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Senior Reporter/Producer at Ohio Public Media’s Statehouse News Bureau & host of the Ohio Statehouse Scoop podcast. Serving all of Ohio’s NPR and PBS stations.

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How Ramaswamy is refocusing message in his controversial ad in Ohio statenews.org/government-pol…

How Ramaswamy is refocusing message in his controversial ad in Ohio

The Republican candidate for Ohio governor defends his use of a controversial ad featuring the estranged mother of Democratic opponent Amy Acton.

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Candidates for Ohio governor focus on data centers in last week of campaign wvxu.org/2026-10-26/candidat… - via @joingles

Candidates for Ohio governor focus on data centers in last week of campaign

Both Democratic candidate for governor Amy Acton and Republican Vivek Ramaswamy have launched new ads on where the other stands on data centers.

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New ad omits Arthur’s claims that Acton is lying about her childhood. Legal docs and Acton’s brother support Acton’s account. So new ad stressing the claims that Acton lied is more in line w/ how Ramaswamy has talked about “lying”, not about the abuse Acton suffered.
Karen Kasler@karenkaslerOct 24
Update: there is now a 30 second version of the Vivek Ramaswamy ad featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Court records confirm Amy Acton's mother lost custody of Acton in 1978. She then helped her husband flee the state and stayed with him until he died a fugitive in 2004. Therefore, any lies the mother references must have occurred when Acton was 12 years old or younger. nationalreview.com/news/amy-acton… washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/… dayton247now.com/news/local/cou…
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1 PM view of Cleveland Public Hall awaiting the Amy Acton rally with former President Barack Obama
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President Trump has come into office (and will be this week) for GOP candidates. Today, former Prez Obama is in CLE for Democratic candidates.
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Hundreds, maybe thousands have entered lines stretching around the Cleveland Public Auditorium and Mall B Saturday morning ahead of former President Barack Obama’s campaign rally. Video: Josh Duke, Cleveland sitcom
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Coffee, conversation, and a chance to connect with #OurCCS leadership! Grab your favorite brew and pull up a chair with Columbus Board of Education President Dr. Antoinette Miranda and Vice President Sarah Ingles on October 27. ☕ #LeadersGrownHere
Promotional image for the Sip Social event with Columbus City Schools. Features President Dr. Antoinette Miranda and Vice President Sarah Ingles. Event details: Tuesday, October 27, 9-11 a.m., at The Roosevelt Coffeehouse at Gravity Park, 462 W. Broad St.

ALT Promotional image for the Sip Social event with Columbus City Schools. Features President Dr. Antoinette Miranda and Vice President Sarah Ingles. Event details: Tuesday, October 27, 9-11 a.m., at The Roosevelt Coffeehouse at Gravity Park, 462 W. Broad St.

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Karen Kasler@karenkaslerOct 24
Note: The ad with Democratic candidate for governor Amy Acton's mother - who claims her daughter is "lying" about her past while court records from 1978 show her husband was charged with felony rape of Acton when she was 12 - is 60 seconds.
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FLASH: The Vivek Ramaswamy campaign has instructed some TV stations to switch to all 30-second spots starting tonight Stations are working to confirm with the Ramaswamy campaign #OHGov
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Vivek Ramaswamy is holding an event for the Ohio GOP ticket at a private home in Circleville, OH tonight The neighbors are Amy Acton supporters
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Ohio GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has taken the stage in a pizza parlor north of Columbus after a handoff from his running mate Rob McColley. They are on their first day of a statewide bus tour.
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I am in Delaware County at Pizza Cottage where the GOP bus is set to come through soon.
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Alex Triantifilou, head of ORP, says he is excited to be here. Introduces some of the local candidates on the ballot.
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There was some sort of disturbance up front here but I was too far back to capture it on tape. Some in the crowd were saying “bye bye” as the person was leaving.
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I know no one is talking about this anymore, but Ohio gas prices are back above the national average
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Day three in Ohio for @dcexaminer and this is the Democratic welcome to the start of the Ohio Republican Party bus tour with the likes of @VivekGRamaswamy and @JonHusted in Strongville.
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“Team Vivek” slate card paid for by Strongsville GOP club, which Ramaswamy is addressing this morning on an Ohio Republican Party bus tour. Rep. Max Miller made the cut.
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The Ohio GOP kicked off its bus tour this morning. My photographer, @stateofohioshow, and I will catch up with the bus on the second leg of the tour today when it comes to Delaware County, so stay tuned if you are interested.
Morgan Trau@MorganTrauOct 23
Hello from Reynoldsburg, where I’m with Gov. Mike DeWine. The president insulted him repeatedly yesterday. My political team partner @KosichJohn is in Strongsville where the Ohio GOP is kicking off its bus tour. Protestors are outside the event. @WEWS @WCPO @OhioCapJournal
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Lucy May@LucyMayCincyOct 23
ICYMI: Libertarian candidate calls on Ramaswamy to withdraw from race for Ohio governor wvxu.org/2026-10-22/libertar… - via @joingles

Libertarian candidate calls on Ramaswamy to withdraw from race for Ohio governor

Libertarian candidate for Ohio governor Don Kissick said Republican Vivek Ramaswamy isn't "fit to lead" after putting out controversial ads.

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Karen Kasler@karenkaslerOct 22
Follow up: Vivek Ramaswamy's spokesperson confirms ads will stay up, and offered this in a written statement: "We refuse to accept the media’s double standards when Democrats have regularly used family members of President Trump, RFK Jr, and other Republicans in ads."
Karen Kasler@karenkaslerOct 22
Gov. Mike DeWine says the ad from Republican candidate for governor Vivek Ramaswamy featuring Democratic opponent Amy Acton's estranged mother is “wrong” and “deeply troubling”, but his endorsement of Ramaswamy and the rest of the GOP ticket stands statenews.org/government-pol…

DeWine: Ramaswamy ad featuring Acton's mother 'deeply troubling', but his endorsement stands

Gov. Mike DeWine talked for the first time about the ad from Republican governor candidate Vivek Ramaswamy featuring the mother of Democratic candidate for governor Amy Acton.

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