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  "born": {
    "place": "Springfield, Ohio",
    "year": 1947
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    {
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        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Ohio_gubernatorial_election",
        "https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_DeWine"
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        "https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_DeWine"
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      "party": "Republican",
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          "title": "2014 Ohio Attorney General election",
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        }
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      "note": "The 2022 race is complete; no pending candidacy is published for it.",
      "state": "none-found"
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      "checked": [
        "The research archive's 2022-cycle fact-check pass, which searched PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, the Washington Post Fact Checker and AP Fact Check"
      ],
      "note": "No fact-checker rating of a DeWine statement from the 2022 cycle was found in the records checked.",
      "state": "none-found"
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      "note": "His 2022 gubernatorial candidacy is published. Earlier candidacies (Ohio Senate, Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor, 2018 Governor) wait on records for those races and cycles.",
      "state": "researched"
    },
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      "note": "One endorsement he received is published (Donald Trump, 2022). The research archive records no endorsement he gave in the 2022 cycle.",
      "state": "researched"
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    {
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      "name": "Ohio Republican State Central & Executive Committee State Candidate Fund",
      "notes": "His single largest donor in the Jan. 2021-June 2022 reporting period.",
      "race": "2022-governor",
      "sources": [
        "https://news.ballotpedia.org/2022/10/10/ohio-gov-dewine-receives-15-million-with-ohio-republican-party-state-central-committee-as-top-donor/"
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    {
      "affiliation": "Party committee",
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      "name": "Ohio Republican PAC",
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        "https://news.ballotpedia.org/2022/08/22/mike-dewine-raised-more-than-any-other-republican-statewide-candidate-or-officeholder-in-ohio/"
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      "vehicle": "pac"
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    {
      "affiliation": "Cleveland-area bail-bonds and entertainment businessman",
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      "in_state": true,
      "name": "John A. Payiavlas",
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      "sources": [
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    {
      "affiliation": "Columbus real-estate developer, Wagenbrenner Companies",
      "amount": 35650,
      "in_state": true,
      "name": "Eric Wagenbrenner",
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      "sources": [
        "https://news.ballotpedia.org/2022/10/10/ohio-gov-dewine-receives-15-million-with-ohio-republican-party-state-central-committee-as-top-donor/"
      ],
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    {
      "affiliation": "Electric utility subsidiary",
      "amount": 500000,
      "in_state": true,
      "name": "FirstEnergy Solutions",
      "notes": "Gave to the Republican Governors Association on Oct. 11, 2018, one day after DeWine met FirstEnergy executives at an RGA fundraiser; the money moved through RGA-linked entities that put roughly $650,000 behind DeWine's campaign in its final two weeks.",
      "race": "2018-governor",
      "sources": [
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    {
      "affiliation": "Electric utility subsidiary",
      "amount": 500000,
      "in_state": true,
      "name": "FirstEnergy Solutions",
      "notes": "Gave to the Republican Governors Association on Oct. 11, 2018, one day after DeWine met FirstEnergy executives at an RGA fundraiser; the money moved through RGA-linked entities that put roughly $650,000 behind DeWine's campaign in its final two weeks.",
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      "sources": [
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    {
      "affiliation": "Electric utility",
      "amount": 56750,
      "in_state": true,
      "name": "FirstEnergy Corp.",
      "notes": "Cumulative 2009-2017, a span covering this cycle.",
      "race": "2014-attorney-general",
      "sources": [
        {
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          "publisher": "Dayton Daily News",
          "title": "Firms Gave Heavily to DeWine, GOP",
          "url": "https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/firms-gave-heavily-dewine-gop/RV4vShQrE3qzJVij8rp2tN/"
        }
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    {
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        "https://www.wosu.org/politics-government/2022-09-08/trump-endorses-ohio-gov-dewine-in-reelection-bid"
