@jpelzer

By day, I'm the mild-mannered chief politics reporter for @ClevelandDotCom. Dad, Cubs fan, @UofIllinois/@UISPAR grad. Opinions are cheap; facts are expensive.

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Hundreds of thousands of Ohioans could lose Medicaid coverage in the near future. 2/3rd of Ohioans polled say they or a family member delayed or canceled medical care due to the cost. What would Ohio's 2026 governor candidates do about these issues? cleveland.com/news/2026/09/w…

Where Ohio’s 2026 governor candidates stand on healthcare, from Medicaid to affordability

Amy Acton, Vivek Ramaswamy and Don Kissick offer different approaches to potentially massive Medicaid enrollment cuts, cutting medical costs, and other healthcare issues.

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The Sherrod Brown and Amy Acton campaign staffers are burning midnight oil trying to concoct a “CLEVELAND” tweet.
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As Ohio House Republicans work to get the 2/3rds support needed to pass a gas-tax suspension with an emergency clause, they're now moving to fill @SharonRayOhio's seat with another Republican just before the vote.
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If you're scoring at home, that will get the House GOP back up to 65 seats (at least on paper -- unclear if there will be any absences). If all the House Rs show, that means they'd only need one House Democrat to vote for the gas-tax bill.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but a quarter of Ohio voters think Sherrod Brown is the incumbent Senator source: scholarworks.bgsu.edu/depo/2…
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Butler County judge dismisses Ohio lawmakers' suit challenging state’s abortion-rights amendment cleveland.com/news/2026/09/j…

Judge dismisses Ohio lawmakers’ lawsuit challenging state’s abortion-rights amendment

A Butler County judge held that plaintiffs challenging the validity of a 2023 amendment Ohio voters approved enshrining abortion and reproductive rights in the state constitution lacked standing to...

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Ohio gas-tax suspension heading toward a vote, but lawmakers' support is still in flux cleveland.com/news/2026/09/o…

Ohio gas-tax suspension heading toward a vote, but levels of support still in flux

Ohio lawmakers plan to vote next week on a 90-day gas-tax suspension, but it’s unclear whether the votes are there to make it take effect immediately. One longshot idea is to use $600M earmarked for...

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Ohio legislative leaders scramble to hold votes next week on Ramaswamy gas-tax plan cleveland.com/news/2026/09/o…

Ohio legislative leaders scramble to hold votes next week on Ramaswamy gas-tax plan

Legislative leaders expressed confidence Tuesday that Ohio lawmakers will unexpectedly reconvene next week at the behest of Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy to OK a 90-day suspension...

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Ohio lawmakers could return next week to suspend state’s gas tax under Ramaswamy plan cleveland.com/news/2026/09/o…

Ohio lawmakers could return next week to suspend state’s gas tax under Ramaswamy plan

Vivek Ramaswamy's proposed a 90-day gas tax moratorium could bring lawmakers back to Columbus and into the Ohio governor’s race just weeks before Election Day.

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Here's where the #OHgov candidates stand on abortion, and why Ohio's next governor is likely to play a bigger-than-usual role in shaping the future of abortion in the state cleveland.com/news/2026/09/o…

Ohio’s next governor could reshape abortion policy. Here’s where the candidates stand

Ohio’s next governor will likely have an unusual chance to shape state abortion laws and policies. Amy Acton, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Don Kissick have very different ideas about what they would do.

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Ashland County Fair apologizes, vows rule changes after ejecting Democrats over controversial anti-Trump buttons cleveland.com/news/2026/09/a…

An Ohio county fair ejected Democrats over anti-Trump buttons — and now it's apologizing and...

The settlement ends part of a free-speech lawsuit over Ashland County Democrats’ removal from the 2025 fair for selling anti-Trump buttons with messages such as “Is he dead yet?”

