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Candidates highlight data center plans. Next Ohio governor will select regulators.
Innovation Ohio calls Ramaswamy's free-electricity pledge unserious, noting he holds financial stakes in AI chipmakers and data center firms.
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Fact check: Ramaswamy super PAC misleads voters with Acton attacks over CDC training, TV remote
Five out-of-state donors supplied 88% of the $8.2 million ad buy, while Ohio's own filings leave the spending's purpose blank and DeWine says the COVID decisions were his.
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Ohio firefighters say Amy Acton will 'always have our backs' in governor endorsement
The endorsement ties Acton to the 2011 fight over Senate Bill 5, which Ramaswamy's own strategist and spokeswoman once defended against firefighters and other public workers.
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‘Bases loaded’: Ohio Democrats embrace rare optimism at fundraising gala
Amy Acton, Sherrod Brown and other Democrats sounded optimistic notes ahead of the November election. The event also features Sen. Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat and potential 2028 presidential contender.
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Investors are buying Ohioans’ unpaid property tax debts, with 18% interest
Ohio counties are selling record levels of residents’ property tax debts to private investors, who charge up to 18% interest when they collect. Bipartisan lawmakers have proposed eliminating the lien sales outright, while gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton has called for a crackdown.
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Acton would back a data center moratorium unless 6 conditions are met. Ramaswamy says Ohio needs more of them, not fewer.
Ramaswamy wants to sort good data center projects from bad ones and keep building, while Acton would bar new facilities that miss any of six conditions.
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Fact-check: Ramaswamy's billionaire-funded super PAC is back on air weaponizing Acton's childhood sexual abuse
The ad returns days after Cook Political Report shifted the race to Toss Up, and five out-of-state billionaires have given V-PAC $37 million.
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Elon Musk, other billionaires put $12 million behind pro-Ramaswamy super PAC in Ohio governor race
Four billionaires now account for 98% of V-PAC's second-quarter haul, giving Ramaswamy a cash edge Acton lacks despite narrowly outraising him directly.
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During bid for governor, Ramaswamy has spent nearly 40% of his time outside of Ohio
According to a new report, the multibillionaire has spent 79 days away from Ohio this year — including 14 international travel legs — as he faces off against Democrat Amy Acton.
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Ramaswamy calls Acton's COVID death-rate claim 'spewing lies.' The hospital data from 2020 backs her up.
The dispute hinges on which patients the numbers describe, ICU or all hospitalized cases, and CDC data plus multiple 2020 studies back both figures Acton cited.
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Scotts Miracle-Gro, guilty of federal pesticide crimes in 2012, gives $250K to the super PAC backing Ramaswamy
Whoever wins in November will appoint Ohio's next EPA director, giving Scotts a stake in the race despite its 2012 pesticide conviction.
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Elon Musk drops $5M behind Vivek Ramaswamy as billionaires bankroll Ohio governor bid
Musk's gift is his first to former DOGE partner Ramaswamy, part of $42 million from a handful of billionaires backing a super PAC in a race Cook Political Report now calls a toss-up.
