It doesn’t get more hypocritical than this. Republicans Juan Ciscomani (AZ-06) and Eli Crane (AZ-02) both railed against government spending — but when it came to taking government relief funds that personally benefited them, both candidates claim that spending was “necessary.”
The Arizona Republic reported today on how Crane and Ciscomani personally benefited from thousands in forgivable loans under the Paycheck Protection Program, despite their vocal criticism of federal aid. Their agenda of “Aid for me, but not for thee” is politics at its worst, and Arizonans deserve answers on why Eli Crane and Juan Ciscomani want to deny the American people the same aid they happily took for themselves.
Read more below:
Arizona Republic: 2 GOP congressional candidates oppose DC big spending, but took COVID-19 relief money
By Tara Kavaler
June 30, 2022
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“Eli Crane and Juan Ciscomani, two Arizona Republicans running for the U.S. House of Representatives, have staked out campaign positions that Washington spends too much money. But both took money from the federal Paycheck Protection Program.”
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“The two GOP candidates running in different congressional districts also argue that receiving government relief on the once-in-a-lifetime pandemic does not negate their general belief that Washington overspends and overreaches.”
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“The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which works to elect Democrats to the House, and some, but not all, of their Republican primary opponents have characterized Crane and Ciscomani’s actions as ‘hypocritical.’”
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“In a Dec. 23 Instagram post, Crane blasted the December 2020 COVID-19 stimulus bill […] for increasing the national debt. That bill, however, funded the PPP, which Crane’s small business benefited from months before that also contributed to increasing the national debt.”
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