{"id":1206,"date":"2022-03-22T13:41:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T13:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/gov-mike-dewine-and-republican-challenger-joe-blystone-have-exchange-at-ohio-beef-expo-the-columbus-dispatch\/"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:41:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T13:41:32","slug":"gov-mike-dewine-and-republican-challenger-joe-blystone-have-exchange-at-ohio-beef-expo-the-columbus-dispatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/22\/gov-mike-dewine-and-republican-challenger-joe-blystone-have-exchange-at-ohio-beef-expo-the-columbus-dispatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Mike DeWine and Republican challenger Joe Blystone have exchange at Ohio Beef Expo &#8211; The Columbus Dispatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angus wasn&#8217;t the only beef going down at the Ohio Beef Expo this Saturday.<br \/>The day after <a href=\"\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/03\/19\/josh-mandel-mike-gibbons-react-after-ohio-republican-senate-debate\/7060368001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Ohio Senate candidates literally went toe-to-toe<\/a>, Gov. Mike DeWine and challenger Joe Blystone had an exchange at the Ohio Beef Expo at the state fairgrounds in Columbus.\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/blystone2022\/videos\/778604943115568\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Video released by the Blystone campaign<\/a> shows the two gubernatorial candidates talking for a bit before Blystone points at DeWine. DeWine then touches Blystone\u2019s shoulder, but Blystone pushes DeWine\u2019s arm away.<br \/>Shortly after, three men with DeWine direct him away from Blystone, separating the two. The governor\u00a0travels with security.<br \/>Blystone,<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBlystone22\/status\/1505256565519130640?s=20&#038;t=jQ7VxlsENDbBfYyYV0Dckw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\"> in a video explaining the incident<\/a>, says he approached DeWine to ask about why the governor wouldn\u2019t debate him. DeWine recently <a href=\"\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2022\/03\/10\/ohio-governors-race-mike-dewine-wont-debate-republicans-challengers\/9452521002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">declined the Ohio Debate Commission\u2019s event<\/a> at Central State University set for March 29, saying <a href=\"\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2022\/03\/17\/election-2022-gop-governor-candidates-wont-debate-central-state\/7075023001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">everyone already knew his positions on the key issues<\/a>.<br \/>Because of noise from an auction, it&#8217;s not possible to hear the audio of what the two said.<br \/>DeWine\u2019s campaign, through a spokeswoman, declined to comment on the incident and would not confirm what was said. An Ohio Highway Patrol trooper standing nearby did not have a body camera, a spokesman said.\u00a0<br \/><em>Jessie Balmert is a reporter for the USA TODAY Network Ohio Bureau, which serves the Akron Beacon Journal, Cincinnati Enquirer, Columbus Dispatch and 18 other affiliated news organizations across Ohio.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2022\/03\/21\/gov-dewine-and-gop-challenger-blystone-have-spat-ohio-beef-expo\/9454980002\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angus wasn&#8217;t the only beef going down at the Ohio Beef Expo this Saturday.The day after Ohio Senate candidates literally went toe-to-toe, Gov. Mike DeWine and challenger Joe Blystone had an exchange at the Ohio Beef Expo at the state fairgrounds in Columbus.\u00a0Video released by the Blystone campaign shows the two gubernatorial candidates talking for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}