Kasich, DeWine etc get a lot of relative praise from the media but the reality is that they’re among the most corrupt state politicians in the nation. They’re just on the right people’s payroll.
A much more extreme example of this is JobsOhio (started under Kasich). We don’t know what money was given to what businesses under what conditions. I know from personal experience that people did shady things with grants that were supposed to be repaid to charities though — a business gets a grant, gives it to a charity, then that charity returns most of the money by buying a product they don’t actually use from the business. & this stuff was absolutely being given out at least partially on the basis of personal connections to politicians, who I suspect are probably also investors in some of these companies.
However, there was a complete lack of transparency with JobsOhio. So good luck figuring out where all that taxpayer money went (in a red state with one of the highest overall tax burdens in the nation by the way)
A much more extreme example of this is JobsOhio (started under Kasich). We don’t know what money was given to what businesses under what conditions. I know from personal experience that people did shady things with grants that were supposed to be repaid to charities though — a business gets a grant, gives it to a charity, then that charity returns most of the money by buying a product they don’t actually use from the business. & this stuff was absolutely being given out at least partially on the basis of personal connections to politicians, who I suspect are probably also investors in some of these companies.
However, there was a complete lack of transparency with JobsOhio. So good luck figuring out where all that taxpayer money went (in a red state with one of the highest overall tax burdens in the nation by the way)