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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. 

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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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REPORT: Husted’s budget plan would force deep cuts to Social Security and Medicare

STEUBENVILLE, OHIO — In case you missed it, Ohioans in Steubenville called out Jon Husted for his record of cutting seniors’ health care, pushing massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and protecting the abusive nursing home industry.

Jon Husted championed legislation that would force massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and cast the tie-breaking vote for the largest cut to Medicaid in history. Husted has also protected the abusive nursing home industry after taking more than a million dollars from industry executives and lobbyists. 

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WTRF: Ohio Valley residents voice concerns over Sen. Jon Husted’s proposed constitutional amendment

• Alex Taylor, WTRF: A group of Ohio Valley residents gathered outside the Jefferson County Courthouse Wednesday afternoon voicing concerns over U.S. Senator Jon Husted and the future of programs many seniors rely on.

• Taylor, WTRF: Many of those attending were senior citizens, with demonstrators pointing to Husted’s proposed constitutional amendment requiring the federal government to balance its budget within ten years. Critics argue a balanced-budget requirement could eventually put programs like Medicare and Social Security at risk…

• Mel Woods, United Mine Workers of Ohio: [Jon Husted is] against Medicare, Medicaid. He doesn’t give a darn about the senior citizens and believe me I do. I’m one of them.

WTOV: Ohio union rally targets Husted over benefits for retired mill, mine workers

• Dylan Cleland, WTOV: The rally focused on benefits that protect seniors like Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. A number of elected officials, union leaders and speakers were in attendance.
  
• John Saunders, United Steelworkers: This town, this valley has a lot of older people who worked in the mills, worked in aluminum, worked in coal mines. They’re there, they’re depending on those benefits. Jon Husted continues to side with the other side. We’re here fighting for that person that can’t fight for their self, but we’re here, fighting on their behalf to preserve those benefits.

Steubenville Times Leader: Steubenville rally targets Husted over senior benefits

• Voting to keep Republican Jon Husted in the U.S. Senate would be bad for many Ohioans in general and senior citizens in particular, Ohio Valley Democrats said during a rally held Wednesday in front of the Jefferson County Courthouse.

• Organized by the state Democratic Party, participants questioned Husted’s support of legislation they said would lead to cuts in Social Security and Medicare and create the largest reduction to Medicaid in the program’s history.
  
• “I don’t want to see seniors suffer by losing Medicaid if they want to balance the budget on the backs of seniors who already have paid into the system — our Social Security, our Medicare and, most of all, our Medicaid. You have to jump through hoops to get it, and I am too old to jump through hoops,” Eileen Krupinski said after the rally, which promoted the candidacy of Democrat Sherrod Brown.

• That legislation has not been passed, but some organizations, including AARP, have said that a balanced budget amendment would likely lead to billions of dollars in cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
  
• Standing up for older Americans is critical, John Saunders said, adding that must happen now.

• “I’m here today representing the seniors, the people who worked in the mills and the mines and who are under attack,” said Saunders, who is a staff representative for the United Steelworkers. “As we look around the United States today, seniors can’t afford gasoline and utilities — anything that takes away from their right to be able to maintain a standard of living. They don’t need cuts — they need help. They need help immediately.
  
• “If we continue to make these kinds of cuts, we’re not going to have hospitals, we’re not going to have nursing homes and we’re not going to have any of those services that are for people there. This town, this valley has a lot of people who worked in the mills, worked in aluminum and worked in coal mines. They are depending on those benefits. Husted continues to go with the other side.”

• The state’s Democratic Party questioned Husted’s support in 2002 of House Bill 412. According to an Aug. 17 story in the (Tiffin) Advertiser-Tribune, Husted at that time was one of 45 members of the House who co-sponsored the bill, which made it harder to sue those facilities, the story said. Since then, Husted has accepted more than $1 million in campaign contributions from the nursing home industry, executives and lobbyists, according to an Aug. 13 report by WCMH-TV in Columbus.

• The WCMH story said that according to recent campaign finance reporting, more than a dozen nursing home PACs or lobbyists have given at least $34,000 so far to Husted’s Senate campaign. Brown’s campaign, the report said, has received $220,500 in contributions from 33 labor union PACs.

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REPORT: Husted’s budget plan would force deep cuts to Social Security and Medicare

STEUBENVILLE, OHIO — This week, Ohioans in Steubenville called out Jon Husted for his record of cutting seniors’ health care, pushing massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and protecting the abusive nursing home industry.

