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BREAKING:
@TimRyan
’s campaign for U.S. Senate raised $9.1 million in the second quarter of 2022, more than double the previous fundraising record for a Senate candidate in Ohio
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@SenSherrodBrown
says of Ohio: "This state government is the most corrupt in the country."
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Bill Johnson submitted his letter of resignation today to the U.S. House of Representatives, effective Jan. 21, and will start the next day as Youngstown State University president
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In campaign fundraising email,
@JDVance1
describes himself as once being a “teenage hillbilly from Youngstown, Ohio.” Vance never lived in Youngstown.
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Simply put the Ohio Redistricting Commission chose to not comply with a state Supreme Court mandate. The governor, the secretary of state, the auditor, the Senate president and the House speaker (a former Supreme Court justice) made that decision.
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J.D. Vance argued in a recent fundraising email that it’s “toxic” to tell people to abandon their struggling hometowns, but on at least three occasions before he was the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, he encouraged exactly that
#OhSen
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Ohio Supreme Court rejects state legislative maps by 4-3 decision for the fourth time.
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Bruce Zoldan, whose family committed $5 million for a new student center at Youngstown State University, said unless the board of trustees rescinds the hiring of U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson as president, he will pull his family’s name from the proposed facility
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U.S. Rep.
@TimRyan
, who is running as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate, raised $2.28 million in the second quarter — more than any candidate for the 2022 race in Ohio raised between April and June from donors
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I can’t imagine the four majority justices on the Ohio Supreme Court finding the Republican maps acceptable nor will the two Democrats on the commission vote in favor of it.
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Ohio Supreme Court gives members of the Ohio Redistricting Commission until 9 a.m. Monday to respond to show why a contempt of court hearing shouldn't be held in state legislative maps case.
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At
@OHDems
meeting,
@Russo4Ohio
says the majority on the Ohio Redistricting Commission committed an "assault" on democracy by not complying with the Ohio Supreme Court directive to create constitutional state legislative maps.
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Thanks to everyone who reached out to me. We were informed today that The Vindicator is closing Aug. 31. A very sad time for all of us. If you’ve got potential job opportunities for me feel free to DM me. I’m open to a lot. And thanks to those who’ve read my work all these years.
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Rudy w/major screw-up. Says governor of your state is coming out. Crowd is silent w/shock for
@JohnKasich
. Rudy thought he was in Indiana
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BREAKING:
@TimRyan
announces he raised more than $1.2 million in first quarter. He’s widely expected to run for US Senate in 2022 with announcement expected shortly.
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My final column for The Vindicator. Today will be bittersweet. But very happy to announce I’ll be starting next week with the Tribune Chronicle covering politics and Youngstown government
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The operator of the Youngstown venue where the J.D. Vance rally with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he never agreed to have the event at the facility on Aug. 19 and it will have to held elsewhere
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Nationally among nonincumbent Senate candidates,
@TimRyan
's $2.28M is second only to Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman's $2.5M for the second quarter.
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ACLU of Ohio, League of Women Voters of Ohio, the Ohio Chapter of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, and others filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state legislative district maps
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BREAKING: Pennsylvania AG Bruce Beemer said his office & state police "are investigating a pattern of voter registration irregularities."
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@Russo4Ohio
says the Dem map is constitutional and meets all sections that are required regardless of what it does to individual legislators.
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The recent hiring of U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson as Youngstown State University president may be leading to a financial fallout as university donors and supporters consider pulling the plug on their giving going forward
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U.S. Rep.
@TimRyan
’s Senate campaign reached a union contract agreement with 5 staff members that includes a minimum hourly salary of $25 for full-time workers, unlimited personal time off & 100 percent employer-covered medical, vision and dental insurance
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There are a number of people criticizing the U of Michigan for canceling a college football game against Ohio State. There's an ongoing pandemic that's killed many people and made others seriously ill. Please put things in perspective.
