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Columbus, Ohio — While legislators gathered in Columbus for a special legislative session, Ohio Dems launched a mobile billboard outside the Statehouse reminding Ohioans Vivek Ramaswamy has millions invested in data centers. In response to Dr. Acton’s call for the legislature to pass an immediate conditional data center moratorium during the special session, Ramaswamy said it was “too complex.”

“Vivek Ramaswamy pretends it’s ‘too complex’ to do something about out-of-control data centers raising our costs because he can’t admit to Ohioans he makes millions from them,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. “Working families can’t believe a word he says.”

SEE MORE ABOUT WHAT OHIOANS ARE SEEING AROUND COLUMBUS HERE: 

Mobile billboard on State Street directly south of the Ohio Statehouse 

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Columbus, Ohio- Last week, The Bulwark talked to voters on the ground about what they think about Vivek Ramaswamy, and it wasn’t good news for Ohio’s most notorious jet-setting billionaire.

Ohioans know Ramaswamy is a billionaire whose wealth has more than doubled during his run for governor, all while he’s called Ohioans “lazy” and “mediocre” and said families hurting from “perceived” higher costs should just make more money. While working families on the ground are struggling, Ramaswamy is treating Ohio like a flyover state in his private jet and refuses to sell his stock in data centers.

“Voters are seeing right through Vivek Ramaswamy’s scams for Ohio,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. “Ohioans know Ramaswamy can’t be trusted to lower costs for working families, rein in out-of-control data centers, or even meet Ohioans on the ground instead of flying above them in his private jet.”

Check out more directly from Ohioans on billionaire scam artist Vivek Ramaswamy:

• Voter: I just know Vivek is extremely rich. Not that that’s a bad thing, but most of the people in power are and they just have no clue what it’s like to be a middle class person right now. 

• Voter: My thoughts on Ramaswamy, it’s like anybody who’s involved like he gave me, like made me skeptical about him because of how he’s involved, was involved in the pharmaceutical industry and like that’s like a big like questionable thing for me.

• Voter: The only thing I’ve heard about him is that he’s for the data centers. And I think about how does that helps me as a person, as a working person? You know, we want a surveillance state here? Because that’s what this is helping to establish. So, anybody who’s for data centers […] I don’t give a rat’s ass about you.

• Voter: I just think it’s a lot of empty promises, how he said about the data center that he would pay our electricity or something like that, that whatever got raised he would pay them, but I don’t believe that.

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Columbus, Ohio — Vivek Ramaswamy is doubling down on his historically unpopular college closure scam just weeks before Ohioans head to the polls. Months after its initial release, Ramaswamy still can’t get away from his college closure scam after students, university leaders, and even Republican Governor Mike DeWine have publicly slammed his policy proposal. 

Read more about Ramaswamy’s college closure scam:

• I am convinced I will be the person who saves the long-run sustainability of public universities in Ohio,” Mr. Ramaswamy told reporters Thursday. “The status quo is not a sustainable one.”

• Mr. Ramaswamy’s comments were a bit more nuanced than they were earlier this year, when he said Ohio’s public universities should be consolidated.

• “Look at the number of universities in our state,” Mr. Ramaswamy said in a social media post in March. “I love universities in Ohio. I want us to have the best universities, but we have too many of them. They need to be consolidated.” 

• Mr. Ramaswamy also wrote a guest column for the Columbus Dispatch in March — which is still featured on his campaign website — praising the state of Georgia for reducing its number of state universities from 35 in 2011 to 26 in 2018. 

• Mr. Ramaswamy said Ohio should go further than Georgia did. 

• Ohio’s current Republican governor opposes any plan to consolidate the state’s public colleges and universities.

• “Some have suggested the merger of some of our four-year colleges. I don’t think that’s a good idea,” Gov. Mike DeWine said during recent remarks at the Ohio Department of Higher Education’s Trustees Conference in Columbus.

• Todd Diacon, president of Kent State University, wrote an essay in April on the state of higher education in Ohio.

• “The public university system in Ohio wasn’t assembled carelessly. It was built by elected leaders responding to real public demand,” Mr. Diacon said.

