But the bill only passed because just enough Democrats voted for it - in case anyone forgot. Larry Householder may have done most of the heavy lifting. Opinion: Let's be honest about bailout scandal that led to conviction of 'corrupt genesis'Īmnesia is the biggest pal a Statehouse politician has. Without at least one of those Democratic votes, House Bill 6 would have failed to pass. Of those 19 Senate “yes” votes, Democrats cast three. In the state Senate, the vote was 19-12, just two votes more than the 17-vote minimum required there. Without at least eight of the nine “yes” votes from House Democrats, House Bill 6 couldn’t have reached Gov. And among the 51 House “yes” votes on House Bill 6, Democrats cast nine votes. That was just one vote more than the 50 votes required to pass a bill in the House. The Ohio House’s final vote on House Bill 6, in the summer of 2019, was 51-38.
More: Dark money, Ohio politics and power: What the Householder, Borges guilty verdicts meanĭemocrats don’t remind anybody that the FirstEnergy subsidy bill, HB 6, only passed the Ohio House and state Senate in 2019 because enough Democrats voted for it. One is the 1975-94 speakership of Scioto County Democrat Vern Riffe, who made sure that, often as not, he - not governors or Senate presidents - was seen as the Statehouse decider.Ī central issue in Householder’s federal conviction was what a jury judged his corrupt machinations to pass House Bill 6 of 2019, which forced Ohio electricity consumers to bail out two financially faltering nuclear power plants then owned by a unit of Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp., which spent millions of dollars to pass (and prevent repeal of) House Bill 6. The speakership matters big-time for a range of historical reasons. She became the Ohio House’s minority leader just after Householder won the Ohio House’s speakership. Those GOP votes were nowhere near the 50 votes required to win the gavel.Īmong House Democrats supporting Householder for speaker in 2019 was then-state Rep. The 26 pro-Householder-speakership votes from House Democrats were decisive in electing Householder because just 26 Republicans (including Householder) among the House’s then-60 GOP members (one GOP-held seat was vacant) backed him.
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