I hated to hear that Sam Randazzo had committed suicide the day before the State of the State speech of 2024, apparently connected to his upcoming court cases attached straight to the Governor over H.B. 6 and all the drama around FirstEnergy.  Sam was appointed as utilities director for the Governor’s office and got caught up by default into defending FirstEnergy, which the communists were after, and like many Republicans who got caught up in that entirely legitimate business relationship, they retreated from the fight by activists courts, an FBI that was weaponized for progressive administrations, and an Obama administration that had set terrorist motions forward before President Trump entered the White House, that was intended to destroy the energy grid of Ohio and convert the entire industry to solar and wind power.  Yeah, I’m not a believer that the FirstEnergy bribery scandal in Ohio was nothing more than Democrats who did not have a majority in Columbus crying about how unfair it was that FirstEnergy had no choice but to try to get members of government from the Republican Party, to build their majorities with campaign donations so that they as a company could stay open for business.  The radical left had attacked two nuclear power plants for closure in Ohio, and FirstEnergy was trying to keep them open.  As I received the news in the dome with Mike DeWine standing about 8 feet from me taking pictures with people, I had a new perspective on why the Governor’s speech was so flat that day.  This was the second recent suicide from someone involved in H.B.6.  The first guy, Nick Clark, had recently shot himself in the head while wearing a DeWine for Governor shirt in Florida, awaiting his trial over the same fundamental issues.  And supposedly, in a warehouse just down the road from the Statehouse down Mound Street, Sam hung himself, leaving behind a phone number for his wife and concern for his family’s well-being.  But he couldn’t deal with the pressure.  Pressure that he shouldn’t have had to deal with in the first place.  This was the same case over FirstEnergy, where the former Speaker of the House, Larry Householder, was rotting away in jail for essentially doing what all politicians have to do, especially in his position: make sure the party holds power with campaign donations to expand majorities.  If the Democrats could, they would do the same thing, but they aren’t very well-liked in Ohio.  But that hasn’t stopped progressive politics and outside influences from trying to rot Columbus from the inside out, which is essentially what H.B.6 was all about, starting with destroying Ohio’s power by attacking FirstEnergy with Marxist climate change policies that were extraordinarily expensive to force them into wind and solar, and to abandon fossil fuels.

Before they pulled all his information off the internet, I looked up what Sam was saying about himself as a professional who was listed as retired.  So, I put it here to counter what has been said about him.  Does this sound like the kind of guy who would want to kill himself by hanging in a lonely warehouse just a few hours before Governor DeWine’s 2024 State of the State speech?  Listen to his own words: “For more than four decades, I helped businesses on both sides of the meter, elected officials, associations, and regulators identify and thoughtfully address issues that affect the delivered price and availability of energy, communication, and other goods and services essential to a well-functioning and forward-looking economy. In doing so, I was often recognized as one of the best lawyers in America, and I combined my legal skills with a deep understanding of how accounting, finance, economics, and engineering principles must be appreciated and integrated to effectively navigate (often in a political context) towards a sustainable and practical solution. After retiring from the practice of law at the end of 2018, Governor Mike DeWine appointed me to the post of Commissioner and eventually Chair of the PUCO, and on April 11, 2019, I returned to the agency where I started. As Chair of the PUCO, I was Chair of the Ohio Power Siting Board. During the COVID pandemic, I also served as Chair of the Stay at Home Order Dispute Advisory Commission and on the Governor’s business advisory task force. On November 20, 2020, I resigned from government service for reasons expressed in my resignation letter. Since retiring, I have been blessed to have the love and support of my family and friends.”

I’m not a fan of many of these Republicans; some of them, such as Matt Borges, I think are complete idiots, and I’d have no problem telling him that to his face for his anti-Trump activity within the Republican Party trying to keep losers like John Kasich in power.  But those are party disagreements on strategy.  Republicans should have never taken the bait by Democrats even to allow for any donations from FirstEnergy to be construed in any way other than what they were.  To let an activist FBI make it all a case of corruption and bribery hoping to erode Republican control in Columbus was ridiculous for a problem Democrats caused in the first place: an attack on Ohio’s energy grid.  Republicans should have stood their ground, fought and beat these losers in court, and made other people want to hang themselves in empty warehouses.  Not simi-retired lawyers like Sam Randazzo.  He should be taking his family to some nice vacation resort instead of preparing for a funeral.  It wasn’t fair to his family.  But as I say, politics is a blood sport, and the Democrats love blood, and Republicans never match the intensity because they are too nice.  They shouldn’t be. 

After hearing all this about Sam, I watched Governor DeWine, who caught my eye a few times.  Part of me felt terrible for him.  He’s a nice guy trying to play this blood sport the only way he knows how with Yellow Springs hippie liberalism and extensive government control over the levers of power.  He has learned over the years to appease these vile forces rather than fight them directly, and in the State of the State speech, he sought to appease those monsters on 3rd Street by making the whole speech about children and nothing else.  Governor DeWine signed H.B.6, which was talked about by Marxist media as a 1.3 billion dollar bailout of FirstEnergy.  Well, of course, Democrats were upset about it because they wanted to sink FirstEnergy and force them to go all in on windmills and solar panels.  They tried to kill Ohio’s energy policy, so yes, they were upset that Republicans were helping out FirstEnergy.  That is how Sam Randazzo got wrapped up in the scandal, as he found 4.3 million dollars coming at him from FirstEnergy.  But what was FirstEnergy supposed to do?  Sit around and be destroyed by climate activists and Marxist, America-hating despots?  Because that’s the real issue on the table that DeWine didn’t want to tackle, and his inability to defend Columbus Republicans left them hanging.  It’s that kind of classic Republican run-and-hide technique that has so many people supporting Trump.  And to answer a question Matt Borges brought up after the Access Hollywood tape about Trump trying to disparage him, was that locker room talk?  Yes.  That’s how people speak; if he didn’t know that, he should have.  Republican voters are going for Trump and not Mike DeWine types.  They want to see FirstEnergy thrive; they want nuclear power and fossil fuels to provide cheap electricity.  And they want the government to leave them alone.  And they certainly don’t want to see their representatives going to jail and hanging themselves in warehouses as the only option left to them in an activist, Marxist-controlled court system led by a corrupt FBI working for the Biden administration, and before them, the radical terrorist Obama.  If we’re going to play this blood sport, let the Democrats feel the pressure.  Not good people trying to stand up for the industry and Ohio’s power grid.  They knew what they were doing; when the government is prosecuting you, and it’s run by radicals who have endless money to throw at you, and you have to pay for parasite lawyers and are still facing jail time in your retirement years, what was old Sam supposed to do?  Who was going to defend him when all the other Republicans were running for the hills, trying not to be accused of bribery?  This is the same garbage they have been trying to do with Trump.  But he didn’t run away.  Mike DeWine and many others have, and that has only fed the desire for blood by the ruthless Democrats and their communist supporters at the expense of our great state. 

Rich Hoffman

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