As President Joe Biden visited and spoke in Ohio Thursday, notable Democratic elected officials from around the state were not in attendance.
According to the Ohio Republican Party (ORP), Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, also a U.S. Senate candidate, was not in attendance for Biden’s speech. Neither were Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) or Representative Tim Ryan (D-OH-13). Ryan, too, is running for U.S. Senate.
ORP Chairman Bob Paduchik suggested that the elected officials did not want to associate themselves with Biden, whose poll numbers are at an all-time low heading into the 2022 midterm elections.
“Joe Biden’s visit to Ohio is a feeble attempt to salvage his failed presidency, and demonstrates how out of touch he is with Ohio’s working families,” Paduchik said. “Rather than a publicity tour, he should focus on an emboldened Russia and China, rising prices, and securing the southern border, among other crises created by this disastrous administration.”
Americans are also nearing record highs on the infamous “misery index,” which measures how content they are today, and their outlook on the future. Americans now are more dismayed than they were during the Great Recession of 2008, and almost as dismayed as they were when 10 percent of the working population was unemployed in 2009 and 2010.
Biden spoke in the Buckeye State about his infrastructure plan, and specifically about Ohio’s lead pipes.
“We’re gonna start undoing the legacy of lead, which has poisoned too many of the region’s children,” he said. “That means replacing 100 percent of the lead water pipes and service lines, and addressing what they call PFAS, a dangerous chemical that are a threat to the drinking water here in Ohio and other parts of America.”
He also announced that $1 billion from the infrastructure bill will be allocated to clean up the Great Lakes region, saying that “we’re going to clean up pollution, restore wetlands and habitats, create jobs, and make water safer for millions of Americans.”
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Ohio Star and The Star News Network. Email tips to [email protected].
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