{"id":176263,"date":"2020-07-26T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/26\/bowing-to-the-inevitable\/"},"modified":"2020-07-26T18:31:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T23:31:00","slug":"bowing-to-the-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/26\/bowing-to-the-inevitable\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowing to the Inevitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>After the FBI arrests for corruption related to the nuclear power bailout in Ohio, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/open\/2020\/07\/gov-mike-dewine-calls-for-repeal-of-house-bill-6.html\">Governor Mike DeWine has reversed himself and called for a repeal of the bill<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Gov. Mike DeWine reversed himself and called for the repeal of the House Bill 6 on Thursday, saying Speaker Larry Householder\u2019s alleged bribery scheme \u201cforever tainted\u201d the $1.3 billion nuclear bailout law.<\/p>\n<p>DeWine, who signed HB6 a year ago Thursday, reiterated that he supports the policy laid out in the bailout, saying it\u2019s needed to preserve jobs at the Davis-Besse and Perry nuclear plants and keep carbon-free sources of energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the policy in my opinion is good, the process by which it was created stinks. It\u2019s terrible, it\u2019s not acceptable,\u201d DeWine said during his televised coronavirus briefing.<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s announcement marks a reversal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/open\/2020\/07\/gov-mike-dewine-stands-by-billion-dollar-nuclear-bailout-authorities-say-was-forged-in-corruption.html\">from just the day before<\/a>, when he stood by HB6 despite the federal charges against Householder and four allies regarding their acceptance of more than $60 million from FirstEnergy Corp. to get HB6 passed and thwart an anti-HB6 referendum effort.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that he has had a meaningful change of heart, he still supports bailouts for the rich and lectures for the poor, it&#8217;s just that his position in this has become politically toxic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the FBI arrests for corruption related to the nuclear power bailout in Ohio, Governor Mike DeWine has reversed himself and called for a repeal of the bill: Gov. Mike DeWine reversed himself and called for the repeal of the House Bill 6 on Thursday, saying Speaker Larry Householder\u2019s alleged bribery scheme \u201cforever tainted\u201d the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,449,502,374],"class_list":["post-176263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-legislation","tag-nuclear-power","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}