{"id":340,"date":"2023-03-14T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/justice-at-last-householder-and-borges-found-guilty\/"},"modified":"2023-03-14T12:00:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T12:00:39","slug":"justice-at-last-householder-and-borges-found-guilty","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/justice-at-last-householder-and-borges-found-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice at Last: Householder and Borges found guilty"},"template":"","class_list":["post-340","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"\"This verdict has powerful implications for the rest of the country. Citizens United may have opened the floodgates of corporate cash, but that doesn\u2019t mean that pay-to-play is legal or right. The trial revealed how essential basic disclosure is and the importance of being able to follow the money.\"","featured_image":null,"article_type":153,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7876}","{\"site_id\":\"70\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":281}"],"related_issues":[105,423],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finally. Good news has come to Ohio.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last week, both former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and former chair of the Ohio Republican Party Matt Borges were found guilty of scheming against the people of Ohio in a racketeering conspiracy. Ohioans can rest easy knowing that, <\/span><b>at long last<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, these two will be held accountable for<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0the massive public corruption that was the whole House Bill 6 scandal from beginning to end.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8839 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/03\/Householder-212x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<b>This verdict has powerful implications for the rest of the country.<\/b> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Citizens United<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> may have opened the floodgates of corporate cash, but that doesn\u2019t mean that pay-to-play is legal or right. <\/span><b>The trial revealed how essential basic disclosure is and the importance of being able to follow the money.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Make no mistake: Householder and Borges\u2019 actions could have been prevented if only we had had better anti-corruption laws in place. About 20 years ago, FirstEnergy, the source of the $60 million that fueled the Householder Enterprise, employed the same tactics \u2014 give lots of money to a powerful Ohio politician and win passage of another pro-utility bill. <\/span><b>Back then, the state legislature\u2019s only response was to make it harder for the public to find out who wrote the bill.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8838 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/03\/Borges-212x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s time to create greater transparency at the Statehouse by making the records of the Legislative Service Commission \u2014 the research and bill writing arm of the state legislature \u2014 public again.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ohioans should not be forced to rely on the FBI to tell them when they are getting ripped off. <\/span><b>We must improve accountability and strengthen existing laws designed to discourage bribery of our leaders.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It is clear that obscuring the funders of political advertisements has serious consequences. The legislature needs to take action to shine a light on dark money to provide guardrails so that this never happens again.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We celebrate the powerful facing consequences for their corruption and greed. And moving forward, we begin to repair our broken campaign finance system so this never happens again.<\/span>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Justice at Last: Householder and Borges found guilty - Common Cause Ohio<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/justice-at-last-householder-and-borges-found-guilty\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Justice at Last: Householder and Borges found guilty\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/justice-at-last-householder-and-borges-found-guilty\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause Ohio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/OH.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/justice-at-last-householder-and-borges-found-guilty\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/justice-at-last-householder-and-borges-found-guilty\/\",\"name\":\"Justice at Last: Householder and Borges found guilty - 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