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Columbus, Ohio- New Ohio Senators Jon Husted and Bernie Moreno have both been in office for months now, but reporting from ABC 6 revealed Ohioans are still having trouble reaching their senators.

While Ohioans struggle with the cost of living, Senators Husted and Moreno are spending their time in Washington rubber stamping Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s billionaire-first agenda. They know Ohioans don’t want them to only work for the wealthy and powerful- so they’re dodging their constituents.

READ: Protesters say Ohio’s US senators are not accessible, senators’ teams say otherwise, 3/20/2025, 

• Constituents said they feel communication is lacking from two new U.S. Senators from Ohio, Bernie Moreno and Jon Husted,

• ABC6/FOX28 a month ago investigated several complaints from constituents who said they could not get in touch with either senator. Senator Moreno has four offices listed on his website– those are in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, and Washington, D.C. The Columbus office is in the Bricker Federal Building downtown, which was briefly on a General Services Administration list of buildings to sell. Senator Husted has one office in Washington, D.C., listed.

• ABC6/FOX28 called all of those offices one month ago, and no one answered.

• ABC6/FOX28 on Wednesday called all the offices again. No one answered in Senator Husted’s office and three of Senator Moreno’s offices. However, after placing three consecutive calls to Moreno’s Cleveland office, a staffer answered.

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Columbus, Ohio- Today, the White House issued an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education. This reckless move will throw schools into chaos and hurt Ohio’s most vulnerable students. While billionaires play politics with our state’s future, our senators and Governor Mike DeWine are cheering them on

The Department of Education allocates funds to Title One schools, which have the highest numbers of low-income students. Ohio received $596 million in Title One funding in fiscal year 2023 and educated over 800,000 students with these funds. For Ohio’s low-income students, these funds help pave the path to a brighter future for themselves and our state as a whole. Their state’s elected officials would rather score points with Donald Trump than grow the next generation of Ohio’s leaders. Meanwhile, DeWine’s attendance reveals that his focus on helping Ohio’s children is only a priority when it’s politically convenient- otherwise it just becomes another empty promise

“Ohio’s students are our state’s future, but their elected officials are cheering as billionaires rip away their access to a quality education. Today reveals DeWine, Husted & Moreno’s complete disinterest in any future that isn’t focused on their extreme politics,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. “Our elected officials should be standing up for our students, but they can’t even stand up to Donald Trump.”

Columbus, Ohio– Ohioans aren’t feeling so lucky when they see their energy bills. However, Senator Husted is still ignoring Ohioans’ questions about his involvement in Ohio’s largest corruption scandal that gave breaks to billionaires while raising their bills.

FirstEnergy gave $1 million to a dark money group supporting Husted’s gubernatorial primary campaign. Following the 2018 election, Husted and DeWine had dinner with the lobbyists responsible for paying alleged bribes on the same night FirstEnergy agreed to pay over $4 million in bribes to convicted PUCO administrator Sam Randazzo. Husted has refused to say if he knew about this pot of gold from FirstEnergy.

Meanwhile, during the legislative process, Husted was seemingly FirstEnergy’s lucky charm. Indicted lobbyist Neil Clark called Husted the “golden boy” and a “good friend” of FirstEnergy. Husted claimed that he played no role in moving the legislation, but text messages revealed conversations with indicted lobbyists about details of the bill. 

“While Husted refuses to answer questions about the pot of gold he received in connection with the largest corruption scandal in our state’s history, Ohioans are still paying $500,000 per day,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. “But his luck will run out when Ohioans hold him accountable at the polls.”

Read more about Senator Husted’s work with FirstEnergy and House Bill 6 at StateOfficialTwo.Com

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Columbus, Ohio– Yesterday, Governor Mike DeWine delivered his annual State of the State address. While former lieutenant governor and current Senator Jon Husted did not attend, Ohioans still feel his presence in state politics every month while paying their sky-high energy bills.

Ohioans are still paying as much as $500,000 a day for House Bill 6, which bailed out nuclear energy companies at the expense of Ohio taxpayers. Meanwhile, Senator Husted refuses to answer questions about his role in passing the scandal-ridden legislation, despite scores of evidence placing this “good friend of FirstEnergy” right at the scene of the crime.

Husted claimed he had no role in the legislative process surrounding HB6, but texts from FirstEnergy executives revealed that he was deeply involved in passing the legislation. Now indicted lobbyist Chuck Jones even called Husted “very accessible and easy to work with.”

“While Husted may have left state government, Ohioans are still paying for his corruption during his time as lieutenant governor,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. “The state of energy bills for Ohioans is high, and Democrats will make sure voters hold Senator Husted accountable at the polls.”  

Visit StateOfficialTwo.com to learn more about Husted’s history of corruption that he’s hiding from Ohioans.

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Columbus, Ohio- This afternoon, Governor Mike DeWine delivered his annual State of the State address. Here’s what you didn’t hear: Ohio’s working families have been left behind while billionaires in the federal government threaten investments in our state.

DeWine bragged about Intel’s nearly $8 billion investment in Central Ohio that is expected to create as many as 10,000 jobs but he didn’t directly address the danger that Donald Trump and Elon Musk pose to the project. Ohio isn’t immune to the chaos and confusion in the federal government, and it weighs heavily on the state of the state.

As Ohioans face a federal government that already wants to take away their Medicaid access, the DeWine-Tressel administration is asking the federal government to allow them to impose work requirements, ripping healthcare away up to 61,000 Ohioans. 700,000 more Ohioans could lose access to Medicaid due to Republican state and federal budgeting.

Of course, DeWine didn’t mention that after a federal judge ordered his administration to pay more than $900 million in federal pandemic funds owed to Ohioans, he asked Attorney General Dave Yost to appeal the ruling. 

“Ohio families are struggling to make ends meet, and instead their state leadership is focused on making it harder to access healthcare and literally going to court to prevent Ohioans from getting payments owed to them,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. “Ohioans deserve better from the DeWine-Tressel administration” 

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