Well, we are supposed to be on high A-dest to produce the next season, but stuff keeps happening

that I just can't leave alone.

I'm Tracy Townton.

We begin to enter the news in noon today with breaking news, the arrest of Ohio House

Speaker Larry Householder.

That news is sending shockwaves through the political world today.

Oh, how House Speaker Larry Householder says he will not resign on the same day of

his arrest on bribery charges.

Federal prosecutors say his arrest is just one piece of a complicated puzzle.

Today, to announce the arrest of Larry Householder, the Speaker of the House, the State of Ohio,

and for other defendants for racketeering in relation to what is likely the largest

bribery money laundering scheme ever perpetrated against the people of the State of Ohio.

Last week, the FBI arrested Ohio Speaker of the House, Larry Householder.

He was the architect of a piece of legislation called HB6, which passed last year in July,

2019.

That bill was widely recognized as a terrible piece of energy policy.

It essentially gutted Ohio's renewable and energy efficiency, laws, and incentives, and

bailed out several coal and nuclear companies.

Today, we have on UC Santa Barbara political science professor, Leah Stokes, who wrote about

this law in her book on corrupt utilities called short circuiting policy.

Stokes wrote that this law in Ohio was a multi-billion dollar gift to first energy, a private

electric utility that has resisted climate policy for decades.

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