What my state is working on

In case you're wondering, this is what the State of Ohio is working on:

Sub S.B. 9 (as passed by the Senate)

· Requires the Director of Public Safety to develop a questionnaire to be used by the state, instrumentalities of the state, and political subdivisions of the state in determining whether any potential employee has provided material assistance to an organization listed on the U.S. Department of State Terrorist Exclusion List, requires the Director to make available to the state, instrumentalities of the state, and political subdivisions of the state a copy of the questionnaire and a then-current copy of the Exclusion List, requires that a copy of the questionnaire and that Exclusion List be provided to each person under final consideration for employment with the state, a state instrumentality, or a political subdivision, requires each person under final consideration for such employment who is provided a copy of the questionnaire to complete it, and provides that any answer of "yes" to any of the questions must be considered a disclosure by the person that the person has provided material
assistance to an organization listed on the Exclusion List.
· Generally prohibits the state, a state instrumentality, or a political subdivision of the state from employing any person who discloses on the questionnaire the provision of material assistance to an organization listed on the U.S. Department of
State Terrorist Exclusion List.

Basically, what this means is that the State of Ohio is protecting themselves from terrorists by asking potential state employees if they support terrorists or are, in fact, a terrorist. I see no way this could be gotten around.

You know what's protecting this state from terrorists? THE FACT THAT WE'RE NOT NEW YORK, D.C. OR CALIFORNIA. I cannot imagine a group of terrorists sitting around saying "yes, let's attack Ohio! It's the heart of it all. They'll really feel it there."

Good thing we're working on this instead of, you know, trying to figure out why our state keeps moving down on all economic indicators compared with the rest of the nation. I'm sure he's only like 2% repsonsible for this latest gem, but I blame Bob Taft for it, too.