SOLON, Ohio — Jon Husted had spent the last 24 years in government, all of which were in Columbus. That changed abruptly in January when Governor Mike DeWine asked his lieutenant governor to fill the Senate seat of newly sworn-in Vice President JD Vance. His transition period lasted all of four days before he was sworn in by Vance on Jan. 21.

"When I became a U.S. Senator, I literally didn't have a chair, a pencil, a staff person, an email address or a phone number. I just raised my hand, and then I'm a U.S. Senator, and I didn't have the time that a new senator normally has to build that operation," Husted recalled. "It literally took them almost three months to turn on all of my phones at my state offices. It was very frustrating for me."

It was frustrating for many constituents who sh

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