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Mike DeWine

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Mike DeWine is the 70th Governor of Ohio, having taken office on January 14, 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the Attorney General of Ohio from 2011 to 2019 and as a U.S. Senator from 1995 to 2007. Throughout his political career, DeWine has focused on issues such as education, public safety, and healthcare reform. His administration has also been marked by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to improve the state's economy.

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May 25, 2020

If you care about doctors and you care about nurses, you care about first responders, firefighters or EMTs or police officers who may have to deal with you if you get sick, you just wear a mask.

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May 25, 2020

Well, I say that they should wear masks. And first of all, Anderson, one thing that I think that we have going for us, this past weekend was the first weekend that our restaurants were open inside and that our bars were open inside. And I…

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May 25, 2020

If you think wearing a mask is something that's bad, so you want to try what I went through.

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May 25, 2020

We're approaching a huge number, a number of Americans who have died. And that's just absolutely gut-wrenching and horrible.

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May 11, 2020

Ohio has not seen a 14-day downward trajectory in cases which was one of the benchmarks initially laid out by the Coronavirus Task Force.

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May 11, 2020

You've got to wear a mask, you've got to keep the social distancing, you've got to be careful.

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May 3, 2020

The news out today is very concerning: it should be concerning to every American.

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May 3, 2020

It's really what people do every day in their own lives that ultimately has this huge effect across the state.

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May 3, 2020

We're trying to balance it this way: you know, we've seen for about three weeks a slight downward trend in hospitalization, which we think is good.

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May 3, 2020

What we are now doing is I'm talking a lot about it, and we really, you know, hope that people, when they think about this, will understand that this is a very important thing to do.

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May 3, 2020

It's not even for them, it's for everybody else in the store. Can a -- if that's not law, can a business still insist that people either wear a mask, or -- and if not, they don't come in?

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May 3, 2020

Well, I think that it's absolutely true that there are a lot of costs for high unemployment, and a huge crash in the economy, that we have seen.

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May 3, 2020

Ohio governor, Mike DeWine, is going to join me to talk about whether these new projections in any way affect his timeline for Ohio.

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Apr 12, 2020

One of the things that we really, really need is testing. You know, if you talk about a pathway -- if you talk about a pathway to get us back, testing -- ample testing is going to be the way that we get back, and get our people working…

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Apr 12, 2020

I have to make the decision that's my responsibility, but we're certainly going to consult with the White House.

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Apr 12, 2020

Ultimately the buck stops with me and stops with the other governors, but again I understand what the President's saying.

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Apr 2, 2020

Our churches 99.9% of our churches are closed in Ohio, I would say.

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Mar 15, 2020

It would not surprise me at all if schools did not open again this year.

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Aug 21, 2019

I think we can get them all passed. It's not going to be easy, but when I propose them, you know, the tape you played was on Sunday night. A tragedy, of course, occurred Sunday morning. On Tuesday morning I made proposals, put a package…

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Aug 21, 2019

I think people will say, look, that is due process. And I can accept that because -- our friends for the Second Amendment, everybody agrees, we have some people out there, Anderson, who we got to separate from their guns.

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Aug 21, 2019

If you're going to address them at all, it seems to me it has to be done at the national level.

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Jun 7, 2017

What starts as a $10-a-day habit may go to $1,000-a-day habit.

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Jun 7, 2017

Our foster care system is bursting at the seams; our children services are.

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Jun 7, 2017

Our jails in Ohio are overflowing.

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