DCCC Releases Republican Coupons & Launches Digital Ads to Highlight Key Issues Where House Republicans Have Sold Out Hardworking Americans
This weekend is the Republican Labor Day Sellout event of hardworking Americans! To celebrate, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released Republican coupons good for one sellout on issues that matter to working families. As part of a paid advertising campaign, these coupons highlight House Republicans’ positions that harm hardworking Americans, including key anti-labor votes.
The campaign highlighted a number of key issues featured in the Republican Labor Day Weekend sale:
- Opposition to a federal minimum wage and/or increasing the minimum wage.
- Votes for the Republican budget proposal to end Medicare’s guarantee.
- Votes to undermine prevailing wage requirements on federal projects.
- Votes to allow taxpayer money to go to companies that violate Fair Labor Standards Act.
- Votes to alter overtime rules, undermining the 40-hour work week and allowing employers to cut workers’ pay.
- Votes to block the National Labor Relations Board from streamlining & modernizing the union election process – a measure that NLRB says is “far overdue”.
- Votes for the Republican Budget to slash Pell Grant funding.
The campaign targets 17 House Republicans:
- Bruce Poliquin (ME-02)
- Frank Guinta (NH-01)
- Lee Zeldin (NY-01)
- Ryan Costello (PA-06)
- Pat Meehan (PA-07)
- Carlos Curbelo (FL-26)
- Dan Benishek (MI-01)
- Tim Walberg (MI-07)
- Mike Bishop (MI-08)
- Bob Dold (IL-10)
- Mike Bost (IL-12)
- Rod Blum (IA-01)
- David Young (IA-03)
- Cresent Hardy (NV-04)
- Jeff Denham (CA-10)
- David Valadao (CA-21)
- Steve Knight (CA-25)
“Labor Day Weekend is an important reminder of the fact that House Republicans have repeatedly sold out working families across the country with their misplaced priorities,” said Meredith Kelly of the DCCC. “From attempting to cut workers’ pay, to slashing the Pell grant program, or working to end the Medicare guarantee, House Republicans give new meaning to ‘sellout’ each and every day. The release of these digital Republican sellout coupons in select districts will draw hardworking Americans’ attention to these betrayals.”