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[quote=Anonymous]Did you know JD Vance started a nonprofit in 2017 that was supposed to address some of the problems he raised in his book? It was called Our Ohio Renewal, and it's mission was to “make it easier for disadvantaged children to achieve their dreams.” He said it would get to work fighting Ohio’s toughest problems: opioids, joblessness and broken families. Within two years, it had fizzled.

Mr. Vance’s nonprofit group raised only about $220,000, hired only a handful of staff members, shrank drastically in 2018 and died for good in 2021. It left only the faintest mark on the state it had been meant to change, leaving behind a pair of op-eds and two tweets. (Mr. Vance also started a sister charity, which paid for a psychiatrist to spend a year in a small-town Ohio clinic. Then it shuttered, too.) On the campaign trail, he has said his group stalled because a key staff member was diagnosed with cancer.

But some of the nonprofit group’s own workers said they had drawn a different conclusion: They had been lured by the promise of helping Ohio, but instead had been used to help Mr. Vance start his career in politics.

During its brief life, Mr. Vance’s organization paid a political consultant who also advised Mr. Vance about entering the 2018 Senate race. It paid an assistant who helped schedule Mr. Vance’s political speeches. And it paid for a survey of “Ohio citizens” that several of the staff members said they had never seen.

Another person who worked for the nonprofit group said that, in hindsight, it had seemed aimed at serving Mr. Vance’s ambition by giving him a presence in a state where he had not lived full-time for several years. The person said it had felt as if much of the job involved giving outsiders the impression that Mr. Vance was in the state, said the person, who asked not to be identified for fear of antagonizing Mr. Vance and his supporters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/us/politics/jd-vance-ohio-senate-nonprofit.html[/quote]

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