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TexasTowelie

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Mon Sep 23, 2019, 04:15 AM Sep 2019

Groups Want To Know Donors Behind Nuclear Bailout Ads, Flyers

The League of Women Voters and Common Cause Ohio are joining forces to call out the lack of transparency in the scathing campaign against the nuclear bailout referendum attempt.

A lot of money is pouring into the fight over HB6, which bails out the state's nuclear power plants, subsidizes coal plants, and rolls back pro-green energy policies.

Ohioans Against Corporate Bailouts is pushing to put a referendum of HB6 on next year's ballot, with petitioners gathering signatures all throughout the state.

But a pro-nuclear bailout group, Ohioans for Energy Security, is shelling out money to broadcast ads and mail out flyers that claim the referendum group has ties to the Chinese government. Ohioans for Energy Security, which has an agenda that closely aligns with FirstEnergy Solutions, claims that the Chinese government is trying to gain control of Ohio's energy grid.

Read more: http://www.statenews.org/post/groups-want-know-donors-behind-nuclear-bailout-ads-flyers

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Groups Want To Know Donors Behind Nuclear Bailout Ads, Flyers (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2019 OP
It's crazy philf99 Sep 2019 #1

philf99

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1. It's crazy
Mon Sep 23, 2019, 05:31 AM
Sep 2019

Their ads says if you see someone with a petition call this phone number. What are they going to intimidate petition collectors?

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