The Media and Establishment Team Up Against Vivek to MASK 😷 Amy Acton’s Pattern of Lies:
Ohio’s political world & nat’l media are rocked by an extraordinary ad in which the mother of the Dem candidate for governor publicly exposes her daughter’s false claims about her own origins and urges Ohioans not to vote for someone “who needs help.” The truth, however, is a documented pattern of deception & personal breakdowns that the Ohio media largely ignored while casting Vivek Ramaswamy as the villain.
For more than a year, Vivek faced relentless lies, smears, and attacks on his ethnicity and business career with little media defense and no condemnation from Amy Acton. Her campaign, by contrast, was first to attack his mother, proudly posting libelous claims about her on its website.
The Police Record-
Acton’s problems did not end with a troubled childhood. They continued into adulthood. Police were called to her home twice, both times by her own daughter.
In 2013, her daughter called because she feared her parents were about to get into a physical altercation. In 2019, an officer reported that Acton pulled a mirror off the wall and shattered it. Acton admitted to police that she had “been drinking” and had taken an unknown amount of prescription pills. She then attempted to drive under the influence of drugs and alcohol. A medic advised her to go to the hospital; she refused. At the time, she was Ohio’s top health official.
Her campaign later dismissed the 2019 incident as a “simple argument.” Her running mate, David Pepper, said “someone” called the police omitting that it was her daughter. Unlike the childhood-trauma narrative Acton and her team embraced (which rests on unverifiable claims) that match 911 log and police report are public records. Ohio media has largely ignored them.
The Media Double Standard-
These incidents occurred in 2013 and 2019. Voters heard almost nothing about them until this year. The most damaging details including that her own daughter made both calls emerged through public-records requests, not mainstream reporting. Even after learning of the 2019 call, major outlets refused to cover the earlier incident.
Ask yourself, if a male candidate’s child had called police on him twice, would the media have stayed this quiet? Everyone knows the answer.
Instead of examining the police records, the press focused its energy on fact-checking Acton’s critics.
Acton’s COVID Record-
Amy Acton’s introduction to Ohioans as Public Health Director in March 2020 began with a major falsehood. She cited and aggressively promoted the discredited Imperial College London study that projected 2.2 million American deaths. 9 days later, when the study’s author, Neil Ferguson, drastically lowered his estimates, Acton did not correct the record, she doubled down.
The consequences were severe: more than 1 million Ohioans filed for unemployment, and businesses that had survived for generations shut down permanently. During this period, five current and former state workers described her as emotionally volatile and sometimes absent from pandemic strategy meetings.
In June ‘20, w/the crisis she helped fuel through exaggerated death projections, she resigned. When the situation became difficult, she walked away.
In 2025 interviews, Acton continued to claim that the early COVID death rate was 50 percent. She has neither learned from NOR admitted her errors.
Additional Incidents and Evasion
Acton inflated the Canfield Fair confrontation to escape an unfavorable media cycle then stonewalled prosecutors-
Her campaign claimed an armed man lunged at her. The local prosecutor said the man never got close and simply entered the tent intending to record video. That same prosecutor now says the Acton campaign is “ghosting” law enforcement and has not turned over the evidence.
If she were the victim, why would she refuse to help the prosecutor?
Bottom Line: Amy Acton is unfit for office.