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Lieutenant Gov. Husted reflects on Ohio's landmark decisions and future plans

by Tyler Madden, WKRC

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Ohio Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted took time to reflect on the busy year, from the passing of two major issues on the ballot to his political future.

"We respect the decision of the voters, whether it’s on abortion or marijuana for recreational use. We respect those things. We need to make sure we're protecting people,” said Husted.

Voters across the state overwhelmingly supported both Issue 1 and Issue 2.

57% percent of voters cast their ballot in support of Issue 1, codifying a women's right to an abortion in the state constitution.

Issue 2 saw Ohio join 24 other states that have legalized recreational marijuana.

Negotiations over how to implement it continue at the state house.

One sticking point has been how much each sale should be taxed.

"Are you concerned that a higher tax would lead people to buy from the black market instead?" Local 12 asked Husted.

"I'm not, they don't do it with cigarettes and they're not going to do it with marijuana. But you can't make it too high, you have to make it like what other states, your border states, are doing,” Husted replied.

Husted is looking ahead at a potential run for the state's top job in 2026.

"I can tell you I'm definitely laying the groundwork, but that's a ways off in the future. I just believe you do a good job with the job you have, which in my case is focusing on workforce development and innovation. The voters will have a chance to make those decisions in the future. Right now, I'm focused on the presidential race. We've got a U.S. Senate race, we'll stay focused on that.” said Husted.

"So you’re not planning to make the decision until after the 2024 presidential election?" Local 12 asked.

"Decisions have been made, announcements have not been,” said Husted.

Husted doesn't know why former FirstEnergy execs named him in court filing

The defendants say Husted is someone who could have potential evidence in lawsuit filed by shareholders.

Lt. Gov. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) has been named in court filings related to a lawsuit against former FirstEnergy executives.

Shareholders accuse the former utility bosses of breaching their fiduciary duties and unjustly enriching themselves when they played a role in a multi-million dollar bribery scheme to bailout FirstEnergy nuclear plants.

Husted says he has no idea why former FirstEnergy CEO Chuck Jones and former senior vice president Michael Dowling named him as someone who would have discoverable information. Husted adds that so far no one has contacted him.

"But I'm always willing and happy to help anybody involved in the criminal justice system to find justice, whether that is a prosecution or an exoneration. Happy -- if there's any information out there that I can provide -- to do so," says Husted.

The executives have not been charged with a crime but FirstEnergy agreed to a $230 million plea deal in the case.

Jones and Dowling listed many private sector and government officials as people who could have important information in the case. That list includes every legislator that voted in favor of HB6 in 2019.

JON'S STORY

Ohio lt. governor jon husted is a leading, consistent, and conservative voice in the republican party., jon is driven by the values of hard work, personal responsibility, family, faith, and freedom..

He has focused his entire career, both in the private sector and public service, on creating a strong economy and thriving communities. As Lt. Governor, his work has driven some of the largest economic development deals the state has ever seen, including attracting new investment in every region of the state from companies like Ford, Abbott Labs, Medpace, General Motors, Honda - - and the largest economic development deal in Ohio's history with Intel’s chip manufacturing facility in Licking County.

As Director of the Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation, he’s worked to ensure our residents have the skills they need so all those new jobs are filled by Ohioans, in addition to attracting new talent to our state. He pioneered new strategies for job training through business (not government)-driven programs like TechCred and Industry Sector Partnerships in order to give new opportunity to every Ohioan.

Since becoming Lt. Governor, Jon has also been a leader in meaningful regulatory reform. In January 2023, he announced a plan to completely eliminate one-third of Ohio’s regulatory code in the next year. He also founded InnovateOhio, which focuses on using technology to improve the way we serve Ohioans while reducing costs and government waste. Under his leadership, the initiative has transformed the Ohio BMV, implementing Online Driver’s License Renewal, Online Title Transfer, and other digital services to reduce the need for people to go in-person to a government office. He also implemented the use of technology to catch waste and fraud in government payments. In total, InnovateOhio initiatives have saved millions of taxpayer dollars and Ohioans hundreds of thousands of hours interacting with government agencies.

Throughout his time in office, Jon has been a constant champion of the right to life. His views were shaped by his own life experience, having started life in foster care before being adopted by his parents, Jim and Judy Husted.

Additionally, when many of our nation’s leaders rejected the men and women in law enforcement, Jon was a strong advocate for police officers, working to secure millions in funding for local law enforcement agencies when they needed it most.

