Ted Strickland, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, is again under scrutiny for allegedly misleading voters on his policy positions.
The competing campaign of incumbent Sen. Rob Portman (R.) accused Strickland, former governor of Ohio, of spreading a false narrative about his stance on trade with China. Throughout his campaign, Strickland has been criticized by individuals in both parties for flip-flopping and misleading voters on issues.
A web advertisement released by the Strickland campaign Thursday criticizes Portman for voting for the continuation of normal trade relations between the United States and China as a congressman in July 1999. The video specifically hits Portman for voting to give “Most Favored Nation” status to China and accuses him of “selling out” Ohio.
The advertisement does not mention that Strickland, who served in Congress in the 1990s and 2000s, voted against revoking “Most Favored Nation” status for China in July 1993 and August 1994.
The Portman campaign characterized the new video as “dishonest” and “misleading.”
“Ted Strickland’s dishonest and misleading Web video can’t hide the fact that in Congress he voted twice against revoking China’s Most Favored Nation status,” Portman campaign spokeswoman Michawn Rich said in a statement. “Rob Portman is the only candidate in this race who has stood up to China—even opposing his own party to stop China’s currency manipulation and protecting Ohio jobs when China cheats.”
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2 comments:
This should be done in the RNC's primary as well. Both Kasich and Cruz have misled voters relentlessly because they count on their constituents to be too stupid or lazy to follow-up by looking at their actual records. Cruz has always been for TPP, Amnesty and Immigration galore while also promoting the bad trade deals in China/Mexico which have stifled manufacturing in America and cost many Americans jobs and pensions lost when companies engage in inversion business practices. (Meaning they ship the jobs off to other countries.)
Kasich has done the same with his governance of Ohio as well as his time on the Hill.
Wake up voters. You're having a very big bale of wool pulled over your eyes.
Oh I'm so shocked! NOT!
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