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  "finance": [
    {
      "as_of": "2022-06-30",
      "cash": null,
      "filer": "OhioSOS",
      "notes": "His committee's semiannual state campaign-finance report, Jan. 1, 2021-June 30, 2022; he spent $6,800,936 in the same window, with SRCP Media Inc. the top payee at $4,906,585.88. The research archive found no single, fully sourced whole-2022-cycle total.",
      "race": "2022-governor",
      "raised": 15081386,
      "sources": [
        "https://news.ballotpedia.org/2022/10/10/ohio-gov-dewine-receives-15-million-with-ohio-republican-party-state-central-committee-as-top-donor/",
        "https://news.ballotpedia.org/2022/08/22/mike-dewine-raised-more-than-any-other-republican-statewide-candidate-or-officeholder-in-ohio/"
      ],
      "spent": 6800936
    },
    {
      "as_of": "2018-12-31",
      "filer": "OhioSOS",
      "notes": "The research archive found no single authoritative cumulative total; the state and national press's best-documented figures are used. Raised: roughly $16.4 million by DeWine's own committee, per WOSU, plus about $5 million transferred in from running mate Jon Husted's committee and about $4 million in personal loans DeWine made to his own campaign. Spent: the Columbus Dispatch's full-cycle figure, a record for an Ohio governor's race at the time.",
      "race": "2018-governor",
      "raised": 16400000,
      "sources": [
        "https://www.wosu.org/news/2018-12-19/2018-governors-race-was-most-expensive-in-ohio-history",
        "https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/state/2018/12/14/dewine-breaks-spending-record-for/6618206007/"
      ],
      "spent": 35600000
    },
    {
      "as_of": "2018-12-31",
      "filer": "OhioSOS",
      "notes": "The research archive found no single authoritative cumulative total; the state and national press's best-documented figures are used. Raised: roughly $16.4 million by DeWine's own committee, per WOSU, plus about $5 million transferred in from running mate Jon Husted's committee and about $4 million in personal loans DeWine made to his own campaign. Spent: the Columbus Dispatch's full-cycle figure, a record for an Ohio governor's race at the time.",
      "race": "2018-governor",
      "raised": 16400000,
      "sources": [
        "https://www.wosu.org/news/2018-12-19/2018-governors-race-was-most-expensive-in-ohio-history",
        "https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/state/2018/12/14/dewine-breaks-spending-record-for/6618206007/"
      ],
      "spent": 35600000
    },
    {
      "as_of": "2015-04-03",
      "cash": null,
      "filer": "OhioSOS",
      "notes": "Per Follow the Money's tabulation of Ohio Secretary of State filings, as republished by Ballotpedia (data current as of April 3, 2015); Pepper raised $5,771,103 in the same cycle.",
      "race": "2014-attorney-general",
      "raised": 7825691,
      "sources": [
        {
          "accessed": "2026-09-19",
          "publisher": "Ballotpedia",
          "title": "Ohio Attorney General election, 2014",
          "url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_Attorney_General_election,_2014"
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  "id": "mike-dewine",
  "interests": [
    {
      "date": "2022-05-16",
      "kind": "holding",
      "notes": "Ohio's ethics-disclosure law required reporting only that a holding exceeds $1,000, not the amount.",
      "sources": [
        "https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/05/18/gov-dewine-is-invested-in-intel-but-he-wont-say-how-much/"
      ],
      "what": "Disclosed owning Intel Corp. stock on his May 16, 2022 ethics filing, in the same period the state finalized a roughly $1.9-2 billion incentive package for Intel's Ohio chip-plant project; his press office said he has held the stock since well prior to his governorship and declined to disclose the amount."
    },
    {
      "date": "2022-01-24",
      "kind": "reported_conflict",
      "reported_by": "Ohio Capital Journal",
      "sources": [
        "https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/01/24/dewine-additional-transparency-not-needed-in-massive-medicaid-contracts/",
        "https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/02/14/experts-dewines-son-medicaid-director-both-have-clear-conflicts/"
      ],
      "what": "Reported that his Medicaid director, Maureen Corcoran, held at least $1,000 in stock in UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health while her agency signed roughly $22 billion in Medicaid managed-care contracts with those companies' subsidiaries in April 2022; DeWine said additional transparency was not needed and did not require her to divest."
    },
    {
      "date": "2021-04-19",
      "kind": "reported_conflict",
      "reported_by": "Ohio Capital Journal",
      "sources": [
        "https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2021/04/19/nursing-homes-spent-at-least-6-million-on-ohio-politics-in-five-years/"
      ],
      "what": "Reported that nursing-home-industry donors and an affiliated 501(c)(4) nonprofit that does not disclose its donors gave DeWine and allied groups more than $300,000 directly plus more than $200,000 through the nonprofit between about 2017 and 2021, while Medicaid nursing-home reimbursement rates were a live issue; the article also reports that it was the Republican-controlled legislature, not DeWine's own budget proposal, that added $58 million in extra nursing-home payments."
