Site features Click’s own campaign ad endorsing House Bill 6 and his official campaign website still calling the law “a necessary investment” as recently as this month.
TIFFIN, OHIO — The Seneca County Democratic Party today launched GaryClickFacts.com, a public-records site documenting State Representative Gary Click’s sustained public defense of House Bill 6 — the 2019 utility bailout at the center of what federal prosecutors have called the largest public-corruption scandal in Ohio history.
The site presents two pieces of documentary evidence:
- A September 2019 sponsored Facebook ad, paid for by Click’s campaign committee, endorsing HB 6 and tagging then-House Speaker Larry Householder — who is now serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for the $60 million bribery scheme that passed the law.
- An archived capture of Click’s official campaign website from May 2026 — six years into his time in office — still describing HB 6 as “a necessary investment, providing stability by preserving nuclear energy in Ohio.”
Click removed the HB 6 endorsement from his campaign website shortly after the archive was captured. He issued no public statement, no apology, and no return of the 2019 ad spending.
Ohio ratepayers have paid more than $500 million in HB 6 coal-plant subsidies between 2020 and August 2025, according to the Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel and Common Cause Ohio.
“We built GaryClickFacts.com because voters in Seneca and Sandusky Counties deserve to see the record themselves,” said Gina Grandillo, Chair of the Seneca County Democratic Party. “Every claim on the site links back to a primary source — Gary Click’s own ad, his own campaign website, and court records that are matters of public knowledge. We’re not asking voters to take our word for anything. We’re asking them to look at the documents.”
Grandillo added: “Gary Click spent his own campaign money defending House Bill 6 before he was elected. He kept defending it on his campaign website for six years after he was elected — through Larry Householder’s arrest, through Householder’s twenty-year sentence, through the federal indictment of FirstEnergy’s executives. He scrubbed his website only when it became politically inconvenient. That’s not a man who changed his mind. That’s a man who got caught.”
The site is live now at garyclickfacts.com.
The 88th Ohio House District covers all of Seneca and Sandusky Counties, including Tiffin, Fremont, Clyde, Green Springs, and surrounding communities. Click narrowly survived a “brutal” Republican primary challenge from Tiffin businessman Eric Watson on May 5, 2026, winning 52–48 percent and losing Seneca County by approximately 8.5 points.
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