Posted on 04/20/2022 6:09:50 AM PDT by cotton1706
The candidates challenging incumbent Gov. Mike DeWine for Republican nomination in next month's Ohio primary said he mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic.
But DeWine counters that the decisions his administration made positioned Ohio for the future. As part of the Ohio Public Statehouse News Bureau's 2022 Election series, we take a look at the issue of public health and the pandemic in the Republican gubernatorial race.
When DeWine first took office as governor, he focused his attention on things like early childhood development, funding for additional school services and water quality.
But in March of 2020, his term changed dramatically when the first cases of the coronavirus were reported in Ohio.
As COVID-19 began to spread, DeWine immediately put in place health orders to shut down businesses and schools, and implement social distancing requirements.
"It was my responsibility as governor to take the actions that needed to be taken. I think if you looked at how Ohio approached the pandemic and how other States approach the pandemic, I believe that we had a proper balance between public safety and also allowing people to make their livelihoods," DeWine said.
Though more than 38,000 Ohioans have died of COVID, the state currently ranks 23rd in COVID-19 deaths per capita and 40th in the country in COVID-19 cases per capita.
Republican former Congressman Jim Renacci is a vocal critic of DeWine's health orders and said he went too far in shutting things down.
"Look, we did have a health care crisis. There is no doubt about it. But at the same time, we had an economic crisis. And when you're a leader, you have to judge all of those issues and you have to make decisions for everybody," he said.
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Hopeful(s) = plural
Splitting the vote against an incumbent isn’t a good way to defeat them...unless there is a runoff law in Ohio.
Dewine is going to with what always works for him, run to the right during the primary, move to the middle during the general election, and govern as a leftist once he takes office citing the need to get things done and being a “common sense Republican” open to new ideas. The fact that he goes out of his way to disappear when President Trump comes to Ohio tells you all you need to know about him.
Forgive me for an off topic post, but I have to ask: When did ‘hone’ replace ‘home’? I may be showing my age or maybe it’s regional, but I was taught that you HOME in on a target, HOME in on a problem, use a HOMING device and HONE a knife. Is this a ‘clip’ / ‘magazine’ newspeak thing?
“Forgive me for an off topic post, but I have to ask: When did ‘hone’ replace ‘home’? I may be showing my age or maybe it’s regional, but I was taught that you HOME in on a target, HOME in on a problem, use a HOMING device and HONE a knife. Is this a ‘clip’ / ‘magazine’ newspeak thing?”
Apparently, home in and hone in are synonymous, or have become synonymous.
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