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Fact check: Democrats’ ‘pump and dump’ attacks against Vivek Ramaswamy don’t add up cleveland.com/news/2026/09/d…

Democrats’ ‘pump and dump’ attacks against Vivek Ramaswamy don’t add up

Democratic rival Amy Acton and others say Ramaswamy cashed out from a biotech company just before a highly touted Alzheimer's drug collapsed. But that didn't happen.

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I've been covering Ohio government for 14 years this month, and I'm still discovering new state boards and commissions com.ohio.gov/divisions-and-p…
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Ohio State Moritz College of Law is moving to downtown Columbus dispatch.com/story/news/educ…

Ohio State Moritz College of Law is moving to downtown Columbus

Ohio State will move its law school to the historic Huntington Bank Building in downtown Columbus by fall 2029.

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2026 #OHgov candidates on higher ed: -@VivekGRamaswamy's evolving stance on closing/consolidating some state universities -@AmyActonOH's plan to rein in college costs & train grads for in-demand jobs -@DonCKissick's call to repeal SB1's faculty-strike ban cleveland.com/news/2026/09/w…

Ohio's next governor could reshape higher ed — here's where the candidates stand

Amy Acton, Don Kissick, and Vivek Ramaswamy each have distinct ideas about how to keep college affordable, fill in-demand jobs, and respond to Senate Bill 1.

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Andrew Tobias@AndrewJTobias
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Inbox: The Ohio State Medical Association PAC has endorsed Vivek Ramaswamy for governor. In other words, the political arm of Ohio’s physicians group chose Ramaswamy over Amy Acton, who is herself a physician.
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Rob Pyers
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The post-Labor Day election spending continues to ramp up--the GOP's Congressional Leadership Fund SuperPAC drops $7.4M on 14 races: $789,690 #CO08 $784,756 #CA22 $767,664 #IA01 $670,499 #MI07 $579,084 #PA10 $569,295 #OH09 $556,809 #WA03 $548,467 #PA08 $465,637 #IA03 $444,590 #NE02 $395,958 #AZ06 $365,388 #MI08 $250,271 #TX28 $225,000 #NY17
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NEW FEC F24 CLF $7,413,108-> #CO08 #CA22 #IA01 #MI07 #PA10 #OH09 #WA03 #PA08 #IA03 #NE02 #AZ06 #MI08 #TX28 #NY17 docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/for…
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Oh man, I didn't know the Libertarian withdrew from the Kaptur-Merrin race in #OH09
Libertarian Party of Ohio
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Candidate Withdrawal Does Not Stop Momentum Matthew Althaus’s withdrawal from Ohio’s 9th Congressional District is disappointing (not surprising), but one less race does not define the Libertarian Party of Ohio’s election cycle. We have 22 candidates across Ohio, and may be adding another soon. Candidate recruitment continues for 2027 and beyond as the party keeps building organization and pursuing new opportunities statewide. Read more, link in reply.
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A Ramaswamy campaign ad claims Acton would raise taxes by a whopping $21 billion if she’s elected governor. But the ad’s evidence for that is a fact-check I did in April that actually debunks the $21B claim cleveland.com/news/2026/09/r…

Anti-Amy Acton attack ad cites fact-check that debunks its own claim

A Vivek Ramaswamy campaign ad suggests Democrat Amy Acton supports a "$21 billion tax increase." But the cleveland.com story cited in the ad actually debunked the claim.

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#OHgov fundraising: -@VivekGRamaswamy & allies are outspending @AmyActonOH & allies 6-to-1 on ads -Acton has outraised Ramaswamy in 2026, $21.5M to $16.1M -Ramaswamy loaned his campaign another $5M -The Haslam family has given $182K+ to Vivek's campaign cleveland.com/news/2026/09/r…

Ramaswamy, allies are outspending Acton 6-to-1 on TV ads in Ohio governor’s race

Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy and his allies are still raising and spending far more money than Democrat Amy Acton, but she has proven to be more financially and politically...

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