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Columbus, Ohio- Last week, Bernie Moreno joined the City Club of Cleveland to participate in their long-standing tradition of public forums explaining his work in Washington to the community. It went so badly for Moreno that Ohio Republican Party Chair Alex Triantafilou told Republicans to avoid City Club events in the future to avoid being held accountable.  

This was Moreno’s first public event since taking office. Outside and inside the event, he faced Ohioans who were angry and Moreno spent his time “unabashedly defending” Donald Trump while working families faced higher costs and bills. He repeated false talking points while ignoring that over 490,000 Ohioans will lose healthcare and 400,000 Ohioans will lose food assistance.

Check out more coverage of Bernie’s brutal visit to the City Club below: 

Cleveland.com: Bernie Moreno faces raucous City Club crowd in first public forum

•  Moreno spent the hour unabashedly defending Trump and his policies. […] Wednesday was the first time Moreno faced constituents and their questions in the seven months since taking office. He has held no public town hall events.

• Moreno, […] repeated familiar Republican talking points used to defend the party’s policies —some of which have proven to be false. Moreno claimed, for example, that there will be no cuts to Medicaid because of the One Big Beautiful Bill and instead claiming that “significant amounts of money” will be added to the program The Congressional Budget Office estimates after the bill passed said it will reduce federal Medicaid spending by $911 billion over 10 years. 

Cleveland.com: Ohio GOP chair urges candidates to boycott City Club after Moreno event 

• The chairman of the Ohio Republican Party says he will urge Republican candidates to avoid events at The City Club of Cleveland following Sen. Bernie Moreno’s treatment in a visit earlier this week.

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Columbus, Ohio- In case you missed it, last week Ohio Democratic Party Chair Kathleen Clyde and Texas Democratic Party Chair Kendall Scudder held a joint news conference to detail how Democrats are fighting back against extreme Republican gerrymandering in their states. While Texas may have been first, Ohio is next and Democrats are ready to use every option available to fight back.

“Democrats are unified in our opposition. Democrats will use every tool available to stop Republicans from implementing their partisan vision for Ohio and achieve a fair map. Instead of lies and tricks, we will fight for an open process with public input that results in fair maps for all Ohioans,” said Chair Clyde.

“We will not sit aside and allow Donald Trump and the billionaire class to not do the work of the people of Texas,”said Chair Scudder

Ohioans are currently represented by maps the Republican-controlled Ohio Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional. In 2024, 55% of Ohioans voted for the Republican candidate, but 66% of our Congressional seats are gerrymandered for Republicans. In a fair, constitutional map, Ohio’s 15 congressional districts would be 8 Republican and 7 Democratic, not 10 and 5, respectively.

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Columbus, Ohio- Today marks the 90th anniversary of the social security program, which helps millions of Americans retire with dignity. Instead of standing up for social security, Ohio Republicans are either working to cut the program, too weak to push back, or both as social security faces its biggest threat in 90 years.

Every Republican in Ohio’s congressional delegation voted for the not-so “big, beautiful bill” that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admitted was a “backdoor for privatizing social security.” In addition to his vote for the “big, beautiful bill” that would threaten social security, Senator Husted voted against multiple amendments that would have protected social security benefits for Ohio’s seniors. Clearly, Ohioans can’t trust Husted to protect their social security.

Meanwhile, gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy relentlessly supported Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts, which already have included deep cuts to social security. Seniors are facing up to three hour waits on the phone for assistance, and many are forced to go to an office in-person and wait in long lines. Ramaswamy is too focused on cutting taxes for his fellow billionaires. He can’t be trusted to protect Ohio seniors.

“Social security is a lifeline for more than a quarter of Ohioans, but Republicans up and down the ballot would take it away in a minute to score political points. Already, Ramaswamy and Husted have thrown the program into chaos in order to save money for billionaires, resulting in long lines and frustration for their constituents,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. “Voters won’t tolerate candidates who refuse to protect the social security they earned, and will vote accordingly in 2026.”

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Columbus, Ohio-After nearly six years and over half a billion dollars paid by taxpayers to bail out billionaires in a deal made possible by house bill six and the largest corruption scandal in Ohio’s history, Ohioans are still waiting for Jon Husted to explain his role in the scandal that cost them over half a billion dollars and led to Ohio’s status as the number one state for government corruption. 

There are still plenty of questions that need to be answered. Husted, one of the politicians at the center of the scandal, still refuses to answer questions about his role, even after court documents revealed more elected officials may have been bribed than previously known. Ohioans deserve answers from Senator Husted, but instead they’ve been met with silence. 

“Before Ohioans knew Husted as their senator, they knew him as state official two. Despite Husted’s attempts to run from his corruption scandal, voters know he sold them out for billionaires and special interests, just like he did in his first months in Washington, said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. “Ohioans want politicians who will fight for them, not sell them out to the highest bidder, and will vote accordingly in 2026.”

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

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Columbus, Ohio- In case you missed it, Cleveland.com’s Brent Larkin outlined the GOP vision that has failed Ohio for almost two decades. Instead of helping families make ends meet, Republicans are laser focused on giving tax cuts to billionaires. Voters are fed up, and Husted, Ramasawamy, and Republicans up and down the ballot will have to answer for their party’s failed policies at the polls in 2026.

“While Vivek Ramaswamy and Jon Husted are tripping over themselves to gain distance from their party’s failures, Ohioans are struggling to make ends meet only to see Republicans jump through hoops to help billionaires while leaving everyone else behind. Despite Husted, Ramaswamy, and every other Republican on the ballot’s hopes, voters know Republicans bear the responsibility for Ohio’s decline, and they’ll show that at the polls,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer.

READ MORE from Cleveland.com about the failing Republican vision for Ohio.

• Across the country, state governments are in a race to the bottom. If presumptive Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy is elected to replace DeWine next year, Ohio’s decline will accelerate.

• Many, maybe most, of the victims will be children. In the name of cutting taxes for Ohio’s wealthiest citizens, the state’s legislative leaders are determined to harm poor kids by cutting funding for food, health care and education. 

• In Republican-run Ohio, state leaders have been forcing local governments to defund their police departments for 14 years. Since 2011, Republican governors and legislators have cut more than $1 billion in funding historically used by local governments to fund vital services.

• If Ramaswamy becomes governor and keeps his promise to eliminate the state income tax, defunding the police may become more commonplace.

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