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Here s your problem. Her mother abandoned her children and that was when Amy was 12 to go on the run with a fugitive charged with rape. She doesn't even really know Amy. You just have so much hate in your heart you don't care about the facts. Her brother backs up her account of abuse.

Why would you believe a woman who abandoned her children to go on the run with a fugitive? You have gone beyond the bounds of disgusting here....................

"I received a lot of abuse, but Amy always got the worst of it,” Acton’s brother, Phil Stearns, says in a new 30-second ad released Wednesday. “She continued to receive that abuse because she knew she had to protect me from that, and if she hadn't done that, who knows where I would have ended up.”

"She was 11- and 12-years-old, and to think that that's somehow a talking point—shame on Vivek,” Stearns continues. “The contempt he has for Amy is the contempt he has for Ohio. He's not fit to lead."

https://time.com/article/2026/10/21...-ballot/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Yeah, both of her children are lying while she abandoned them and went on the run with a fugitive. Sometimes I don't even think you hear yourself.

I see who Amy Aktin is by her actions. She is a liar. She supports terrible policies. She is a horrible human being.

She hasn't seen her mother since she was 12. So what would she know about her daughter?

After being charged with rape the stepdad and her mom took off and hid. You are backing up the story of her mom who was on the run with a fugitive from justice................

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Amy Acton’s stepfather, who was indicted in 1978 on charges of sexually assaulting the then-12-year-old Acton, remained at large for more than two decades until he died in 2004.

https://www.cleveland.com/crime/202...as-far-from-guaranteed-in-the-1970s.html

Why is it you keep defending sexual offenders like Amy's stepdad and trump? You're just sick.

All she does is lie. Why not lie in this instance also.

Her brother supporrts her story
Her mother supports her pedophile husband

Why am I not surprised you chose to support the pedo?

Timing is everything, As I mentioned. Trump came into this second term saying he wanted to make Canada the 51st state. That started this mess. I am convinced that was his way of Bullying or at least attempting to bully canada into a deal that was more favorable to us.. That almost never works with a strong country like Canada.

You can deny it if you wish, but it's real and it's there for all to see. Except you I guess.

UNBELIEVABLE

There is not a decent bone in Amy Aktin's body. She is a despicable human being. She is a liar. I believe her mother over her cry me a river victim mentality story.

I agree DW is not a guy who will win a popularity contest.

However, I root for Cleveland not DW. There are plenty of bad people and the NFL has their share.

It is only natural to like guys like Nick Chubb and not like some others.

I want to win for Cleveland. It is my home town.

It would be great to find another QB like Bernie. A guy you love to cheer for.

But this is where we are. DW has not played well. But he has come up big in crunch time.

I hope we can find a guy in the draft who will be a quarterback to lead the Browns to win a Super Bowl.

That is the dream that I hope we all get to see.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TzdEIzic3gg

Witkoff to Putin: 'You're a humanitarian' -- 2 minute video that highlights all the things Putin has done in Ukraine and back in Russia.

I bet the Fake Christian will agree.

Don’t like him, never will because of the off field stuff. Never watched him in Houston either, just here. And I’ll take his play for now as it is, but even if we get lucky and make the playoffs, I don’t want him extended without a franchise QB being drafted or otherwise acquired. This is fun, but he’s inconsistent as hell.

You're conflating one bad contract on a bad player... with troublesome cap management. The two are not the same and one does not make the other.

Our philosophy means we are in a better position than any other team that would have signed him to a mega-contract and watched him suck and/or not play.

Why? Because we use a 0% platinum Card.


Here's another analogy that pertains:

Two companies have the exact same pay rate and the exact same labor hours per month. One pays people every day at the end of each shift; one pays once per month.

Although they spend the same amount on payroll, one company has an obvious advantage when it comes to financial flexibility.

Just checking in, OCD. Hope you fight the good fight. Pulling for you, sending prayers for strength and resolve, pal.

OCD...I just want to give you a shout out to let you know that you and your family are in our thoughts and prayers. I think about the challenges you have already faced and overcome. You keep fighting...mac

Do you really think he actually bothered to read the article? I mean really?