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Ohio Democrats release maps that meet the Ohio Supreme Court requirements of 54 Republican House seats and 45 Dems; 18 R Senate seats and 15 D. In Mahoning Valley there are two clearly D seats (Youngstown and Warren focused) & two solid R seats (everywhere else in both counties).
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It was such a difficult day with the closing of The Vindicator. There are so many people I will miss. I want to thank everyone - and there were so many that it was overwhelming - who sent emails, texts and tweets in support and congratulations on my job at the Tribune Chronicle.
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@realDonaldTrump
wins Trumbull County by more than 10 percent with all precincts reporting. Even bigger win than in 2016.
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Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose said state House members who don’t support putting a constitutional amendment on an Aug. 8 ballot will face “consequences” for their decision
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Ohio reports 20,320 new COVID-19 cases today. It's a remarkably high number. It's more in one day than the state had in five separate months: April, May and June 2020 and June and July 2021.
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In the latest rebuke of Youngstown State University’s Board of Trustees decision to hire U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson as the school’s next president, the Academic Senate approved “no-confidence” resolutions against both
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.
@RepTimRyan
, chairman of the subcommittee that funds the Capitol police, said he is launching an investigation into the agency’s “severe systemic failure in securing the building’s perimeter” and response during a riot by President Donald Trump supporters
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BREAKING:
@berniemoreno
raises $2.25M from donors in the second quarter in U.S. Senate Republican primary in Ohio. It's more than any other Republican raised in the second quarter from donors - by quite a bit. He accepted no corporate PAC money and put none of his personal $ in.
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I asked
@GovMikeDeWine
about the Ohio Senate votes on the 60% threshold to pass a constitutional amendment and a special $20M August special election. His response: "Look, they're doing a lot of different things. We'll have comments later."
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For the past few months a neighbor has had a J.R. Majewski sign in his yard. He is going to be surprised next week when voting as Majewski’s district is about 120 miles from here.
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Democrat
@TimRyan
’s campaign reported raising $17.2 million in the third quarter — nearly doubling what was raised in the prior quarter and once again breaking a fundraising record for a U.S. Senate candidate in Ohio
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It should be noted that Democrats on the commission have not seen the map. Huffman didn't explain why.
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I didn't hear
@GovMikeDeWine
,
@LtGovHusted
or the other Republicans at today's news conference say they opposed the American Rescue Plan when they were touting the $250 million they want to use from it for law enforcement. Maybe I missed that part.
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From Ohio Supreme Court's congressional redistricting decision: We hold that the congressional-district plan is invalid in its entirety because it unduly favors the Republican Party and disfavors the Democratic Party" & it "unduly splits Hamilton, Cuyahoga, and Summit counties"
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No word from Ohio Redistricting Commission on when or if it will meet tonight. We were told we'd get 90-minute notice before convening. I presume staff is still working on maps. Tomorrow is the deadline to approve maps. It's an understatement to say it's been poorly handled.
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Businessman Bruce Zoldan rescinded the $5 million committed to a new student center at Youngstown State University and won’t give any more money to the school because of the decision to hire Bill Johnson, a former conservative congressman, as president
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Ohio Supreme Court rules the Ohio Redistricting Commission's resubmission of the third map - previously rejected - is unconstitutional.
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@GovMikeDeWine
says regarding the two congressional maps being considered by the state Legislature: "It's pretty clear neither of those are going to fly."
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Five former Ohio attorneys general (2 Reps and 3 Dems) - Jim Petro, Betty Montgomery, Richard Cordray, Lee Fisher and Nancy Rogers - signed a letter in opposition to the proposal to raise the constitutional amendment threshold to 60%.
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Leslie Cochran, a former Youngstown State University president, is calling for the board of trustees to rescind its offer to make U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson the next president and for the congressman to withdraw from job
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From Youngstown police: The
@realDonaldTrump
campaign has more than 20,000 reservation for the Covelli Centre, which holds a max of 7,000.
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.
