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After just two days of opening arguments last week Larry Householder's trial for bribery and racketeering was delayed due to a juror testing positive for COVID. The trial resumed Tuesday.



This week, the prosecution revealed themaze of entities <[link removed]> used to conceal FirstEnergy's support of "Team Householder" candidates in 2018: One Ohio United; Citizens for a Working America; Hardworking Americans; Partners for Progress; Generation Now; and Hardworking Ohioans.



This is quite the saga. It took two days of testimony to reveal who sent how much where before the bill had even been introduced!



The day that House Bill 6 was passed, FirstEnergy lobbyists sent this image to FirstEnergy executives:







After a complaint from the defense, Judge Black ruled that the jurors will not see the image for now.



And if that wasn't bad enough, FirstEnergy lobbyists celebrated that they had secured a state-funded private airplane to bring back legislators to ensure the passage of HB6.



Governor Mike DeWine’s then-chief of staff, Laurel Dawson — married to a FirstEnergy consultant — approved the expense.  <[link removed]>



This trial can deliver true accountability for a law bought in exchange for the power that comes with being the Ohio House Speaker.



Unfortunately, Householder's being removed from office did not stop our current state legislature from pushing laws that keep Ohio going in the wrong direction. <[link removed]>House Bill 507, passed in December, classified natural gas as "green energy" despite it being a fossil fuel that contributes to water pollution and climate change.



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