John James

Michigan’s 10th (MI - 10)

Updated: August 6, 2024

Overview

Candidate CPP:
Detroit: $480

John James is dangerous for Michiganders. He will be a rubber stamp for an extreme MAGA agenda that will hurt working families and seniors in Michigan. 

Summary

Any research conducted about John James should explore the following messaging frames:

  • John James is a threat to women’s reproductive freedoms and promised to “not stop fighting until we end abortion.” He proudly professed that he is “100% Pro-Life. Always have been. Always will be” and even compared abortion to “genocide.” In Congress, he voted to restrict abortion access nationwide and punish doctors who provide abortion care. He even endorsed a near-total abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest that would also outlaw IVF.
  • John James endorsed an extreme budget that would balloon the deficit and reward the ultra wealthy, while raising costs for seniors and working class families. To pay for this, James’ plan would cut Social Security, privatize Medicare, raise the age of retirement, and leave hundreds of thousands of Michiganders without quality affordable healthcare. 
  • John James would be another vote for his allies’ Project 2025 agenda, which would create a mandatory government monitoring of women’s pregnancy that could prosecute them for having an abortion, let insurers deny women coverage for birth control, and threaten abortion access nationwide. 
  • John James took hundreds of thousands of dollars from the oil and gas industry while voting against a ban on dangerous oil drilling in the Great Lakes. He even backed an agenda to cut the Environmental Protection Agency programs that protect our drinking water. 
  • John James has been bankrolled by the drug and insurance industry and does their bidding in Congress. He supports a budget repealing the $35 cap on insulin and letting Medicare negotiate for lower drug prices, and he even supported repealing the Affordable Care Act, calling it a “monstrosity.” James would jeopardize the health care of 400,000 Michiganders, gutting protections for pre-existing conditions and increasing healthcare costs for working families.
  • As CEO of an international shipping company based in Michigan, John James promised to create jobs in Michigan – he even took taxpayer money to do so. Instead, he paid himself millions of dollars while failing to create the jobs he promised. When his company got caught and lost tax exemption status, he still kept over $2 million in tax breaks. 
  • As CEO of an international shipping company based in Michigan, John James promised to create jobs in Michigan. Instead, he imported auto parts made in China while paying himself millions of dollars. When he got caught, he tried to cover it up by deleting videos of Chinese flags flying in his warehouses. 
  • The same national Republicans who are pushing Project 2025 are supporting John James. That’s because they know he would back their extreme agenda that would let employers pay workers less in overtime, allow surprise medical billing, ban Medicare from negotiating lower prescription drug costs, eliminate the $35 insulin price cap for seniors, and eliminate the Head Start program.

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