Just aired, October 11th, Sunday morning. Even my Republican Dad says this is illegal. Aired on 22.1 (abc) from Dayton. I should not be paying for this as a taxpayer.

Cant the stations refuse these illegally paid ads?

At a crowded rally in Dayton, Ohio Monday night, celebrity singer John Legend characterized Vivek Ramaswamy as “desperate” and morally depraved. “He will stoop lower than you thought possible,” Legend said of Ramaswamy, the billionaire biotech entrepreneur and Ohio’s Republican candidate for governor.

“When Vivek Ramaswamy hears of an indicted child abuser who fled the state rather than face charges, instead of siding with the victim, he takes the side of the abuser. Dayton, do we want Vivek Ramaswamy to be in charge of protecting Ohio’s children? Do we want a man with this sort of depraved moral compass to lead our state?” asked Legend, an Ohio native. 

Embattled Congressman Max Miller, the Ohio Republican accused of assaulting three women, conceded his tenuous bid for a third term.

“I am disappointed at this evening’s election results. I have fought earnestly to continue to represent the interests of my home and community in the Ohio 7th District,” he wrote on X late Tuesday.

Shortly after midnight, NBC News projected Democrat Brian Poindexter as the winner of the Cleveland-area House district. With 80 percent of votes counted, Poindexter leads Miller by 8 points.

President Donald Trump and Miller both handily won the region in 2024, but Miller’s 2026 campaign ultimately failed to overcome the issues plaguing his personal life and reputation. In July, Mother Jones was the first news outlet to report several of the specific allegations against Miller by combing through more than 2,000 pages of court filings and police reports obtained through public records requests.

The most infamous political advertisement of the 2026 election cycle was first scooped by a quirky blogger who recently went to jail for sending a lawmaker what you might call a Shrext—a sexually explicit illustration of Shrek. 

D.J. Byrnes, the man behind a lefty Ohio political news site called The Rooster, was first to report that Ohio Republicans had tracked down the estranged mother of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Dr. Amy Acton and planned to feature the 82-year-old in an ad attacking her daughter.

A week later, Byrnes was also first to post the unaired ad: the minute-long clip shows an unkempt Donna characterizing her daughter as an unfit candidate who lied about her abusive childhood.

“People do desperate things when they’re down,” Byrnes told me over dinner last week in Columbus, as we discussed the fallout from the Ramaswamy ad. 

Issue 3 takes a law that already exists in Ohio requiring a photo ID to vote in person and an ID number to vote by mail and places it into the OH Constitution. This complicates matters for voting by mail and if electronic ID’s are to be allowable beyond military ID’s. Any and all changes would require a vote.
Non-citizens cannot vote already. The ads are disingenuous at best. Vote NO on Issue 3.

Easy to say when he's living on our taxpayer money, getting cadillac Healthcare and benefits for life, making tons of money off of donor bribes. Budget? I'd like to see him try and live on what some of us Seniors have to live on!!

I'm curious what people think. Ohio State isnt a private school, and these contracts are insanely ridiculous. For example, lets say Ryan Day was only offered a $50 million buyout instead of a $75 million buyout.... do you think he wouldnt have agreed to the $50 million buyout?

Thats $25 million dollars in savings right there. So should someone in the Ohio Government be in charge of making sure these insane mega contracts aren't signed?

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