CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A trove of records from a shareholder lawsuit against FirstEnergy reveals the inner workings of state government and political campaigns, including text messages from Gov. Mike DeWine, imploring a FirstEnergy executive for campaign donations.Editor Chris Quinn hosts our daily half-hour news podcast, with editorial board member Lisa Garvin, impact editor Leila Atassi and content director Laura Johnston.
For how many decades have summer and church festivals been hallmarks of summer. Is that era coming to an end? What has put them into such peril? The records show that Dewine sent First Energy CEO Chuck Jones a text message asking for a phone call. He told Jones that a teachers union had just put in a million dollars to help his Democratic opponent. And the messages show that First Energy executives were, I don’t know, maybe a little reluctant to give more at the time. A subsidiary had just given $500 ‚000 to support Dewine’s re -election, not re -election, his first election to governor, but they came around.
This does not show he broke the law. We should say that. It does show that First Energy was reaching out to him to tell him this money had been contributed to a dark money group. Could you argue that’s coordination? Probably not. It’s sharing of information. Hey, Governor, we did put money into your dark money group to help your campaign. And if that’s the end of it, then can you argue he coordinated? But to say I don’t remember it.
You reach out to the people you’re supposed to be regulating. Like you said, he appointed the PUCO chairman and he’s begging one of those who are regulated for money. They’re giving them a lot of money. They’re tired of giving them money, but they give them more great stuff. Check out Jake’s story. It’s on cleveland .com and you are listening to today in Ohio. All right. Laila Cleveland mayor Justin Bibb apparently will choose silence instead of facing the public or the media.
And she kind of threw her driver under the bus and said, I was reviewing documents on my cell phone and I didn’t know that he was doing that. I mean, that’s come on, because especially if a couple months later your driver’s doing it again, there’s no way that’s not your common practice. So the next case in Jersey City, Mayor Steve Fulop, he faced a lot of heat last August when the vehicle that he was riding in was hit at an intersection.
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