SPEAK UP! *FOUR* opportunities to testify on Ohio's state budget (DUE FRIDAY 5/23 @ 5PM)

TLDR: To testify in-person on the state budget next week, submit your testimony by THIS Friday (5/23) at 5PM CORRECTION: THE VIDEO AND ORIGINAL POST INCORRECTLY STATED MAY 27 WAS A MONDAY — OOPS! May 27, the first day of testimony, is TUESDAY. Our bad. That’s on us. We’re tired.The Ohio Senate Finance Committee will hold four straight days of budget hearings next week:Tuesday, May 27 at 9:00PMWednesday, May 28 at 9:00AMThursday, May 29 at 9:00AMFriday, May 30 at 1:30PMIf you’d like to testify in person, upload your testimony to the Ohio Senate Finance Committee website no later than THIS FRIDAY at 5pm.Next week's testimony upload processYou can testify on ANY piece of the budget bill you choose! And you can choose any of the four days to testify.All hearings will be held at the Ohio Statehouse in the Senate Finance Hearing Room.IF YOU’RE TESTIFYING IN-PERSON:* It doesn’t matter which day you plan to testify, ALL in-person testimony must be uploaded to the committee website by this Friday 5/23 at 5:00 pm.* (Click the date you plan to testify, and upload your testimony to that page)IF YOU’RE TESTIFYING WRITTEN-ONLY:* Testimony must be uploaded to the committee website at least 24 hours before whichever hearing you choose.* Example: If you’re submitting testimony for the 9:00 am hearing on Wednesday 5/28, your testimony must be uploaded by 9:00 am on Tuesday 5/27HOW TO UPLOAD SENATE TESTIMONY:* Go to the Senate Finance Committee website* Click the date of the hearing you’re submitting testimony for* Click ”upload testimony”* Respond to the witness questions when you upload your testimony (Completing these witness questions replaces the “witness slip” used by House committees)Check out this toolkit from “How Things Work at the Statehouse” for parking information and more: bit.ly/OhioSenateTestimonyRead through our bill tracker OhioBills.WTF for lots of budget items you could testify for or against.This is your opportunity to voice your concerns about our state budget.Need a refresher? We got you covered. Here’s our 20 minute budget breakdown that goes over the worst parts of Ohio’s budget. Check out the full video of our webinar discussing WTF is going on at the Ohio Statehouse.Keep up with action alerts and legislation by visiting OhioBills.WTFWe need your support to keep us going. Yes, really!Did you appreciate this episode? Do you rely on our bill tracker? Please consider supporting our work. We don’t have billionaire backers (but are in the market… George Soros our lines are open!) Instead, we rely on the support of everyday Ohioans like you, and we could do way more cool stuff with more $$. So if you like what you see, cough it up for the cause, y'all! Get full access to Ohioans Against Extremism at ohagainstextremism.substack.com/subscribe