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NEW REPORT: Jon Husted Profitted Off Intel Stock While Pushing Intel Project In Ohio

Ohio Capital Journal: As he worked to advance the Intel project, an Ohio senator’s wife was invested in it

COLUMBUS, OHIO — New reporting shows that Jon Husted and his wife had invested in thousands of dollars of Intel stock while he was working to advance a massive Intel project in Ohio. Husted has refused to take a position on banning stock trading for Members of Congress and their families. 

Ohio Democratic Party Senior Communications Advisor Tony Wen released the following statement:

“Jon Husted refuses to ban stock trading in Congress because he’s personally enriching himself while having access to insider information. While Ohio families are struggling to afford the basics, Husted is cashing in while in office. Ohioans deserve a Senator focused on making life better for them — not enriching themselves.”

See For Yourself:

Ohio Capital Journal: As he worked to advance the Intel project, an Ohio senator’s wife was invested in it

  • Ohio U.S. Sen. Jon Husted’s wife had as much as $15,000 invested in the struggling Intel megaproject in New Albany as her husband worked to push it forward, financial disclosures show.
  • At least since Gov. Mike DeWine appointed Husted to the Senate at the beginning of 2025, Husted has had communications with Intel about potential deals with other businesses to revive the project.
  • Husted, a Republican, also said he pushed the Trump administration to make its controversial $9 billion taxpayer investment in the beleaguered chipmaker last year.
  • News of the investment and the potential deals substantially increased the value of Intel stock when it became public.
  • Husted’s communications team didn’t respond to questions for this story — including whether he thought trading of individual stocks by members of Congress should be banned.

Read more about Jon Husted’s corruption:

  • NBC 4 Columbus reported that Husted refused to back a stock trading ban for members of Congress, while reporting that his wife had investments of up to $15,000 in Intel Corporation stock.
  • In a recent interview, Husted admitted to meeting with Intel about the status of the company’s Ohio manufacturing project, suggesting he had access to non-public information.
  • Husted’s personal financial disclosure revealed that he profited off of nearly $60,000 in stock sales as part of an insider deal with Heartland Bank. 
  • Husted has long been under fire for secretly joining the board of Heartland Bank while serving as Lt. Governor, in a move that was called “loaded with potential conflicts of interest.”

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This Week in #OHGov: Lies, Scams, and Terrible Policy Plans

Columbus, Ohio- Lying Vivek Ramaswamy had another terrible week as Ohioans once again saw through his lies and scams. He stood alongside an alleged abuser, was called out for his data center & social security scams, and got caught blatantly spreading lies in a campaign ad. With 67 days to go until Election Day, it’s clear Ohioans can’t trust Vivek Ramaswamy.

CAUGHT RED-HANDED: New reporting from The Columbus Dispatch caught Vivek Ramaswamy in yet another lie on his desperate quest to scam as many Ohioans as possible. Ramaswamy’s ad features Linda Caudill, a longtime GOP operative, who blames Dr. Acton for her mother’s death, but records show the woman lived and died in Kentucky and passed away six weeks after Dr. Acton stepped down as Ohio Health Director.

Ramaswamy’s campaign is getting increasingly desperate to lie and scam its way through the rest of the campaign. Ohioans can’t trust Vivek Ramaswamy.

The Quiet Part Out Loud: A new audio recording obtained by HuffPost reveals that Vivek Ramaswamy still supports alleged abuser and disgraced Congressman Max Miller and is even continuing to tout an endorsement from Miller on his campaign website. Miller is accused of violent behavior toward multiple women, in addition to verbal abuse. Injuries to his 2-year-old daughter were investigated by police earlier this year.

PUCO Pain: On Sunday, Cleveland.com published an opinion piece by Ashley Brown, a former ten-year commissioner on the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO), calling Vivek Ramaswamy’s data center plan a “political stunt.” Brown writes that Ramaswamy’s plan is “unsustainable,” lacks “any foundation in policy or reality,” and would actually raise costs and would “not benefit Ohioans.”

Social Security Scam: New reporting from The Ohio Independent details how Vivek Ramaswamy wants to privatize Social Security and “leave Ohioans with less retirement income and increased healthcare costs.” Ramaswamy wants to gamble with our Social Security to line his own pockets. He isn’t just out of touch; he’s clearly only out for himself.

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ICYMI: Republicans Praise Brian Poindexter While Max Miller Claims Economy Is “Actually Doing Very Well”

COLUMBUS, OH – Max Miller has had another very bad week, claiming that the economy is “actually doing very well right now,” in a local interview at a time when more and more Republicans are voicing their support for Brian Poindexter.

As Ohio Republicans raise Ohioans’ costs and rip away families’ healthcare, registered Republican voters are slamming Miller, with one saying that she’s planning to “vote entirely Democratic this year,” and another emphasizing his support for Brian as someone who “will always hear him out.” Brian Poindexter’s growing support from Republican voters in Ohio’s 7th congressional district comes as Ohio “has become one of the GOP’s biggest headaches for the midterms,” with all three major nonpartisan race raters — Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, and Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball — shifting the OH07 congressional race to “Toss-Up.” 

