3 New Stories Slam Mehmet Oz

“Misspelled the name of his Pennsylvania address”
“A systemic effort to hire unauthorized workers”
“May find it hard to generate the big turnout that Trump had” 

Three recent, brutal stories are highlighting why Pennsylvania can’t trust Mehmet Oz:

• Today Business Insider reported the New Jersey native “misspelled the name of his Keystone State address on an official campaign form;”

• Insider also reported Oz has “faced backlash” for his hypocrisy on immigration after an investigation revealed his company engaged in a “systemic effort to hire unauthorized workers;”

• And an NBC news analysis detailed how Oz performed poorly in traditionally Republican areas of Pennsylvania during the primary, revealing his weakness even with voters who supported Trump.

See for yourself:

Business Insider: GOP Senate candidate Mehmet Oz misspelled the name of his Pennsylvania address in official campaign form

• Republican Pennsylvania Senate nominee Mehmet Oz misspelled the name of his Keystone State address on an official campaign form.

• Oz… who had been living in New Jersey in the years before running for office put down “Huntington Valley” instead of “Huntingdon Valley.” While there’s also a town called Huntingdon in Pennsylvania, Huntington Valley does not exist.

• The address listed on Oz’s declaration of candidacy form for the Federal Elections Commission is for a commercial park, not a residence.

• Oz’s candidacy stoked controversy early on in the Republican primary after the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that he used his in-laws’ Pennsylvania address to register to vote in the state last year, despite living in New Jersey for several years.

Business Insider: Dr. Oz says he’ll fight to end illegal immigration. A business owned by his family, in which he is a shareholder, faced the largest fine in ICE history for hiring unauthorized workers.

• In a Sunday tweet, Mehmet Oz vowed to “fight to end illegal immigration” should he be elected to the Senate, a promise that helped resurface the fact that his family’s business faced a record-breaking fine for hiring unauthorized workers.

• Oz… quickly faced backlash from social-media users who called him a liar and shared stories related to a fine levied against a business started by his wife’s grandfather.

• The tree-pruning company Asplundh Tree Experts Co., a business for which Oz is listed as a shareholder on regulatory documents, settled with US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in 2017 after a six-year investigation and audit revealed a systemic effort to hire unauthorized workers.

• The company, the former CEO of which has donated $12,000 to Oz’s Senate campaign, was sentenced to pay forfeiture in the amount of $80 million and an additional $15 million “to satisfy civil claims arising out of their failure to comply with immigration law,” an amount that represented the largest payment ever levied in an immigration case, according to the press release.

NBC News: Oz had Trump’s endorsement, but didn’t win in Trump country

• A closer look at the results shows that Oz actually did not fare well in places where Trump scored big victories in 2020.

• Trump won by massive margins in four of these types of locations: The largely rural types of Graying America, Rural Middle America, and Working Class Country, as well as the blue-collar suburban Middle Suburbs. … But Oz lost in the first three of those types and only narrowly eked out a win in the Middle Suburbs.

• In the case of Pennsylvania, Trump was heavily invested. He pushed hard for Oz and even visited the state and held a rally for the senate candidate in mid-May. That’s the kind of effort one would expect to pay off on primary day. By these measures, it did not.

• The numbers raise questions about the November general election and how many Trump voters are Oz voters.

• The new nominee may find it hard to generate the big turnout that Trump had from the rural parts of the state, which tend to lean Republican. Those voters were critical to flipping the state to Trump in 2016 and to Trump nearly repeating that feat in 2020.

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