    },
    {
      "date": "2019-05-15",
      "kind": "reported_conflict",
      "reported_by": "Wikipedia's 'Ohio FirstEnergy bribery scandal' article and the Dayton Daily News, drawing on federal court records",
      "sources": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_FirstEnergy_bribery_scandal",
        "https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/state/2024/02/15/house-bill-6-case-top-aide-didnt-tell-dewine-about-4-3m-bribe/72589126007/"
      ],
      "what": "FirstEnergy-linked money reached his 2018 campaign; Governor DeWine then appointed Sam Randazzo, an attorney with long-standing FirstEnergy ties, to chair the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio in February 2019. Federal court records showed FirstEnergy paid Randazzo $4.3 million in January 2019, shortly before that appointment; DeWine signed House Bill 6, delivering subsidies to FirstEnergy's nuclear plants, in July 2019. DeWine has said he did not know of the Randazzo payment at the time."
    },
    {
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      "reported_by": "Wikipedia's 'Ohio FirstEnergy bribery scandal' article and the Dayton Daily News, drawing on federal court records",
      "sources": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_FirstEnergy_bribery_scandal",
        "https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/state/2024/02/15/house-bill-6-case-top-aide-didnt-tell-dewine-about-4-3m-bribe/72589126007/"
      ],
      "what": "FirstEnergy-linked money reached his 2018 campaign; Governor DeWine then appointed Sam Randazzo, an attorney with long-standing FirstEnergy ties, to chair the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio in February 2019. Federal court records showed FirstEnergy paid Randazzo $4.3 million in January 2019, shortly before that appointment; DeWine signed House Bill 6, delivering subsidies to FirstEnergy's nuclear plants, in July 2019. DeWine has said he did not know of the Randazzo payment at the time."
    },
    {
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      "kind": "reported_conflict",
      "reported_by": "David Pepper's 2014 campaign, per the Washington Examiner",
      "sources": [
        {
          "accessed": "2026-09-19",
          "date": "2014",
          "publisher": "Washington Examiner",
          "title": "Four More Years of 'Pay-to-Play' if DeWine Returns as Ohio AG, Says Dem Challenger",
          "url": "https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/four-more-years-of-pay-to-play-if-dewine-returns-as-ohio-ag-says-dem-challenger"
        }
      ],
      "what": "Alleged that law firms and their principals gave roughly $359,000 to DeWine's political network since 2010 and were subsequently selected for state debt-collection or special-counsel panel work; DeWine's campaign disputed any connection between donations and contract awards."
    }
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  "notes": "P3-03 (2022 cycle). Left out, and why: design/reports/politics/P3-03-2022.md. P3-03 (2018 cycle). Left out, and why: design/reports/politics/P3-03-2018.md. P3-03 (2018 cycle). Left out, and why: design/reports/politics/P3-03-2018.md. P3-03 (2014 cycle). Left out, and why: design/reports/politics/P3-03-2014.md.",
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    {
      "from": "2019-01",
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      "notes": "Reelected in 2022.",
      "office": "Governor of Ohio",
      "sources": [
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    {
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      "how": "elected",
      "notes": "Ran for governor in 2018 while the sitting, term-limited Attorney General.",
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      "sources": [
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    },
    {
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      "how": "elected",
      "notes": "Ran for governor in 2018 while the sitting, term-limited Attorney General.",
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      "sources": [
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      "notes": "Won a first term in 2010 defeating Richard Cordray; won re-election in 2014.",
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          "publisher": "Ballotpedia",
          "title": "Ohio Attorney General election, 2014",
          "url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_Attorney_General_election,_2014"
        }
      ],
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    {
      "as_of": "2022-12-20",
      "notes": "Gambling interests gave nearly $1 million to a GOP-aligned dark-money group backing pro-DeWine PACs, and a DraftKings-linked super PAC spent $1 million on ads backing Ohio GOP candidates including DeWine.",
      "race": "2022-governor",
      "sources": [
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      "numbers": {
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        "Whaley": 37
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      "pollster": "Marist Poll",
      "race": "2022-governor",
      "sample": "registered voters",
      "sources": [
        "https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/the-2022-elections-in-ohio/"
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    },
    {
      "date": "2022-10-21",
      "numbers": {
        "DeWine": 55,
        "Whaley": 32
      },
      "pollster": "Spectrum News 1 / Siena College Research Institute",
      "race": "2022-governor",
      "sample": "likely voters",
      "sources": [
        "https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/politics/2022/10/21/poll-shows-comfortable-lead-for-gov--dewine-despite-many-close-statewide-races",
        "https://scri.siena.edu/2022/09/27/governor-dewine-55-whaley-32-us-senate-ryan-46-vance-43-ohio-chief-justice-kennedy-40-brunner-40/"
