CELINA, Ohio (AP) — Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican candidate for Ohio governor, met with local farmers during a campaign stop in Mercer County.
Ramaswamy visited MVP Dairy for a town hall event, where he took questions from agribusiness leaders about their concerns and discussed his policy priorities. During the event, Ramaswamy addressed the H2Ohio program, which impacts farmers working to prevent harmful algal blooms in Ohio lakes. He said he wants to build on its success.
“And that increases the expectations and now everyone thinks it's just a farmer's issue, and it's not. You think phosphorus runoff, okay, that's one source of the algal blooms in Lake Erie, and we want to repeat of 2014 in Toledo. Nobody wants that. But there are also other sources of threats to water quality, too. And so in the same way that our farmers stepped up, we want to make sure that other communities, cities, local communities, are also stepping up to do their part to keep our water quality clean,” says Vivek Ramaswamy, Republican candidate for governor.
Ramaswamy also outlined his plans for public education in Ohio.
“So, our plan for public schools, in a nutshell, is to return standards to public education. That's what we've been missing for a long time, is the erosion of standards. I'm talking about math, reading, writing, civic education, physical education. The crisis in education in our state and in the country is the abandonment of standards,” adds Ramaswamy.
Ramaswamy is facing Heather Hill and Casey Putsch in the Republican primary on May 5.
