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Columbus, Ohio- After campaign finance reports revealed billionaire gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy pays himself $80,000 per month for a private plane to use in his campaign, Signal Ohio found more details about Ramaswamy’s $80,000 plane. Ohioans who are struggling to make ends meet want a governor who will fight for them, not a billionaire who can’t even bring himself to drive the less than two hours from Columbus to Akron.

“Ramaswamy’s plane flies in the face of the ordinary Ohioan image he’s desperate to create for himself,”  said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. “While Ohioans struggle to make ends meet, a billionaire who travels by private jet and only fights for his fellow billionaires won’t land right with them.”

READ MORE: Vivek Ramaswamy uses his private jet to campaign for Ohio governor, 08/02/2025

• Federal flight records show that Ramaswamy has flown on his jet from one Ohio city to another at least 18 times since he launched his campaign for governor in late February. 

• He’s used the plane for 18 in-state trips, including a trip from Columbus to Akron and back. […] Ramaswamy also flew from Columbus to Cleveland five times. Two of these trips, on May 9 and June 9, were roundtrips on a single day. 

• These flights made for quick trips out of what would have been long car rides for typical Ohioans.  

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Columbus, Ohio- This week, Vivek Ramaswamy filed his first campaign fundraising report, which painted an even more vivid picture of a candidate masquerading as an outsider who is anything but. Whether it’s a donor list that includes anti-democracy ballot measure funder Richard Uilhin or an $80,000 a month plane, this report makes it crystal clear that Ramaswamy is out-of-touch with Ohio.

Ramaswamy’s Super PAC also saw contributions from billionaire out-of-state megadonors intent on buying Ohio’s elections, including one billionaire who gave $10 million on his own. His billionaire funders show Ohioans exactly who he would work for if elected, and it’s not Ohio families. 

“Vivek Ramaswamy pretends he understands what Ohio’s working families need, and then promptly hops on his $80,000 per month plane to fly from Columbus to Akron. Today’s filings further show Ohioans that Ramaswamy is an out-of-touch billionaire who’s only looking out for other billionaires,”  said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer

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Columbus, Ohio —  Sixty years ago today, the Medicaid and Medicare Act was signed into law. However, Ohio’s entire Republican congressional delegation recently voted for the largest cut to Medicaid in history. Every Ohio Republican owns the consequences of this vote- from rural hospitals closing to families paying a premium at the doctors’ office, and will see the consequences of this disasters vote at the polls

Senator Husted, Senator Moreno, and all Republican members of Congress voted for a bill that will take healthcare away from hundreds of thousands of Ohioans, close rural hospitals, and raise doctors’ bills in order to give tax cuts to billionaires. 

“Ohioans deserve answers from Republicans about the Medicaid cuts they voted for in order to fund tax cuts for billionaires,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. “As we head into an election year where voters are already fed up with Republicans who leave their constituents behind in favor of billionaire donors, Democrats will continue holding Republicans accountable for their votes to make our state less healthy and safe.”
 

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Columbus, Ohio- In case you missed it, reporting from WOSU highlighted the disastrous consequences rural hospitals are facing after Republicans voted to cut Medicaid in their billionaire-first budget reconciliation bill. While billionaires get tax cuts, Ohioans in rural areas are at risk of losing access to critical healthcare in their communities.

Republicans didn’t stop at ripping away healthcare from rural Ohioans. Cuts to food assistance are projected to hit rural counties the hardest, especially in Southern Ohio. Instead of fighting to keep Ohio’s rural communities healthy, all Republican Members of Congress voted for this legislation that will harm their constituents.

READ MORE about how rural Ohio is at risk of losing critical healthcare below: 

WOSU Public Media : Medicaid cuts could have big consequences for rural hospitals

• Medicaid, a $900 billion state and federal health insurance program, covers low-income and disabled people.[…]. About 20% of patients who visit hospitals in Ohio use Medicaid, according to the Ohio Hospitals Association (OHA), which represents all of Ohio’s more than 250 hospitals.

• Because of the cuts, 11 of Ohio’s rural hospitals are considered “at-risk” of closing or reducing services, according to the Sheps Center for Health Services, a research center in North Carolina.

• The rural hospitals on the list either have been operating at a deficit for three straight years or are among the top rural providers for Medicaid patients across the country.[…] Most of the Ohio hospitals on the list fall under the category of top Medicaid providers.

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Columbus, Ohio-  In case you missed it, over the past few weeks recently elected Ohio Democratic Party Chair Kathleen Clyde appeared on tv across the state to discuss her vision for the party and the opportunities Ohio Democrats have in the next election cycle. 

This year, Ohio Democrats will contest critical local elections across the state and in 2026 we’ll run strong candidates against Republicans who are inseparable from an unpopular, failing administration. Ohioans are ready for a change, and they’ll show Republicans at the ballot box.

Watch more from Chair Clyde below:

Face the State: Republicans are focused on billionaire’s wallets and not average everyday working families. And that is really the bread and butter of Ohio Democrats and Democrats across the country and in our state, so we will be focusing on those issues. It is about affordability. It is about hitting back against these anti working family policies that we’ve seen coming out of Republicans in DC and in our state house. Whether it’s tax cuts for billionaires, whether it’s a handout to the billionaire Brown owners, those are issues that will be talking about and making sure that Ohio voters know that we stand for that. 

Capitol This Week: Whether it’s holding town hall events, recruiting candidates to run for office or breaking down how Trump’s policies affect Ohioans in the news and on social media. Ohio Democrats have been working to talk to voters about how Trump and Republicans and all levels of government are working for billionaires while leaving working families behind. We’re making sure that voters in Ohio know their Republican representatives at the federal and state levels are not working for them and what Democrats stand for as we head towards 2026.

13ABC Toledo: We’re talking about organizing in all 88 counties in Ohio and having a localized strategic approach for whether it’s an urban county, a suburban county, or a rural county, and meeting voters where they are. We’re going to be working on our messaging and making sure that we are […] not just talking about what we’re fighting against or what we’re opposed to, but really laying out an agenda about what we’re for and what our leadership looks like. We’re also making sure we are making up with urban voters, and especially in our black communities where we’ve lost ground, that was and is a real focus of mine. Finally, making sure that we have the fundraising and the funds that we need to be able to do infrastructure building and year-round organizing we need at the Democratic Party to win in 2025 and 2026 and beyond. 

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