Op-ed: Can Ohio Become A Truly MAHA State? Kim Georgeton Weighs in On Healing Ohio as Lieutenant Governor
STRONGVILLE - Amid the deafening sounds of libations and recreation, the Strongsville GOP hosted Republican candidates for Governor Casey Putsch and running mate Kim Georgeton at The Local Bar, located in Strongsville. Despite arctic temperatures spreading outside, temperatures inside were anything but, as rhetoric heated up in what has already become a grassroots brawl between warring factions from the voter base and the party establishment leaders.
Georgeton is well known among the south western portion of the state as an activist and champion of initiatives, previously encompassed in what was defined as ‘medical freedom’ during the Biden administration, but has since been absorbed into the ‘Make America Healthy Again, or ‘MAHA’ coalition. Is Putsch’s ideas on abolishing property taxes and revolutionizing the structure of funded services in Ohio are ‘radical’, then Georgeton’s brand of alternative health activism could be seen as just as renegade, cementing a truly outsider ticket. Despite her experience scrapping with the State capital swamp, she was surprisingly approachable and seemed at home walking among the deeply blue collar patrons of The Local Bar.
Georgeton, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1996 has been no stranger to the political game, running a campaign for U.S. House District 2 in 2024 and Ohio House District 28 in 2022. Even though she was planning not to make any political waves in 2026, long conversations with Putsch, and subsequently her family, changed her mind.
“I got the call on New Year's Day, and at that point I had decided I wasn't actually going to run for any office in 2026,” Georgeton said. “My husband and I had talked about it, and he thought it would be good for me to take a year off. And then we got to know Casey, took a look at his YouTube channel, had a couple hour conversation with him, and my husband said, ‘you have to help him.’ We knew that he really needed a partner that was truly grassroots, that really believes in exposing the corruption and increasing transparency in Columbus, and somebody with the gall enough to be able to do that. And I do have that.”
Georgeton’s rise to the political field occurred as a direct result of covid, when the state government, adhering to advice provided by the state’s Covid Response team, which included both current Gubernatorial candidates Amy Acton and Vivek Ramaswamy, attempted to shut down her husband's business, her daughter's school and push unproven vaccine and mask mandates and the populace.
“I just looked around, and I thought, how did we get here,” Georgeton said. “How could something like this happen? And how could so many people just comply without asking questions about it? So, that just took me down a whole pathway to uncovering sort of the global conspiracy to roll this out to everyone. And I decided I had to do something about it.”
Like many who have found themselves wrapped up in the MAHA movement currently, the rabbit holes have been never-ending in uncovering just how much of alternative medical practices have been buried and how many of them are truly beneficial. And like many others, the search for answers started at the root of recognizing a key problem occurring with youth today.
“What we're seeing is a massive epidemic of young people who feel terrible,” Georgeton said. “They don't feel well mentally. They don't feel well physically. They're not able to focus. And it's because they're being exposed to toxins and all of these different things on a daily basis.”
At the Strongsville event, attendees were given the opportunity to ask candidates questions about how they would address impactful issues should they win. Somewhat ironically, one attendee mentioned a similar sentiment to Georgeton, stating her life had been touched by youth mental health issues and suicide and wanted to know how a Putsch administration would tackle these issues. While Casey Putsch addressed the question directly from the stage, it may have been the conversation Georgeton had with this writer just prior to, that dug deeper into those answers.
“Obviously we have a lot of people who are struggling with mental health issues,” Georgeton said. “We also have people who are struggling with a lot of physical issues related to digestion, celiac, a lot of things like that that are happening, causing people a lot of pain and a lot of confusion on how to actually resolve it. There are natural and healthy ways to overcome those things.”
Georgeton relayed her own personal struggle with the pharmaceutical industry in which her nephew was prescribed SSRI’s with a black box warning label that detailed how such medications can increase suicidal ideations. Tragically, the young man would take his own life not long after beginning the medication.
“One of the things that we need to figure out is why are we prescribing these things,” Georgeston said. “Does the cost outweigh the benefit? I don't think that we've been in a position in the state of Ohio to really understand the research around that because this is a consistent thing that I've heard as I've gotten to learn more about it after what happened to my nephew. As far as the food issues, we know that there's glyphosate literally in almost everything that we're eating. If there's wheat in the product, we know that glyphosate is very prevalent. You can't pick up a package in the center of the grocery store without reading the back label, and it says it contains bioengineered ingredients. Our bodies don't know how to break that stuff down, so those are contributing to the digestive issues that a lot of our young people are seeing. If your stomach isn't working correctly, there's a stomach and a brain connection that you can't really think correctly.”