      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "2018-10-30",
      "numbers": {
        "Cordray": 48,
        "DeWine": 43
      },
      "pollster": "Gravis Marketing",
      "race": "2018-governor",
      "sample": "likely voters",
      "sources": [
        "https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/414504-dem-cordray-leads-republican-dewine-in-ohio-governor-race-by-5-points/"
      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "2018-10-30",
      "numbers": {
        "Cordray": 48,
        "DeWine": 43
      },
      "pollster": "Gravis Marketing",
      "race": "2018-governor",
      "sample": "likely voters",
      "sources": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "date": "2014-08-20",
      "numbers": {
        "DeWine": 60,
        "Pepper": 31
      },
      "pollster": "Tarrance Group (Ohio Republican Party internal poll)",
      "race": "2014-attorney-general",
      "sample": "likely voters",
      "sources": [
        {
          "accessed": "2026-09-19",
          "publisher": "Ballotpedia",
          "title": "Ohio Attorney General election, 2014",
          "url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_Attorney_General_election,_2014"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "positions": [
    {
      "date": "2022",
      "issue": "Economic development",
      "paraphrase": true,
      "quote": "Touted his administration's economic-development record as governor, above all landing Intel's $20 billion semiconductor factory near Columbus, along with other large manufacturing investment (Honda, Ford), as proof of job creation.",
      "sources": [
        "https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_DeWine"
      ],
      "venue": "Campaign record, per Ballotpedia"
    },
    {
      "date": "2022",
      "issue": "Taxes",
      "paraphrase": true,
      "quote": "Highlighted tax cuts he signed as governor: budgets cutting Ohio income taxes by a cumulative $2.2 billion, eliminating the state income tax for filers earning up to $25,000, and cutting the top income-tax bracket, eliminated entirely in the 2021 budget.",
      "sources": [
        "https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_DeWine"
      ],
      "venue": "Campaign record, per Ballotpedia"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-05-26",
      "issue": "Sports betting",
      "notes": "Said years after the 2022 cycle, but stated about his own decision to sign the sports-betting law; carried here because it is his own verbatim assessment of that record.",
      "paraphrase": false,
      "quote": "did not anticipate ... the massive, massive amount of money that these gambling companies would come in",
      "sources": [
        "https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/05/26/ohio-gov-dewine-talks-endorsing-ramaswamy-why-legalizing-sports-betting-is-his-biggest-mistake/"
      ],
      "venue": "Interview with Ohio Capital Journal"
    },
    {
      "date": "2018-07",
      "issue": "Medicaid expansion",
      "paraphrase": true,
      "quote": "After years opposing the ACA and Medicaid expansion as attorney general and initially calling expansion 'financially unsustainable' while proposing a federal-waiver 'third way,' announced in July 2018 that a DeWine-Husted administration would keep the expanded Medicaid coverage, citing its role in addiction treatment.",
      "sources": [
        "https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jul/20/mike-dewine/ohio-republican-mike-dewine-changed-medicaid/"
      ],
      "venue": "2018 campaign, per PolitiFact"
    },
    {
      "date": "2018",
      "issue": "Opioid crisis",
      "paraphrase": true,
      "quote": "A 12-point plan on the opioid crisis: create a Cabinet-level position for the issue, expand drug courts to every county, increase drug-trafficking task forces, add prevention education at every school grade level, and direct money recovered from his office's lawsuits against opioid manufacturers and distributors toward treatment.",
      "sources": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Ohio_gubernatorial_election"
      ],
      "venue": "2018 campaign platform, per the research archive"
    },
    {
      "date": "2018-07",
      "issue": "Medicaid expansion",
      "paraphrase": true,
      "quote": "After years opposing the ACA and Medicaid expansion as attorney general and initially calling expansion 'financially unsustainable' while proposing a federal-waiver 'third way,' announced in July 2018 that a DeWine-Husted administration would keep the expanded Medicaid coverage, citing its role in addiction treatment.",
      "sources": [
        "https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jul/20/mike-dewine/ohio-republican-mike-dewine-changed-medicaid/"
      ],
      "venue": "2018 campaign, per PolitiFact"
    },
    {
      "date": "2018",
      "issue": "Opioid crisis",
      "paraphrase": true,
      "quote": "A 12-point plan on the opioid crisis: create a Cabinet-level position for the issue, expand drug courts to every county, increase drug-trafficking task forces, add prevention education at every school grade level, and direct money recovered from his office's lawsuits against opioid manufacturers and distributors toward treatment.",
      "sources": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Ohio_gubernatorial_election"
      ],
      "venue": "2018 campaign platform, per the research archive"
    },
    {
      "date": "2014",
      "issue": "Consumer protection",
      "paraphrase": true,
      "quote": "Campaigned on continuing his first-term Economic Crimes Unit and new telecommunications-fraud subpoena authority against scam artists targeting Ohioans, including the elderly.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "accessed": "2026-09-19",
          "publisher": "Ballotpedia",
          "title": "Ohio Attorney General election, 2014",
