September 13, 2024 Press Releases

DSCC FRIDAY TAKEAWAYS: FAT CAT MORENO HAS TAIL BETWEEN LEGS AFTER LYING ABOUT HAVING AN MBA, GOP SENATE RECRUITS CAN’T BLAME SCARY HEADLINES ON FRIDAY THE 13TH

IT MAY BE FRIDAY THE 13TH, BUT SENATE REPUBLICANS CAN’T BLAME THESE DAMAGING STORIES ON BAD LUCK →

SCARY REALITY: SHEEHY’S A THREAT TO REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS → The Montana Democratic Party Executive Director slammed Tim Sheehy in the Billings Gazette, outlining his agenda to take away Montanans’ freedoms after reporting revealed that Sheehy said he wants abortion “all to end tomorrow.” Meanwhile, the Helena Independent Record reports how “Tester rallies for abortion access.”

🐈‍⬛ OHIOANS DON’T WANT FAT CAT MORENO TO CROSS THEIR PATH → The Statehouse News Bureau highlights how labor unions “bashed” Moreno, who “sought and signed off on $40 million worth of Mercedes-Benz financing” to open a new car dealership despite “maintain[ing] for more than a year that he sold off business interests.”

ROGERS’ (SPIDER) WEB OF LIES CAN’T HIDE HIS LONG ANTI-ABORTION RECORD → Bridge Michigan highlights how Mike Rogers’ abortion claims “conflict” with his record and details how he “supported a national abortion ban,” “co-sponsored legislation to define human life as beginning at conception,” and twice “co-sponsored legislation to withdraw federal approval of…Mifepristone.”

JUMP SCARE: REVOLVIN’ DOOR ROGERS RAKES IN MILLIONS FROM “SHADY FOREIGN INTERESTS” → American Journal News details how Mike Rogers took on “lucrative consulting gigs for big corporations, some of which did business with corrupt foreign governments” after he left Congress, resulting in a “2000% increase” in his net worth.

YOUR MASK ISN’T FOOLING ANYONE, LARRY → MSNBC details how “the National Republican Senatorial Committee — the entity within the party responsible for electing Republican Senate incumbents and candidates — has partnered with Hogan, jointly investing over $1.6 million in support of Hogan” and how Hogan has “benefited from fundraising events with prominent conservative officials.”

AWARD FOR SCARIEST DUO: HOGAN AND HIS ANTI-ABORTION PALS → Larry Hogan is (again) campaigning with anti-abortion rights leaders, including Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, to help Hogan hand control of the Senate to Republicans.

TURNING OUT THE LIGHTS: SAM BROWN’S RECORD OPPOSING CLEAN ENERGY → Reporting from Inside Climate News exposes Sam Brown’s record “propos[ing] cutting federal agencies…like the Department of Energy” and expressing “his willingness to allow nuclear waste to be stored in Nevada’s Yucca Mountain.”

SILENCE OF THE ~~LAMBS~~ CRUZ → The Bulwark reports that “Ted Cruz has suddenly gotten quiet on abortion” despite being a “warrior for the pro-life/anti-abortion movement” and making “banning abortion…a major political priority.”

🎤 WHILE CELEBRITIES WON BIG AT THE VMAS, ERIC HOVDE SWEPT FOR LIES, LIES, AND MORE LIES →

HOVDE’S “RAGS TO RICHES LIE” TAKES CENTER STAGE → The Daily Kos reports that Eric Hovde is “pushing a rags-to-riches lie,” detailing how “Hovde benefited from insider connections at the highest levels of political power in Washington, D.C.,” “which does not quite fit the self-made image that Hovde has portrayed.”

HOVDE’S ADS ARE OUT-OF-TUNE, CAUGHT FEATURING GOP OPERATIVES PORTRAYING EVERYDAY WISCONSINITES → Reporting by Heartland Signal details how Eric Hovde has been “using unlabeled Republican operatives to portray economic struggles of everyday Wisconsinites” in his ads.

HOVDE’S DOUBLE ACT: LIE ABOUT TAKING MONEY FROM FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, THEN REFUSE ACCOUNTABILITY → Heartland Signal details new audio of Eric Hovde confirming his bank is accepting deposits from foreign governments while refusing to come clean about what countries these deposits belong to, saying “who cares if a foreign government has a deposit in my bank?”

🔎 ZOOM IN: WHAT THEY’RE READING IN THE STATES →

WHAT OHIOANS ARE READING: FAT CAT MORENO LEFT WITH TAIL BETWEEN HIS LEGS AFTER LYING ABOUT HAVING AN MBA → The Ohio Capital Journal found that Bernie Moreno lied about holding a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Michigan, reporting that “Bernie Moreno doesn’t hold an MBA” despite making repeated false claims that he does in “a car dealership application” with “his signature” and in multiple different biographies. Read more coverage of the lie here.

