Pro-Taxpayer or Pro-Insurance?

IS COX MEDIA PRO-OHIO TAXPAYER & PUBLIC SAFETY OR SIMPLY A PAID ADVERTISER FOR BIG INSURANCE? I understand the conundrum that Channel 7, the Dayton Daily News (DDN) and the Springfield News Sun face considering how heavily funded you are by the insurance industry via marketing dollars. The press interrogated Safety Services’ and CRC, while only a benign interview of Mary Bonelli, (OII) was presented. Why wasn’t the same investigation and interrogation conducted as it relates to insurance rates and tactics with lobbyists, insurance commissioners and legislators etc.? The insurance industry reported a national record-breaking $30 billion dollar profit, while in a recession. Ohio drivers pay over $6 Billion dollars a year in premiums, yet the OII is unwilling to invest a mere .05% of their premiums to protect those who protect us and their own liability costs. The insurance industry lobbied and won legislation forcing all Ohio drivers to pay unregulated premiums and carry insurance based upon the premise that they would indeed cover costs as a direct and proximate result of their policyholder’s negligent actions. However, the OII insists that local governments should raise your taxes so that innocent Ohio taxpayers can continue subsidizing insurance reporting, insurance investigation and services required and provided to their negligent at-fault policyholder. “Like a Good Neighbor”, “You’re in Good Hands”, and “On Your Side”, seems false and misleading. We are all called to be more fiscally responsible. Why should legislators allow the insurance industry be exempt from this call? Regina Moore Jones