Merry Christmas (and soon Happy New Year)!!!
I hope you and yours had a great holiday on Sunday. I spent the day opening presents with my kids, eating lots of good food with family, and having a bit of fun.
As we’ve seen over the last two years in America and, unfortunately, for the last twenty years in Ohio, getting it wrong or failing to do the hard stuff has consequences on Main Street. Though we don’t notch wins as often as we’d like and far too many of our wins come from stopping bad ideas (e.g., John Kasich’s severance tax on energy) instead of enacting good ones, we fight every day to convince policymakers to do the right thing. It isn’t easy given how much influence special interests have over them, but we know if we didn’t do our work things would be worse.
Since 2012, Opportunity Ohio has released over 1,200 policy ideas, interviews, and visuals for Ohio policymakers and citizens to leverage to make Ohio and America stronger (check out www.opportunityohio.org when you get a chance if you haven’t stoppped by in awhile). Every week, our radio segment reaches the greater Columbus, Cincinnati. and Dayton areas. We hope to expand our radio reach to Toledo, Cleveland, and Akron-Canton in 2023.
With 2022 coming to a close, I wanted to kindly ask you to consider making a year-end charitable gift before December 31, 2022, to support the great work we did in 2022 and the vital work we still have to do in 2023. You can donate online here (https://www.opportunityohio.org/donate/) or send a check to: Opportunity Ohio, P.O. Box 98, Dublin, Ohio 43017-0098. Any contribution postmarked before January 1, 2023, will count towards our 2022 fundraising goal. Your support is greatly appreciated by the Opportunity Ohio team (Mary, John, and me). Every little bit helps:-)
Here’s to an amazing 2023 (I hope)!!!
Cheers!
Matt