AUGUST SLIPPED AWAY INTO A MOMENT IN TIME…BUT THE GOP’S SENATE CANDIDATE QUALITY ISSUES ARE HERE TO STAY → Following months of reporting highlighting Senate Republicans’ candidate quality problems, a fresh wave of news stories is detailing even more scandals plaguing GOP Senate candidates as the final months of the campaign begin. Read some of the new stories from the past weeks alone for yourself.
SHADY SHEEHY HAD ANOTHER “ROCKY” WEEK FULL OF EVEN MORE “SCANDAL” →
BOMBSHELL REPORT: CEO MCCORMICK SILENCED VICTIMS OF “UNWANTED SEXUAL ADVANCES” → USA Today Network reporting reveals that as CEO of Bridgewater, David McCormick “pressed former Bridgewater employees to remain silent about unwanted sexual advances they said they experienced at the company” – even going as far as to threaten one female employee that “she would be in litigation for the rest of her life” if she broke her silence.
HAPPY LABOR DAY TO EVERYONE EXCEPT THE GOP CANDIDATES WHO “STIFF[ED],” “BURNED,” AND “SCREWED” WORKERS WHILE “SHIPP[ING] JOBS” OUT OF STATE AND “MISMANAG[ING]” THEIR BUSINESSES→
GOP SENATE CANDIDATES’ THREAT TO REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS IN THE SPOTLIGHT (AGAIN) →
🎾 WHILE AMERICANS DOMINATE THE US OPEN, GOP CANDIDATES GET GRAND SLAMMED WITH BAD HEADLINES →
🏈 AS FOOTBALL SEASON KICKS OFF, SAM BROWN’S PREFERRED TEAM IS…IN OHIO? → While Sam Brown claims that he “comes from the most humble of backgrounds,” the Daily Kos details how his family actually “owns the Cincinnati Bengals, an NFL team worth $4 billion, and that his relatives have been supporting his political ambitions for a while,” writing that his biography is “sounding less and less working class and a lot more dynastic.”
KARI LAKE CALLS LAW TO “IMPROVE FINANCES OF SENIORS” A “BURDEN TO AMERICAN[S]” → The Arizona Republic detailed how Ruben Gallego is championing “a federal law that…is expected to save [seniors] money on prescription drugs,” the same law “Kari Lake opposed” and “called a burden to American families.”
WHAT MARYLANDERS ARE SAYING: HOGAN’S “RECORD OPPOSING ABORTION RIGHTS” IS “DISQUALIFYING” → A Maryland voter slammed Larry Hogan in the Baltimore Sun, saying “voting for Hogan means voting for a Republican takeover of the Senate. That’s disqualifying enough, but Hogan’s record opposing abortion rights should discourage any Marylander who values freedom from voting for him.”
READ IT AND WEEP, RICK: MUCARSEL-POWELL HAS THE “MOMENTUM” → Florida Politics reports how “Debbie Mucarsel-Powell claims momentum” over Rick Scott in a new memo released by her campaign, which details how “Mucarsel-Powell continues to gain grassroots momentum against Rick Scott, who is historically unpopular and will face a highly motivated Democratic electorate this November.” Read the memo for yourself.
LOOK, DAVE! YOU MADE THE FRONT PAGE → The Pennsylvania Democratic Party placed a digital ad in the Washington County Observer-Reporter highlighting David McCormick’s support for the disastrous corporate tax giveaway that raised taxes on over 375,000 Pennsylvania families.
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