Dear Editor,

Ohio voters have an important choice in this year’s election to replace retiring Senator Robert Portman.

JD Vance offers an opportunity to reverse the downward direction tax hike King Joe Biden has taken our county.

King Biden has brought the highest Inflation rate in forty years; with sky high prices on food and $4 dollar a gallon gasoline.

JD Vance, a successful private enterprise businessman, supports policies that protect Ohio jobs and encourage investment in Ohio business and industrial development. JD Vance is a Pro Life family man.

King Biden is responsible for the greatest military defeat in 100 years; the Afghanistan surrender; a disaster with the loss of key military bases at Kabul and Bagram with Billions of dollars of military equipment and the lives of 13 military service men and women. Additionally, the Taliban have since executed thousands of Afghanistan citizens and brutalized women.

JD Vance is a Marine Combat Veteran who served in Iraq, is ENDORSED by Ohio Veterans United and has broad support from Veterans and their families. JD Vance fully supports our military, veterans and their families.

King Biden supports defunding law enforcement; cutting their budgets and supporting open borders and the unlimited flow of Fentanyl drugs into America.

JD Vance strongly supports law enforcement and first responders; is ENDORSED by the Fraternal Order of Police of Ohio (FOP) and has support from law enforcement officers and officials all over Ohio.

Tax Hike Tim Ryan is a 20-year career politician who speaks with a forked tongue; he supports King Biden’s agenda!

If you want to see what Tax Hike Tim Ryan has done, drive up to Youngstown; look at all the closed businesses and factories.

Talk to some steelworkers in Mahoning Valley; they will have plenty time to talk … they have ALL been unemployed for 20 years!

As your senator, JD Vance will work to make America a world power again.

As former Belmont County Sheriff, US Army Vietnam Veteran (Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient) and part-time farmer; I ENDORSE JD Vance and encourage Ohio citizens to vote for Marine Combat Veteran and Pro-Life family man JD Vance.

Richard “Dick” Stobbs

Colerain