Derek Merrin voted to widen data center tax breaks, then took cash from companies tied to the boom
AEP and Windstream gave Merrin $1,500 years after his 2017 vote, while his own Monclova Township later froze data center construction for a year.
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Ramaswamy family bodyguard pleads guilty to fentanyl trafficking after raid finds 132,000 lethal-dose equivalents
Campaign finance records show Ramaswamy's campaign kept paying ARK Protection $14,000 after the arrest, with a final payment clearing four days after cutting ties publicly.
Trump administration urges Supreme Court to rule soon on limiting vote-by-mail in midterms
A federal judge blocked the order nationwide, ruling the executive branch has no authority to regulate elections just weeks before the midterms.
Candidates highlight data center plans. Next Ohio governor will select regulators.
Innovation Ohio calls Ramaswamy's free-electricity pledge unserious, noting he holds financial stakes in AI chipmakers and data center firms.
Gary Click preaches child protection, but stands by Republican accused of child sex abuse
Speaker Huffman stripped Creech's committees over the abuse claims, then restored them and endorsed his re-election, all while Click kept cosponsoring bills with him.
Ohioans in US Rep. Max Miller’s district want action, consequences as House ethics probe continues
A law professor says the House ethics probe could stretch past November, while constituents like a Bay Village librarian say Miller feels disconnected from his own neighbors.
Nearly half of Republicans rejected Gary Click. Three months later, the revolt isn’t over.
A Tiffin councilman publicly told Click to stop claiming his support, the latest in a pattern of allies denying endorsements the incumbent has cited since May.
Ohio GOP insiders hand House nomination to Erie County party chairman as conservatives erupt
Stidham was one of six committee members entitled to vote on his own nomination, and Huffman and Reineke had already been working to secure it for him.
Ramaswamy backs opening Ohio retirement funds to crypto while holding a $69M stake in a bitcoin treasury company
Strive lost $257.6 million last quarter on bitcoin markdowns, meaning HB 18's pension provisions carry no cap unlike the treasurer's 10% limit.
Ohio’s 9th Congressional district race: The candidates’ records on data centers
Merrin backed Ohio's data center tax breaks in 2017 and took donations from firms tied to those incentives, while Kaptur wants companies to pay their own way.
Tiffin councilman again says he did not endorse Gary Click, tells Click to ‘adjust your messaging’
Click insisted Roessner supports him and accused others of spreading “fake news” for reporting the councilman's denial. So Roessner went directly to Click and said it himself.
2 in 3 MAGA voters say they would support a GOP candidate accused of sexual assault, poll finds
Ohio Rep. Max Miller is testing that loyalty live, refusing to quit despite abuse allegations while Democrats forced Maine's Platner out over similar claims.
Fact check: Ramaswamy super PAC misleads voters with Acton attacks over CDC training, TV remote
Five out-of-state donors supplied 88% of the $8.2 million ad buy, while Ohio's own filings leave the spending's purpose blank and DeWine says the COVID decisions were his.
GOP civil war brews in House District 89 as Statehouse leaders push insider candidate
Erie GOP chair Caleb Stidham is applying for the seat he'll help decide, while Statehouse leaders Huffman and Reineke quietly back him, a source tells TiffinOhio.net.
A growing credibility crisis: Gary Click’s record of false claims keeps expanding
Five Click claims since February were contradicted by church records, archives or named sources, but only one prompted a correction, and it named no one.
Fact check: Gary Click accused 3 Democrats of funding his GOP primary opponent. Records show they gave $0.
Watson says Republican turnout, not Democratic crossover votes, nearly cost Click the primary, calling Click's own logic contradictory.
Ohio secretary of state sets sights on state auditor’s office
LaRose will face Maple Heights Mayor Annette Blackwell, who helped pull her city out of fiscal emergency by working closely with the auditor's office.
Ramaswamy takes nearly $100K from energy interests as Ohioans’ electric bills soar
Utility and gas PAC donations to Ramaswamy roughly doubled to $65,603 after a watchdog first flagged the money, with the biggest checks arriving on the filing deadline.
Vivek Ramaswamy spent months cheering data centers. Now he wants voters to forget.
Ten recorded clips show Ramaswamy calling the data center boom good with no conditions attached.
Two Ohio Republicans accused in cases involving women and children refuse to step aside
Miller's father-in-law, Sen. Bernie Moreno, publicly urged him to resign days before Miller requested an ethics probe into himself that a tied committee is unlikely to resolve.
