The Ohio Consumer Lending Association paid $40,000 to support United for Clean Power (yes, the same dark $ group behind this year's anti-Inflation Reduction Act ad campaign) in 2018, @jake_zuckerman reveals ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/09/12/a-c… And yes, there's a FirstEnergy connection #IRA
In 2018, the Ohio Consumer Lending Association was mad at a GOP state rep. for pushing legislation to reform the payday lending industry and protect consumers, so it secretly paid United for Clean Power for attack ads targeting that state rep. 
A payday loan company executive attributed the decision to fund United for Clean Power to Neil Clark, the lobbyist who later took his own life after (separately) being indicted in connection with FirstEnergy's House Bill 6 bribery scheme in Ohio ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/09/12/a-c…
The connections between United for Clean Power and FirstEnergy don't stop there. UCP's annual report to the IRS for 2018 identified an affiliated entity called Ohioans for Efficient Government apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/…
Potomac Edison, a FirstEnergy utility, disclosed money paid to similarly named "Ohioans for Effective Government" in a Maryland investigation into whether money from MD ratepayers was used to fund FirstEnergy's bribes in Ohio documentcloud.org/documents/2156…
The Ohio Consumer Lending Association paid $40K to Ohioans for Effective Government projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/dis… which has the same tax ID (EIN) + address as the "Ohioans for Efficient Government" affiliated with United for Clean Power apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/…
In other words, Ohioans for Effective Government and the "Ohioans for Efficient Government" affiliated with United for Clean Power are actually the same entity, and got money from both FirstEnergy and the Ohio Consumer Lending Association
Ohioans for Effective Government registered as a nonprofit LLC in Ohio in mid-October 2018, just before the 2018 elections businesssearch.ohiosos.gov/?=businessDeta… and was dissolved in December 2020
The $6,435 paid to Ohioans for Efficient Government disclosed by Potomac Edison in discovery may just be a portion of the money FirstEnergy paid to this entity documentcloud.org/documents/2156…
FirstEnergy had a bad habit of divvying up the cost of its political (and bribe) payments amongst its many utilities, which would then recover some of the money from their ratepayers energyandpolicy.org/samuel-randazz… as regulatory audits have shown cleveland.com/news/2022/02/f…
Who paid for United for Clean Power's failed attack ads aimed at derailing the #IRA earlier this year remains a mystery, but in the past UCP's LLC affiliate Ohioans for Effective Government was funded by FirstEnergy and the Ohio Consumer Lending Association
ICYMI the United for Clean Power's misleading ad campaign against the clean energy and climate provisions of the IRA, here's the backstory from @emorwee: heated.world/p/fake-climate… and @FWIWnews + @JuddLegum: popular.info/p/the-people-b…
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