirkson or Charley Halleck who did the Ev and Charlie show. They were not from the South.
The sad thing is this IS the Ohio RINO Party. Voinobitch, Taft, Schmidt, Bonehead Boehner (mr. personality) and on and on ad nauseum.
Kasich may be a keeper, A fellow by the name of Chabot down Cincy way was from what I could tell a good guy. Of course Pres Bush threw the only conservative Ohio has had under the bus .. Ken Blackwell .. just as Bush supported Arly Spectator over a real conservative next door.
And people wonder why I despise RINO’s and those that continue to vote for them??? sheesh I’m no longer welcome at county “R” functions ....
It is pieces of crap like this that sold the party and nation down the river. Good riddance.
The CCW and later Castle doctrine are two of the few things Ohio has done right ... and again with vitually NO thanks to our elected RINO’s. Then governor TAFT, another R moron wanted to veto both ... but didn’t becuse his veto was overridden.
Sherrod Brown (socialist) replaced DaWhiner, another R that hated guns .. quite frankly, Ohio has never seen any difference.
What a jerk.
For what it’s worth, this Ohio native / turned Texan owns two 380 pistols manufactured by Hi-Point Firearms located in Mansfield Ohio. Hi-Point makes the ugliest, cheapest, and best shooting weapon a person can buy for $125.00.
Cheap reliable protection, made 100% in the USA, by Ohio workers. Great business plan and one of the few manufacturing success stories in Ohio. Wonder if the Hi-Point folks will miss Voinojerk.
This yanke might have one or two, maybe 10 or 11, hidden conveniently around the domicile. You never know when one of those fine gentlemen/gentlewomen that the liberal judge ignored because of their “troubled” past comes a callin.
It’s happened twice to me in the last 4 years ... in a silk stocking neighborhood named plesantville. Aunt Bea ... let the doggie out.
I was just about to say, that Ohio’s relationship to this former Ohioan involves a company in that state producing the High-Point 995 Carbine, and me buying one...
Kasich is running for governor, that is something to look forward to.
I carry the Hi Point Model C9 at my security gig.
Voinovichy sucks! Hopefully, Portman will be better.
What an EGO he has, thinking he's speaking for ALL Ohioans... since HE can't relate, NO ONE ELSE can, apparently. /sarc
Voinivich doesn’t know his own state’s history.
A large number in Ohio were from Virginia.
A chunk of the state was the Virginia Military Dist.
at the creation of the state.
And I am a native of Calif. and know this.
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