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TexasTowelie

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Mon Dec 28, 2020, 03:24 AM Dec 2020

Groups backing Gov. DeWine and his daughter received FirstEnergy cash funneled through dark money

Groups backing Gov. DeWine and his daughter received FirstEnergy cash funneled through dark money outfits


COLUMBUS – Cash from FirstEnergy Corp. and related businesses reached the coffers of dark money groups supporting Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and his daughter and Greene County prosecutor candidate, Alice DeWine, newly revealed tax documents show.

The documents shed new light on a key player in a federal bribery investigation that entangled the former Republican speaker of the Ohio House and four others in July. They also show for the first time where a dark money group supporting Alice DeWine's bid for county prosecutor got some of its funding.

A spokesman for the governor told The Enquirer on Wednesday night that DeWine spoke with FirstEnergy officials in 2019 and asked them to support his daughter's effort with independent expenditures. Independent expenditures are political ads that support or oppose a candidate without cooperation with that candidate or their campaign.

DeWine spokesman Dan Tierney said the Republican governor has made "this type of ask" for numerous groups over the years.

Read more: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/23/ohio-house-bill-6-dark-money-groups-supporting-gov-mike-dewine/4022652001/
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Groups backing Gov. DeWine and his daughter received FirstEnergy cash funneled through dark money (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2020 OP
Jackie Borchardt, the writer of this piece knows her stuff. irisblue Dec 2020 #1

irisblue

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1. Jackie Borchardt, the writer of this piece knows her stuff.
Mon Dec 28, 2020, 09:04 AM
Dec 2020

The way first energy has carefully spread the graft $ is scary

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