He has done all of this in just one term as Ohio’s Lt. Governor, but his long record of conservative leadership is clear. As Ohio’s Secretary of State, he made Ohio the least costly state in the Midwest to start and maintain a business, and by cutting costs, he ran the office using  no taxpayer money for the last two years of his term. And as Speaker of the House, he led the passage of the most fiscally-conservative budget in 40 years while delivering, what was at the time, the largest income tax cut in Ohio’s history.

Of all his responsibilities, he considers his most important roles to be “Husband” to his wife, Tina, and “Father” to Alex, Katie, and Kylie.

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New Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted says he’s focused on the job in front of him

• Updated: Jan. 24, 2019, 5:11 p.m. |
• Published: Jan. 24, 2019, 1:26 p.m.

Lt. Gov. Jon Husted says he's excited to be lieutenant governor, and isn't thinking about what his political future might be. (Tony Dejak, Associated Press.)

• Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland.com

COLUMBUS, Ohio — It might not have been his first choice. But Jon Husted’s already decided that being the lieutenant governor of Ohio is the best job he’s ever had.

In an interview at the end of his first week working for new Gov. Mike DeWine, Husted said the job brings with it a sense of work-life balance he wouldn’t have otherwise. He’s still able to important pursue policy interests, like economic development, workforce development and government operations, but he also has time to coach his daughters’ fourth- and sixth-grade basketball teams, he said.

“If you’re governor, it’s a 24-hours a day, seven-days a week job, OK?” Husted said, sitting at a conference table in his new corner office in the Riffe State Office Tower in downtown Columbus. “If you’re lieutenant governor, it’s very busy. But it’s not the same thing.”

While exploring this thought further, Husted hints at something that nearly everyone in Ohio politics believes: that he still plans to run for governor again someday. (One veteran Ohio Republican operative assessed that likelihood at “one hundred million billion percent.”)

“There will be a day when they’re grown up, and I will have more time, and that will afford me the chance to do things in a 24/7 kind of way,” Husted said. “But for now, I’m lieutenant governor and a dad and husband, and I want to do all those jobs well.”

This gets at a fundamental question for the hyper-ambitious Husted as he approaches his new role. How will he will strike the balance between deferring to DeWine while still advancing his own political career?

Some people who have held the job have found it politically stifling. Mary Taylor, who was Republican Gov. John Kasich’s lieutenant governor for eight years before unsuccessfully running for governor in 2018, found herself defending policies she later said she didn’t believe. She spent her entire governor campaign awkwardly trying to distance herself from Kasich , who by then had fallen out of favor with many Republicans.

DeWine, who focused on assisting with law-enforcement issues while serving under Gov. George Voinovich, himself tried to leave the job twice after he was elected lieutenant governor in 1990 — he unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 1992 before winning a Senate seat in 1994.

“Lieutenant governor has the potential to be the best or worst job in state government,” said Lee Fisher, who served as lieutenant governor under former Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland. “It all hinges on the LG’s relationship with the governor.” (Fisher added he had a great relationship with Strickland.)

That relationship matters because under state law, the job pretty much has only one major specific responsibility: whatever the governor assigns them to do.

Despite the possible pitfalls, Ohio Republicans interviewed for this story see DeWine and Husted’s pairing as a productive political partnership. They believe that Husted is committed to the job, and that DeWine is committed to helping Husted elevate the office above being a ceremonial role.

“I think you’ll see that Mike DeWine is a man of his word, and this wasn’t an acquisition of [Husted’s] supporters and his team, it was a merger of the two, and Jon Husted’s going to be put in the leadership positions that Gov. DeWine promised,” said Colton Henson, a Republican political consultant in Columbus.

“I think the fact that Mike DeWine once served as lieutenant governor in a tandem situation, it gives him an appreciation for the situation that Jon Husted faces,” said Curt Steiner, a Republican who ran DeWine’s 1992 Senate campaign and has served as an adviser to Husted.

Dave Luketic, DeWine’s 2018 campaign manager, said Husted’s decision to team up with DeWine was a selfless one, but one that will pay off for him politically in the long run.

“He really had to put aside his ambition and his plan to run for governor to join this ticket, which was good for the party and the state of Ohio," Luketic said. "It was a win-win situation for everyone, but it takes courage, self-realization and a willingness to put the state above yourself.”

Luketic added: “He’s going to be governor [someday]. While he may have to wait longer than expected, he has a talented staff, and I think you’re going to see his experience and motivation grow stronger.”

