Lewis Announces New TV, Radio & Digital Ads Titled “Personally Profiting”

August 11th, 2020

EAGAN, Minn. — Today, U.S. Senate candidate Jason Lewis announced new television, radio and digital commercials titled “Personally Profiting,” focusing on Senator Tina Smith’s shameful reputation of putting her own personal, financial interests above that of her constituents.

This comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Jason Lewis’ candidacy on Monday.

“Senator Tina Smith has a disgraceful track record of putting her own financial interests and radical policy goals over the needs of the Minnesotans she is supposed to serve. Case in point: as the stock market crashed when COVID hit, Tina Smith swiftly dumped $1 million dollars of her personal stock holdings. Tina Smith to this day hasn’t come clean on what she knew and when she knew it. And if that wasn’t bad enough, she then voted twice to block the much-needed COVID relief bill, holding Americans’ lives and livelihoods hostage for political purposes. Even right now, she is holding up COVID relief yet again, over a silly and radical demand that incarcerated criminals be able to make phone calls for free. It’s outrageous.

When she isn’t protecting her own seven figure portfolio, Tina Smith is pushing radical proposals that would harm everyday Minnesotans. Her support for a Medicare For All style plan would put up to 49 rural hospitals at risk of closing permanently. Her anti-mining and anti-energy policy positions have compromised thousands of good-paying jobs. And her repeated inflammatory rhetoric about the ‘dangerous role police play in society’ and her affinity for the defund the police movement has jeopardized public safety. This is not the type of leadership Minnesotans deserve!

We need a senator who puts Minnesotans first, not themselves. And I will do just that.”
 

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