Greg Levy

All right.

And before we move on from the Senate race, Greg Levy is a socialist running as an independent in the U.S. Senate race between Brown and Husted.

And there's money flowing into his campaign that he didn't seem too happy about last week.

Jake, did you write about this or was it Jesse? I can't.

Tell me about what's happening with his campaign.

Yeah.

And there are just there are Republican interests that are sending out mailers to say, Greg Levy, he's a socialist.

He's he's good for us.

And I've been talking to people in Ohio about it this week.

Greg Levy, who is a prominent African-American grassroots leader in the state of Ohio with a long tradition in the community struggle, the peace movement.

He's running as an independent candidate as a socialist in Ohio.

Now, the Trump administration has spent all these recent months castigating socialists and communists and saying the country is being taken over by the left.

That campaign found out, this Greg Levy campaign found out, that the Republican Party operatives are spending more than their campaign combined, in other words, more than $200,000 to send caricatured images of Greg Levy to voters all around the state of Ohio, urging them to vote for Greg Levy because they think it'll take votes away from Sherrod Brown.

And the Democrats have supported Libertarian candidates, surreptitiously supporting right-wing candidates hoping to weaken the Republican Party.

So all of this trickery, all of this demagogy, all of this hypocrisy when it comes to the electoral system, and in the case of the Trump administration, saying socialism is the worst possible thing in the world, we have to defeat it, and yet Republican operatives, for their own purposes, funding surreptitiously an independent socialist candidate, who, by the way, publicly called out the Republicans, condemned them, and said it was trickery, it was undemocratic, and it was a caricature of black candidates, a kind of digital blackfacing.

On the Democratic side, Sherrod Brown is hoping to rejoin his former colleagues in the Senate after losing his re-election bid to current Republican Senator Bernie Moreno in 2024.

Two others have joined the contest, Libertarian candidate Bill Redpath and Independent candidate Greg Levy.

We'll share my one-on-one conversations with three of these four candidates with you here.

First, we'll bring you my interview with Brown.

Thanks for staying with us.

You just heard my conversation with the Libertarian candidate for Ohio's US Senate seat, Bill Redpath.

In just a moment, we'll bring you our conversation with independent candidate Greg Levy.

We started the show today with my interview with Democratic candidate Sherrod Brown.

But, uh, we're gonna talk about that and, uh, many, many other things.

So who are we d- talking to today? Greg Levy, running for...

Oh my God, it's Greg and Greg.

We've never had that before.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, that is Greg Levy coming onto the podcast.

You know, he is a community organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, co-director of the Robeson Singers.