Taylor, the former lieutenant governor who lost to DeWine in the 2018 Republican primary, said Husted impressed her when he sat for a December meeting of the Small Business Advisory Council, an initiative she oversaw.

“He’s taking it very seriously,” Taylor said. “I’m sure he has his own thoughts coming in about what he’s going to be doing and working on. But I think there’s no doubt he wants to run for governor at some point, so I’m sure he’s going to be thinking about that.”

Mark Weaver, a Republican operative who is close to DeWine, said he thinks it helps that Husted, 51, and DeWine, 72, are at different phases of their political careers.

“Mike DeWine’s not going to run for anything after he’s governor, so if each of them was potentially a U.S. Senator or presidential candidate, there could be a lot of sharp elbows and bumpy moments. But given that Mike DeWine has essentially said that this is his last office, it frees him up for whatever it is that Jon Husted will want to do,” Weaver said.

When Husted joined DeWine’s ticket, there was an understanding that Husted would take a lead role on economic development — including having influence over JobsOhio, the state’s economic development nonprofit — and workforce development issues. Husted, a former speaker of the Ohio House who once was a protégé of current Speaker Larry Householder, also is expected to advise DeWine administration on its dealings with the legislature.

On Wednesday, DeWine said he wanted to give Husted flexibility to pursue his broad policy interests, spanning multiple state departments.

“I didn’t want to have him as a member of a cabinet, because I felt that was too confining. I wanted to have him in a position where he could drive policy across different cabinet positions,” he said.

Husted’s policy areas are high-profile enough that they should allow him to build his political résumé. But they also will give him the occasion to interact with state business leaders who happen to be a major source of campaign contributions for Ohio Republicans.

There have been signs that DeWine has followed through on giving Husted influence on these core issues. A Husted political protégé who was mentioned in Republican circles as a possible 2018 lieutenant governor candidate, former Findlay mayor Lydia Mihalik, now is in charge of the state development department. Another Husted ally, ex-state Sen. Randy Gardner, was named DeWine’s higher education chancellor.

State legislators also did Husted a solid by dramatically increasing his pay in a December bill that gave across-the-board raises to county and state elected officials of all stripes .

The new law created a new agency called InnovateOhio which Husted had already been picked to run. It also set the agency director’s salary at $176,426, a 60 percent pay raise of Husted’s former job as Secretary of State. That number would have made Husted among the highest-paid cabinet officials in the Kasich administration.

They also increased the lieutenant governor’s salary from $78,041 to $113,900, equal now to the other non-governor, statewide executive offices. Practically speaking, it means if Husted were to quit his job to say, run for governor, the resulting pay cut would be less dramatic. (Husted said he doesn’t know why legislators increased the lieutenant governor’s pay.)

“He’s doing exactly what you would expect someone to do if they wanted to position themselves for the future,” one Republican said.

Meanwhile, Husted said he finds his current assignment fulfilling. He accompanied DeWine to the Detroit Auto Show last week for a meeting with General Motors CEO Mary Berra to discuss what could be done to re-open the GM plant in Lordstown.

He said he’s excited about the potential for his new agency, which he said will focus on using data and technology to make state government more efficient, and better training Ohio residents for the jobs of the future. Discussing Lordstown, he referenced the 2008 closure of the General Motors plant in Morraine, near Dayton. The plant re-opened in 2014 after Fuyao, a Chinese auto glass manufacturer, bought it.

“That plant in Dayton, they almost scrapped it,” said Husted, who as a state legislator represented the Dayton area. “And I worked with our congressional delegation and some others to reach GM and make sure they didn’t do that. And because they left that facility standing, we now have a new use for it.”

Husted demurred when asked whether he plans to run for governor someday. He said he’s trying to focus on his current position, not what’s next. That’s a mistake younger politicians frequently make, and it’s something he’s learned personally as he’s gotten older, he said.

“Do you know how many people I’ve watched sit around and plan to do the next thing, and then it never happened because they didn’t do a good job with the opportunity they had right in front of them?” he said. “There’s no guarantee that Mike DeWine and I will be re-elected in four years. But if we do a good job now, then the opportunity to do whatever we want to do in the future is greater.”

Cleveland.com reporter Laura Hancock contributed to this story

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Questions Jon Husted Needs to Answer About His Unprecedented Move to Take a Paid Corporate Gig While in Office

May 25, 2022.