          "url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_Attorney_General_election,_2014"
        }
      ],
      "venue": "2014 campaign, per the research archive"
    },
    {
      "date": "2014-08",
      "issue": "Opioid crisis",
      "paraphrase": false,
      "quote": "my office has battled the prescription pill and heroin epidemic from my first day in office with a multi-faceted grassroots approach",
      "sources": [
        {
          "accessed": "2026-09-19",
          "publisher": "Ballotpedia",
          "title": "Ohio Attorney General election, 2014",
          "url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_Attorney_General_election,_2014"
        }
      ],
      "venue": "2014 campaign material, per the Ohio Attorney General's Office"
    }
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      "date": "2019-07",
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        "https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/08/15/texts-calendars-emails-link-dewine-to-firstenergys-bribery-scandal/"
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      "what": "Signed House Bill 6, Ohio's nuclear and coal-plant subsidy law, in July 2019. Calendar and text records show he met repeatedly with FirstEnergy executives and then-House Speaker Larry Householder around the time the bill was crafted, and FirstEnergy secretly funneled about $2.5 million to help his 2018 campaign; DeWine says the money did not influence his decision to sign the bill."
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      ],
      "what": "As a Republican member of the Ohio Redistricting Commission, voted multiple times in 2021-2022 to approve congressional and state legislative district maps that the Ohio Supreme Court repeatedly struck down, 4-3, as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders."
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          "by": "Nan Whaley and gun-safety advocates, per the Ohio Capital Journal",
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          "url": "https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2022-08-04/three-years-after-dayton-shooting-whaley-calls-out-dewine-for-cowardly-inaction-on-gun-violence"
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      "what": "Signed 2022 legislation eliminating the training and background-check requirement for concealed carry ('permitless carry') and removing Ohioans' duty to retreat before using lethal force, after proposing tougher gun measures following the 2019 Dayton mass shooting."
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      "what": "Signed a law banning abortion around six weeks with no exceptions for rape or incest, which took effect after the June 2022 Dobbs decision; the Ohio Capital Journal reported on resulting cases, including a 10-year-old rape victim who had to leave the state for care."
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          "by": "Multiple Ohio editorial boards and commentators, per the Ohio Capital Journal and WVXU",
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      "what": "As Attorney General, announced completion of Ohio's Sexual Assault Kit Testing Initiative: roughly 13,931 previously untested rape kits submitted by local police departments were tested, resulting in the indictment of an estimated 700 alleged offenders and 8,617 DNA profiles uploaded to CODIS with 5,098 matches."
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      "what": "Campaign received about $12,500 in contributions from donors tied to ECOT, the online charter school later found to have overstated enrollment; the contribution was donated to the Boys and Girls Club once the issue became public. DeWine's office had also filed a complaint in 2018 to recover public funds from individuals and companies tied to ECOT."
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      "what": "As Attorney General, announced completion of Ohio's Sexual Assault Kit Testing Initiative: roughly 13,931 previously untested rape kits submitted by local police departments were tested, resulting in the indictment of an estimated 700 alleged offenders and 8,617 DNA profiles uploaded to CODIS with 5,098 matches."
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      "what": "Campaign received about $12,500 in contributions from donors tied to ECOT, the online charter school later found to have overstated enrollment; the contribution was donated to the Boys and Girls Club once the issue became public. DeWine's office had also filed a complaint in 2018 to recover public funds from individuals and companies tied to ECOT."
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      "what": "During the 2014 campaign, opponent David Pepper alleged a pattern in which law firms won a share of DeWine's debt-collection and special-counsel work shortly after making large campaign contributions, tallying donations from firms later selected for the panel at $359,000 since 2010."
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      "what": "Announced his office would defend Ohio's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, appealed an adverse district-court ruling to the Sixth Circuit in January 2014, and, two days after his November 2014 re-election, won a Sixth Circuit ruling upholding the ban."
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      "title": "2018 Governor's Race Was Most Expensive In Ohio History",
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      "publisher": "Columbus Business First",
      "title": "Here are the Central Ohioans who donated the most to Mike DeWine in the governor's race",
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      "title": "Cordray leads GOP's DeWine by 5 points in Ohio governor's race: poll",
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      "date": "2024-02-15",
      "publisher": "The Columbus Dispatch",
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