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“As a former police officer, public servant, and family man, Tom O’Halleran knows better than most that all families want is a chance to raise their kids safely and an opportunity to live the American Dream. Tom’s no stranger to tough fights, and his ability to work across the aisle has allowed him to deliver over and over again for Arizona families. The more Arizonans get to know Eli Crane, the less they’ll find to like about his toxic, extreme agenda. Tom O’Halleran works hard for Arizona’s 2nd District every day and voters will re-elect him this November.” – DCCC Chairman Sean Patrick Maloney
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To: Interested Parties
From: Monica Robinson, DCCC Regional Press Secretary
Date: August 3, 2022
Subject: The Case For Tom O’Halleran
Tom O’Halleran is a former police officer, business owner, public servant, family man, and the champion Arizonans need to be their voice in Washington. First as a police officer and now in Congress, Tom O’Halleran has always protected our families. He has spent years delivering for Arizona’s tribes, veterans, seniors, and rural communities in Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District – and Arizonans will show up for Tom to re-elect him this November.
In Congress, Rep. Tom O’Halleran is a consensus builder who works with both sides of the aisle to get things done for Arizonans. He’s the most bipartisan member of Arizona’s congressional delegation, and that’s why he’s been able to deliver crucial resources to rural and tribal communities, invest in clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure, mitigate wildfire risk and support Arizonans impacted by wildfire damage, and expand affordable health care and community health centers in his district. And Tom has been one of Congress’s leading voices fighting to expand rural broadband, ensure our veterans have the support they need after serving our country, and ban stock trading for members of Congress.
But all of that progress is on the line this November, because Eli Crane would work relentlessly to push his extreme agenda in DC.
Eli Crane doesn’t even live in Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District – but even if he did live in the district he’s aiming to represent, he’s far too radical on the issues that matter most for Arizonans. In the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned, Crane’s extreme agenda would be nothing short of dangerous for Arizona women. He wants to ban abortion, with no exceptions for cases of rape or incest. Crane called the SCOTUS decision a “massive victory,” turning his back on Arizona women who deserve the right to make decisions about their own bodies and futures. He even voiced support for a draconian abortion ban in Texas that offered almost no exceptions and allowed private citizens to collect a cash bounty for turning in anyone they believe assisted a patient with accessing abortion. Crane’s hardline agenda could put women’s lives at risk.
To Eli Crane, your vote isn’t sacred – he’ll gladly toss it out if he doesn’t agree with the outcome of an election. Crane has repeatedly embraced Donald Trump’s “big lie” and shamelessly spread the conspiracy theory that there was fraud in the 2020 presidential election – even writing multiple op-eds promoting falsehoods on the subject.
At a time when Arizonans need leaders in Washington willing to work across the aisle and find solutions to tough problems, Eli Crane has proven he’ll be a rubber stamp for the most extreme, radical wing of his party, even when it will hurt Arizona families. Thanks to the House Democrats’ infrastructure plan, Arizona is soon to see a once-in-a-lifetime investment in roads, bridges, pipes, ports, and broadband – but Crane opposed the infrastructure bill, claiming it would “drive us further into debt” and calling on Republicans who voted for it to be primaried. Crane also blasted the December 2020 COVID-19 relief bill that directed PPP loans to small businesses for “increasing the national debt.” But all his hand-wringing about national debt turned out to be hypocritical: Eli Crane himself took nearly $70,000 in a PPP loan for his own business, which was ultimately forgiven by the SBA. Crane’s agenda of “aid for me, but not for thee” is exactly the kind of self-serving, hypocritical politics that Arizonans hate.
The last thing Arizonans need is another rubber stamp for the Republican Party that opposed infrastructure investments, good-paying jobs, COVID-19 relief for small businesses and families, and capping the price of prescription drugs. Voters will re-elect Rep. Tom O’Halleran this November.
WHAT THEY’RE SAYING:
HEADLINE: O’Halleran keeps running against the odds [Roll Call, 7/11/22]
HEADLINE: O’Halleran again ranked most bipartisan Arizona House member [InMaricopa, 5/4/22]
“Arizona has a history of producing lightning-rod members of Congress, like Representative Paul Gosar. But the Arizona politician you should be paying attention to — and who can potentially tell us a great deal about Democrats’ hopes of avoiding a 2022 wipeout in the House — probably isn’t on your radar. That would be Representative Tom O’Halleran, a Democrat who has been in office since 2017 and who started out his political career as something few Democrats can claim — a Republican.” [New York Times, 4/11/22]
“When asked about the primary field, Republican strategists did not express much excitement[.]” [New York Times, 4/11/22]
HEADLINE: 2 GOP congressional candidates oppose DC big spending, but took COVID-19 relief money [Arizona Republic, 6/20/22]
“Both Blackman and Crane have expressed the view, despite the evidence presented, that Biden did not actually win the 2020 presidential election, with Crane having pushed for decertification.” [Roll Call, 7/11/22]
“O’Halleran believes old-fashioned retail politics will come through for him. His approach is an example of the stubborn yet necessary hope that Democrats can both localize and personalize their races in order to overcome a punishing national environment.” [New York Times, 4/11/22]
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