New Ad: Jon Husted Gave $1 Billion to FirstEnergy and Got $1 Million Back.

WinSenate released a $7 million ad campaign hitting Jon Husted for his direct involvement in the FirstEnergy scandal, where his political network and FirstEnergy got a payout while Ohioans paid the price.

FirstEnergy secretly put $1 million into a dark money group that supported Jon Husted’s run for Governor of Ohio. Then Husted secured a bailout of $1 billion for FirstEnergy’s failing nuclear plants central to their $60 million corruption scandal. Now, as FirstEnergy executives face decades in prison for the scandal and Ohio families have paid $457.7 million as a result with their electric bills rising 62%, Jon Husted has denied all involvement with FirstEnergy, despite multiple executives at the company referring to him as their “Golden Boy”. When called to testify on behalf of FirstEnergy and asked about the scandal, Husted claimed he “couldn’t remember.”

“FirstEnergy spent a million bucks to support Husted’s campaign. Husted got them a billion-dollar bailout causing your electric bills to skyrocket,” the narrator says. “What was Husted’s response? ‘I don’t remember.’ but [Ohio] won’t forget. [Ohioans] paid the price.”

This ad will air across Ohio on television, digital, and streaming.

Watch “Millions in Bribes.”