While many have dismissed the ideas for years, multiple studies have already validated the connection between gut microbiome imbalances (dysbiosis) and negative influences on mood and depression via the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis, affecting neurotransmitters, inflammation, and stress responses.
The tragic irony has been that medical establishments have historically ignored these connections with cases of depression, choosing instead to prescribe dangerous SSRI medications despite no scientific connection between serotonin levels and depression. According to Georgeton, one of the many issues a Putsch administration could champion is getting greater recognition of this connection to address the root issue of many health problems, which would start with helping bring in alternative voices to the mainstream in the health provider world and making Ohio, truly a MAHA state.
“One of the things we want to try to do is make sure naturopaths are able to be registered in the state of Ohio so that they can actually help people come in and provide educational resources and other ideas that might be natural in nature rather than a conventional type of medicine,” Georgeton said.
Georgeton herself has recently started an alternative health company based on principles of using specific frequencies of sound for healing using a device constructed by researchers who previously worked for the Department of Defense, which took the research in the opposite direction, using sound frequencies for destructive purposes.
The concept was first pioneered by Royal Raymond Rife, in what has been coined as a 'Rife Machine.' While some cutting edge research is being conducted into the uses of soundwave frequencies to treat ailments, research is still ongoing regarding targeted applications. Though some may consider the ideas fringe, it should be acknowledged that medical establishments already use frequencies of light to heal tendon and ligament injuries in athletes and the Department of Defense has readily acknowledged the use of specific sound frequencies for destructive purposes already with some reports stating sonic or Directed Energy Weapons were used in Venezuela. Given this, the idea that alternative sound frequencies for healing don’t exist seems far more far-fetched.
“He created this product that goes up to 30,000 hertz, and depending upon which frequency sequences you're using, it puts your body into a state that is somewhat of a homeostasis,” Georgeton said. “It allows your body to actually do the thing that it was meant to do and heal itself. So that's a really interesting alternative health therapy that I think we need to get the word out to people that there are ways that they can go around this conventional medical system and actually feel better.”
While these goals may be lofty enough, Georgeton’s goals of cleaning up Ohio run even deeper, wanting to tackle a unifying concern between her and Putsch regarding Data Center wastewater dumping. In December, TOR interviewed Casey Putsch and discussed this very issue. Georgeton expanded upon this concern and elaborated that it would be an administration goal to ensure Ohio’s water is not only clear of toxic contaminants but also Flouride, which has been known to lower IQ in children.
But for many within the MAHA movement, while these issues have expanded like an ever growing web of conversations completely outside the control of pharma-organized medical establishments, the primary issue at the heart of ‘medical freedom’ has always surrounded vaccination. After the disastrous aftermath of the covid campaigns against the people, many began not only questioning the health impacts of mRNA injections, but of all vaccines on the childhood registry as well. Multiple years of research have indicated linkages between heavy metal adjuvants within the injections to long-term ailments like autism in children or Alzheimer's and dementia in adults due to neuroinflammation.
Despite this, the American Academy of Pediatrics wants states to remove the ability of parents to opt-out of vaccinating their children and in many areas around the state, pediatricians will still refuse to see patients who aren’t vaccinating. Much of this comes down to pediatricians being offered significant financial compensation from insurance companies based upon the percentage of their practice that is vaccinated, something Georgeton says has to end.
“People's health is not for sale, and these doctors are receiving benefits for the number of vaccines that they give to the children that are coming through there,” Georgeton said. “That's why they refuse to see the patients. We actually got kicked out of our pediatrician when my daughter was born for this reason in 2006. So it started way back, I think, before people actually realized that pediatricians were starting to put these demands on their customers that were coming in with their children. I was against it then, and I'm against it now. I think that people need to do the research on a vaccine-by-vaccine basis and determine whether or not that is something that they believe is going to be beneficial for them or if it's going to contribute to a potential problem.”
The ideas proposed by Georgeton are indeed lofty in a state which saw roughly $200 million contributed to issues and campaigns in 2024 from the medical establishment. However, the benefit of the electoral process is that change is not governed by how much money one has, but how many people vote at the polls. Ohioans may have a real opportunity to see massive change this May.
