Darrel Rowland The Columbus Dispatch Tuesday Jul 14, 2020 at 8:05 AM For months Dr. Amy Acton has been reviled by several Ohio lawmakers for signing health restrictions on opening up Ohio during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gun-toting protesters showed up outside her Bexley home. Some critics voiced what Jewish groups cited as anti-Semitiism. But now, a pair of state lawmakers want to give the former state health commissioner her own day — literally. They introduced a bill Monday that would declare Feb. 26 as Dr. Amy Acton Day in Ohio. The measure, sponsored by Democratic Reps. Mary Lightbody of Westerville and Kent Smith of Euclid, represents the date in 2019 when Acton was named health commissioner by Gov. Mike DeWine. She is now a health adviser to the governor after stepping down from her post atop the state health department June 11 despite pleas from DeWine to remain on the job. Acton vaulted from bureaucratic…
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