WHAT MICHIGANDERS ARE READING: ROGERS “REFUSED TO TAKE ANY ACCOUNTABILITY” ON HIS RECORD CHAMPIONING THE OPIOID INDUSTRY → Bridge Michigan details how Michiganders hammered Mike Rogers for his deep ties with the drug industry while they “recounted their own brushes with the crisis that kills a Michigander every four hours, and criticized Rogers for accepting money from opioid manufacturers while sponsoring bills aimed at increasing the availability of opioids.”

WHAT MONTANANS ARE READING: SHEEHY’S COMMENTS “UNACCEPTABLE” AND “UNPROFESSIONAL” → The Helena Independent Record details how Crow Tribe Chairman Frank White Clay condemned Tim Sheehy’s offensive comments about Native Americans, calling Sheehy’s remarks “disparaging,” “highly unprofessional,” “deeply troubling” and “unacceptable.”

WHAT ARIZONANS ARE READING: “KARI LAKE CAN’T BE TRUSTED TO DEFEND OUR DEMOCRACY” → This week, Arizonans slammed Kari Lake in local papers for praising foreign dictators and jeopardizing American democracy, saying she is “willing to undermine democratic values and align with those who oppose them.”

Copper Courier: “Kari Lake’s actions and words reveal a dangerous willingness to align with authoritarian figures and promote conspiracy theories that threaten the foundations of our democracy.”

Litchfield Park Independent: “Arizonans can’t trust Lake to protect American values like defending democracy, respecting elections and fighting for our freedoms.”

Scottsdale Daily Beat: “Kari Lake has fought to overturn the results of democratic elections. She has shown no capacity for leadership and no semblance of respect for the rule of law, which is essential to conservatism. As a Republican, I denounce her in the strongest terms possible.”

WHAT FLORIDIANS ARE READING: “[SCOTT] PROMISED TO REPRESENT ALL FLORIDIANS…[HE] HAS BROKEN THAT PROMISE” → Former Congressman Al Lawson calls out Rick Scott in the Tallahassee Democrat for his close relationship with far-right political leader, Charlie Kirk, who “has repeatedly called the Civil Rights Act a ‘huge mistake’ and has led a campaign to discredit King’s legacy.”

EVEN CONSERVATIVES THINK HOVDE’S CAMPAIGN IS “WEAK” → Conservative Radio Host Vicki McKenna took to the airwaves to say Eric Hovde’s “campaign has been weak,” the latest in a string of Republicans to criticize his candidacy, with Republican Congressman Glenn Grothman saying Hovde is running a “terrible campaign” and Republican operatives calling his campaign “underwhelming.”

🚨 SAM BROWN’S SHADY SUPER PAC RAISES ALARMS → KTVN reports that “a national campaign finance watchdog organization has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against Sam Brown,” calling Brown a “walking campaign finance violation.”

FACT CHECK CORNER →

❌ REPUBLICAN ATTACKS ON SENATE DEMOCRATS “BASED ON FALSE AND MISLEADING CLAIMS” → Reporting by the American Journal News finds that “dark money groups, Republican candidates, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee” have been spreading lies “based on false and misleading claims” that “Senate Democrats cut Medicare to fund EV subsidies.” The report summarizes: “It isn’t true.”

❌ FALSE (THE MORENO EDITION) → WXYC confirms that “Bernie Moreno doesn’t have an MBA from the University of Michigan, despite documents claiming he does.”

❌ FALSE (THE SAM BROWN EDITION) → PolitiFact exposed Sam Brown’s claim that the “proposed Nevada constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights would put ‘essentially no limit on access to abortion’” as “false.”

ADD IT TO THE QUEUE →

Jon Tester’s campaign released a new ad featuring a Montana mom and lifelong Republican who is sounding the alarm about Tim Sheehy’s threat to reproductive freedom.

Colin Allred’s campaign launched a new ad, “Accountable,” featuring Joey Reed, whose son, Trevor, was wrongfully detained in Russia. The ad highlights how Allred fought for Trevor’s release. Meanwhile, Ted Cruz was nowhere to be found.

Elissa Slotkin’s campaign released a new ad, “Timeline,” highlighting Mike Rogers’ decades-long history as a staunch opponent of abortion rights.

And Elissa Slotkin’s campaign released another ad, “Devastated,” featuring Michigander Sarah, who shares her experience of suffering five miscarriages that nearly cost her life. She explains that her ability to make her own medical decisions was crucial — but if Mike Rogers had his way, the outcome might have been very different.

Angela Alsobrooks’ campaign released an ad highlighting her promise to fight to lower the cost of groceries for working families in Maryland by cracking down on corporate price gouging.

Angela Alsobrooks’ campaign launched another ad, “What We Get,” warning that if former Republican Gov. Larry Hogan wins, Republicans could “set the agenda.”

Jacky Rosen’s campaign released an ad highlighting how Sam Brown is bankrolled by the people behind Project 2025, because he wants to bring their dangerous agenda to Nevada.