John Ridder, a resident of St. Paris, has seen the mishandling of local laws regarding agricultural land use long enough. John has 'held down the fort' for Libertarians in Champaign County and is the lone Libertarian outpost at their local fairgrounds each year. His political views are known in the community and we are hopeful that he might receive a groundswell of support based largely on property rights issues in St. Paris.
As John puts it in his recent email to me, " I am considering running for Township Trustee in Mad River Township, Champaign County Ohio as a Libertarian Candidate. I am a member of the Libertarian National Party. I have been active in the Ohio Party's Ballot Access petition drives and have funded and manned a Libertarian Part Outreach booth at the Champaign County Fair for the last two years....... I will be opposing an incumbent Trustee with a pro-Liberty, pro-business, and sustainable local economic position against a group of pro-agriculture, anti-business trustees who try to use government power to preserve farmland by opposing most non agriculture land use. Zoning here smacks of social and economic discrimination. One whole section of their code appears to be in violation of the Ohio Revised Code."
We welcome John to the fight for Liberty via the ballot box!
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Actually I am pro-agribusiness and against the use of government power to legislate farmland preservation.
ReplyDeleteOn zoning... as with most legislative units of government, old legislation is never reviewed to find if it still relevant which is how the ORC violation probably came to be. Zoning came into being to protect the health and safety of the public and its use must be limited to policing those two specific areas.