What to Know About Ashley Hinson One Year After She Launched Her Senate Campaign
In the Year Since Hinson Launched Her Campaign Iowans Are Learning That She’s Spent the Last Six Years in Congress Enriching Herself and Her Wealthy Donors at Their Expense
DES MOINES – It’s been one year since Ashley Hinson launched her Senate campaign. In that time, Iowans have heard all about the fact that Hinson is a multi-millionaire who has repeatedly sold out Iowans to enrich herself and her billionaire donors.
She has voted to cut healthcare for 110,000 Iowans, continue a war that is sending gas prices soaring, and support tariffs that are hammering Iowa farmers and making everything more expensive. At the same, she has increased her wealth by up to 10x, wasting $50,000 in taxpayer funds on her “luxury” D.C. apartment, and championing a tax break that benefits her business.
What Iowans Have Learned About Ashley Hinson’s Corrupt, Self-Dealing Over the Last Year:
- Hinson “lied” to Iowans about owning up to $5 million in insurance stock while campaigning to ban congressional stock trading.
- Despite claiming she sold her individual stock and campaigning on a congressional stock trading ban, Hinson quietly holds up to $5 million in insurance company stock that has increased her net worth by up to 10 times since she was sworn into office.
- Hinson has been cosplaying as a “working-class mom” while “living in a luxury DC apartment” using more than $50,000 in taxpayer dollars and taking lavish international trips paid for by special interest groups.
- Hinson has “championed” a tax loophole that “benefits her own fortune” and allows the wealthy to “shield” much of their “multimillion-dollar private business holdings” from taxes.
- Hinson has raked in thousands of dollars from Bayer, the maker of Roundup, which scientific studies have linked to an “increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.”
- “GOP megadonor” and “kingmaker” Bruce Rastetter, the founder of Summit Agricultural Group, which has “spent years fighting” to rip away land from Iowans to build their pipeline hosted a fundraiser for Hinson.
- Hinson raked in tens of thousands of dollars from Big Oil companies profiting from the Iran war while voting six times to continue the conflict.
- Hinson’s campaign has spent tens of thousands of dollars on upscale restaurants and “lavish” five-star resorts even as she tells Iowans that she’s a “working mom” who knows “what is facing our families here in Iowa.”
- Hinson’s husband, who holds a “government affairs post at a leading insurance industry lobbying group,” used his post to “gain access to Hinson and other Iowa lawmakers” and “blur the lines” as a shadow lobbyist.
- Hinson accepted “over $660,000” in campaign donations from Big Pharma and healthcare industries as she took votes benefitting those groups at the expense of Iowa seniors and cancer patients whose healthcare she made more expensive.
- Hinson “fought to save private equity’s favorite loophole” and has long “proven to be a reliable vote for corporate tax breaks,” having backed major cuts to “Wall Street’s watchdog” and the bureau that “protects Americans from scams and dodgy financial instruments.”
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