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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s claim to not know about the millions an Akron utility spent supporting his 2018 campaign for governor simply isn’t credible, an Ohio political scientist said in a recent interview. A spokesperson for DeWine pushed back. FirstEnergy provided that support, then spent more than $60 million to pass and protect a $1.3 […] The post Ohio Gov. DeWine said he didn’t know of millions in FirstEnergy support. Is it plausible? appeared first on Ohio Capital Journal.

“The notion that he was just this fumbling, naive grandpa who has no idea about seven-figure flows (supporting) his campaign is perhaps the single most far-fetched thing he’s ever said”

University of Cincinnati political scientist David Niven said there’s a “zero-percent chance” that DeWine’s claim is true.

“It’s just laughable,” David Niven said. “They find themselves in the literal center of the biggest corporate-political swindle in the state’s history and their answer is, ‘Well anybody would have done this.'”

Next to gerrymandering, the biggest institutional driver of dangerous and destructive political misrepresentation in Ohio and across America is the U.S. Supreme Court’s disastrous 2010 Citizens United ruling allowing unbridled, dark money, pay-to-play corruption, which has now led to the biggest political bribery scandal in state history. The central feature of that criminal racketeering scheme […] The post How Citizens United cleared the way for the biggest political bribery scandal in Ohio his