COLUMBUS – Governor Mike DeWine has changed his mind and called for a nuclear bailout law at the center of the state’s $60 million bribery scandal to be repealed.
The Republican said he continues to support the policy in the bill, including preserving Ohio’s two nuclear power plants as part of power generation in the state but says the process that created the law “stinks” and has eroded the public’s trust in the law.
“The most important thing is that the public have confidence in the process, and it will forever be impossible for the public to have confidence in that policy…without revisiting it,” he told reports at a regular briefing at the Statehouse Thursday.
“This is something that needs to happen in the open and it needs to happen fairly quickly,” DeWine said.
Householder and four others were arrested on federal racketeering and bribery charges Tuesday.