Jim Renacci has been a lobbyist even while in Congress

Renacci was briefly a registered lobbyist for about four months after taking office in January 2011, through a firm with no clients, before his registration was terminated.

Topics: Ethics, Congress.

• …he protected men who abused young girls by voting in the Senate to block the release of the Epstein files.

  A campaign television advertisement, "Complete Lie" · October 8, 2026 · FactCheck.org: The ad goes on to misleadingly say that Brown’s opponent in the Senate race, Republican Sen. Jon Husted, voted to block the release of the Epstein files, a claim we’ve written about before.

• Sen. Jon Husted gave billions in tax breaks to Big Tech so they would build their data centers here

  A campaign video posted to his YouTube channel · October 2, 2026

• Jon Husted brought over 220 data centers to Ohio, and we’re all paying the price.

  A campaign video posted to his YouTube channel · October 1, 2026

• People living in poverty are just not very… they're not very experienced navigating the real world, right?… And so, you literally have to teach people how to budget.

  A campaign video posted to his YouTube channel and aired on television, "Echo" · September 28, 2026

• Jon Husted voted for a tax cuts for his billionaire friends.

  A campaign video posted to his YouTube channel · September 19, 2026

• And Jon Husted wrote the law on letting utility companies jack up our electric bills.

  A campaign television advertisement, "Hallway", in which voters speak the lines · September 18, 2026

• to kick 490,000 Ohioans off their healthcare

  A campaign television advertisement in which voters speak the lines · September 18, 2026 · PolitiFact: Half-True

• We have some of the highest electricity rates in the country now

  A campaign video posted to his YouTube channel · September 17, 2026

• led the push to bring data centers to Ohio and gave billions of tax dollars to make it happen.

  A campaign advertisement · September 3, 2026 · PolitiFact: Mostly True

• So why has Jon Husted voted 13 times for the war and wasted $100 billion dollars in the process?

  A Sherrod Brown campaign television advertisement, "Haul" (30 seconds), released by the campaign Aug. 24, 2026 (Team Sherrod release "NEW AD: Sherrod Brown Slams Jon Husted For Voting 13 Times To Raise The Price of Gas and Diesel to Record Highs"; the video was uploaded to Brown's YouTube channel Aug. 21, 2026) · August 24, 2026

• Husted took more money from Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirators than anyone else in Washington…

  A campaign television advertisement, "Silent" · May 27, 2026 · FactCheck.org

• And anyone who refuses to stop this corruption, like my opponent, I'll bet you can guess who they're looking out for, and it's not you.

  A campaign video posted to his YouTube channel, "Ban Congressional Stock Trading" · March 18, 2026

• is arguing for a national abortion ban, no exceptions

  A campaign statement · 2024 · PolitiFact: Half True

• would have voted 'no' on the auto rescue

  A 2012 Brown campaign statement · May 18, 2012 · PolitiFact: False

Every claim filed under Sherrod Brown

1. Sherrod Brown misleads in lobbyist attack on Jim Renacci in Ohio Senate race · PolitiFact · 2018-05-31 · accessed 2026-09-19
2. Lobbying Disclosure Act filings naming lobbyist James Renacci (registrant Smokerise International Group Ltd) · Secretary of the Senate, Office of Public Records · accessed 2026-10-15