Last July, Neil Clark was arrested by FBI agents after a federal grand jury indicted him along with corporate entity Generation Now, then-Speaker of the Ohio House Larry Householder (R-Glenford), former Ohio Republican Party Chairman Matt Borges, and political operatives Juan Cespedes and Jeffrey Longstreth. Monday, Clark was found dead in Florida.
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Report: Energy Company at Center of FBI Case Funneled $1 Million to DeWine Election Efforts
It’s been over seven months since the FBI announced a criminal complaint stemming from Ohio House Bill 6 (HB6). Arrests were made for what feds call a bribery and racketeering plan bankrolled by First Energy Solutions to elect state representatives and a House Speaker that would ensure the bill passed (and stopped efforts to repeal it) – giving a $1.3 billion bailout to two Ohio nuclear energy plants.
A new report lays out the $1M relationship between First Energy companies and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s campaign.
In Announcement for U.S. Senate Bid Timken Untangles from Kasich, Binds to Trump
Jane Timken, former chairwoman of the Ohio Republican Party (ORP), announced Thursday she will seek the 2022 Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat that is currently occupied by Republican Rob Portman who announced last month he will retire from federal politics at the end of his current term.
Read MoreNew Ohio Website Makes Electronic Filing of Campaign Finance Reports More Transparent
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced he fulfilled his pledge to bring more transparency to the Secretary of State’s office.
Unanimously passed at the end of 2020, Senate Bill 107 (SB107) is an act to “allow certain entities to file campaign finance statements electronically, to require the Secretary of State to make the information in those electronic statements available online.”
The online repository “enhances transparency by allowing campaign finance reports for local candidates and committees to be filed electronically with county boards of elections,” the press release stated.
Read MoreConservative Organizations Call For Next Ohio House Speaker to Have Character, Be Supporter of Faith and Family
Even as the Ohio House of Representatives looks to replace disgraced Speaker Larry Householder, a coalition of conservative organizations is urging lawmakers to be thoughtful in how they do so.
Householder and four others were arrested July 21 in connection with a $60 million federal bribery probe in connection with the Legislature’s 2019 bailout of FirstEnergy and its nuclear power plants.
Read MoreOhioans Against Corporate Bailout Will No Longer Attempt to Overturn House Bill 6
Ohioans Against Corporate Bailout (OACB) announced this week it has stopped its efforts of repealing House Bill 6, a piece of legislation that bailed out Ohio’s two nuclear power plants.
Read MoreOhio Supreme Court Will Hear Case About Extending Time for Anti-Nuclear Bailout Petition Seekers
The Ohio Supreme Court (OSC) announced Tuesday that it would decide on whether the petition made by people against the nuclear power plant bailout can be given an extra 38 days to collect signatures.
Read MoreOhio Supreme Court Won’t Decide On House Bill 6
The Ohio Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it would not hear the case of whether House Bill 6 violates the state’s Constitution.
Read MoreOhio State Representatives Seek Constitutional Amendment to Protect Infrastructure from Foreign Ownership
Ohio State Reps. Jamie Callender (R-Concord) and Don Manning (R-New Middletown) are sponsoring legislation to amend the state’s constitution that would ask voters to decide on a plan they say would protect infrastructure from being mostly foreign-owned.
Read MoreFirstEnergy Solutions Wants Ohio’s Highest Court to Halt a Referendum on Nuclear Plant Bailout
The owner of Ohio’s two nuclear power plants requested Wednesday that Ohio’s highest court prevent a referendum that could possibly overturn a nuclear plant bailout passed by the Ohio Legislature in July.
Read MoreEnergy Company Considers Ending Union Contract After Receiving Bailout
After the Ohio state legislature approved about $1 billion worth of subsidies for FirstEnergy Solutions, the energy company might end its union contract for workers at one of the plants that needed the bailout to continue running.
Read MoreOhio House Dems Accuse Republicans of ‘Rigged’ Committee Process
The Ohio House Democrats of the Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee have accused their Republican colleagues of rigging the vote on House Bill 6 (HB 6). The Democratic members of the subcommittee released a joint statement on Wednesday claiming the hearing to be a “rigged-process.” Joe Price, senior manager of…
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