Scioto County Democratic Party

A taxi takes you door-to-door. A bus gets you close enough that you walk the rest of the way yourself. In politics, if you're holding out for the candidate who's a taxi, that being someone who lines up with you on everything, you might be standing at that curb a long time.

Somebody always asks. You're at a potluck, or somebody's back porch after a funeral, or the church basement after a wedding, and there's a dish on the table that stops people mid-conversation. A casserole, a pot roast that fell apart just right, somebody's aunt's cobbler that shows up at every single family gathering without fail. And the question that comes next isn't about anything else going on in the world. It's just: who made this, and how.

You may have seen us at the farmers' market, at festivals, local coffee shops, or wherever people gather, with a sign proclaiming “ban mega data centers” and with our clipboards at-the-ready. We're gathering signatures for the Conserve Ohio petition; it is formally known as the Ohio Prohibition of Data Center Construction Amendment. It needs 413,488 valid signatures from at least 44 of Ohio's 88 counties by July 1, 2026 to get on the November ballot.