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Fact check: Ramaswamy claimed to ‘lead’ on gas tax relief. Acton beat him to it by nearly 7 hours.
The Republican nominee declared “Vivek Leads” after calling for a gas tax suspension hours after Amy Acton called for one.
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Lobbyists call on Rob McColley while he campaigns as Vivek Ramaswamy’s running mate
The Senate president – the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor – held meetings and calls with dozens of lobbyists this year, his official calendar shows.
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Ohio GOP lawmakers tee up votes for gas tax holiday after Acton, then Ramaswamy, back idea
State officials say ODOT has no surplus cash for the $640-700 million plan, and Democrats want it funded by money earmarked for Jimmy Haslam's NFL stadium.
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US Senate Republicans spotlight trans athletes issue as midterms approach
Durbin blasted the hearing as a distraction, citing NCAA data showing fewer than 10 of over 500,000 college athletes are transgender.
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Ohio’s 2026 governor race: Where the candidates stand on fracking
Ramaswamy touts a 15,000-acre fracking approval on public land while Acton and Kissick back a Washington County injection well moratorium over water contamination fears.
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What’s going on with your power bill and what Ohio’s candidates for governor will do about it
A former PUCO commissioner calls Ramaswamy's free-power pledge doomed to fail, while a consumer advocate says $10 billion in transmission costs go unreviewed.
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Ramaswamy called market crash ‘medicine,’ ‘good thing’ as Ohio public pensions lost $32 billion
The Republican candidate for governor wrote that the 2022 market crash would “ultimately be a good thing for the country.” Elsewhere in the same book, he acknowledged a crash could hit middle-class and poor Americans harder while his own life remained “mostly the same.”
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Amy Acton calls for emergency Ohio gas tax holiday as fuel prices surge
Ohio's Democratic candidate for governor is calling for the state to temporarily suspend its gas tax as regular gasoline averages about $4.52 a gallon and diesel reaches a record $6.77 statewide.
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Crypto super PAC drops $30M to keep Sherrod Brown out of Senate
Fairshake is launching at least $30 million in spending against the Ohio Democrat just days after the Senate blocked the crypto industry's top legislative priority.
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Husted accepted $10,000 from Nazi SS reenactor before firing aide over Nazi social media posts
Iott's SS reenactments made national news in 2010, years before Husted's campaign accepted his donations, records show.
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Trump likes data centers. Congress seems stuck. The midterms could deliver a verdict.
A poll shows just 11% of Americans back local data centers, as Trump attacks critics and Senate Democrats block Husted's ratepayer bill.
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Childcare affordability among the top issues for Ohio voters
A GOP bill offering free childcare to workers in the industry has sat in committee for a year, with lame-duck session the last chance to pass it in 2025.
