Miller-Meeks has a zero percent lifetime rating from the Iowa AFL-CIO
As workers across northeast Iowa celebrate Labor Day and the rights they’ve achieved, Mariannette Miller-Meeks is continuing her campaign to bring the same disastrous anti-worker policies she has been pushing for years to Washington.
As a perennial candidate, Miller-Meeks has built a long paper trail of opposing policies that would leave Iowa workers better off, coming out in support of privatizing Social Security – a policy that would disproportionately hurt working Iowans. As a state senator, she voted to cut unemployment benefits that are keeping Iowans afloat during the coronavirus pandemic. If the legislation she voted for had become law, it could have cut benefits for hundreds of thousands of Iowans who have filed for unemployment had their employer gone out of business. It’s no wonder she has a zero percent lifetime rating from the Iowa AFL-CIO.
Rita Hart, on the other hand, has built a strong record of putting hardworking Iowans first. After spending decades as a teacher in southeast Iowa, Rita put economic development at the heart of her work in the State Senate, voting to enhance job training programs and to raise the minimum wage for Iowa workers. As an advocate for working families in Congress, she will work to strengthen and preserve Medicare and Social Security – not put it on the chopping block.
“Iowa workers simply can’t trust Mariannette Miller-Meeks to fight for them. Whether she’s advocating for privatizing Social Security or voting to cut unemployment benefits, Miller-Meeks has proven that she’ll always put wealthy corporations and special interests ahead of the little guy,” said DCCC Spokesperson Brooke Goren.
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