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August 21, 2026
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What Ohioans Are Saying: “Ramaswamy’s Policies Are Out of Touch With Our Needs”
COLUMBUS, OH– While self-funding billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy has spent his campaign calling Ohioans ‘lazy,’ spewing lies about Dr. Acton, and proposing tax scams that would only enrich himself and his billionaire buddies, Ohioans are highlighting how his scam policies fail to address their needs. Everyday Ohioans want a leader who will focus on bringing down costs, not a lying, scamming billionaire who couldn’t be more out-of-touch.
Columbus Dispatch: Ramaswamy’s bribery
- Vivek, I read about your data center plan, and it reminds me of your other taxation proposals.
- My question is: Why do all your efforts to reach out to the electorate feel like bribery? If bribery is defined as using money to alter how we act, then I think any “tax-free” promise by a politician is suspiciously like a bribe.
- Like many of your proposals, they sound sweet but will give you a bellyache if you bite on them. It surprises me that you don’t have a deeper appreciation of the consequences of what you propose. This is why I can’t vote for you.
- …When I read [Dr. Amy Acton’s] policy proposals, they make sense, which is why she will get my vote. P.S. I hate your attack ads.
Columbus Dispatch: Ultra-privileged Ramaswamy’s policies are out of touch with our needs
- It’s clear [Vivek Ramaswamy is] out of touch with what so many Ohioans need in education and healthcare.
- His interview last December with NBC4’s Colleen Marshall was revealing. When discussing academic excellence, Ramaswamy said, “we have to go further in the direction of school choice” and we “have to improve public schools.”
- Ramaswamy doesn’t tell us, nor does he address the legislature’s failure in the 2026-2027 budget to fund education in accordance with the Fair School Funding Plan, passed in 2021. Based on the plan, funding for K-12 public schools should have been increased by $3.04 billion. The actual increase was $281.9 million, meaning the statehouse missed its own mandate by $2.75 billion.
- All we know from Ramaswamy’s website is that he wants to “slash property taxes immediately.”
- …If Ramaswamy wants to slash property taxes- by the way, state government doesn’t control property taxes− and doesn’t increase state funding, where does the money come from to improve public education? His plan is akin to alchemy.
- Ramaswamy’s disparaging view of Medicaid, Medicare, etc. – created as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society – was revealed during a 2024 interview with Ezra Klein of the New York Times.
- When asked, “Were Medicare and Medicaid mistakes?” he was blunt. “I believe they were.”
- Three million Ohioans – 25% of the state’s population – receive Medicaid. It’s estimated that the work requirement in last year’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” will cause 356,000 Ohioans to lose their health care coverage. This is in addition to at least 113,000 Ohioans who lost health coverage this year after the same bill allowed tax credits in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces to expire.
- [Ramaswamy’s] statements to date do not provide evidence that he understands what many Ohioans need.
Columbus Dispatch: Who did Ramaswamy save?
- I have seen TV ads saying that Dr. Amy Acton shut down schools and businesses. This is a lie.
- She did not shut down things; Gov. DeWine admitted that it was he, not she, who ordered shutdowns. Ramaswamy knows this but continues to attack her.
- While Acton was struggling to save us, what was Vivek Ramaswamy doing? He was paying lobbyists $70,000 to lobby Washington for one of his companies. What did he do to assist in the battle against COVID? He is silent on this; apparently, he did nothing.
- He continues to use attack ads against Acton but has not put out any information about what he will do for regular Ohioans (I am pretty sure he will do things for wealthy people and larger corporations) if elected.
- There is a large discrepancy between what Acton did for Ohioans and what Ramaswamy has done, which is nothing, but he has received millions in campaign money from Musk.
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