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Speaker snared in Ohio bribery probe liked to play long game

by Associated Press
| July 24, 2020 5:03 AM

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Tension was thick in the air. After 10 consecutive votes in which another man had garnered more support than Larry Householder's favored candidate to be the next Ohio House speaker, Householder leaned back quietly in his chair, arms confidently propped behind his head.

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