Why am I not surprised it would be you to try and excuse a worthless POS mother who chose her child's rapist over her own children. Willing to give up her rights to her children over a rapist. I mean with you being all "Christiany" and all. Disgusting.

"Her own mother says she is lying about her abuse's stories."

I'm sorry, but this is patently awful thing to say after reading through that article and researching her background. You can vote however you want and base policies on whatever, but it was just plain awful for the Ramaswamy campaign to have done this. Did you read the whole story?

Regardless, I don't know how the election will turn out, but running this ad objectively did his campaign no favors by any poll standard. Candidates, regardless of party, need to stay away from this kind of ish. It's low and awful. Husted, Meghan McCain and Nikki Haley all have come out against it, as far as I know.

This circles back to the ad campaigning I talked about earlier. We are finding new low depths beyond rock bottom.

I'm not sure what is so hard to understand that it 2027 other teams will have 30 million more that the browns will be paying to a player that's not even on the roster and in 2028 they will pay 50 million more for a player not on the roster. giving other teams an 80 million dollar cap advantage in total. Did you not read that I explained the difference was the point you just made about the interest? They can't roll anything over once he is cut.


So we're back to where this all started with "Coulda, woulda, should" again. Like I always say, "If frogs had wings they wouldn't bump their ass on the ground every time they landed".

We are where we are and it is what it is.

Acton has done nothing but lie about Vivek. Her own mother says she is lying about her abuse's stories. Acton lied continuously about covid saying it had a 50% death rate. So, half the population died during covid? She is the clown show her not Vivek.

It is not a loan. It does not collect interest. Yes, Haslam pays a signing bonus. Then when they renegotiate the contract another signing bonus and they add void years onto the cap without adding years to the contract. By the end of this season Watson will have received 100% of his 320-million-dollar contract. But the Browns will still have 80 million left on their cap in dead money. That is pushing the cap hit down the road. So, unless they resign him, they will designate his contract a post June 1st cut next season, and his dead cap hit will be 30 million next season and 50 million in 2028. The cap will go up each year and the overall % of the cap hit will be less % than if all hit this season. The Browns are also 16 million under the cap today and will be able to roll that over into next season. So, if the cap goes up 20 million and they roll over 16 million and owe the cap 30 million in dead money, they are still positive 6 million vs the cap. Then players that have expiring contracts that they choose not to resign opens more space and then players they renegotiate their contracts and push off money in void years will open more space. So, they can sign players, stay under the cap next season and roll over more money for 2028 to help cover the last 50 million and guess what the cap will go up again. To make that work you need an owner to pay multiple signing bonuses and add void years to the contract without increasing the years on the contract. Then as long as the salary cap continues to go up all is well. It is very sustainable. Teams that do not pay those multiple signing bonuses to push money off actually hover closer to the cap and have less space to roll over to cover. It is all about the owner and their willingness to spend. It works the Eagles have won 2 Super Bowls doing this same strategy. You just have to hit on your high-priced investments. Watson was not a hit, so the strategy gets questioned. If he was a 3-or 4-time pro bowler and the Browns were winning constantly Browns fans would not be questioning this approach.

You certainly are when you're delaying to pay them. If i sign a contract valuing your worth at 150k per year but am only paying out of my budget 90k a year I'm either getting a great deal for what I'm paying out or I made a huge mistake in your evaluation. Then comes the time you leave and my budget takes a big hit and you're not even there anymore. There comes a point in time you can't roll it over anymore.

I'm not trying to say it's some devastating news or huge blow that can't be overcome. It can be overcome. But it still can't and won't change the fact that for that one year when that player is no longer on the roster, you have to pay out a huge amount for a player who isn't even on the team anymore. That gives other teams a 50 or 60 million dollar advantage for that season. It's money being spent that you aren't getting anything for while other teams can use that cap increase to sign players.

Amy Acton survived childhood abuse. Her Republican opponent is using it to attack her.

From mocking the Democrat's therapy to an ad featuring her estranged mother, Vivek Ramaswamy and his allies have made it his closing argument against her in the Ohio governor's race.

