Posted on 04/02/2021 8:26:38 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...“FirstEnergy condemns the rise in violence across the country and stands firm in our support of the Asian-American community — which includes many of our employees, customers, suppliers and stakeholders,” the company said in a tweet...
As Dave Anderson of the Energy and Policy institute flagged over the weekend, that’s a far cry from the tone of FirstEnergy-financed advertising during the 2019 fight over House Bill 6 — a $1.3 billion energy bailout that morphed into one of the biggest corruption scandals in Ohio history.
After Gov. Mike DeWine signed the bailout law, FirstEnergy and related interests funded a furious fight to stop a citizen initiative to repeal it. Much of the campaign consisted of bogus claims that the repeal effort was really a Chinese conspiracy to take over Ohio’s power grid. Some of the rhetoric in the million-dollar campaign might even have surpassed Trump’s.
“They took our manufacturing jobs,” one spot ominously opens. “They shuttered our factories. Now they’re coming for our energy jobs. The Chinese government is quietly invading our electric grid.”
As the ad makes these assertions, it flashes video of Chinese President Xi Jinping at a Communist Party function.
In another ad meant to scare Ohioans from signing the petition to repeal the bailout, the FirstEnergy-funded effort again falsely linked bailout opponents to China...
Asked about the contrast between the stance FirstEnergy took last week and the advertising campaign it helped fund in 2019, a spokeswoman said that the company is under new management....
Indeed, in October the company fired CEO Chuck Jones and other top executives after an internal investigation found that the company had made a $4 million payment to DeWine’s appointee to Ohio’s utility regulator just before the HB 6 fight heated up....
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AFter funding BLM racists attacking asians , now we are going to be blamed.
Tired of these companies forcing people to use their sewage system and then blaming us because there is no water table.
Opposing Chinese communists isn’t xenophobia. Chinese are fine folks, except the ones who turned in and murdered 50,000,000 of their own last century.
“They took our manufacturing jobs,” one spot ominously opens. “They shuttered our factories. Now they’re coming for our energy jobs. The Chinese government is quietly invading our electric grid.”
Probably one of Trump's Russian allies did it, not the Chinese. /rimshot
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After financing xenophobic campaign, FirstEnergy deplores anti-Asian bigotry
Ohio Capital Journal ^ | April 1, 2021 | Marty Schladen
Posted on 4/2/2021, 11:26:38 AM by CheshireTheCat
This is another serious propaganda approach where the media is playing the racial game without offering proof are claiming those few attacks on Asians was done because of their supporting Covid 19. That should get stomped on.
They’re doing this to cover the demons who worked with the CCP who don’t want the CCP to be blamed for creating the CCP 19 virus. Let’s not forget members of the Biden campaign the demons boastfully acknowledged that Covid 19 really helped get Biden in. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts The conservative media should refer to it as “The CCP 19 virus not the “China Virus” and demand make the CCP pay by kicking Biden and the CCP out which would happen if that did with a Biden loss.
“Opposing Chinese communists isn’t xenophobia.”
Bears repeating. The ones who fall for this group think are those who practice Group Think.
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