Lydia L. Mihalik

Some Republicans have come out against it.

Lydia Mihalik, she's the director of Ohio's Department of Development.

She was one of the first to publicly denounce it.

Former Ohio House Speaker Ryan Smith, a Republican, he did it too.

They're both on the ballot this time saying they would not have run that ad.

The loudest condemnation from Republicans came from Lydia Mihalik, who's the former mayor of Finley and DeWine's director of the Ohio Department of Development, and then former House Speaker Ryan Smith, who lost his House seat to Larry Householder, another name you might remember.

But we really haven't – there hasn't been a whole lot of public outcry from Republicans on this.

And most of it has come from Democrats.

Ohio Senator John Husted said, quote, I would not have run that ad.

Republican Lydia Mihalik, a state official in Ohio, wrote on social media, With that, let's get into today's main story.

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Some Republicans have been vocal about it.

Ohio Department of Development Director Lydia Mihalik, who would have been – well, I'm not going down that road.

She weighed in on X. We'll talk about that later.

Former Ohio House Speaker Ryan Smith weighed in, said this is over the line.

And my message to my fellow elected Republicans is if you actually believe in the things you say you believe in, stop whining about an advertisement and go win the race in 13 days.

Next.

So I've got a lot more on Lydia Mihalik later, Windsor Investigates.

Sidebar, she's not elected.

This is over the line.

Well, I have not checked his feed yet, but Lydia Mihalik, you may remember her, director of Ohio Department of Development, has worked with Governor DeWine's administration, came out four hours ago and said, I don't care what political party you belong to or which candidate you support.

There are lines you shouldn't cross, and this is one of them.

We can disagree on plenty of things without losing our sense of decency.

And I remember last week Amy Acton's campaign – you might remember this, Walter – picked out a guy that was in a Ramaswamy campaign video at a fair that apparently has a past, a conviction for sexual abuse.

And really used a private citizen to attack her candidate.

I don't remember Lydia Mihalik saying anything about that.

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This is a potentially transformational impact, uh, along the corridors there, um, where we will have, um, not just bus stops, but actual bus stations, which will s- uh, draw more people to use public transit, which is good, and draw more foot traffic in those areas for those small businesses.

In anticipation of that, we changed zoning laws in order to support our small businesses, and secondarily, uh, we put $6.5 million on the table, uh, for the Bond Hill Community Council and all of the Bond Hill stakeholders- Uh, and Dunnie Isaacson and, uh, Governor DeWine, um, through their development director of the state, Lydia Mihalik, a former mayor of Findlay, ad- added an additional $2 million.

So that's a, a huge win for minority leader Isaacson, uh, who's, who represents the West End, and obviously a huge win for Bond Hill.

We now have $8.5 million, uh, for midpoint, um, to, to support those businesses.