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Mia Lewis, Associate Director of Common Cause Ohio<\/p>\r\n

December 10, 2025<\/p>\r\n

Guest Columnist, Columbus Dispatch<\/p>\r\n

Public school budget cuts a symptom of systemic corruption | Opinion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\"Where am I going with this anti-corruption rant? I\u2019m fighting against accepting the unacceptable, normalizing the abnormal and turning down the outrage when really, we need to turn it up. Maybe these words won\u2019t change anything, at least not in the short term. But I\u2019m hoping they will help to make sure that I don\u2019t change, that my moral compass is not reset to zero \u2013 and that you will join me in refusing to turn a blind eye to the moral, financial and political corruption all around us.\"\r\n\r\n\"\""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_add_component","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_add_component":null},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_work","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_work":{"heading":"Work","manually_curate":false,"work":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_related_articles","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_related_articles":{"heading":"Updates","button_text":"See all Related Articles","manually_curate":false,"articles":null}}]},"yoast_head":"\nMia Lewis Speaks Out on Ohio's Systemic Corruption - Common Cause Ohio<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/mia-lewis-speaks-out-on-ohios-systemic-corruption\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mia Lewis Speaks Out on Ohio's Systemic Corruption\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/mia-lewis-speaks-out-on-ohios-systemic-corruption\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause Ohio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-12-15T17:51:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/OH.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/mia-lewis-speaks-out-on-ohios-systemic-corruption\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/mia-lewis-speaks-out-on-ohios-systemic-corruption\/\",\"name\":\"Mia Lewis Speaks Out on Ohio's Systemic Corruption - 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