Ramaswamy’s own words are important
Re “The facts tell a different story than billionaire Ramaswamy’s ads,” (July 3): Guest columnist Michael Lederman’s piece on Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy points out a number of the candidate’s flaws. Ramaswamy says he is for Ohioans but will continue the current policies of Republican state and legislative officeholders.
Affordability and inequity are important issues for Ohioans these days. They see rising costs of living brought on by ill-advised actions of Republican federal and state officials. They see enormous wealth gains by American oligarchs in technology, communications and finance; and as recently reported by the U.S. president.
With the digital era, it is easy to find information on individuals from their formative years that may inform their current beliefs and philosophies. Ramaswamy wrote a 2005 article in the Harvard student newspaper during a living wage campaign for some of the school’s lowest paid employees. He opposed this campaign by distinguishing one’s human worth with their economic worth. It is a clever piece that, while it reveres one’s human worth, says that this worth would be harmed by a “redistribution of wealth.”
Think about this when Ohio’s minimum wage for 2026 is only $11, or $22,000 as an annual wage before deductions.
Toba Feldman, Columbus
Not every lawsuit is headline worthy
When a highly-thought-of newspaper prints a headline on the front page of their business section, a reader would expect that headline to be of some importance. That is certainly not the case in the July 2 edition headline “Columbus-based Safelite sued.” An employee, one employee, sued Safelite for discrimination. Is that the type of headline news that Dispatch feels so newsworthy that it is on the front page of the business section?
One employee alleging misconduct on the part of their employer is hardly newsworthy. I am not affiliated with Safelite in anyway, but I know it to be a charitable, highly-thought-of Columbus employer.
Alan Weiler, Powell
Climate change hits home
Oh, how sad that a record heatwave in D.C. forced President Donald Trump to temporarily close his “Great American State Fair.” The heatwave, of course, is courtesy of climate change, a logical result of decades of his own Republican Party’s denial of global warming, fueled by Trump’s own billionaire big-oil buddies.
They, of course, live in mansions (usually multiple mansions) with million-dollar cooling systems, while ordinary people go broke paying electricity bills for room A/C or Dollar Store fans.
Pam Conrad, Columbus
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