...a month before Republican Gov. Mike DeWine nominated him as Ohio's top utility regulator.
It's always the people you most suspect.
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Wow, this was a huge conspiracy.
All were accused of using the $60 million in secretly funded FirstEnergy cash to get Householder’s chosen Republican candidates elected to the House in 2018 and then to help him get elected speaker in January 2019. The money was then used to win passage of the tainted energy bill, House Bill 6, and to conduct what authorities have said was a $38 million dirty-tricks campaign to prevent a repeal referendum from reaching the ballot.
As a former Illinoisan, even I am impressed by this level of corruption.
As a former Illinoisan, even I am impressed by this level of corruption.
Its even worse that the article covers. The article covers the history of how Ohio HB 6 (the tainted law that the corrupt Republican politicians passed 2019), but it doesn't cover the fact that the tainted law is still in effect in 2023!
You know how Republicans call foul on subsidizing green energy projects like solar and wind? Well, Ohio HB6 actually subsidizes two particularly dirty coal plants (as well as two old unprofitable nuke plants). Thats right, when it became law electricity consumers even today are still paying the corrupt company (First Energy) extra fees to make the coal plants artificially profitable. source.
"People need electricity, and greener sources don't appear overnight" I hear some say. You're right, but the same company First Energy owned hydro and natural gas power plants but sold them from 2011 to 2014 instead putting trying to prop up the old coal and nuke plants. source
If anyone asks who the party of corruption is in the state of Ohio, I point to the Republicans with their, at the time, Republican controlled legislature, Speaker of the House and Governor signing this into law, and then the present day Republican controlled legislature, and the same Republican Governor in office letting this law stand on the books even after the corruption was public knowledge and convictions occurred years ago!
I sure hope the company officers offering the bribes are going to see prison as well.
Oh, look. More blatant republican corruption. Both parties sure are the same /s
instead taking a bribe from an energy company seeking favors
So, can we put the company on the hook for all the legal fees?
They put in some effort avoiding naming the utility that actually did the bribing.
FirstEnergy? They're named seven separate times in the article.