CATCH UP QUICK: What to Know About the WI-03 Race Between Rebecca Cooke and Derrick Van Orden

Refresh your memory on Van Orden’s toxic record:

• Derrick Van Orden voted for the largest Medicaid cuts in history, stripping health care from millions and forcing rural hospitals to cut services and close – all to give tax breaks to his special interest donors.
• He took campaign cash from health insurers, then supported letting them deny health insurance to people who get sick or have pre-existing conditions and voted to raise health care premiums.
• And he took campaign cash from drug companies and opposed requiring Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices.
• Van Orden took tens of thousands in campaign cash from the data center industry while he voted for a bill that gave over $80 billion in tax breaks to data center developers.
• Van Orden has rubber stamped the Iran War and the reckless tariffs, even as they’ve driven up the cost of gas, diesel, groceries, and more – hurting farmers and forcing Wisconsinites to pay more for everything.

Key reads on the WI-03 race:

• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Derrick Van Orden claims credit for Wisconsin’s extra Medicaid dollars after voting to cut the program
• HuffPost: GOP Rep. Weirdly Lies About Helping His State Survive The Medicaid Cuts He Voted For
• The Recombobulation Area: Adrift in Western Wisconsin
• UpNorthNews: Van Orden the congressman isn’t as independent as Van Orden the candidate promised
• News8Now: Van Orden doubles down on threat to cut Mayo Clinic’s federal funding
• Heartland Signal: Records reveal Rep. Van Orden skipped 10 key Agriculture hearings as farm bankruptcies surge
• Politico: The Democratic Civil War Is Raging — Except in This Swing-State Race
• Heartland Signal: Derrick Van Orden decries closing of a veteran shelter he did nothing to preserve
• American Journal: Van Orden backs GOP blockade of Obamacare subsidies as costs rise

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