Rusty Miller

30 years as AP sports writer in Columbus, Ohio, before hangin' it up.

[Karen Kasler @karenkasler]

Gov. Mike DeWine talks about Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad featuring Amy Acton’s mother saying she is lying about her past - “the ad is deeply, deeply troubling” and that when you know the full story “it makes it more wrong”

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This is probably the single best Two minute clip I have seen in a long time.

Anderson Cooper, who is gay, making fun of how gay Donald Trump is.

And I will repeat. There’s nothing wrong with being gay. The problem is hypocrisy.

[Darrel Rowland @darreldrowland]

"For 53 years, I’ve covered & written on Ohio government, politics & elections...
In my judgment, Ohioans never have witnessed a more depraved, amoral political attack than the one just launched by Vivek Ramaswamy against Dr Amy Acton"
Opinion-Mike Curtin
https://t.co/wY0lyoOpzc

[Covie @covie_93]

Good thing Amy Acton's rapist stepfather is dead because he'd be speaking at the next trump rally in Ohio.

[Covie @covie_93]

Imagine being the most unlikeable, unpleasant and creepy politician from a state that has jd vance and jim jordan!

[Frank Conniff @FrankConniff]

Never been a sports fan.

Until now.

Go Bengals!

[Plunderbund @plunderbund]

spotted by @OhioCrawler over on Facebook, somebody pulled Donna Arthur's criminal records

this is Vivek's closing messenger

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"A man so fiercely modest and private that while at the University of Cincinnati on a basketball scholarship, he didn't tell his parents back in Brooklyn that he was also on the baseball team.
The man whose mother requested one of the first copies of his 1966 autobiography, "Koufax", so she could find out something about her son.
"You never told me anything," she said to him.
The man who in 1968, two years after retiring with three Cy Young Awards, four no-hitters and five ERA titles, mentioned nothing of his baseball career upon meeting a pretty young woman named Anne who was redecorating her parents' Malibu beach house.
Koufax did offer to help her paint, though. It wasn't until several days later that she learned his identity;
And he learned hers:
She was the daughter of actor Richard Widmark.
They were married six months later in her father's West Los Angeles home in front of about a dozen people.
His elbow was shot full of cortisone several times a season.
His stomach was always queasy from the cocktail of anti-inflammatories he swallowed before and after games, which he once said made him:
"Half-high on the mound."
He soaked his elbow in an ice bath for 30 minutes after each game, his arm encased in an inner tube to protect against frostbite.
And even then his arm would swell an inch.
He couldn't go on like this, not when his doctors could not rule out the possibility that he was risking permanent damage to his arm."
Tom Verducci.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jon Stewart: “Mike Rogers holds a special place of disdain in my life. This guy was a real pain in our ass in 2010, we were trying to get the Zadroga Act for 9/11 first responders and he was a particularly obstinate, oh that’s just a New York problem, he voted against it all while talking about how much he respects the heroes of 9/11 and I’m a patriot and it was all bullshit”

[Justin Barasky @JustinBarasky]

Chris Christie knew who Vivek Ramaswamy was from the jump.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Epstein, Trump, Max Miller, and now Amy Acton's mom...the Republican Party protects the pedophiles and the abusers, not you.

[Columbus Dispatch @DispatchAlerts]

Opinion: Reckless behavior of this Ohio governor candidate can't be ignored. We're endorsing rival https://t.co/kIN9Ud5icW

[Frank Conniff @FrankConniff]

Good news for Ramaswamy: thanks to his bold pro-pedophile, anti-rape victim stance, he is now the frontrunner to become Governor of Epstein Island.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Vivek Ramaswamy is a scumbag.
He owes Amy Acton an apology.
He tried to exploit her childhood suffering.

Then he should suspend his campaign.
He is UNFIT to lead.

Make sure EVERYONE sees this.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Blinded by Ambition: Ramaswamy's Sickening Descent into the Exploitation of Childhood Trauma

Desperate to reverse his standing in a tight race for governor of Ohio, Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has hit a sickening new low, doubling down on his decision to air a devastatingly cruel attack ad. Instead of focusing on the struggles of everyday Ohioans, Ramaswamy's campaign invested millions to weaponize Donna Arthur — the long-estranged mother of his opponent, Amy Acton.

Arthur is the woman who actively supported her husband during a 1978 criminal indictment, standing by him in a courtroom while her own 12-year-old daughter testified about the brutal, continuous rape she endured from her stepfather. Acton was rescued from that abusive home nearly five decades ago, and a courtroom hallway was the last time she ever saw her mother.

For forty-eight years, Acton built a life of public service away from that nightmare. Yet Ramaswamy, blinded by his own ambition, chose to drag this agonizing childhood trauma into the public square, forcing a survivor to relive her childhood torment on a statewide stage. By platforming the mother who abandoned her, he didn't just target a political opponent — he actively re-traumatized the vulnerable 12-year-old girl who survived that horrific abuse.

It is a grotesque display of political opportunism, proving that under a Republican Party operating under the leadership of a president who is an adjudicated rapist, there is no boundary too sacred to cross and no trauma too deep to exploit.

[Darvin @darvinxq]

Bob Costas was 18 when his father dropped dead at JFK airport. At the wake, a man handed him a thick envelope with $6,000 in $100 bills. It was everything his father left behind, and a bookie would never have paid it to a dead man.

In the video below, he tells the story himself.

His father, John, was a big-time gambler. Not casinos, not racetracks. Ball games. Bob says the mortgage was literally riding on his bets.

When the games went the wrong way, he threw things, cursed and yelled. Bob’s mom and sister would leave. Bob stayed, because watching the games with his dad was the only way to be close to him.

Friday, May 15, 1970. A cop knocks on the door. Before he says a word, Bob’s mother asks, “My husband’s dead, isn’t he?” John Costas had a heart attack walking through JFK. He was 42.

At the wake, one of his gambling buddies walked in with the envelope. “Your father was up when he died. Give this to your mother.” A bookie never pays a dead man, so the friend went to the bookie himself and said John sent him to collect.

Decades later, Bob Costas refused to read sports betting ads on air. Today the bookie lives in everyone’s phone. Is that progress?

[Dustin Genereux @DustinGenereux]

You know what's crazy to me?

1% of the U.S. population is Muslim.

1% of the U.S. population is transgender.

1.6% of U.S. men identify as gay.

1.4% of U.S. women identify as lesbian.

But these statistic’s make up 100% of MAGA's talking points.

[Jay Cuda @JayCuda]

michigan state football is 1-13 (.000) in their last 14 big ten games. worst stretch in program history.

how did it get this bad. how is our univ. leadership this bad. how have we screwed up NIL this bad. when does basketball start

[Rachel Coyle @RachelCoyleOhio]

My god. Amy Acton's brother confirms Amy's story. Their mom chose to abandon her kids so she could stay with Amy's rapist

I can't even imagine what they've been through. Something is seriously wrong with @VivekGRamaswamy for trying to exploit this

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Amy Acton's brother reacts to Vivek Ramaswamy using their estranged mother in a campaign ad:

"...Our birth mother stayed married to Amy’s rapist until he died. This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core – a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants.”