COLUMBUS, OHIO — Is Amy Acton fit to be Governor of Ohio? A newly reported 2019 police report from Bexley, Ohio — first published by NBC News — puts that question squarely in front of Ohio voters.
The facts come from Acton herself. According to NBC News reporting on the Bexley police report, officers responded to a “domestic dispute” at Acton’s home in August 2019, while she was serving as director of Ohio’s Department of Health — the state’s top health official. Per the report, Acton told officers she had been drinking, had taken an unknown amount of prescription drugs, and was about to get behind the wheel of her car before her husband talked her out of it. A medic dispatched to check on her recommended she go to the hospital. She “refused,” according to the report.
The report describes a scene, not a spat. It indicates that Acton pulled a mirror off the wall, “shattering the glass,” after she “became upset” during what police determined was a “verbal argument over her extended work hours.” Officers found no evidence of physical violence between Acton and her husband. The incident had not been publicly reported until now — seven years later.
The Ohio Republican Party believes Ohioans deserve answers. Is someone who nearly drove impaired, refused medical attention, and hid a police response from her own Governor for seven years fit to hold the state’s highest office? Is someone whose story to police in 2019 doesn’t match her campaign’s story in 2026 someone Ohioans can trust to level with them? Amy Acton is asking for the keys to the Governor’s office. Before Ohioans hand them over, she owes them a full accounting — on the record, not through a press release.
