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On the heels of a disastrous interview with WPRI where Allan Fung was again defensive about having election deniers supporting his campaign and taking tens of thousands of dollars from them, more Rhode Islanders are seeing the sham of Allan Fung’s campaign.
A vote for Allan Fung is a vote to empower extreme Republicans to take control of our government. He’s too weak to ever stand up to them and their extremist policies.
Today’s Warwick Post nails it on Fung. Highlights below:
U.S. House Race: Fung Can’t Avoid GOP Ties
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Republican former Cranston Mayor Allan Fung has apparently decided that throwing papers and high-fiving cops in scripted videos will get voters to ignore his clear, proven, and continued alliance with a party that packed the U.S. Supreme Court with judges who overturned Roe v. Wade and continues to embrace twice-impeached former President Donald Trump and his debunked claims about the 2020 election.
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Fung also has the support of the national Republican Party to try and win the seat that has been in Democratic hands with only three exceptions in the last century — although you wouldn’t know it by looking at his website, which has zero mention of his party affiliation.
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But for all his attempts to play three-card monte with the facts, Fung can’t distract from the very real threat that he poses if elected: Support for the same people who encouraged an armed incursion on the U.S. Capitol and then refused to participate in the House investigation into it.
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Fung has shown no capacity or willingness to stand up to the national GOP, and trying to dress up his tenure in Cranston as some kind of bipartisan utopia will not change that.
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Democratic former state treasurer Seth Magaziner is, rightly, continuing to make Fung’s attachment to the national Republican Party a major issue in the campaign. On Tuesday, Magaziner’s campaign issued a press release criticizing a Fung fundraiser in Boston hosted by U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), who has denied the validity of the 2020 Presidential Election and voted to overturn the results.
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“Whether it’s Steve Scalise holding a fundraiser for Allan Fung, the $41,000 he took from insurrectionists who tried to overturn the 2020 election, or the $25,000 he raised from [Jan. 6 participant Antonio] Raposa — what’s clear is that Allan Fung cares more about lining his campaign pockets than he does about standing up for our democracy. We are calling on Fung to return the $66,000 dollars he accepted from insurrectionists,” Magaziner campaign Communications Director Patricia Socarras said in the statement.
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Conclusion: Rhode Islanders have already told Allan Fung that we don’t want him in statewide office — twice. Despite his goofy efforts to turn himself into “the mayor next door,” Fung is likely to lose another try at an office higher than the third floor of Cranston City Hall.
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