Mike DeWine Defends Springfield, but Why Didn't He Publish It in the Wall Street Journal?

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has an essay in today's New York Times powerfully defending Springfield, and its Haitian community, from the lies spread by Donald Trump and JD Vance. He writes,

Springfield is having a resurgence in manufacturing and job creation. Some of that is thanks to the dramatic influx of Haitian migrants who have arrived in the city over the past three years to fill jobs.

They are there legally. They are there to work.

It is disappointing to me that Springfield has become the epicenter of vitriol over America’s immigration policy, because it has long been a community of great diversity. 

"Disappointing" is putting it mildly, but it is still encouraging to see a Republican contradicting his party's nominees. Alas, that is as far as he is willing to go:

As a supporter of former President Donald Trump and Senator JD Vance, I am saddened by how they and others continue to repeat claims that lack evidence and disparage the legal migrants living in Springfield. This rhetoric hurts the city and its people, and it hurts those who have spent their lives there.

What? Saddened? How can he remain a supporter of the candidates whose falsehoods -- "lack of evidence" is a polite way of saying it -- have caused so much damage to a community in his state:

Bomb threats — all hoaxes — continue and temporarily closed at least two schools, put the hospital on lockdown and shuttered City Hall. The two local colleges have gone remote. I have posted Ohio Highway Patrol troopers in each school building in Springfield so the schools can remain open, teachers and children can feel safe and students can continue to learn.

DeWine was born in Springfield. He and his wife have lived within 10 miles their entire lives, yet he is only saddened and disappointed by racist lies being told about people whom he recognizes as important contributors to the revival of Springfield's economy.

And so the question: Why didn't DeWine publish this in the Wall Street Journal, where it might have some impact on Republican voters? Was he simply virtue signaling, knowing that the Trump faithful dismiss everything in the Times? Or did he first offer it to the Journal, only to have it refused?