Last night, Kate Schroder showed Southwest Ohio voters exactly what they stand to gain by electing her new and practical leadership to Congress over Congressman Chabot who’s become everything that’s wrong with Washington in his quarter of a century in office.
In a dominant performance, Kate highlighted her record of delivering results, her background on public health, and her focus on protecting coverage for pre-existing conditions. Meanwhile, Shady Chabot continued to lie and lob false accusations to disguise his record.
Ahead of today’s debate, here’s a fresh reminder of five things Congressman Chabot is hiding:
1. Shady Chabot refused to grade Trump’s COVID-19 response. This comes after over 210,000 Americans have lost their lives to this global pandemic and the proof that Trump purposefully downplayed the virus and slowed down testing.
2. The FBI investigated Shady Chabot’s Campaign. And worse, Chabot concealed that information for weeks from the public. Chabot may claim to be the “victim” of his entire campaign unravelling in a mass of corruption, but he clearly knew the investigation was damning enough to conceal it. And per Chabot’s own words: “We’re dealing with a sleazy group of people and it starts at the top of the ticket.”
3. Shady Chabot is still dodging important questions about his campaign’s corruption. Where is the missing $123,000? Why didn’t Chabot’s Treasurer know he had the job? How can Chabot possibly be so out of touch that he didn’t know what was going on in his own campaign? What other communications have Chabot and his campaign had with the FBI?
4. Shady Chabot voted over 15 times to gut protections for pre-existing conditions. The facts are clear: Chabot’s votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act threaten coverage for every person with a pre-existing condition. And as the Cincinnati Business Courier noted, Politifact rated claims that the AHCA protected coverage for pre-existing conditions “mostly false because of the lack of a cap.”
5. Shady Chabot used his position to pay his son-in-law over $150,000 and all for an outdated and clunky website. Chabot’s payments were 800% above the going rate, represents 100% of Chabot’s son-in-law’s federal business since 2012. These payments were so egregious it led good government advocates to say the arrangement “smacks of nepotism and self-dealing.”
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