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Ohio Democratic Ads Connect Husted to Bribery Scandal, Despite No Charges of Wrongdoing

Ohio Democratic Ads Connect Husted to Bribery Scandal, Despite No Charges of Wrongdoing
September 9, 2026

Democratic ads in the Ohio Senate race are highlighting a political bribery scandal involving an energy company that benefited from a 2019 nuclear-power bailout law. It’s true, as the ads say, that Republican Sen. Jon Husted backed the legislation and that the company supported his campaigns. But Husted hasn’t been charged with or accused of any wrongdoing in the scandal, which is the impression the ads may leave with voters.

The NRSC’s Weak Ties Between Brown and Deadly Interstate Crash in Ohio

The NRSC’s Weak Ties Between Brown and Deadly Interstate Crash in Ohio
August 25, 2026

In the Ohio Senate race, a Republican ad blames former Sen. Sherrod Brown for a deadly crash in April on an Ohio interstate in which an immigrant was charged with vehicular homicide. But there’s no evidence of any tie between Brown’s votes on immigration, as the ad suggests, and the suspect in this incident.

Politics of Gun Violence

Politics of Gun Violence
August 6, 2019

In the aftermath of two deadly mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, U.S. political leaders made a series of statements on gun violence that were unsubstantiated, lacked context or were seemingly contradictory. Here we look at some of those statements and present the facts.

A Lobbyist in Congress? Not Exactly.

A Lobbyist in Congress? Not Exactly.
May 31, 2018

Has someone “been a lobbyist” if the person was registered as such but never had any clients? What if that registration was later retroactively deactivated? Those are the questions in a dispute in the Ohio Senate race.

Democrats’ Misleading Tax Line

Democrats’ Misleading Tax Line
January 26, 2018

The Republican tax plan was signed into law just last month, and Democrats already have a well-worn, and misleading, talking point about it.

Group Blows Fuse With Electric Bill Claim

Group Blows Fuse With Electric Bill Claim
July 18, 2012

A conservative group goes too far in TV ads that claim a new EPA regulation on coal power plants will make Ohio’s electric bills “skyrocket.” Utility officials say it’s too soon to determine how big the impact will be.
Nationally, projections from the Energy Information Administration show only a slight fluctuation in the residential price of electricity over the long run. The EIA factored in the regulation in its projections.
There’s reason to believe there might be more of an impact in price in Ohio,

At It Again

At It Again
June 15, 2012

The conservative 60 Plus Association is attacking Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida and Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio by dredging up old exaggerations we’ve seen plenty of times before. The claims about the health care law are starting to sound like a broken record: The group claims it’s a “health care takeover” (false) and that it “cuts $500 billion from Medicare” (misleading). This also isn’t the first time the group has gone after Brown with misleading material.