Ohioans in Cincinnati Call Out Jon Husted’s Out of Touch Attacks on Hardworking Families

Ohioans in Cincinnati Call Out Jon Husted's Out of Touch Attacks on Hardworking Families

April 30, 2026

Husted: "People living in poverty are just not very, they're not very experienced at navigating the real world"

CINCINNATI, OHIO - Today, Ohioans in Cincinnati gathered for the final stop of Husted's Real World Tour, calling out Jon Husted for his out of touch attacks on hardworking families.

Ohioans are already struggling with high grocery and utility prices due to Jon Husted's corruption, and the skyrocketing cost of gas is forcing families to cut back even more. Instead of working to lower costs, Jon Husted has insulted struggling Ohioans as "not very experienced at navigating the real world" and dismissed the mounting affordability crisis by telling Ohioans to fix their "work ethic" and to simply "earn more" money to make ends meet.

"For people in this district in Cincinnati, they go to work. They work as hard as they can. Jon Husted would say they just don't understand the real world. That's what he said about Ohioans who are struggling to get by - that maybe if they had a different work ethic, they would be able to get ahead," said Ohio House Minority Leader Dani Isaacsohn (District 24 - Cincinnati). "Jon Husted does not understand what most Ohioans are going through. Jon Husted was involved in one of the largest bribery scandals in Ohio's history. He believes that taxpayer dollars, your dollars, should go to bail out billion dollar corporations to make life easier for millionaires and billionaires."

"I always try to take the high road. But I was absolutely stunned when Jon Husted said people living in poverty are 'just not very experienced at navigating the real world.' He said if you can't afford groceries, just 'earn more.' He even said working families have a 'broken' work ethic. What an insult to our hardworking Ohio families. Jon Husted - working people understand how the world works," said Cincinnati Vice Mayor Jan-Michele Kearney.

"The increase in utilities are my main concern. In the past we were able to manage pretty well. However, this winter was pretty brutal for us, as I am sure it was for many of you, and the increase in cost has really put a strain on our finances," said Jackie Robbins, a Cincinnati native and retired Ohioan. "This brings me to Mr. Husted who seems to have gone out of his way to make life harder for working families in Ohio by leading the charge to give utility companies a billion dollar taxpayer bailout that contributed to our electric bills skyrocketing by more than $600 annually. And believe me I have felt the pain of this increase."

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