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Why the ethics reform is still difficult to grasp five years after the bribe scandal: Capitol letter

Why the ethics reform is still difficult to grasp five years after the bribe scandal: Capitol letter

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Still no solution: Almost five years after the house of the House Bill 6 scandal, the spokesman for the Housekeeper Larry Householder in prison, the legislators in Ohio still discuss how they can prevent the next. Anna Staver reports that the Democrats introduced the latest round of the Reform Act this week. A legislative proposal would require the disclosure of dark donors, while another company is preventing from receiving state contracts if they donate to politicians.

Sin city: Chris Ronayne, Manager of Cuyahoga County, asked the state's legislators for permission to increase the “sin tax” of the district for alcohol and cigarettes in order to cover the maintenance costs for rocket arena and progressive field. But as Rich Exner and Jeremy Pelzer report, the Cleveland Cavaliers, who play in the rocket arena – are now taking care that the advance could be thwarted for a tax increase for a tax increase, through which the Cleveland Browns can be used to share in the city center of Cleveland in the city center of Cleveland for a new stadium in a suburb of Sin To get breoks.

Beautiful bill: The US representative house adopted almost a tax -lowering and spending package on Thursday, which President Donald Trump described as a “big, beautiful” bill. Warren Davidson from Ohio delivered one of only two GOP voices. Sabrina Eaton writes. “I cannot support this big deficit plan,” said Miami's Republican. The rest of the state's republicans supported the legislation and all of its democrats were contradicted.

Domestic terrorism: US Senator Bernie Moreno, a Republican in Westlake, asked US general Prosecutor Pam Bondi and Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, research The fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy workers on Wednesday as “act of domestic terrorism”. “We have to do everything we can to stop hate crimes, domestic terrorism and anti -Semitism in America, including the persecution of those who commit domestic terrorism and hate crimes, full and full and Letter to the couple.

Pull up: As expected, the 146-member executive committee of the state party on Tuesday, June 10th, will be officially hired for the successor of Liz Walters as chairman of the Democratic Party in Ohio as chairwoman of the Ohio-Democratic Party. Kyle Herman, a member of the city council of Stow, is the fifth candidate who enters the race, and entered the ex-State MP Kathleen Clyde von Kent, the Senator Bill Demora of Columbus, the chairman of the Democratic Party of the Democratic Party Kim McCarthy, and Tamie Wilson from Delaware County, a disturbing opponent of the Republican US Rep. All five candidates should participate In a virtual forum on Thursday, June 5th,held by the Pride Caucus of the Ohio Democratic Party.

Press the break: Capitol Letter will be a holiday for the Memorial Day during the break. We will return to your inbox on Wednesday, May 28th.

Buckeye Brain Tease

Ask: The islands near the western end of the pissed lake became the nickname “Les Lies Aux Serpentes” (the islands of the snakes), from which French explorer?

Send your answer by e -mail to capitolletter@cleveland.com. The first correct respondent is mentioned in the newsletter of the next week.

Thanks to everyone who answered the trivia question of the past week: After Attorney General Dave Yost left journalism when the Columbus Citizen-Journal stopped in 1985, he became the press spokesman for the Mayor of Ohio?

Answer: Yost worked for the late Dana 'Buck 'Rinehart, a Republican who acted as mayor of Columbus from 1984 to 1992. In Yost's new memoirs “Stand”, the Columbus Republican remembered when he was ashamed in 1990 when he was ashamed in 1990. Rinehart used a demolition crane To start demolishing the old state Ohio in downtown Columbus without waiting for state permission.

The reader Rob Kirchstein from Plain Township was the first to answer with the correct answer.

On the way

The President of the Buckeye Institute, Robert Alt, successfully completed Mt. Everest and drives home. Everest is a challenge for the climber to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents in the world.

Birthday

Friday, May 23rd: Jt -Batchelor, legislative adjutant by Senator Kristina Roegner; Greg Lawson, Research Fellow by Buckeye Institute; Ex-State Rep./2026 Ohio Senate Candidate Craig Riedel

Saturday, May 24th: Angelika McClelland, operating director, State Secretary of Ohio; James Sullivan, legislative assistant to the state member Dan Troy

Sunday, May 25th: Former state representative Tim Ginter; Sarah Latourette, former legislator and Chief Adwercacy Officer of Ohio Children's Alliance

Monday, May 26th: Fitzgerald Oladejo, legislative aide of the state deputy Juanita Brent

Tuesday, May 27th: Dauren Mason, legislative of the state MP Angela King; John Sayers, Chief Information Officer from Ohio House

Directly from the source

“I hope to come home by Sunday evening.”

-State Senator Jerry Cirino describes the 14-hour days when he worked on writing the Senate version of the State Budget. According to Cirino, the Senate plans to work through the weekend, but hopefully will spend the memorial day with the family.

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