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Ashley Hinson Must Be Feeling the Heat as Her Campaign Suffers From Another Bad Week

Ashley Hinson Must Be Feeling the Heat as Her Campaign Suffers From Another Bad Week

Dozens of Iowans in Council Bluffs and Cedar Rapids Held Hinson Accountable for Her Self-Dealing as She Was Caught Lying About Owning up to $5 Million in Private Stock

DES MOINES – Ashley Hinson couldn’t outrun the truth in another bad week for her campaign after a bombshell report broke yesterday unveiling her lying about owning up to $5 million as Iowans in Council Bluffs and Cedar Rapids called her out for selling them out to enrich herself and her wealthy donors.

  • To round out the week, local Cedar Rapids leaders gathered with dozens of Iowans outside Hinson’s congressional office to close out the “Iowa Can’t Afford Ashley” tour. In the final stop on the tour, they made it clear they’re fed up with Hinson’s corruption that puts herself and her wealthy donors ahead of Iowans.

See What Iowans Were Seeing and Reading This Week: 

  • Iowa Republican Representative and Senate Candidate Ashley Hinson got caught in a lie claiming she had sold all individual stocks and was invested only in mutual funds upon becoming a member of Congress. Hinson has been campaigning against stock ownership and insider trading by members of Congress, and claimed she had sold all her individual stocks when she was named to the House Appropriations Committee, which has power over the federal budget.
  • It was revealed this month, however, that while Hinson did divest in publicly traded companies, Hinson’s net worth increased by [up to] $7 million while she was in office due to her husband’s ownership of individual stock in his private company.
  • In January of this year, Hinson said at a campaign meet and greet that she and her husband “proactively sold all of our individual stocks” and “only invested in mutual funds.” Hinson later repeated the claim that she sold all her “individual stocks when [she] got named to the Appropriations Committee” and then said in [an]interview that she “changed all that to mutual funds and ETFs” when discussing her investments.
  • However, in that same campaign statement on June 16 to local ABC affiliate KCAU, a Hinson spokesperson admitted that her husband retained “private” stock in his company.
  • Earlier this year, Hinson co-sponsored a bill called the Stop Insider Trading Act (SITA), which bans Members of Congress from purchasing stocks, but does nothing to limit a members’ current assets or that of their families. She also refused to sign a discharge petition to force a vote on the more comprehensive End Congressional Stock Trading Act, which forces complete divestment.
  • Local Democratic leaders on Thursday criticized Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson during the final stop of the statewide “Iowa Can’t Afford Ashley” tour, accusing her of enriching herself through investments and supporting policies they say have increased costs for Iowa families.
  • Speakers questioned Hinson’s financial disclosures, criticized her record on congressional stock trading and argued she has prioritized wealthy donors and special interests over constituents.
  • The Iowa Democratic Party’s “Iowa Can’t Afford Ashley” statewide tour will visit Council Bluffs on Tuesday morning in opposition to Ashley Hinson’s candidacy for U.S. Senate.
  • The tour seeks to call out the Republican “for selling out Iowans and hiking costs on working families so that she and her wealthy donors can get rich,” according to a news release. 
  • The Democratic Party pointed to stock trading, rising inflation, tariffs and the Iran war as among the issues they are targeting Hinson, who is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, over in the fall general election.

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