• “Republican Gov. James Rhodes came to office in 1963 on a campaign promise to place a public university within 30 miles of every Ohio citizen,” he continued. “What followed was one of the most consequential public investments in our state’s history. … This was not a waste. This was Ohio investing in itself.”

• Bowling Green State University President Rodney Rogers rejected the argument that Ohio has too many institutions of higher education during remarks last month to the Rotary Club of Toledo. 

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Ohio Families Now Paying $1,650 More In Added Costs Thanks to Husted-Backed War

COLUMBUS, OHIO — As Jon Husted continues to claim that he wants the endless Iran war “end as soon as possible,” he voted today for the FOURTEENTH TIME to continue the war that has sent food and energy costs soaring for Ohioans. 

Husted has been claiming he wants the war to end for months, but continues to vote against measures that would end the war. 

Meanwhile, the average price of diesel has reached an all time high of over $6 per gallon with no end in sight. Earlier this month, an independent analysis found the average family in Ohio is paying $1,650 more because of the increase in energy, food, and interest costs due to the war.

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

“Jon Husted keeps saying he wants the war in Iran to end, but today he voted for the fourteenth time against ending the war that has sent costs skyrocketing. Ohioans are getting crushed by higher gas, grocery, and energy bills, and they will hold Jon Husted accountable for his votes in November.”

While Husted keeps voting to make everything more expensive, he also can’t help himself from insulting hardworking Ohioans struggling because of his votes:

• Husted claimed that the military operation “went very well” while admitting the war he supported “has put a strain on Americans.”

• When asked if he was okay with not knowing how long the war will last or how much taxpayer dollars will be spent, Husted replied, “it’s not really up to us.”

• When asked what he was doing to address rising gas prices for his constituents, Husted responded: “What do you want me to do?” 

• When a truck driver asked about soaring diesel costs, Husted brushed him off and responded by asking if he was comfortable with Iran being a nuclear power. 

• Husted has claimed that he thinks the war is “good news for the global economy” and going “much better than anyone thought it would.”

• Husted continues to insult struggling Ohioans as “not very experienced at navigating the real world” and consistently dismisses the mounting affordability crisis by telling Ohioans to fix their “work ethic” and to simply “earn more” money to make ends meet.

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Ohio Families Now Paying $1,650 More In Added Costs Thanks to Husted-Backed War

COLUMBUS, OHIO — While Jon Husted continues to claim that he wants the endless Iran war that has sent food and energy costs soaring for Ohioans to “end as soon as possible,” his record proves just the opposite. 

Husted has said the same for months while voting 13 separate times to support the war that Ohioans are paying for. Today, Husted’s office confirmed he would keep voting to continue the war.

Meanwhile, the average price of diesel has reached an all time high of over $6 per gallon with no end in sight. Last week, an independent analysis found the average family in Ohio is paying $1,650 more because of the increase in energy, food, and interest costs due to the war.

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

“Jon Husted can try to rewrite history, but his record is crystal clear: he has voted thirteen times to back the endless war in Iran that has sent the cost of everything up for Ohio families. Ohioans are getting crushed by higher gas, grocery, and energy bills, and Husted cannot erase those votes just because they have become politically inconvenient.”

While Husted keeps voting to make everything more expensive, he also can’t help himself from insulting hardworking Ohioans struggling because of his votes:

• Husted claimed that the military operation “went very well” while admitting the war he supported “has put a strain on Americans.”

• When asked if he was okay with not knowing how long the war will last or how much taxpayer dollars will be spent, Husted replied, “it’s not really up to us.”

• When asked what he was doing to address rising gas prices for his constituents, Husted responded: “What do you want me to do?” 

• When a truck driver asked about soaring diesel costs, Husted brushed him off and responded by asking if he was comfortable with Iran being a nuclear power. 

• Husted has claimed that he thinks the war is “good news for the global economy” and going “much better than anyone thought it would.”

• Husted continues to insult struggling Ohioans as “not very experienced at navigating the real world” and consistently dismisses the mounting affordability crisis by telling Ohioans to fix their “work ethic” and to simply “earn more” money to make ends meet.

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