Posted on 07/25/2021 1:38:06 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
The House Bill 6 corruption scandal already was going to be a campaign issue for Republican Gov. Mike DeWine.
But new details in the deal FirstEnergy Corp. signed with federal prosecutors last week put the scandal an additional step closer to the governor’s office, posing new complications as DeWine heads into what could be a challenging re-election year.
DeWine has faced heat for his closeness with FirstEnergy, which admitted last week to funding a $61 million bribery scheme to pass HB6, a nuclear bailout bill. A close campaign adviser, Josh Rubin, is a former FirstEnergy lobbyist, DeWine’s former Chief of Staff Laurel Dawson is a former business partner of Rubin’s, while Dawson’s husband, Mike Dawson, long has done consulting work for FirstEnergy. And Dan McCarthy, DeWine’s legislative affairs director, is a former FirstEnergy lobbyist, even helping set up a dark-money group that helped funnel money from FirstEnergy to Generation Now, a different dark-money group that was charged in the bribery scheme.
But no one in DeWine’s orbit had been directly and clearly implicated in illegal behavior. Until now.
In its deal with the feds, FirstEnergy said it paid a $4.3 million bribe to former Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Chairman Sam Randazzo weeks before DeWine hired him as the state’s top utilities regulator. Randazzo hasn’t been charged with a crime or identified by name in court filings, but FirstEnergy’s deal this week makes clear the company admitted to bribing Randazzo...
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Please. Please. It would be so perfect.
It even sort of rhymes.
For your consideration.
If he doesn’t, I think it will make keeping that Senate seat in Republican hands that much harder because an unpopular incumbent governor would have a depressive effect on other Republicans running for statewide office on the same ballot.
Sic semper rhinoceris.
I’m a conservative and plan to vote DeWine out in the primary. He’s 74 and have been a career politician since the age of 30. Somehow he has managed to become a multi millionaire.
Longshot probably but for now I’m supporting Joe Blystone.
Are these things good or bad for Ohio's energy future?
I automatically assume that the GreenieWhackos are trying to kill any type of Ohio energy they can, but are the nuke plants and the coal plants going to be able to continue to provide power for Ohio?
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New revelations in House Bill 6 corruption scandal pose increased threat to Gov. Mike DeWine’s re-election: Analysis
Cleveland.com ^ | July 25, 2021 | Andrew J. Tobias
Posted on 7/25/2021, 4:38:06 PM by CheshireTheCat
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