Amy Acton promotes plan to make Ohio government more ethical
The Democratic gubernatorial candidate says she would establish anti-corruption task forces to prevent future malfeasance in state government.

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The Democratic gubernatorial candidate says she would establish anti-corruption task forces to prevent future malfeasance in state government.

DeWine has repeatedly said pandemic decisions were his alone, and the ad's spokeswoman was cut from a 2017 GOP campaign over a violent meme targeting Jon Husted.

The endorsement splits Ohio police unions, coming a month after the state's largest, the FOP, backed Ramaswamy and an all-Republican slate for the first time in recent memory.

Equality Ohio downgraded Acton's grade to pending after a tense meeting where LGBTQ+ leaders said her campaign seemed to sideline trans concerns for swing voters.

“We’ve got a lot of work to do,” Acton told reporters at a Columbus event. “But I think walking in the door and saying, ‘Look, there is a cost that we are all paying for corruption. We all know it. We’re famous for it.”

Records show most of that money went to a leasing company registered at a house Ramaswamy owns, an arrangement a watchdog says could let him pay himself with donor funds.

The plan targets the same appointment process that let FirstEnergy install Sam Randazzo at PUCO before his $4.3 million bribery scandal cost ratepayers billions.

Two GOP senators want Miller gone over abuse claims, but Ramaswamy stays silent while his super PAC runs ads mocking Acton's own childhood abuse history.

United For ALICE data shows 37% of Ohio households couldn't cover basics in 2024, the gap Acton's tax credit and data center cost-shifting plan targets ahead of a close November race.

Oligarch Watch reports Ramaswamy's mother reanalyzed failed drug trial data before a $315M IPO, part of a $260M payout.

Innovation Ohio calls Ramaswamy's free-electricity pledge unserious, noting he holds financial stakes in AI chipmakers and data center firms.

Five out-of-state donors supplied 88% of the $8.2 million ad buy, while Ohio's own filings leave the spending's purpose blank and DeWine says the COVID decisions were his.

The endorsement ties Acton to the 2011 fight over Senate Bill 5, which Ramaswamy's own strategist and spokeswoman once defended against firefighters and other public workers.

Amy Acton, Sherrod Brown and other Democrats sounded optimistic notes ahead of the November election. The event also features Sen. Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat and potential 2028 presidential contender.

Ohio counties are selling record levels of residents’ property tax debts to private investors, who charge up to 18% interest when they collect. Bipartisan lawmakers have proposed eliminating the lien sales outright, while gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton has called for a crackdown.

Ramaswamy wants to sort good data center projects from bad ones and keep building, while Acton would bar new facilities that miss any of six conditions.

The ad returns days after Cook Political Report shifted the race to Toss Up, and five out-of-state billionaires have given V-PAC $37 million.

Four billionaires now account for 98% of V-PAC's second-quarter haul, giving Ramaswamy a cash edge Acton lacks despite narrowly outraising him directly.

According to a new report, the multibillionaire has spent 79 days away from Ohio this year — including 14 international travel legs — as he faces off against Democrat Amy Acton.

The dispute hinges on which patients the numbers describe, ICU or all hospitalized cases, and CDC data plus multiple 2020 studies back both figures Acton cited.
