Ohio’s head-in-the-sand legislature needs to act to remove the HB 6 stain
"Let’s examine the scorecard for House Bill 6 amid federal allegations it was the tainted fruit of the largest racketeering corruption case the Ohio Statehouse has ever seen.
It makes for discouraging reading -- even moreso, since Ohio voters on Nov. 3 failed to repudiate the alleged corruption and or show any displeasure with lawmakers' failure to move quickly to repeal or replace the nuclear bailout bill.
If the tainted HB 6 is not repealed soon, then, starting this Jan. 1 and for the next ten years, it will take more than $1 billion from Ohio ratepayers and give it to Akron’s Energy Harbor, current owner and operator of FirstEnergy Corp.'s two former nuclear plants."
--Editorial Board, cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer