{"id":182212,"date":"2024-08-07T20:48:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T01:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=182212"},"modified":"2024-08-07T20:48:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T01:48:53","slug":"ppec-hosting-bipartisan-pac-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/08\/07\/ppec-hosting-bipartisan-pac-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"PPEC hosting bipartisan PAC dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PAULDING &#8212; Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative will host a joint PAC legislative dinner with St. Marys-based Midwest Electric on Monday, August 19. The dinner will feature confirmed speakers U.S. Congressman Jim Jordan, State Representatives Angela King and Roy Klopfenstein, and State Senator Rob McColley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>America&#8217;s Electric Cooperatives PAC is a bipartisan political action committee focusing on issues affecting electric co-ops. They work to keep co-op members&#8217; energy bills affordable and improve members&#8217; quality of life while protecting the nation&#8217;s economy and jobs when making energy laws.&nbsp;PPEC is a political leader in the state of Ohio with more than 600 America&#8217;s Electric Cooperative PAC members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event will be hosted at Lincoln Ridge Farms in Convoy. Members will enjoy a free Italian dinner with additional beverages available from&nbsp;Sycamore Winery and Moeller Brew Barn. This event is exclusively for members of&nbsp;Americas&nbsp;Electric Cooperatives PAC. The evening will begin with dinner at 5:30 p.m., followed by comments from the elected officials, who will take questions and discuss current industry topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buckeye Power Chief Operating Officer Craig Grooms will join political speakers and present on issues affecting members&#8217; lives and electric bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative serves more than 13,000 members in Paulding, Putnam, Defiance, Van Wert, and Allen counties in Ohio, and Adams and Allen counties in Indiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information PAULDING &#8212; Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative will host a joint PAC legislative dinner with St. Marys-based Midwest Electric on Monday, August 19. The dinner will feature confirmed speakers U.S. Congressman Jim Jordan, State Representatives Angela King and Roy Klopfenstein, and State Senator Rob McColley. America&#8217;s Electric Cooperatives PAC is a bipartisan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 03:30:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182233,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182212\/revisions\/182233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}