The Coalition for Ohio’s Future is a broad-based, bi-partisan organization including teachers and other educators, firefighters, police, elected officials, concerned citizens, social service organizations, business people, doctors and other health professionals, labor unions, senior citizens, faith-based organizations and many others all dedicated to defeating the TEL Amendment.

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News Releases

Click here for a list of resolutions opposing TEL

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5/24/2006
Policy Matters Ohio: Spending Limit is Flawed

5/22/2006
New legal challenges will be filed against TEL Amendment

5/22/2006
Ohio House Finance and Appropriation Committee Testimony

5/17/2006
Coalition for Ohio’s Future Welcomes All Efforts To Remove TEL Amendment From November Ballot

5/11/2006
Low Ohio Voter Turnout Exposes TEL Flaws

5/9/2006
State Board of Education, OSU and BGSU oppose the proposed TEL amendment

5/8/2006
Letter to the Editor from Lt. Governor Bruce Johnson

5/5/2006
BGSU trustees oppose TEL amendment

5/5/2006
OSU Trustees Vote to Oppose TEL Amendment

4/11/2006
Coalition for Ohio’s Future Releases Report Documenting Crippling Effects of TEL Amendment on Ohio Schools

4/10/2006
"TEL Me a Story Because Reality Might Scare Me"

4/3/2006
Statement of Opposition to the Ohio TEL Amendment from Voices for Children of Greater Cleveland

4/1/2006
AARP Bulletin: You Get What You Pay For

3/30/2006
Cuyahoga Mayors and Managers Association Opposes TEL Amendment

3/17/2006
Cleveland State: Board of Trustees Opposes Proposed Tax Expenditure Limitation (TEL) Amendment to Ohio's Constitution

3/15/2006
Legal Protest Filed Today in Five Counties

3/2/2006
MORE LEGAL PROTESTS FILED TODAY AGAINST TEL/TABOR PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

2/23/2006
Legal Protest Filed Today Against TEL/TABOR Proposed Constitutional Amendment Petitions

2/10/2006
Ohio Municipal League Opposes TEL Amendment

11/2/2005
Statement Regarding Colorado Referendum C from the Coalition for Ohio’s Future

8/11/2005
BI-PARTISAN COALITION OPPOSES BLACKWELL’S PROPOSED AMENDMENT, SAYS IT IS FULL OF FLAWS

8/10/2005
Headed for 2006 Election, Flawed TABOR Amendment is Wrong for Ohio

7/26/2005
New report reveals large problems and ambiguities in Blackwell’s tax proposal

7/19/2005
Coalition Announces Website

6/29/2005
TABOR and Cuyahoga County: A Fiscal Impact Statement

6/23/2005
In a League of Their Own: Colorado’s Tabor And Ohio’s Proposal Are More Restrictive Than Other Limits

5/5/2005
Statement by John Corlett Regarding 2004 Primary Voter Poll

4/19/2005
Colorado Republican Warns Ohio: Tabor is a Proven Failure, news release