{"id":1864863,"date":"2023-03-01T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1864863"},"modified":"2023-03-01T15:49:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T20:49:28","slug":"ohio-republican-calls-on-sherrod-brown-to-return-norfolk-southern-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-republican-calls-on-sherrod-brown-to-return-norfolk-southern-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Republican Calls On Sherrod Brown To Return Norfolk Southern Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fohio-republican-calls-on-sherrod-brown-to-return-norfolk-southern-money%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1864863&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<\/p>\n<p>Brown attributes the derailment to Norfolk Southern&#8217;s &#8220;corporate lobbyists&#8221;. They are also his campaign donors.    Sen. Sherrod brown (D., Ohio). Getty Images    <\/p>\n<p>One of Senator Sherrod brown&#8217;s potential 2024 challengers said that the Ohio Democrat should repay all of his campaign donations from Norfolk Southern. This is after one the firm&#8217;s trains was unable to stop in East Palestine (Ohio) and caused residents to fear for their health.<\/p>\n<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/claim-yours-ots-fbeacon-ads-30?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023marchots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <\/a>   <a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/claim-yours-ots-fbeacon-ads-30?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023marchots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <\/a>    <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sherrod Brown has taken thousands of dollars in donations from Norfolk Southern,&#8221; Washington Free Beacon was informed by Bernie Moreno, Republican businessman. &#8220;That may explain why it took him so long to speak out about what happened in East Palestine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brown, who spent the weekend in California <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/democrat-ohio-senator-fundraises-hollywood-toxic-chemical-spill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Money raising<\/a> He pointed the finger at Norfolk Southern for his reelection &#8220;corporate lobbyists&#8221; They claim they have obstructed congressional efforts to pass rail safety legislation. Brown has accepted over $41,000 from Norfolk Southern, its lobbyists and his campaign and affiliated committee of political action since 2004, according to a Washington Free Beacon review.<\/p>\n<p>Moreno claims that Brown&#8217;s inability to pay back the money from the lobbyists he blames for the disaster undermining his political identity as an advocate of the working class.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;He talks a big game on the campaign trail about standing up to corporate interests, but then takes money from those very same corporate interests to fund his political career,&#8221; Moreno said. &#8220;If he actually cared about the people of East Palestine, he would have already returned every cent he ever received from Norfolk Southern.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although Moreno has not yet announced his candidacy for Brown\u2019s Ohio Senate seat, he is widely considered a strong contender for the Republican nomination. Brown is one of the most vulnerable Democrats in the 2024 election cycle. He has been in office from 2007 to 2007.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>He has witnessed his state turn more red. J.D., a Republican senator. Vance (Ohio), won his seat against a well-funded Democratic challenger Tim Ryan.<\/p>\n<p>Brown has received over $31,000 from at least five Norfolk Southern lobbyists. Disclosure: Three of those lobbyists were disclosed <a href=\"https:\/\/lda.senate.gov\/filings\/public\/filing\/1e514587-742f-4abe-8495-16ca2b309885\/print\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Formulaire<\/a> Show, lobbying the Senate and White House in 2022 on issues related to &#8220;rail safety.&#8221; Brown has received at least $10,000 directly from Norfolk Southern. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/?cycle=2022&#038;data_type=processed&#038;committee_id=C00264697&#038;contributor_name=norfolk+southern&#038;line_number=F3-11C\">Campaign finance<\/a> Forms are shown. The most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Senator Sherrod Brown\u2019s likely 2024 challengers says the Ohio Democrat should return all his campaign donations from Norfolk Southern and its lobbyists after one of the firm&#8217;s trains derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, and left the town\u2019s residents fearing for their health.<br \/>\nThe post Ohio Republican Calls On Sherrod Brown To Return Norfolk Southern Money appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":1864866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[6824,3755,4755,18951,4333,3911,5309,20080,6260],"class_list":["post-1864863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-brown","tag-calls","tag-money","tag-norfolk","tag-ohio","tag-republican","tag-return","tag-sherrod","tag-southern"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1864866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}