Ohio State Sen. Rob McCauley (R-Napoleon) delivered the keynote address Friday at the Allen County Republican Luncheon held at the Lima Eagles.
Craig Kelly | Lima News
LIMA — The Allen County Republican Party welcomed some neighborliness to its monthly luncheon at the Lima Eagles on Friday with Ohio Sen. Rob McCauley (R-Napoleon), keeping his promise to fellow Republicans. He traveled south to encourage people to remain vigilant. It will be an important election season.
The senator, whose district includes Putnam, Van Wert and Hardin counties, is appealing to Republicans in Allen County by pointing out Democratic-led policies on clean energy and their impact on Ohio's natural gas industry. He tried to mobilize his supporters. It is described as an outside influence in national politics, especially as seen in his 2023 No. 1 and No. 2 campaigns.
When it comes to energy policy, McCauley said efforts to reduce fossil fuel consumption are having dire consequences for the country's energy infrastructure. Efforts to develop “green” energy initiatives have not been sufficient to meet the growing demand for energy. Electric car. Mr Macquarie argued that the government's curbs on fossil fuel energy production were causing power plants to shut down earlier and increasing stress on the grid.
“This is a completely government-created problem, and just because of government regulation and the government's invisible hand in the market, we're going to see early retirement of all these plants, and the next few years are literally going to be tough. “We're going to fall into it,” he said. He said. “They need to reverse those policies. Otherwise, Ohioans will be left out in the cold and unable to turn on their lights during polar storms or heat waves.”
McCauley also pointed to last year's election on issue one, guaranteeing access to abortion in Ohio, and issue two, allowing recreational marijuana use in the state. He said the government needed to respect the results of these elections, but said these elections also involved large amounts of money flowing into them from out-of-state organizations with ties to foreigners. One example he cited was the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which he said has financial ties to Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss.
“We confirmed that the 16 Thirty Fund disbursed approximately $14 million in Ohio in August. [2023] campaign and the November campaign,” he said. “[Wyss] has invested $200 million in its fund since 2016, and these are last year's numbers. There is a good chance that more money will be invested. Certainly they are becoming more and more active. This is not something that should be tolerated in this country, and we should be more conscious of opposing it. ”
To that end, McCauley and Ohio Sen. Teresa Gavarone (R-Bowling Green) filed Senate Bill 215. The bill, which is currently being considered in committee, aims to curtail political contributions with ties to foreign nationals, McCauley said.
“How it works is, first of all, whenever you file a campaign finance report, if you file a campaign finance report; [political action committee] “If that means spending money in elections, you will need to prove that you did not receive money from foreigners or entities that received money from foreigners,” he said. “The penalty in that case is that if a violation is found, not only will the organization have to return the money, but they will also be subject to a fine of up to three times the amount donated. There are: [people] You're trying to find a loophole, you're dancing on the edge, you're trying to find some kind of plausible deniability where the penalty is severe enough to not do it. It's not worth it to them, and it's going to stay within the bounds of what we think campaign finance laws should be. ”
