ICYMI: Ashley Hinson Makes “Jaw-Dropping,” “Tone Deaf” Plea for Gas Money for Her Campaign Bus After She Voted to Raise Iowans’ Fuel Prices
Ashley Hinson: “Help Give Us a Little Gas Money for Our Bus”
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DES MOINES – Ashley Hinson is making headlines for begging Iowans to help donate “a little gas money for our bus” during a campaign stop as part of her bus tour.
Meanwhile, diesel is $6/gallon and gas remains above $4/gallon because of her seven votes to continue the war in Iran.
Key context: Hinson cast her seventh vote to continue the war in Iran just weeks ago as it devastated Iowa with “record diesel prices,” “surg[ing]” gas costs, fertilizer prices “near peak levels,” and inflation higher than the national average. She has repeatedly defended the war in Iran and downplayed the impact on Iowans, calling it “out of sight, out of mind” as Iowans struggle to pay their bills. She has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars from Big Oil, and now those companies are seeing record profits up to $14 billion from the Iran war.
Missed the reports? See below for more key highlights:
Huffpost: GOP Senate candidate makes jaw-dropping request of her supporters
- Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Ashley Hinson (Iowa) made a tone-deaf request to a group of supporters while stumping on the campaign trail this week.
- Speaking in Fort Dodge on Wednesday, Hinson, who has voted five times against a War Powers Resolution to end the Iran war, implored her supporters to donate “gas money” for her campaign bus.
Newsweek: Ashley Hinson asks for gas money in Iowa Senate race against Josh Turek
- Republican Iowa Senate candidate Ashley Hinson asked supporters to help provide “gas money” for her campaign bus this week, prompting Democratic opponent Josh Turek to seize on the remark as Iowa motorists and farmers contend with elevated fuel costs.
- The exchange comes as fuel prices have become a prominent issue in the closing weeks of the Iowa Senate race.
- AAA put Iowa’s average price for regular gasoline at about $4.14 a gallon Saturday, up from about $2.72 a year earlier. Diesel averaged about $6.07 a gallon, compared with roughly $3.43 one year earlier.
Raw Story: ‘Tone deaf’ Republican buried in mockery for plea to ‘give us a little gas money!’
- Yet another Republican who voted to support President Donald Trump’s war in Iran has been caught imploring supporters to chip in gas money for their campaign bus.
- Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA), currently running for Senate against Democrat Josh Turek, joins a list of several other Republicans who have made this request of their supporters, including Sens. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME), and Georgia Senate candidate Mike Collins.
- Her comments were swiftly posted to X, where they became a target for mockery.
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