Read more about Max Miller’s bad week of showing how little he cares about the reality that Ohioans are facing as Ohioans of all political backgrounds are rallying behind Brian Poindexter:

Ohio Capital Journal: In an Ohio congressional race with national scrutiny, Brian Poindexter wants to win on his own terms

  • Poindexter has limited name recognition in his district, but his unusual biography could help, said Cyril Kleem, the Republican mayor of Berea. Brook Park shares a school district with Berea, and Kleem endorsed Poindexter in early August.
  • “A lot of working class people have felt left out,” Kleem said. ‘Some of those people have gravitated toward the Republican Party, particularly toward Donald Trump, because I think to a certain extent, the Democratic Party has been accused of forgetting about them. I think he represents them.”
  • Victoria Kovach, a registered Republican from Strongsville who works as a server and social worker, said she plans to vote entirely Democratic this year. She usually votes Republican in local elections, she said, but the last time she voted in a federal race was for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
  • Even though they don’t always see eye to eye on policy, Kleem said Poindexter will always hear him out. Poindexter emphasizes a commitment to strong constituent services when speaking to voters, promising to hold quarterly town halls and establish congressional offices throughout the district if elected.
  • When asked what legislation he would support on his first day in office, he immediately said the Protecting the Right to Organize Act. Reintroduced in 2025, it would give more power to unions and weaken right-to-work laws. He has also said he would support Moreno’s push to lift the cap on the amount of annual income subject to the payroll tax that funds Social Security.
  • “I don’t have to be pro-labor, folks. I am labor,” Poindexter said in a speech at the North Shore AFL-CIO headquarters in July. “My friends, my family — I would not be able to look them in the eye if I went to Washington and forgot where I came from.”

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ICYMI: Ohio Conservative Commentator Blasts Jon Husted’s Failing Senate Campaign

COLUMBUS, OHIO — In case you missed it, Ohio conservative commentator Jack Windsor blasted Jon Husted’s failing Senate campaign, saying things “don’t look good” for the Husted team. 

WATCH HERE:

Transcript: 

Jack Windsor, conservative radio host: We’re getting a lot of mixed signals, and some of them, frankly, I hate to say it on air, but they don’t look good for Jon Husted at this point. I believe it’s going to come down to turnout. I still worry about some Republicans voting one way at the top of the ticket and another way, just you know, or maybe that would be reversed. I can’t remember if governors first or U.S. Senate is first, but regardless, I could see somebody voting for Vivek and then maybe somebody voting for Sherrod, say in the Mahoning Valley. But what’s your read on that matchup right now?

Chris Long, President of the Ohio Christian Alliance: Well, Jon has had kind of a stumble here as of late. The polls have gone against him. I don’t know really why that is. […] You go back eight weeks ago, Jon was actually leading in the race by one or two points.

Ohio Democratic Party Senior Communications Advisor Tony Wen released the following statement:

“Jon Husted’s failing campaign is such a disaster that even conservative commentators are calling him out. Ohioans are learning the truth about how Husted led the charge to bring hundreds of data centers to Ohio, is at the center of the largest bribery scandal in state history, and voted to keep the Epstein files secret. No amount of spin can fix that.” 

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MUST READ: The Columbus Dispatch Catches Vivek Ramaswamy In Another Lie in Scam Ad

Columbus, Ohio- New reporting from The Columbus Dispatch caught Vivek Ramaswamy in yet another lie on his desperate quest to scam as many Ohioans as possible. Ramaswamy’s ad features Linda Caudill, longtime GOP operative, who blames Dr. Acton for her mother’s death, but records show the woman lived and died in Kentucky and passed away six weeks after Dr. Acton stepped down as Ohio Health Director.

“Lying Vivek Ramaswamy is again resorting to baseless and easily disproven lies because he’s desperate to salvage any thread of his failing campaign,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. “While liar Ramaswamy grapples with the fallout from getting caught red-handed in another lie, Ohioans will be hearing the truth about his alleged ‘pump-and-dump’ scam that made him rich.”

READ: Ad blames Acton for isolating dying mom during COVID. There’s more to it

  • A new ad from Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign features a GOP activist who blames Amy Acton for isolating her late mother during the COVID-19 pandemic, but records show the woman lived in Kentucky and died weeks after Ohio ended its stay-at-home order.
  • In Ramaswamy’s ad, Linda Caudill, a member of the Ohio Republican Party State Central Committee, said her mother went into a nursing home shortly before Acton “shut down the state” and died two months later.
  • The ad doesn’t identify the nursing home or specify where Caudill’s mother spent her final months. But her obituary… indicates she was from Erlanger, Kentucky; belonged to a church in Elsmere, Kentucky; and died July 25, 2020, at a hospice facility in Edgewood, Kentucky, six weeks after Acton stepped down as health director.
  • Additional public records list northern Kentucky addresses for Caudill’s mother that date back decades.
  • The woman’s death also came two months after DeWine lifted Ohio’s stay-at-home order and travel restrictions, though officials encouraged high-risk people to stay home when possible. The order, when it was in effect, included exceptions for Ohioans who needed to care for elderly loved ones.
  • Caudill is no stranger to Republican politics in Ohio. She served as a delegate for Trump in 2016 and 2024. She also sparked controversy as a volunteer for former U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci’s 2017 campaign for governor, in part for sharing a meme that suggested violence against then-Secretary of State Jon Husted.

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