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Columbus, OH — Today, Mike DeWine released an attack ad on Mayor Nan Whaley that goes after Nan for all the work she did to secure critical investments in Ohio through the American Rescue Plan. The EXACT same funding he’s been campaigning on, even though those key investments were secured by by Nan Whaley and other Democrats and DeWine opposed the plan when it was first proposed. Don’t take our word for it, though, here’s a small sampling off all the times DeWine has campaigned on the American Rescue Plan: 

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“Mike DeWine is full of shit. DeWine clearly has no record to run on, so he’s touting critical funding secured by Nan Whaley and other Democrats on the campaign trail and then turning around and using that same funding as a political attack. He’s a career politician that hasn’t done anything for Ohio, and these ads only serve to underscore how weak and ineffective his time in office has been,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokesperson Matt Keyes. 

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Columbus, OH — Today, Gannett reported that Frank LaRose is hiring ‘one or two investigators’ on the taxpayer dime to look into ‘illegal voting.’ LaRose’s latest announcement comes after he turned over exactly one person who may have voted illegally – or 0.00000012% of all registered Ohio voters – to the authorities earlier this year. The truth is LaRose knows better, but he wants to run for Senate in two years, is scared of the other election denier he’s running against and needs the support of MAGA Republicans. So he’s pulling this political stunt at taxpayer expense. 

“Frank LaRose is using Ohioans’ hard-earned tax dollars for a political stunt so he can run for Senate in two years. LaRose himself only turned over exactly one alleged case of illegal voting to the authorities earlier this year. Now he’s creating a taxpayer-funded solution to a problem that doesn’t exist in order to further his own political ambitions,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokesperson Matt Keyes. 

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Watch Video of the Exchange HERE

Columbus, OH —In a sit-down interview with Karen Kasler on The State of Ohio, Frank LaRose was asked about his tweet supporting Donald Trump’s claims of voter fraud that blamed Ohio media for ‘trying to minimize voter fraud to suit their narrative.’ LaRose doubled down on his dangerous election rhetoric, telling Kasler, “There are concerns that President Trump has raised that I think are valid.” This comes after LaRose announced he referred exactly one person who may have voted illegally in Ohio to law enforcement. That represents 0.00000012% of all registered voters in Ohio in 2020. Nationally, studies show the rate of voter fraud nationwide to be between 0.0003 percent and 0.0025 percent (meaning Americans are more likely to be struck by lightning than commit voter fraud). 

The truth is that Frank LaRose knows better than the election lies he continues to spout. But he has a political problem (her name is Tore Maras), and LaRose needs to do his best to appeal to MAGA Republicans so he can run for Senate in two years. So, LaRose is ignoring his constitutional duties and oath of office, spouting election lies and once again only looking out for his own political interests. 

“Frank LaRose is so hellbent on running for the U.S. Senate in two years, he’s willing to debase himself and the office he was elected to. LaRose is once again spouting election lies to try to keep MAGA Republicans happy, but they don’t trust him any more than the rest of us do. Instead of playing political games, Frank should be working to expand voting rights in our state and knock down barriers to voting. But Frank’s more interested in himself than any Ohioan he was elected to serve,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokesperson Matt Keyes.  

You can see the full interview here.

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Columbus, OH – Former GOP State Representative Joan Lawrence scorches J.D. Vance as a “craven shapeshifter” and a “chameleon who will do anything to get elected” in a new op-ed in the Columbus Dispatch. 

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Columbus Dispatch: Former Ohio lawmaker: J.D. Vance a ‘craven shapeshifter’ regurgitating MAGA speak
October 3, 2022

• Joan W. Lawrence served in the Ohio House of Representatives as a Republican from 1983 to 1999 and was director of the Ohio Department of Aging under Gov. Bob Taft from 1999 to 2006.
• If you don’t know who J.D. Vance is, you’re not alone. Neither does J.D. Vance.
• He’s running for the U.S. Senate as a hardcore MAGA Republican and a diehard Trump fan, never mind that he used to be a Never-Trumper. In fact, he’d love nothing more than for you to forget that inconvenient fact.
• But that’s the J.D. Vance I could’ve seen myself supporting.
• In 2016, Vance said Trump was “reprehensible” and “cultural heroin” and wondered whether Trump might be “America’s Hitler.” But when Vance decided to run for the Senate, he went full MAGA, complimenting Trump at every opportunity.
• Even Trump knows it. “J.D. is kissing my a**. He wants my support so bad!” the former president said at a rally in Ohio recently.
• His opposition to Trump isn’t the only thing he has backtracked on.
• Vance has flip-flopped on issue after issue. During the 2016 campaign, Vance wrote in USA Today, “Trump’s actual policy proposals, such as they are, range from immoral to absurd.” That year, he said that building a wall was “a simple solution” to a “complex problem.” But in April, he said at a rally, “Can we please, for the love of God, finish Donald Trump’s border wall on the southern border?”
• One of Vance’s favorite issues is the opioid crisis. He discussed it in his memoir, and he’s talked about it for several years. But here too, Vance’s record isn’t as good as it seems. Vance founded a group called Our Ohio Renewal to fight opioid addiction.
• Not only did it not achieve much success, but Vance hired someone who questioned the role of prescription painkillers in the opioid crisis. Most of the money the nonprofit raised was spent on staff salaries. None was spent on charitable activities. So much for Vance’s concern about opioid addicts.
• Vance used to call for a more moderate GOP. A little more than a decade ago, he wrote a series of articles where he endorsed affirmative action, savaged Republicans as anti-science, and rejected partisan vitriol. “Of all the things I can’t stand about politics,” he wrote, “the tendency to emotionalize a difficult topic is probably the worst.” He wanted a more measured and moderate Republican Party, one that was more socially inclusive.
• But now Vance is anything but moderate. He opposes same-sex marriage and wants to ban abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest. He said people in “violent” marriages shouldn’t get divorced. He said that rape and incest were “inconvenient.” That’s certainly putting it mildly.
• Instead of distancing himself from extremists in his party, he welcomes them.
• He said he was “proud” to have Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s endorsement. Greene, in case you don’t know, blamed wildfires on space lasers funded by “Rothschild Inc.” and said there’s no evidence that a plane crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11. She is, in other words, a lunatic. But rather than denounce her, Vance embraces her.
• These flip-flops and contortions aren’t just embarrassing. They show exactly the kind of person J.D. Vance is—a craven shapeshifter who will say whatever he needs to say to get elected.
• I have a hard time believing that he actually cares about border security or even the opioid crisis.
• He simply regurgitates MAGA talking points because that’s what it takes to get MAGA votes. But here’s my question: Once he has their votes, what will he do next? Who knows? Vance surely doesn’t.
• He’s a chameleon who will do anything to get elected. That’s why we shouldn’t elect him.

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