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BAD NEWS BERNIE: Moreno Gets Caught In Another Lie & Opposes Protecting Birth Control

June 7, 2024

Columbus, OH – Temperatures are rising and Bernie Moreno’s “string of inconsistencies” keeps growing, with new reporting today detailing yet another lie from Moreno: this time about bringing 5G to the City of Cleveland while “the record… tells a different story.” And Moreno took his pledge to overrule Ohioans and rip away freedoms even further by saying he “doesn’t support” protections for contraception access.

NEED-TO-KNOW THIS WEEK:

🚨 LIE ALERT LOADING: New reporting from Ohio Capital Journal discovered that Moreno’s claim that he brought 5G to the City of Cleveland is yet another lie that Moreno “still insists” on telling Ohioans. Read the highlights:

  • The record, however, tells a different story. AT&T’s earliest announcements about 5G networks come from 2016. The Blockland conference was held in 2018.
  • In 2019,  [Moreno] claimed the Blockland initiative prompted AT&T to bring 5G service to Cleveland.
  • “AT&T is looking at putting 5G in Cleveland,” he told Smart Business Dealmakers Cleveland that April. “That probably wouldn’t have happened without the Blockland effort and the people who were involved.”
  • In a Cuyahoga County finance and budgeting committee meeting a few months later, Moreno said, “AT&T has made the decision to roll out 5G in Cleveland — first in Ohio, and probably first fully implemented city in America, if they go on their timeline.”
  • The record, however, tells a different story. One in which Blockland was less a draw for AT&T than a new platform to lobby for infrastructure improvements the company was already planning. The episode demonstrates how Moreno interacts with major corporate interests and burnishes his own reputation in the process.
  • AT&T’s earliest announcements about 5G networks come from 2016.
  • AT&T projected it would roll out the technology in 20 metro areas by the end of 2017.
  • The following year, AT&T announced plans to introduce true 5G services in a dozen cities… The announcement projected they’d bring 5G evolution to 500 markets, Cleveland among them, by the end of the year. That’s more than six months before the first Blockland conference…
  • While AT&T was rushing headlong toward 5G coverage nationally, it was also lobbying leaders in the Ohio Statehouse and in Cleveland City Hall. Those efforts began years before Blockland and were aimed at laying the groundwork for 5G around the state.
  • Nevertheless, Moreno still insists Blockland played a major role in convincing AT&T to bring 5G to Cleveland.

🔥 PANTS-ON-FIRE TOUR STOP #1: Moreno is facing further fire from Ohioans for “lying [to] and disrespecting Ohioans” in a “calculated” attempt to “turn himself into someone he is not.” Whether it’s lying about his phony “rags-to-riches” story, lying about selling Chinese-made cars, lying about shutting down Cleveland State’s Confucius Institute, lying about “escap[ing]” socialism, or lying about his business origin story, Ohioans are “insulted and appalled” by Moreno’s fibs. Read more about “Moreno’s record of lying”:

  • WLIO: “Lima Councilwoman Carla Thompson, local UAW president Jeff Adams, and retired teacher Pat Joseph Johnson all spoke on what they are calling Moreno’s record of lying. They say that he didn’t tell the truth when he was telling his business origin story of doing it all on his own when the Democrats say that he got an insider deal for his first car dealership. Plus, they say he lied when he said that he refused to sell a Chinese-made car, the Buick Envision.”
  • Lima News: “Moreno said he refused to sell Chinese-made Buick Envisions when he was a car salesman when he sold them for years, ‘hurting Ohio workers in Lima and our manufacturing industry,’ Thompson said.”
  • Jeff Adams, United Auto Workers Local 1219 President: “‘As a car dealer, Moreno refused to pay his employees overtime wages they earned, and he went as far as to shred evidence to try to get away with it, and then he got caught when he repeatedly lied about it. Even after fact-checks found his excuses to be false, he kept lying.’”
  • Pat Joseph Johnson, retired  Lima educator: “‘As one of those voters, I am insulted and appalled that one of our potential elected officials would craft such stories to get elected. Does he think we’re that gullible?’ Johnson said.”

❌ BERNIE OPPOSES BIRTH CONTROL ACCESS: Bernie Moreno said he “doesn’t support” protecting contraception access for women across the country this week. Reminder: Moreno has already voted against protecting birth control by voting against Issue 1 last year, supports a national abortion ban that would overturn the will of Ohioans, and opposes all abortion exceptions, saying he is “100% pro-life with no exceptions” and “absolute pro-life, no exceptions.”

🚫 BERNIE WANTS AN ABORTION BAN PART 2749281:There’s more – an organization that pledged to only back candidates who support a national abortion ban endorsed Bernie Moreno today, who has said he would overturn the will of Ohioans by voting for a national abortion ban and opposes all exceptions.

 🗞️ WHAT OHIOANS ARE READING THIS WEEK:

  • Carla Thompson, Lima City Councilwoman: “[Moreno is] lying to turn himself into someone he is not to appeal to Ohioans…  I don’t think that we can afford to have somebody else in office that’s not telling us the truth.”
  • Jeff Adams, UAW Local 1219 President: “I always ask: where was Bernie Moreno when the auto workers Stand Up Strike of 2023 was? I never heard him say anything or do any of our press conferences. Sherrod Brown was on the strike line and walking with us.”
  • Tony Totty, UAW Local 14 President: “I’ve been at six different facilities in the auto industry, because they closed so many of them because of people like Bernie Moreno, you know, not caring, when it benefits them… [Moreno] doesn’t have a problem profiting from these vehicles made in China… He’s a hypocrite. He’s trying to pull a fast one. But we caught him and we’re not going to let them off the hook.
  • Rick Smith, WCPT: “You know, [Moreno] sold [Chinese-made cars], you know, he did it and advertised it for years. And then is now taking the campaign route hoping no one will notice…”
  • Brent Larkin, Cleveland.com: “…Moreno’s campaign has been dogged by persistent reports of him rewriting his personal and family history in an effort to disguise himself…”
  • Cleveland.com: “A spokesperson for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, who is running against Brown, said he opposes the [Right to Contraception Act].”

🐤 TWEET OF THE WEEK:

🎶 CODA: “Bernie Moreno was sued for stealing wages from workers. How can you be pro-worker when you’re stiffing them in their paycheck?”

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