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Columbus, OH —  Earlier this week, it was uncovered by Andrew Tobias at Cleveland.com that Jon Husted had accepted a paid corporate board job while remaining in office as lieutenant governor – another example of the DeWine administration using their taxpayer-funded jobs to line their own pockets. It’s a move that’s raising eyebrows and ethics questions about whether Husted’s move is legal and how Husted can avoid the myriad of conflicts raised by his decision.

Here are eight questions Jon Husted must answer:

• Did Mike DeWine know about Husted’s decision to take a corporate job while remaining in office and did he sign off on the decision?
• Did Husted consult the Ohio Ethics Commission about the unprecedented move?
• How much money will Husted make for his paid, corporate gig?
• Will Husted be willing to accept a decision by an ethics commission that directs him to choose between his corporate job or his lieutenant governorship?
• Will he commit to donating his taxpayer salary given the fact that he’s now receiving outside compensation?
• What guardrails did the administration put in place to deal with conflicts of interest?
• Were any promises or commitments made to the bank in exchange for Husted’s paid appointment?
• Has Husted pursued any other paid corporate jobs on top of his full-time elected role?

“Too many Ohio families are struggling to make ends meet under the DeWine administration. Yet, DeWine’s own lieutenant governor is using his political position to line his own pockets, as if his six-figure taxpayer salary wasn’t enough. Taxpayers have been fleeced by this administration enough already. Jon Husted must be held accountable for this unprecedented move and answer key questions about the conflict of interest and legal concerns his decision creates,”  said Ohio Democratic Party spokesperson Matt Keyes.

Cleveland.com:  Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted takes paid corporate board job with community bank

Andrew Tobias

May 23, 2022  

• Husted will be compensated for the board job, according to Hayley Carducci, a spokeswoman, but won’t say how much until he’s required to disclose it next year in a mandatory state financial disclosure. Husted got elected to the bank’s board after he and his wife, Tina, bought shares of the company earlier this year, Carducci said.
• As a state-chartered bank, it is  regulated by the state Department of Commerce , organized under Gov. Mike DeWine’s office. The commerce department’s duties include mediating consumer complaints and conducting on-site inspections, according to its annual report. It also proposes rules for banks and other financial lenders; the rule-making process includes getting approval from an agency overseen by Husted’s office: the Common Sense Initiative, which analyzes proposed government rules for their potential impact on private businesses.
• Heartland is  certified as a public depository , meaning it’s eligible to hold cash and other investments owned by the state government, thanks to votes from the state board of deposit, made up of state Treasurer Robert Sprague, state Auditor Keith Faber and state Attorney General Dave Yost.
• Through a title company subsidiary called Transcounty Title Agency, Heartland  participates in an electronic lien and titling program  administered through the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles, which falls under the governor’s office. Transcounty Title Agency also received $813,100 in state grants, administered through the state Public Works Commission, from 2013 through 2015, according to  OhioCheckbook.com , the state’s fiscal transparency website.
• Heartland Bank received a $22,500 grant from the state government in 2017 through a small-business program administered by the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority, a panel whose members are appointed by the governor, according to  OhioCheckbook.com . It also has received about $11,100 from the state commerce department since 2017, although that was for unclaimed funds abandoned by former account holders, and most of it occurred before DeWine was elected. In addition, the state attorney general’s office has paid Heartland a minimal amount — just under $1,400 — since 2016 for investigative services, most recently a $34 payment in March.
• Heartland Bank’s CEO, Scott McComb, has political ties to state Republicans, giving at least $17,100 to GOP candidates since 2016, according to state campaign-finance records. That includes just under $10,000 to Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose and $5,000 to the DeWine/Husted campaign, including $2,500 in March, around the time Husted was named to the company’s board. McComb’s mother served as a central committeewoman for the Ohio Republican Party,  according to a 2018 profile in Independent Banker , a trade group.

Statehouse News Bureau:  Ohio’s lieutenant governor defends decision to add on private sector job

Karen Kasler

May 24, 2022

• Ohio’s Republican lieutenant governor is taking some heat for accepting an outside paid job on top of the work he’s already doing as the state’s second-in-command to Gov. Mike DeWine.
• Husted, who is also DeWine’s running mate for re-election in November, said he’d thought about investing in a community bank and joining its board “for many years”.
• Husted said being on the board will help him understand how interest rates, inflation and government regulations affect small businesses and the economy.
• The CEO of Heartland Bank has donated more than $19,000 to Republican candidates since 2016.

