The bipartisan group — Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, Republican U.S. Rep. David Joyce and six others — joined a coalition of the state's business and technology leaders and the state's governor in making a pitch for the facility, as selection of a headquarters city has been embroiled in politics.
Event coordinators said they made history as choirs from the Ohio Reformatory for Women and Pickaway and Madison correctional institutes sang together in one room.