Ron
Johnson is one of the biggest Democratic targets in 2016. Johnson
was elected during the off-year GOP tsunami of 2010. Having never
occupied public office, he had no record to run on for that
campaign and seldom spoke in detail on the issues. However, the 2016
campaign will be very different. Wisconsin has had a chance to see
just how extreme our Senator is, and we don't like it. Ron Johnson
will not be re-elected to a second term. Here are our top nine
reasons why:
1. 2016 is a presidential election year. In presidential elections, Wisconsin voter turn-out is high (2012-70.1%; 2008- 69.2%). In off-year elections, turn-out is much lower (2010- 49.7%; 2014- 54.8%). A huge majority of the increased presidential year voters cast their ballots for Democrats. For example, Republican Johnson was elected in an off-year (2010) while Democrat Tammy Baldwin was elected in a presidential year (2012). High voter turn-out this year does not bode well for Johnson.
2. Johnson's awful environmental record. Ron Johnson's voting record on environmental issues is so horrendous that he earned an abysmal Lifetime Score of 4% from the League of Conservation Voters. His rejection of Climate Science has earned him the derisive nickname "Senator Sunspot".
3. Johnson's letter to the Ayatollah. Johnson was one of the Senators who wrote a traitorous letter to the leaders of Iran, telling them to pay no attention to the US President during negotiations to end Iran's nuclear program. That foolish act alone should disqualify him from further public office.
4. Johnson's refusal to do his job. Ron Johnson plays a major role in the deep partisanship and dysfunction of Congress. During the long government shut-down of 2013, Johnson actually voted against the final compromise to reopen the government. This year, he is stubbornly refusing to perform his Senatorial responsibility in filling the current Supreme Court vacancy.
5. Johnson would undo the Affordable Care Act. Ron Johnson calls the law that allows you to buy health insurance despite a pre-existing condition the "greatest assault on our freedom in our lifetime". He would abolish tax credits for the 239,000 Wisconsinites who have bought insurance through the exchanges. He would return to a time when ever-increasing numbers of Americans did without life-saving health care. Last December, he cast a Senate vote to abolish the lifesaving law.
6. Johnson's embrace of Donald Trump. RoJo's enthusiastic support forJohn Miller
John Baron Don the Con is a millstone around
his neck. According to one local right-wing radio personality, "If
you embrace Donald Trump, you embrace it all".
7. Johnson's hatred of Social Security. Johnson cannot be trusted to preserve your Social Security. During the 2010 campaign, he referred to your retirement plan is a "Ponzi scheme". In a 2013 speech, he called it "candy the left is giving away." He praised Paul Ryan's 2010 scheme to privatize Social Security. For his opposition to retirement security, he has earned a 0% lifetime rating from the Alliance for Retired Americans.
8. Johnson's Koch connection. Johnson pays much more attention to the needs of his corporate masters than to those of his constituents. Rated 90% by the Koch brother's group Americans for Prosperity, Johnson has been described as the Koch's "Model legislator". He has already been propped-up through huge TV ad buys by Koch-funded Super PAC's.
9. Johnson's awful record on veterans. Johnson has repeatedly voted against the interests of our veterans. In the only recent Senate ratings by veterans' groups, Johnson received 0% scores from Disabled American Veterans (2014) and Vietnam Veterans of America (2011). His role in the Tomah scandal is inexcusable. A 2015 release by Votevets is titled, "Ron Johnson has failed veterans."
These are just a few reasons that Ron Johnson will be a one-term Senator. There are many others, including his sheer stupidity, the rarity of his meeting with Wisconsin citizens, his ties to the increasingly unpopular Tea Party, and unresolved questions over the self-funding of his last campaign. You probably have your own favorites.
In November, Wisconsin will elect a new, more competent Senator. We will elect a Senator who pays attention to the wishes of his constituents. We will elect a Senator that we can again be proud of. We will elect Russ Feingold.
1. 2016 is a presidential election year. In presidential elections, Wisconsin voter turn-out is high (2012-70.1%; 2008- 69.2%). In off-year elections, turn-out is much lower (2010- 49.7%; 2014- 54.8%). A huge majority of the increased presidential year voters cast their ballots for Democrats. For example, Republican Johnson was elected in an off-year (2010) while Democrat Tammy Baldwin was elected in a presidential year (2012). High voter turn-out this year does not bode well for Johnson.
2. Johnson's awful environmental record. Ron Johnson's voting record on environmental issues is so horrendous that he earned an abysmal Lifetime Score of 4% from the League of Conservation Voters. His rejection of Climate Science has earned him the derisive nickname "Senator Sunspot".
3. Johnson's letter to the Ayatollah. Johnson was one of the Senators who wrote a traitorous letter to the leaders of Iran, telling them to pay no attention to the US President during negotiations to end Iran's nuclear program. That foolish act alone should disqualify him from further public office.
4. Johnson's refusal to do his job. Ron Johnson plays a major role in the deep partisanship and dysfunction of Congress. During the long government shut-down of 2013, Johnson actually voted against the final compromise to reopen the government. This year, he is stubbornly refusing to perform his Senatorial responsibility in filling the current Supreme Court vacancy.
5. Johnson would undo the Affordable Care Act. Ron Johnson calls the law that allows you to buy health insurance despite a pre-existing condition the "greatest assault on our freedom in our lifetime". He would abolish tax credits for the 239,000 Wisconsinites who have bought insurance through the exchanges. He would return to a time when ever-increasing numbers of Americans did without life-saving health care. Last December, he cast a Senate vote to abolish the lifesaving law.
6. Johnson's embrace of Donald Trump. RoJo's enthusiastic support for
7. Johnson's hatred of Social Security. Johnson cannot be trusted to preserve your Social Security. During the 2010 campaign, he referred to your retirement plan is a "Ponzi scheme". In a 2013 speech, he called it "candy the left is giving away." He praised Paul Ryan's 2010 scheme to privatize Social Security. For his opposition to retirement security, he has earned a 0% lifetime rating from the Alliance for Retired Americans.
8. Johnson's Koch connection. Johnson pays much more attention to the needs of his corporate masters than to those of his constituents. Rated 90% by the Koch brother's group Americans for Prosperity, Johnson has been described as the Koch's "Model legislator". He has already been propped-up through huge TV ad buys by Koch-funded Super PAC's.
9. Johnson's awful record on veterans. Johnson has repeatedly voted against the interests of our veterans. In the only recent Senate ratings by veterans' groups, Johnson received 0% scores from Disabled American Veterans (2014) and Vietnam Veterans of America (2011). His role in the Tomah scandal is inexcusable. A 2015 release by Votevets is titled, "Ron Johnson has failed veterans."
These are just a few reasons that Ron Johnson will be a one-term Senator. There are many others, including his sheer stupidity, the rarity of his meeting with Wisconsin citizens, his ties to the increasingly unpopular Tea Party, and unresolved questions over the self-funding of his last campaign. You probably have your own favorites.
In November, Wisconsin will elect a new, more competent Senator. We will elect a Senator who pays attention to the wishes of his constituents. We will elect a Senator that we can again be proud of. We will elect Russ Feingold.
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