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A General Assembly member is constitutionally required to be a resident of his or legislative district. That means only a comparatively few Ohio House or Senate members those from Columbus districts can be considered Columbus residents. But Jane or Joe Taxpayer, working at their suburban home because their big-city office is closed? Pay up or get yourself elected to the legislature, writes Thomas Suddes in his column today.
True, by losing a U.S. House seat, Ohio will also lose one electoral vote. And that says something about Ohio, which, as late as 1940, still had more residents than California albeit just 225 more, writes Thomas Suddes.