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The pro-HB6 group pounding the airwaves and mailboxes of Ohioans with inflammatory and brazenly misleading ads claiming the Chinese are coming for and invading Ohio’s power grid has doubled down in its newest spot.

“Now because of deregulation, foreign entities including China are pouring into Ohio buying power plants and infiltrating our power grid,” the 30-second spot says.

That, of course, is not true.

Pressed by the Columbus Dispatch for any modicum of support for that brazenly untrue claim, the Ohioans for Energy Security provided none.

In the contentious lead-up to a possible referendum on Ohio’s bailout of nuclear power plants, the Ohioans for Energy Security have deployed the Chinese invasion scare tactic, with mailers showing up at every household the past week with imploring residents to refuse to give their name or signature to THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT, by which they mean people collecting signatures for the referendum, with a contact line to report anyone seen collecting those signatures for the Ohioans Against Corporate Bailouts, the group opposing HB6.

One of those petition gatherers recently called police after a woman approached him and knocked his phone out of his hand.

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This article appears in Sep 11-17, 2019.

Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.

3 replies on “Newest Pro-HB6 Ad Falsely Says China is Buying Ohio Power Plants”

  1. if you dont think the chinese government is a major threat to the world then you have your head buried where the sun dont shine. just the social credit score system alone is beyond evil

  2. The red flags, the hammer and sickle, the uzz words, the scare tactics…Joe Mccarthy is laughing his ass off down in hell. A throwback to the anti-Commie Red scare days of the Fifties. What bullshit! What Kool-Aid! Don’t drink it! It’s poisoned, I tell you! Poisoned!

  3. China also owns the group that claims the other group is making false statements because they want to confuse everyone that it isn’t their group but the other group that is grouping together false accusations about the group of groups from the group. Group.

    I’m kidding, I just really like to say “group” as many times as possible. But seriously, you should be very alarmed right now because many, many stupid people will fall for this.

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