@nanwhaley
, Democrat running for Ohio governor, reports $1.64M raised in first half of the year. It's the most raised ever by a Democratic gubernatorial challenger & more than
@GovMikeDeWine
raised in the first half of 2017, a year before he ran for governor, her campaign says.
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Ohio Supreme Court rejects a legal challenge to putting an abortion rights constitutional amendment on the Nov. 7 ballot.
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Looks like
@SenSherrodBrown
is going to endorse
@TimRyan
's Senate bid. Got an email from the Ryan campaign that the two will be together in Cleveland at 9:30 a.m. "to discuss what’s at stake in Ohio’s U.S. Senate race next year."
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Ohio Supreme Court strikes down the state legislative maps as unconstitutional.
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U.S. House Appropriations Committee approves
@TimRyan
's request for $19M in earmarks, including more than $13M for Mahoning Valley. Moves to the full House and then the Senate. It can be a lengthy process. Ryan asked & received about $15M in earmarks last year. Got them in March.
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Ohio Redistricting Commission probably won't meet until 4 p.m. or so tonight. It was supposed to meet at 9:30 a.m. today, but hasn't convened & some members are going to the Intel announcement. Of course, Intel is a big deal, but it's not like it was planned at the last minute.
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Donald Trump's team visited the Canfield Fairgrounds in late March looking to see if a rally could be held there the weekend of April 22-24. The fair board said no as Angels for Animals' annual garage sale is that weekend and a toy show is April 23.
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In what seemed unusual
@jdvance1
spoke for only about ten minutes with about one-third of it remarkably similar to the speech he gave last month at the DeSantis rally. Trump won’t be on for at least an hour so it’s not like Vance had to rush.
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I was honored to write the last front page story in The Vindicator’s 150-year history Also, that’s me in the picture, second row near center
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Today is my 24th anniversary at The
@Vindicator
. Next week it will be 31 years as a newspaper reporter.
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Only two years ago the Ohio Supreme Court upheld
@GovMikeDeWine
’s hasty decision to cancel the primary so you’re incorrect, sir.
@DavidPepper
We have no intention to move the primary date. And only the General Assembly can set the time place and manner of holding elections.
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An airplane Fox News and The New York Post claims is secretly flying underage migrants landed at Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport, but evidence shows the stop took home the Missouri State football team after its Oct. 9 loss to Youngstown State University
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The American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal union, is endorsing
@TimRyan
for U.S. Senate.
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.
@RepTimRyan
will deliver Ohio's delegate count virtually Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention.
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BREAKING: Judge Terri Jamison of the 10th District Court of Appeals in Columbus will be the
@OHDems
other Ohio Supreme Court candidate.
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Emily’s List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, endorsed
@NanWhaley
in the race for Ohio governor. This is Emily’s List’s first endorsed challenger at the gubernatorial level in the 2022 cycle.
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.
@berniemoreno
on Bob Frantz's podcast said of
@dolan4ohio
: "We have a very, very simple choice in the Republican primary. Do you want an America-first conservative outsider or do you want a professional politician that is a little bit Democrat-light. Those are your choices."
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Youngstown State University hires U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson as its president. Vote was 8-1.
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EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. Senate campaign staff for Congressman
@TimRyan
is joining the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1466 — the first U.S. Senate campaign in the state’s history to unionize
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.
@OHDems
meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday to hear from statewide candidates. Rep. Jeffrey Crossman of Parma plans to run for attorney general & Marilyn Zayas of 1st District Court of Appeals (Hamilton Co) will run for a Supreme Court seat based on Trumbull Dems petition drive announcement.
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As far as raising money from donors in the 3rd quarter,
@TimRyan
is the big winner and by a lot. He raised $2,511,219.04 with $2,305,135.28 from donors, $179,250 from PACs, and the rest from transfers and offsets. He had $3,646,030.63 COH as of Sept. 30.
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That's 106 more town hall meetings than you had in Ohio during your eight years as governor.
