As voters prepare to hear from Rosemary Becchi—who is still lobbying in DC, trying to get a constituent fired, and running a terrible campaign for Congress—we’d like to remind you just how toxic Becchi’s record is for New Jersey families.
- Rosemary Becchi wants to see the Affordable Care Act “eliminated.” Becchi’s plan would lead to at least 27,000 residents of New Jersey’s 11th district losing their health care coverage during a pandemic and would gut protections for at least 315,300 residents with pre-existing conditions, including those who have survived COVID-19.
- Becchi lobbied for the 2017 tax law, forcing New Jerseyans to pay thousands more in taxes all while making millions for her lobbying clients. When lawmakers weren’t working fast enough to deliver tax handouts to her clients, Becchi called on legislators to end debate over which deductions to keep in the tax bill, when she could have been fighting to keep the SALT deduction instead. The tax bill hit New Jersey “harder than any other state” — particularly the 11th district. Fifty-four percent of tax returns in New Jersey’s 11th district took SALT deductions in 2016 — the second highest district in the country for SALT deductions.
- Because of her diligent lobbying efforts, Becchi’s clients made millions off the backs of taxpayers in high-tax states like New Jersey, as did her firm. Becchi and her employer received around $1.7 million in compensation for lobbying on the tax bill, and her client Exxon Mobil earned nearly $5.9 billion in immediate savings from the tax bill.
- Rosemary Becchi is still lobbying for special interests while running for Congress. According to the New Jersey Globe: “Lobbying disclosures filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the U.S. Secretary of State in the first and second quarters of 2020 list Becchi and two other employees at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck as lobbyists on behalf of Western Union.” Western Union, which has repeatedly failed to stop money laundering, terrorist financing, and human tracking financing, has been paying lobbyist Rosemary Becchi and her firm to lobby on money laundering, financial fraud, human trafficking, and terrorist financing, among other issues. Western Union’s legal troubles have been in the spotlight for a while, most recently paying a fine for funding terrorism in 2019.
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