Melissa Ackison

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Never! I am a post abortive woman who was taken to a Planned Parenthood as a child. I’ve been involved in the Abolitionist movement and pro life movement for over two decades sharing my life story. Roe.v.wade is a Court decision. Courts don’t make laws, they can only give opinion. The state of Ohio and the “ Free the States” project along with the Abolitionist movement seeks to hold legislators responsible for protecting the states from allowing abortion providers from even being an option! I am a known abolitionist, my website indicates this fact and while some may call my position radical, my position is constitutionally factual. My story and the stories of other post abortive women and children who experienced abortion will be the key to the abolitionist movement and freeing the states by holding our legislators accountable. Currently, we have legislators who are Republicans ( RINO’s) cutting deals with Democrats to regulate death in the state of Ohio. I ONLY support Abolition.

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Any taxes for duplicate or nonessential services, absolutely no state or federal funds to Planned Parenthood or any educational initiative that teaches anything outside of Abstinence, Policy shaped around addressing reckless entitlement and the current benefit cliff that is a well known issue to Ohio Jobs and family services encouraging the choice of systems and subsidies vs. a livable wage and increased productivity, NO Medicaid expansion, reduction of administrative services & merging institut

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My faith and accountability to the teachings of Jesus Christ are what leads me to conservatism and will be in the forefront of my governing style.

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We have to return healthcare decisions back to patients and Doctors and allow open markets to drive down costs along with legislated cost transparency for consumers. Hospitals and clinics should be accessible for all for necessary care and for those who are not insured or cannot pay the full amount should be allowed to pay on a sliding scale over time. Co-ops and associations should be encouraged to leverage the size of their membership for lower costs. Faith based plans such as Medi-Share should be encouraged, so as to allow the community of members to share the cost. I worked personally with President Trump and Vice President Pence as a national figure who fought back and was victimized by Obama Care. Prior to the ACA, Ohio had one of the richest and most impressive/affordable healthcare markets with free market design working beautifully along with personal responsibility and financially planning for family healthcare needs. Removal of barriers to purchase across state lines!

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Only those who have the physical ability to be self sustainable and the love of American traditions and all things that make America the exceptional nation we are today. I’ve worked with refugee settlement in the private sector and know firsthand the dangers of reckless immigration with people and areas of the world who don’t embrace assimilation. Chain/family migration must come to an and and only immigration based on skills and desires to assimilate to a productive standing should be considered. We need to define what true asylum seekers are and economic asylum that includes subsidies and entitlements with no intent to become productive citizens must come to an end at all costs. We cannot sustain with our current boarder crisis nor can we allow lawless sanctuary cities. State and federal funds should absolutely be weaponized to ensure law and order!

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I am a born-again Christian and believe all that I have belongs to God and that anything that I do, I do to glorify God. I believe I am saved by grace and the Holy Spirit works within me daily to guide me to live the life God intended and to serve and treat others with truth, love and grace.

Very Conservative

My website provides the most comprehensive policy positions and can be found https://www.ackisonforohio.com/issues I was the woman responsible for leading Ohio’s charge in combination with Ohio Value Voters that shut down drag queen story hour and stripped tax payer funding of these radical programs by leveraging my public platform and media contacts., I single handedly shut down gender transition materials from coming into public elementary schools in 2019 AND I became a national figure who was awarded the “ Protect Ohio Children” award in July 2019 for publicizing and inspiring a senate bill that protects children from dancing in bars while performing drag. I am known nationally for my work and have used my platform as a Conservative figure and activist to fight back against radical liberalist initiatives in schools, libraries Etc. My home has been under watch by local law enforcement for threats and fighting aggressively against these initiatives that come from the radical left.

My background as a Human Resource professional, building business from the ground up along with my time in mergers and acquisitions/contract management gives me extensive experience in understanding labor trends, skills gaps and the reasons as to why Ohio’s over regulatory environment leads to poor staffing options and small businesses struggling as well as mid to large sized business moving to neighboring states with better tax offerings and labor pools. My work owning a staffing business helped me to understand the devastating impact of Ohio’s current welfare and entitlement state that many times, forces the able bodied to stifle their productivity to ensure they don’t hit a “ benefit cliff” where entitlements have become a more financially beneficial choice versus increasing their skills and productivity. Medicaid expansion and welfare are at a dangerously unsustainable level yet we have no intestinal fortitude in Ohio’s General Assembly to address these issues legislatively.

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I am running to serve you and to return our republic back to the people with an emphasis on social and fiscal conservatism. I’m a proven constitutional Conservative in all aspects of my life and believe in a limited state and federal government. I’m not a politically correct candidate and speak truth to the decline of morality and a crumbling Republic at the hands of week kneed politicians running the show. I’m very comfortable with Sharing my personal life stories in complete transparency be it an abortion I received as a child that led me to the abolitionist movement, the struggles of Obamacare, IRS audits of my small business and the impact of government overreach to my life. I will always lean towards the power of the state’s rights and local decision making to self-govern and will push for individual rights at all costs. I’m a fearless Conservative and understand the need to elect legislators with a backbone, willing to stand alone to do what’s right by the people

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The second amendment is designed to keep the government in check from tyranny against our people. There should never, under any circumstances be any modification to the 2nd amendment, NO red flag gun proposals or ANY idea that infringes or treads on the rights of our citizens. There’s a reason I have an NRA rating without serving as a legislator and it’s based around my uncompromising positions and activism on the 2nd amendment.

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-Complete overhaul of Ohio’s regulatory and compliance environment that has Landed Ohio on par with New York and California in terms of over regulation - Legislation that protects Foster Families and children from the abuses of CPS and closing loopholes that continuously places children and foster families last - Criminal sentencing reform for crimes against Children, chemical castration offenders of heinous crimes, stiffer death penalties to save from tax draining incarceration

Racism is often a tool used by the left to stir up emotional discourse with the intent to distract and divide from the real issues at hand. As a woman who is the descendant of escaped slaves in Galia County Ohio and coal miners, I have a unique perspective from diverse family members who actually lived through real racism and discrimination both in their personal lives as well as militarily when segregation was apparent and having multiple “ light skinned” relatives who had to “ pass” as white to gain employment, many times after returning from a serrated military after serving this country. Many politicians use racism and sexism to plant the seeds of discourse versus using our diversity as a strength to battle real Existential threats. I believe politically we lack diversity in the Republican Party but that is not at the hands of the true conservative movement or what President Trump wants to diversify the party. Party leadership at the state level continues to miss the mark!