- The ad draws on documents that go back more than three decades, including before Dr. Amy Acton had completed her medical training.
- It references Acton’s first-year internship after getting her medical degree in 1990, her 1994 medical licensing application and a standard 2019 license renewal form. It leaves out that she said she had no drug or alcohol dependency.
- The ad also provides partial information and a misleading timeline about a 2019 police call to her house, leaving out critical details about what officers called a verbal dispute resulting in no arrests.
The ad, paid for by the super political action committee V-PAC: Victors, not Victims, claims Acton’s medical knowledge was described as “insufficient” to the Ohio medical board and that police later found she had combined alcohol with prescription drugs after telling the state medical board she was “clean.” It also says she “admitted to emotional or mental illness, drug addiction, or an alcohol problem.”
Although the ad is no longer airing on television, it remains available online. But its claims misleadingly draw on documents that go back more than three decades: They reference Acton’s first-year internship after getting her medical degree in 1990, her 1994 medical licensing application and a standard 2019 license renewal form. The ad also provides partial information about a police call to her house in 2019, leaving out critical details.
Ohio voters in November will choose a successor to Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, who is barred by term limits from seeking another consecutive term. Acton, a physician and former director of the Ohio Department of Health who became a household name in Ohio during the COVID-19 pandemic, served in DeWine’s administration after he appointed her to lead the agency in 2019. Ramaswamy, a Republican, is a biotech entrepreneur and a former presidential candidate…