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The Rooster

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All of Ohio’s depravity. All the time.

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God, I am almost going to miss this campaign.

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The notorious conman Vivek Ramaswamy loves to claim he grew up in Cincinnati... but he apparently never learned to eat a bowl of its trademarked chili. One more week of this bozo! 🤞🏻

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The notorious conman Vivek Ramaswamy loves to claim he grew up in Cincinnati... but he apparently never learned to eat a bowl of its trademarked chili. One more week of this bozo! 🤞🏻

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The Patriots Caucus sends its regards to Mr. Ramaswamy.

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social

My understanding is that team Vivek wanted to roll out The Ad later so as to fuck over team acton’s timeframe for fundraising and responding to it effectively. An underappreciated aspect here, iirc (deferring to @rooster.info ) is that that timeline was fucked up not because of libs. The leaker…

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The Center for Christian Virtue's anti-immigrant immigrant podcast host has been arrested by ICE on what President Aaron Baer calls a "paperwork issue." Samuel Sey is a Ghanaian-Canadian who immigrated to the United States, perhaps illegally.

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Ramaswamy’s team wanted to drop the Hag from Hell end later this week, much closer to Election Day, to prevent Dr. Acton from being able to fundraise off the backlash and deploy those resources. Oh well. I guess we will never know how that would have gone!

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I know I still have some swagger about me because in the past two days Hilltop hustlers have tried to sell me a clearly stolen vehicle and “brand new Northface jackets” right off Sullivant Avenue.

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A true sicko. Government name: Andrew Ginther.

Eric Muller@handsomecheese.bsky.social

Please excuse my ignorance, but who is Mayor Suburbs? I am a recent follower.

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And there you have it, from Henry Gomez of NBC.

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I guess there is also an option where he’s cutting the Hag from Hell ad down to 30 seconds but that would also show gross incompetence since he already sprung for a $4.5 million ad buy.

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Medium Buying reported late last night that Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign is converting all its ad buys to 30-second hits, and that TV stations were "scrambling" to confirm with the campaign. The Hag from Hell ad is 60 seconds long. So he's likely pulling it.

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I guess there is also an option where he’s cutting the Hag from Hell ad down to 30 seconds but that would also show gross incompetence since he already sprung for a $4.5 million ad buy.

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I would assume more than half are also Mayor Suburbs donors.

Brent Warren@brentincolumbus.bsky.social

Wondering who the biggest local donors to Vivek’s campaign are? I went through the list:

columbusunderground.comColumbus Developers, Companies Among Largest Donors to Ramaswamy Campaign - Columbus UndergroundMany of the largest donors to Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign for governor are Columbus-based developers, corporate leaders and Political Action Committees formed by local corporations. Jeff Edwards, CEO a...
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Bloodletting at COTA continues. CFO Earl Jackson "resigned" (read: fired) today and is no longer listed on the COTA leadership page.

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And as I wrote earlier this week: Monica Tellez-Fowler is fired, no matter what the COTA Board of Trustees wants to tell the Columbus Dispatch. All that's left is negotiating her severance package.

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The second most-read dispatch in The Rooster’s nearly eight years of publishing: www.rooster.info/p/ohio-state...

rooster.infoAngry assistant professor assaults curious cameraman at Ohio State's “intellectual diversity center”Ohio State Assistant Professor Luke Perez assaulted a local documentarian for having the audacity to ask Vice President E. Gordon Gee a single question. Things only got more bizarre from there.
jnelson47.bsky.social@jnelson47.bsky.social

Who was this?

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It appears that Ohio State has finally fired the Nutty Professor. Luke Perez’s university profile no longer active. I have reached out to Buckeye spokesman Ben Johnson for comment.

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Anecdotal, obviously, but the notorious conman Vivek Ramaswamy has lost the most influential conservative political commentator in the City of Kings.

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My understanding is that both refused the appointment. DeWine told them to figure it out, even going as far to have Jay Edwards on tap if they didn't. But Husted blinked first like he always does, and he took an exile to DC that he hates. He's hoping Vivek loses so he can run for governor in 2030.

“Exquisite Class” Posts@embittered.bsky.social

Do you think DeWine regrets appointing Husted over Vivek? Or someone else so Husted could run against Vivek in the primary? Not from morals but a political stand point

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John Kasich was on MS NOW yesterday, crying crocodile tears about the sad state of American political campaigning. But Kasich should look in the mirror. He bears as much responsibility for the "Hag from Hell" ad as anyone who wasn't in the room. www.rooster.info/p/john-kasic...

rooster.infoLook on your works, John Kasich, and despair!Kasich can save the crocodile tears. He bears as much responsibility for the “Hag from Hell” ad as anyone who wasn’t in the room for its creation.

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Benjamin McKean
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Vivek Ramaswamy has been a horrible person in public for so long that until a friend reminded me, I totally forgot that I wrote a letter to the editor blasting his opposition to a living wage for campus workers more than *two decades ago*

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Almost certainly. But it’s Yoho’s ship these days. Elsass has one foot in the ground.

jolowobe@jolowobe.bsky.social

My mom, and Ohio politician, is pretty convinced Rex Elsass also had a hand in it. She says he’s completely evil.

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So, to recap: Boss Baby descends into Ohio, tells Republican to stop crying about Vivek Ramaswamy platforming the Hag from Hell, and Frank LaRose and Jon Husted immediately rebuke the ad. This is the future leader of MAGA? Please. apnews.com/article/elec...

apnews.comVance says he’s ‘disgusted’ by GOP pushback to Ramaswamy ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged motherVice President JD Vance says he’s “disgusted” by the pushback from fellow Republicans to an ad Vivek Ramaswamy is running against his Democratic opponent for Ohio governor, Dr.
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That’s the other thing I have been trying to run down. I do not think anything called the Children and Family Service Association existed.

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Want to hear the best part? They did private focus groups through Center of Christian Virtue.

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All roads lead to Ramaswamy's chief strategist, Jai Chabria, and Strategy Group CEO Ben Yoho as the mastermind of the ad. Spokeswoman Connie Luck, who should probably already be in prison, should also never work in politics again for trying to cast doubt on Acton's well-documented trauma.

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jamelle
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like vance, ramaswamy is a hateful, resentful orc of a human being, and the reason i think this will hurt him politically — where this stuff didn’t hurt trump — is that ramaswamy, like vance, is also profoundly unlikeable. he has no charm or charisma or anything. just a dipshit.

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Unearthed footage of Vivek Ramaswamy mocking Amy Acton for being a survivor of childhood abuse: "She has no vision other than to complain about what someone else did to her"

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Once you have huddled in the Situation Room to protect Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend… everyday hobgoblin activity becomes small potatoes not even worth the pangs of conscience.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WOW -- Vance *defends* Vivek's reprehensible ad 👇 Q: Ramaswamy's campaign put out a controversial ad featuring his opponent's mother. Some Republicans are backing away. Do you think it was appropriate? JD VANCE: Well, I'll be honest. Whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern.