Rotunda Rumblings
The new dealers: Ohio recreational marijuana shoppers are being turned away from dispensaries for not having cash. Dispensaries only accept cash and sometimes debit cards. Visa, Mastercard and other credit card companies don’t back dispensary transactions because marijuana is illegal at the federal level. Meanwhile, prices of product continue to increase, Laura Hancock reports.
All that gas: The Oil and Gas Land Management Commission agreed to sell mineral rights underneath about 85 acres of Keen Wildlife Area for oil and gas development. As Jake Zuckerman reports, Houston-based EOG Resources won with a nearly $212,000 bid, despite overwhelming public commentary in opposition to the idea.
Claim to defame: The one-year statute of limitations for Ohio defamation lawsuits doesn’t start until the plaintiff discovers the offending statement, the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled. As Jeremy Pelzer reports, the 5-2 ruling comes in a case where a Cincinnati real-estate developer created a phony email purporting to show a Warren County township trustee accepted a bribe from him, but the email remained secret until the developer showed it to other township officials in 2021. Chief Justice Sharon Kennedy, in a dissent, called the ruling “judicial activism” noting that for more than 170 years, Ohio law has been interpreted to start the one-year clock from when an allegedly defamatory statement is made.
Hack attack: Donald Trump’s presidential campaign accused Iran of a hack-and leak operation Saturday, after a 271-page dossier of vice-presidential nominee JD Vance’s “vulnerabilities” were sent to Politico and The Washington Post from an AOL.com email address, The Daily Beast reports. They also were sent a vetting document on U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, who wasn’t chosen as Trump’s running mate. Hours after Politico revealed it got the materials, the Trump campaign said it had been hacked by Iran.
Just app it in: Mike Dowling, a FirstEnergy executive accused of bribing a state utility regulator with $4.3 million, asked a Summit County judge on Monday to modify the terms of his pre-trial bond. He asked her to trade his GPS tracking device for an iPhone app that can track his movements. He has already posted 10% cash on a $250,000 bond and surrendered his U.S. passport.
Out of proportion: Any reform of redistricting processes necessarily pits different priorities against one another. The USA TODAY Network Ohio Bureau’s Jessie Balmert explains one of those priorities – proportionality, or the extent to which the partisan sum of all the state’s likely legislative or congressional seats aligns with the behavior of voters statewide over previous elections.
False claim: A Washington Post fact check gives a “four Pinocchio” rating to Vance’s claim that the Inflation Reduction Act “sent a lot of our resources to China.” While Vance assumes that China will benefit if more EVs are sold because China currently dominates the supply chain, it says he ignores that the IRA is intended to break up that pattern — and bring more of those jobs to the United States. That’s one reason China has formally protested the law. He also ignores the fact that the IRA is creating many jobs — even in communities where he makes these outlandish claims.
Revved up: Driving Force Action, a super PAC created by a specialty auto parts trade association, has budgeted $160,000 to run TV, social-media, and online ads in several Ohio counties opposing the “Biden-Harris” electric-vehicle mandates, according to group spokesman Scot Crockett. The ads, which will run through Election Day, features Ian Lehn, owner of Cincinnati-based BOOSTane, which sells octane boosters for gas-powered vehicles.
Full disclosure
Here’s five things we learned from the financial disclosure statement of Jason Allevato, a Republican running against Democratic incumbent Rep. Beryl Brown Piccolantonio in a Columbus-area district.
He’s employed by Five Star Home Foods, LLCHe also does business under Appalachian Capital Holdings LLC, and reported tax return income in six different statesHe owns at least $1,000 in investments in nine different companies, including Netflix, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Taiwan Semiconductor and TeslaAlong with his personal residence, he owns investment properties in New Albany and Charlottesville, VirginiaHe reported debts of at least $1,000 to nine different creditors Birthdays
Bahja Ali, legislative aide to state Rep. Munira Abdullahi
Kevin Servick, director of business government and senior advisor for the Ohio attorney general’s office
Kevin Stanek, Ohio House chief legal counsel
Straight From The Source
“I think the guy’s a total loser. Certainly, I disavow him. Look, a lot of losers are going to attack me and attack my family. I think the proper response to them is to ignore them. Don’t feed the trolls, they largely go away”
– Vance discussing white supremacist Nick Fuentes’ criticism of his wife’s Indian heritage during a Sunday appearance on CBS “Face the Nation.”
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