A Press Release by the Columbus Community Bill of Rights (CCBOR) and posted on the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund’s website on September 8th, 2018.
Columbus, OH: On Friday, several corporate lobbyist groups filed amicus briefs to the Ohio Supreme Court in the rapidly-moving lawsuit brought by Columbus Community Bill of Rights (CCBOR) to have an initiated Community Bill of Rights ordinance submitted to the electorate of Columbus. The identified supporters of the Franklin County Board of Elections’ action to deny the initiated ordinance to be placed on the November ballot includes the Ohio Oil and Gas Association, Affiliated Construction Trades Ohio Foundation, Ohio Chamber of Commerce, Columbus Realtors, Ohio Chemistry Technology Council, and the American Petroleum Institute.
Bill Lyons, co-organizer for CCBOR states,
“These corporate trade groups by their actions clearly illustrate their belief that their profit-making motives should supersede the people’s rights to a clean environment and democracy where they live. We will not sit back idly and allow our health, safety, and welfare for our children and future generations to be determined by profiteering polluters and their paid-for politicians.” MORE…