Jon Husted championed legislation that would force massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and cast the tie-breaking vote for the largest cut to Medicaid in history. Husted has also protected the abusive nursing home industry after taking more than a million dollars from industry executives and lobbyists. 

“Thanks to the votes Jon Husted has made, nursing homes that rely on Medicaid money will have to shut down their business. And then what happens to their employees? I don’t want to see our seniors suffer by losing Medicaid,” said former state Representative Eileen Krupinski. “They’re not going to stop with eliminating Medicaid. They’re going to turn their attention to Social Security and Medicare, and I’m sorry to say that Jon Husted already has.”

“As we look around the United States today, seniors can’t afford gas, the utilities, or anything that takes away from their right to be able to maintain a standard of living. They don’t need cuts. They need help. They need help immediately,” said John Saunders, Ohio senior and United Steelworkers District 1 staff representative. “This town, this valley, has a lot of older people who worked in the mills, worked in aluminum, and worked in the coal mines. They’re depending on those benefits. Jon Husted continues to side with the other side. We’re here fighting on their behalf to preserve those benefits.”

“Jon Husted — he’s just after some obligations to gain more financially for himself. He’s against Medicare and Medicaid and wants to cut those programs. He doesn’t give a damn about senior citizens, and believe me, I do. I’m one of them, and it’s upsetting,” said Mel Woods, Ohio senior and financial secretary of United Mineworkers of America, District 31. 

Jon Husted can’t be trusted to fight for Ohio seniors:

• Jon Husted protected nursing homes facing lawsuits for wrongful death and elder abuse, pushing through an industry-backed bill when he served in the state legislature. 

• Husted has taken more than $1 million from nursing home executives and lobbyists throughout his career, including more than $34,000 for his Senate campaign. 

• Husted’s campaign took more than $60,000 from the Ohio Health Care Association PAC, executives, and lobbyists, while the organization lobbied on behalf of at least five nursing home facilities that left elderly patients at homeless shelters.

• Husted championed legislation that would force massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare, which millions of Ohio seniors rely on. 

• Husted cast the deciding vote for the largest cut to Medicaid in history, ripping coverage from 490,000 Ohioans and putting at least eleven rural Ohio hospitals on the brink of closure.

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REPORT: Accounts Tied to Jon Husted Repeatedly Scrubbed His Wikipedia Page of Scandals, Including Allegedly Protecting Child Predators

COLUMBUS, OHIO — Shocking new reporting shows that Jon Husted attempted to wipe his Wikipedia page of many scandals, including covering up his long record of protecting pedophiles and child predators. 

This new revelation follows a long trend of Jon Husted protecting and associating with predators and pedophiles: 

• Jon Husted appointed his close ally, Andrew Havas, to be his campaign chair in Ohio’s largest county despite public records showing he served jail time for committing sexual misconduct with a minor.

• Jon Husted is still proudly touting the endorsement of State Representative Rodney Creech, who has been accused of sexual misconduct involving a minor relative, while his current Sandusky County campaign chair also came under fire for talking to young girls about their sex lives.

• It was revealed that Husted’s record of protecting pedophiles and predators dates back more than twenty years, when, as Ohio Speaker of the House, he gutted legislation to help survivors of sexual abuse hold their abusers accountable.

• Jon Husted has been under fire for taking more than $116,000 directly from Epstein co-conspirator Les Wexner, including a maximum donation just a few weeks before he voted to block the release of the Epstein files.

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MeidasTouch News: Accounts Tied to Jon Husted Repeatedly Scrubbed His Wikipedia Page of Scandals, Including Allegedly Protecting Child Predators

• Online accounts tied to Ohio Republican Senator Jon Husted have repeatedly scrubbed his Wikipedia page of his various scandals going back decades, including sections that detailed his record of gutting protections for pedophilia victims. 

• Beginning in 2010, a series of burner accounts, anonymous IP addresses and at least one Husted staffer tried to wipe his Wikipedia page clean; removing references to his many ethical controversies. 

• From 2010 until this year, several brand-new Wikipedia users were making major edits on Husted’s page without peer control, leading one user, who turned out to be a member of Husted’s staff, to be banned from the site.

