On Election Day, Here’s What Ohioans Need to Know About Jon Husted
May 5, 2026
COLUMBUS, OHIO — As Ohioans head to the polls today, Ohio Democratic Party Senior Communications Advisor Tony Wen released the following statement on Senator Jon Husted:
“As voters head to the polls today, one thing is clear: Jon Husted is screwing over Ohioans by putting billionaires and corporations before lowering costs. Jon Husted is part of the corrupt system that lets politicians enrich themselves while life gets more expensive for working people, and he keeps insulting struggling Ohioans by telling them to just work harder. Voters will send Jon Husted packing in November.”
Here’s what to know about Jon Husted:
Jon Husted’s loyalties lie with powerful insiders like Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirators, not regular Ohioans.
- Husted voted against releasing the Epstein files to protect one of Jeffrey Epstein’s closest friends and co-conspirators.
- He has taken over $116,000 from the Epstein co-conspirator, 10 times more than any other sitting Senator in America.
- Husted even accepted the maximum contribution from him last year, and just weeks later voted to cover up the files.
- Husted’s association with pedophiles and predators doesn’t stop there. His campaign has proudly touted the endorsement of State Representative Rodney Creech, who has been accused of sexual misconduct involving a minor relative.
- Husted’s Sandusky County co-chair has also come under fire reminiscing on video about talking to young girls about sex during Ohio House testimony.
Jon Husted helps corporations and billionaires, even when it hurts Ohioans.
- Husted is part of the rigged system that allows corrupt politicians to enrich themselves and helps billionaire elites, all while hardworking Ohioans get screwed.
- In the Senate, Husted has voted 9 times to increase health care premiums on Ohio families. Because of Husted’s votes, hundreds of thousands of Ohio families will see their health care costs rise over $800 a year for hundreds of thousands of Ohioans.
- Husted also was the deciding vote to cut health care to raise health care costs to help pay for the largest tax cut for billionaires in history, claiming “he loves doing that kind of stuff.”
- As Husted actively makes life harder for families, he has the nerve to insult them — claiming that struggling Ohioans aren’t “experienced at navigating the real world” and that the solution to rising costs is for Ohioans to “earn more” money and to fix their “broken work ethic.”
- Husted has voted six times to support another endless war in the Middle East, sending energy prices skyrocketing and crushing Ohio farmers and families. He claimed recently that the war was going “much better” than expected and that Ohioans will eventually need to “do more work.”
Jon Husted was at the center of the largest bribery scheme in Ohio history that sent electric bills skyrocketing.
- Husted sold Ohioans out to pass a billion dollar bailout for utilities that contributed to electric bills skyrocketing more than $600 annually.
- Public records have uncovered phone calls, text messages, and secret meetings between Husted and the corrupt FirstEnergy executives, and Husted was forced to testify for the defense in a state criminal trial.
- The utility company’s executives were indicted for spending $61 million on political bribes, and spent millions more to elect Husted.
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