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Issue 1 supporters include most of Ohio’s elected Republicans, including Lt. Gov. Husted

By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau Posted on: Thursday, July 6, 2023

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Many Republican state officeholders support the constitutional amendment on the August 8   special election ballot, which would make it harder to pass future amendments. Some have also said Issue 1 is on that ballot to shut down an abortion rights issue likely to be before voters in November. Though he hasn’t been as vocal as some, Ohio’s lieutenant governor says he’s on board as well.

“We need to make sure that we can stop that from happening, and this is a pretty reasonable way to go about it,” Husted said.

The election for this single issue came after a campaign to pressure state lawmakers to put the issue before voters. It was paid for by a billionaire Republican donor from Illinois.

A law that banned most August special elections passed last year, but Republicans won a challenge in the Ohio Supreme Court, which ruled that law didn’t apply to lawmakers who put the amendment on the ballot.

Issue 1 would require 60% voter approval for future amendments, such as the abortion rights amendment expected in November, but would also increase signature requirements to make it harder for citizens and groups to get amendments on the ballot.

Husted has filed paperwork and set up a website for a campaign for governor in 2026.

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Why Does Jon Husted Knowingly Lie, Especially On a Government Social Media Account?

It would be nice if, instead of issuing knowingly false tweets, husted admitted they have thus far failed ohioans. if he did, i’d stop criticizing him (and dewine)..

Last Wednesday, Ohio Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted tweeted on his official government Twitter account about his faux official government visit to Lucas County (Toledo). He apparently toured Libbey Glass, which has been in the Toledo area for 136 years. Husted then ended his tweet by noting that “ [b]usinesses come here because Ohio is full of opportunity. Ohio is #TheHeartOfItAll.  #InDemandOhio. ” Now, before I detail Husted’s lie, I want to take a moment to criticize the visit.

Too often, politicians use taxpayer time and funds to engage in what are really political events aimed at helping them get elected to office. I can only imagine the millions of dollars Ohioans have been billed for the various government paid trips Husted has made around Ohio to raise his name ID, ingratiate himself with business owners and their workers, and hobnob with local elected officials all aimed at paving his pathway to winning the Governor’s Office in 2026. To be fair, Husted isn’t the only career politician to have mastered this grift. They ALL do it, but that doesn’t make it right. The practice, as well as Husted’s private sector corporate job boondoggle, should end.

In terms of Husted’s lie, I won’t assume Husted sees the monthly U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) jobs data that I put out every month despite following me on Twitter. I do assume that, as Ohio’s Lieutenant Governor and the Director of the Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation, Husted receives the monthly jobs data produced by BLS and published by his own Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services . Thus, he knows damn well that businesses aren’t coming here, Ohio isn’t full of opportunity, and Ohio isn’t in demand. 

Since Husted became Ohio’s Lieutenant Governor in January 2019, Ohio has only netted 70,800 private sector jobs over more than five years, or just about 14,000 jobs per year. For a state with 11.7 million people and a private sector with 4.8 million workers, that is a rounding error. Ohio’s private sector recovery from the pandemic is among the weakest in America. Specifically, Ohio’s recovery is the 37th best and the worst among long-term trifecta Republican states. In total, Ohio’s private sector has only added 38,700 jobs since 2019 (rest were jobs recovered after the severe DeWine-Husted pandemic shutdown).

Even worse, in Lucas County, where Husted posted his bragging tweet, the private sector hasn’t grown in over five years; rather, it has LOST a net of 700 jobs since January 2019 when Husted was sworn in. That simply isn’t something to brag about, especially on an official government account in which knowingly false political boasts should be banned. No matter how you slice it, the DeWine-Husted Administration’s record when it comes to the private sector is pathetic. It would be nice if, instead of issuing knowingly false tweets, Husted admitted they have thus far failed Ohioans, but have identified what the issues are that hold Ohio’s private sector back and the policy changes needed to fix those issues. 

If he did, I’d stop criticizing Husted (and DeWine) and do everything I could to help them get those fixes in place. What I can’t do is stand by silently as Husted lies again and again as Ohio's dead state walking status grows. I'd also respect Husted (and DeWine) for shooting straight with Ohioans for a change. And, God forbid the JINOs (Journalist In Name Only) do their job and ask a few tough questions from time-to-time.

P.S. Listen to my latest spin on The Bruce Hooley Show where we discussed  Joe Biden's foreign policy debacles, the Left's hatred of democracy, and the economy.

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