• In 2010, a brand-new Wikipedia account called “Buckeyejenny” was created and repeatedly removed sections from Husted’s Wikipedia page about his numerous ties to lobbyists, but also notably a section entitled “Pedophilia Legislation Controversy.”

• In 2006, as a member of the Ohio House, Husted pushed a watered-down version of a bill that had passed the Senate called the Clergy Abuse Bill, which, among other remedies it provided to the victims of sex abuse scandals of the Catholic Church in Ohio, created a one-year window to allow families of clergy sex abuse victims to sue perpetrators after the 35-year statute of limitations. 

• Husted, who had been lobbied by special interest groups tied to the Catholic Church, stripped the civil litigation window out of the House version of the bill, and opted instead for the creation of a registry of clergy who had been found liable for abuse.

• Just as soon as a section on his Wikipedia page went up detailing Husted’s response to the Clergy Abuse Bill, it was gone; deleted by Buckeyejenny who had never posted anything else to Wikipedia.

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TiffinOhio: Ohio nursing homes dumped residents at homeless shelters. Jon Husted helped make them harder to sue.

COLUMBUS, OHIO — New reporting reveals that Jon Husted protected abusive and neglectful nursing homes that dumped seniors at homeless shelters across Ohio. 

This follows previous reporting from NBC 4 Columbus showing Husted has taken “more than a million dollars from the nursing home industry, executives, and lobbyists” after he pushed for the passage of legislation that “shielded Ohio nursing homes from liability, even in wrongful death and abuse cases.” 

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

“Jon Husted said Ohioans’ work ethic is broken and championed legislation to slash Social Security and Medicare — and now reporting reveals he protected the abusive nursing home industry that kicked Ohio seniors to the curb after taking more than $1 million from the industry and its lobbyists. Jon Husted sided with special interests over Ohio seniors, and he can’t be trusted.”

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TiffinOhio: Ohio nursing homes dumped residents at homeless shelters. Jon Husted helped make them harder to sue

• Federal inspectors have faulted seven Ohio nursing homes in recent years for discharging residents to homeless shelters — people who could not manage their own medications, who used walkers, who in at least one case did not know who had dropped them off. 

• The state’s largest long-term care lobby says the problem is bigger than any one facility and that Ohio needs to step in. The senator on Ohio’s ballot in November helped write the law that made those facilities harder to sue.

• U.S. Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, was one of 45 House members who cosponsored House Bill 412 in 2002, a measure that folded nursing homes and residential care facilities into Ohio’s legal definition of a “medical claim.” 

• That change cut the window for filing suit against them from two years to one and barred state inspection findings from being introduced in court. Husted has since accepted more than $1 million in campaign contributions from the nursing home industry, its executives and lobbyists, NBC4 in Columbus reported this month.

• Federal Election Commission records show the American Health Care Association’s political action committee — OHCA is that group’s only chartered Ohio affiliate — gave Husted for Senate $1,000 on Aug. 26, 2025 and another $1,000 on June 15, 2026. NBC4 reviewed Husted’s most recent campaign finance report and found more than a dozen nursing home PACs or lobbyists have given at least $34,000 to his Senate campaign so far.

• The example was raised by Norm Wernet, president of the Ohio Alliance for Retired Americans, a labor-affiliated group that pushes for home- and community-based care and argues the nursing home industry lobbies against it.

• “Wrong to see that somebody like Sen. Husted, when he was in the legislature, would co-sponsor a bill that, in fact, avoided the liability on the nursing homes,” Wernet told the station. “So that, that’s one example of how the politicians get continued support again and again.”

Jon Husted can’t be trusted to fight for Ohio seniors:

• Jon Husted protected nursing homes facing lawsuits for wrongful death and elder abuse, pushing through an industry-backed bill when he served in the state legislature. 

• Husted has taken more than $1 million from nursing home executives and lobbyists throughout his career, including more than $34,000 for his Senate campaign. 

• Husted’s campaign took more than $60,000 from the Ohio Health Care Association PAC, executives, and lobbyists, while the organization lobbied on behalf of at least five nursing home facilities that left elderly patients at homeless shelters.

• Husted championed legislation that would force massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare, which millions of Ohio seniors rely on. 

• Husted cast the deciding vote for the largest cut to Medicaid in history, ripping coverage from 490,000 Ohioans and putting at least eleven rural Ohio hospitals on the brink of closure.

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