Tonight’s debate in New Hampshire brings back great memories of my time in the Granite State and my 106 town hall meetings. Loved every one of them.
#DemDebate
#NHPolitics
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There were 9,019 COVID-19 cases today in Ohio. It's the most since Jan. 8. For a comparison, there were 9,390 cases in all of July.
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The Ohio Supreme Court has consolidated the three lawsuits against the Ohio Redistricting Commission regarding the state legislative district maps into one case for oral arguments only. Those arguments are Dec. 8 and limited to 30 minutes for each side.
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EXCLUSIVE: A poll commissioned by Democrat
@TimRyan
’s U.S. Senate campaign shows a statistical dead heat for the seat with Republican J.D. Vance
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Thanks
@SenSherrodBrown
for recognizing my work on the U.S. Senate floor. The loss of The
@vindicator
is devastating for us all.
It’s time for us to stand up for the free press, stand up for community papers, and stand up for the local journalists who are vital to the fabric of cities and towns like Youngstown across the country.
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This was, by far, the week with the most reported COVID-19 deaths in Ohio. There were 1,065 reported. The old record of 850 was last week. Before that, Ohio didn't have any weeks with as many as 700 reported deaths.
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The Ohio Democratic Party bought the web domain address of the defunct nonprofit founded by
@JDVance1
to fight the opioid epidemic and turned it into a parody account critical of the Republican Senate nominee
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Morgan Harper
@mh4oh
reports raising $250,000 in first 36 hours of her campaign for US Senate in Ohio.
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Ohio set a record today for most reported cases at 12,502. The old record was 11,885 on Nov. 23, 2020.
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Fox News Channel will host a Nov. 1
#OhSen
town hall in Columbus with Democrat Tim Ryan and Republican J.D. Vance. It will be moderated by Fox’s chief political anchor Special Report’s Bret Baier and The Story anchor and executive editor Martha MacCallum.
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@amyewalter
He can't be stopped. Democrats in Ohio are taking Republican ballots to vote for
@realDonaldTrump
:
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EXCLUSIVE:
@SenSherrodBrown
said the nation couldn’t possibly have a worse president to lead than
@realDonaldTrump
during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Youngstown State University Board of Trustees refused to allow public comments or questions at its Thursday meeting about the hiring of Rep. Bill Johnson as the school’s next president, despite saying at a Nov. 21 meeting that comments would be permitted
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I’m a grandfather and it’s such an incredible feeling.
We started 2023 off with the most beautiful celebration 🤱🏼
Naomi Rhodes Mitchell ❤️ born January 2 at 12:14 pm. 3 pounds and 12 ounces and 16.64 inches long
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The $2,904,653
@TimRyan
raised in 4Q was about $270,000 more than all of the other Senate candidates combined received from donors.
Among those who gave under $200 in 4Q, Ryan received more than 3 times the amount all the other Senate candidates raised.
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My column: It’s neglect of duty for Republicans in the state Legislature to let a Sept. 30 deadline pass to seek a bipartisan agreement on new congressional districts without even introducing a map
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Redistricting Commission response: "The Commission respectfully requests that if the Court is unable to decide this matter by Feb 11, the Court should consider staying the matter until after the 2022 General Election, allowing the Revised Plan to remain in effect in the interim"
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The campaign of
@SenSherrodBrown
said it will report raising over $12 million in the first quarter of the year, breaking another Ohio fundraising record.
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In his first four-plus months as governor, I've done two phone interviews with
@GovMikeDeWine
both at a moment's notice. I did one in eight years with
@JohnKasich
and that was after constant badgering of his staff. Nice to have a governor who respects the press in office.
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State Rep. Michael J. O’Brien, D-Warren, who also represents parts of the park, said: “Why would you name a lake after the only president in U.S. history to have been impeached twice?”
Freshman state Rep. Mike Loychik wants to rename Mosquito Lake State Park after former President Donald Trump; state Rep. Michael J. O’Brien criticizes proposal
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