Republican Vivek Ramaswamy is closing out one of the nastiest races of the 2026 cycle by suggesting that Democrat Amy Acton, his opponent in the Ohio governor’s race, has lied about the well-documented childhood sexual abuse she experienced for political gain.

In a contest marked by sharp personal attacks and partisan rancor, Ramaswamy’s latest attempt to paint Acton as unfit for office came in the form of a minute-long ad that began circulating Monday night featuring Donna Arthur, Acton’s estranged mother. It was widely condemned on both sides of the political aisle.

Arthur lost custody of Acton and her younger brother in 1978 after her second husband, Cledith Arthur, was arrested, charged and indicted for raping then 12-year-old Acton. In the ad, Donna Arthur said her daughter has “lied her entire life.”

“Amy has a serious problem, she is a liar, she lies about her past. She says she grew up living in a tent, none of that is true. She’s lied her entire life. My daughter needs help. And she can’t help you if she needs help herself,” Arthur said.

Acton, a pediatrician and former health director under Ohio’s current Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, has spoken openly during her campaign about facing abuse and neglect as a child, while in her mother’s custody. Acton has said that for a time the family lived in a tent before she and her brother moved in with their biological father.

Court records and local media reports at the time confirm key details of Acton’s story and contradict Donna Arthur’s suggestion that her daughter lied about the abuse.

“My birth mother did nothing to protect me. I’ve always known that she was deeply sick and unwell,” Acton wrote on Tuesday in a Facebook post responding to the ad. “It’s sad to see Vivek Ramaswamy exploit her all for his own political gain.”

Cledith Arthur did not show up for a court hearing following his 1978 indictment. He and Donna Arthur left the state, and there were warrants out for his arrest. The Arthurs remained married until Cledith Arthur’s 2004 death in Pennsylvania.

Acton has said the last time she saw her mother was in the courtroom after her stepfather was charged, when her mother rebuffed her kiss. “That was the last time I ever saw her,” Acton told the Vindicator, her hometown newspaper in Youngstown, when she was selected by DeWine as the state’s health director.

Ohio’s gubernatorial race is one of the most competitive in the country despite the Midwestern state solidly backing Republican President Donald Trump in all three of his White House bids. Acton is vying to be the state’s first elected woman governor and the first Democrat elected to the office since 2006.

The most recent reliable nonpartisan polls show her with a 4-to-9 point lead over Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur and failed Republican presidential candidate.

The contest has been notably light on policy. Though Acton and Ramaswamy have staked out different positions on everything from reproductive rights to data centers, neither candidate faced a competitive primary that compelled them to outline their policies in detail. Acton has tightly controlled media access at her events and declined to debate Ramaswamy in the general election.

The ads blanketing the battleground state have therefore largely been personal attacks. Acton has suggested Ramaswamy is an out-of-touch billionaire and a biotech fraud. Ramaswamy and others in his orbit have sought to portray Acton as unfit to lead Ohio, zeroing in on a 2019 incident when Acton’s daughter called police and said her mother and stepfather were arguing — and that Acton had been drinking.

The disagreement had ended by the time police arrived. Acton’s husband has taken responsibility for starting the argument and said that his wife had a single drink. Ohio’s Republican Party nevertheless posted a computer-generated image of Acton’s Jeep with the license plate: “Drunk Mom.”

Previous Ramaswamy-aligned ads have suggested that the childhood abuse Acton experienced — and her response to it — should be disqualifying.

Childhood abuse is common. At least one in seven children in the country experience abuse or neglect each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and rates of child abuse and neglect are higher among families experiencing poverty or economic insecurity.

Ramaswamy in April shared a video on the social media site X of a speech in which he said Acton had no positive vision to lead Ohio, “other than to complain about what someone else did to her,” seemingly referring to her childhood abuse.

Ads run by the Ramaswamy-aligned V-PAC — the name stands for Victors, not Victims — highlighted Acton’s disclosure on her medical licensing application that she sought therapy to process childhood abuse. V-PAC is funded by a group of out-of-state billionaires that includes Elon Musk, the owner of X, Tesla and SpaceX.

