Shakedowns?

Joseph over at Plunderbund has some details on how Gov. John Kasich has forced some corporations to bend to his wishes by making a utility company dump a CEO, hire FOKs (friends of Kasich), and give money to JobOhio.

Plunderbund:

....Kasich won the election in November 2010 and he immediately made it clear things would be changing in Columbus.  The bus comments were a warning to Ohio’s business leaders.  AEP got the message.   By December, they had announced Morris would be replaced as AEP President by Nicholas Akins, a big Kasich donor....

....Morris was then forced to publicly support Kasich by joining and helping to fund, along with other CEOs who supported Strickland, One Ohio United – a propaganda machine for Kasich’s first budget tied to a Kasich campaign staffer....

...As Joe Vardon reported today in the Dispatch,  AEP also hired Kasich’s friends Donald G. Thibaut, Rex Elsass and Chan Cochran as a lobbyists AND the company was shaken down for another $2 Million in donations to JobsOhio....

Read the entire post over at Plunderbund. This is all very disgusting.