“I won’t normalize somebody who said my childhood is just something I’m complaining about,” Acton said in a Tuesday appearance on Spectrum News.

Acton added that Ramaswamy has shown a “pattern” of using his opponents’ family dynamics for political attacks. She pointed to Ramaswamy’s comment directed at Nikki Haley in a 2016 Republican presidential primary debate that she should “take care of your family first” during an exchange over TikTok and her adult daughter’s use of the video-sharing platform.

When the video with Acton’s estranged mother initially surfaced on social media Monday night, it did not state who paid for it or which candidate it supported, as is legally required for a political ad to air on television. By Tuesday evening, Ramaswamy confirmed to an ABC affiliate in Columbus that his campaign was responsible for it and defended its contents. Axios reported early Wednesday that Ramaswamy’s campaign will drop $4 million to get the ad in front of Ohio voters in the final stretch before Election Day.

His Tuesday night campaign event was interrupted when an attendee attempted to confront him over the ad. Television personality Meghan McCain, the daughter of late GOP senator and Republican presidential nominee John McCain, wrote on X that the Ramaswamy spot was a “dastardly ad” that “never should have been created.” Democrat Sherrod Brown, who is vying to reclaim his former U.S. Senate seat representing Ohio, called the ad “disgusting.” The conservative National Review obtained court records that corroborated Acton’s account. A Republican member of DeWine’s cabinet denounced the advertisement.

Acton’s campaign released a response ad featuring her younger brother, Phil Stearns, who has said that Acton shares their childhood abuse not to complain but because it is “something that informs who she is and builds this core of strength that she has.”

“She was 11- and 12-years old, and to think that’s somehow a talking point? Shame on Vivek. It’s the contempt he has for Amy, it’s the contempt he has for Ohio. He’s not fit to lead,” Stearns said in the ad.

https://19thnews.org/2026/10/amy-acton-childhood-abuse-ad-vivek-ramaswamy/

Vance says he’s ‘disgusted’ by GOP pushback to Ramaswamy ad featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Vice President JD Vance said during a campaign visit to Ohio on Wednesday that he is “disgusted” by the Republican pushback against an ad by Vivek Ramaswamy that features the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent in the governor’s race, Dr. Amy Acton, and raises questions about her traumatic childhood.

“Politics is a tough business,” Vance said to reporters.

In Cincinnati, the vice president said it was “not really my concern” whether the controversial 60-second spot was appropriate, and said he was focused on supporting Republican candidates in their midterm races.

“I’m a little bit disgusted when I see Republicans across the country who are whining more about that advertisement than they are about what the congressional Democrats and other Democrats want to do to the United States of America,” Vance said in his first public comments on the ad, which has roiled one of the most contentious and expensive governor’s races in the country.

The advertisement features Acton’s birth mother, Donna Arthur, calling her “a liar” and insinuating she has mental health issues. It was criticized by both Democrats and Republicans when it exploded into public view Tuesday, just two weeks before Election Day.

Ramaswamy, a billionaire tech entrepreneur and 2024 Republican presidential candidate, claimed credit for the ad and said he will spend $4 million to promote it despite the backlash from some members of his own party. He didn’t address it in remarks before Vance spoke at a rally outside Cincinnati.

Acton, Ohio’s former health director, has made no secret of facing homelessness and abuse as a child.

Arthur lost custody of her children after their stepfather was indicted for raping Acton. Police and court records show Cledith Arthur was arrested and charged with the rape of his stepdaughter, then 12, in July 1978, after Acton’s biological father reported him to authorities. The abuse allegedly happened from December 1976 to April 1978.

Her campaign on Tuesday posted a video of her brother who supported her backstory about living in a tent and being abused.

In his remarks to reporters ahead of the rally, Vance said Acton, “lies about every single one of her positions.”

https://apnews.com/article/election...-mother-93ab182c3e0a95d25ddb409ec0628231

Only if you're still caught up in basic math. Since the approach has already (and is constantly being) rolled forward with the current roster, you're getting much more bang for your buck than your actual salary for that year indicates.

It wouldn't be too much to ask for but then again neither would a new Ferrari if you stop to think about it.