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Columbus, OH – After NBC News caught Bernie Moreno “preparing a return to the auto industry,” unreported public records show that Moreno actually failed to disclose the businesses associated with his new car dealership on his personal financial disclosure for years despite being required by law to do so.

What Ohioans Need To Know About Moreno’s Lies About “Preparing A Return To The Auto Industry:”

• *NEW* Moreno was required to disclose his ownership of M20 Motors LLC and M20 Realty, LLC – the two businesses associated with his new car dealership –  on his 2023 personal financial disclosure but failed to do so. Despite registering these businesses in June 2022, he hid them from Ohioans for years.

• Moreno lied to Ohioans over and over again that he “sold off all of his businesses to avoid conflicts of interest” while taking steps to open a new car dealership. Reports show that Moreno is spending nearly $50 million – $9.5 million on land in Delaware County and $40 million in financing – to open a new Mercedes-Benz dealership.

• Moreno continues to be “under scrutiny” for “re-launch[ing] his family’s high-end car sales business” and lying to Ohioans “for more than a year that he sold off business interests.”

Visit MercedesBenzofSunbury.com to learn more.

SEE ALSO: NEW: Car Salesman Bernie Moreno Caught “Preparing Return To Auto Industry” After Claiming He “Sold Off All Of His Business To Avoid Conflicts Of Interest”; “New Controversy” For Bernie Moreno As He’s Caught Getting Back Into Car Dealership Business; Bernie Moreno “Under Scrutiny” One Week After Getting Caught “Preparing A Return To Auto Industry”; Bernie Moreno Caught Spending Nearly $50 Million On His “Return To The Auto Industry”; Five Times Bernie Moreno Lied To Ohioans By Claiming He Sold Off All Of His Businesses While Investing $50 Million To Open New Car Dealership; Five MORE Times Bernie Moreno Lied To Ohioans By Claiming He Sold Off All Of His Businesses While Investing $50 Million To Open New Car Dealership

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Columbus, OH – As Ohioans begin casting their ballots today, Bernie Moreno’s record of looking out for himself remains on full display: from “stiffing workers” and “destroy[ing] evidence” to get out of paying his employees the wages they earned, to his recent comments mocking Ohio women for caring about making their own health care decisions and supporting a national abortion ban that would overturn the will of Ohioans who voted to protect abortion rights last year.

What To Know About Bernie Moreno As Early Voting Begins:

1. Moreno’s campaign has been “clouded” by a “slew of lawsuits for workers’ wages and workplace discrimination,” including over a dozen lawsuits where Moreno refused to pay his workers the overtime they earned, and he deliberately destroyed evidence he was legally required to keep to get out of it. Moreno was found liable for wage theft by a jury – forcing Moreno to pay over $400,000 in damages to his employees and settle over a dozen similar wage theft cases. After he got caught, Moreno repeatedly lied about the case and multiple fact-checks found his excuses “false.”

2. Moreno called Ohioans “a little crazy” for caring about a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions, said he is “100 percent pro-life with no exceptions,” and would vote for a national abortion ban that would overturn the will of Ohioans. Moreno also called the overturning of Roe v. Wade a “monumental victory,” and opposes protecting a woman’s right to access contraception, including birth control pills. Moreno is endorsed by SBA Pro-Life America, an organization that pledged to only back candidates who support a national abortion ban.

3. Moreno has been caught in lie after lie on the campaign trail and has faced scrutiny for the “string of inconsistencies that have dogged his campaign.” Moreno was caught repeatedly lying about selling the Chinese-made Buick Envision which contributed to “Ohio jobs being shipped overseas,” lying about his phony “rags-to-riches” story as the “signature pitch” of his campaign, and lying about “[selling] off all of his businesses” while spending nearly $50 million to open a new car dealership.

4. Moreno opposed the bipartisan bill to secure the border, opposed Sherrod’s bill to crack down on dangerous fentanyl, and said he won’t work across the aisle to fight for Ohio. Moreno opposed the bipartisan border security bill – which was backed by border patrol agents – and said he “would have opposed” the bipartisan FEND Off Fentanyl Act. When asked how he would work across the aisle, Moreno said he “reject[ed]” the question. In response, Moreno was slammed for having “no real interest” in advocating for Ohioans and being “intent on adding to [the] problem” in Washington.

5. Moreno isn’t the outsider he claims to be. Despite claiming he “built his car dealer empire all on his own,” Moreno actually received “much-needed handout[s],” “special favors,” and “financial assistance” and “leveraged his family connections” and the “Moreno Family cash reserves” to enrich himself. Moreno has exploited his insider political connections to boost his businesses and is “heavily invested” in and profited off of a family enrichment scheme with his brothers by funneling U.S. taxpayer money into banks that financed projects his family oversaw.

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Columbus, OH — In case you missed it, last week Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost spoke at the Center for Christian Virtue’s Essential Summit, described as a “who’s who of right wing figures” which featured Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts among the speakers.

Roberts quite literally wrote the book on the extreme Project 2025 that Donald Trump and JD Vance will implement if elected. He said that climate change amounted to nothing more than a “hot year.” His extreme Project 2025 agenda includes ending medicated abortion, allowing hospitals to deny life-saving care, punishing striking workers and eliminating overtime pay.

 And Roberts isn’t just an author with a controversial book. He’s dangerous.

He hasn’t pledged to accept the results of the election if Trump loses, instead promising a “second American Revolution” and said that it would only be bloodless “if the left allows it to be.”

Instead of doing his job and defending justice for all Ohioans, Dave Yost is aligning himself with dangerous extremists who can’t even commit to a peaceful transition of power,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. “It’s clear Yost will always put political posturing ahead of the interests of Ohioans.”

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Ohioans Can Call or Text 844-OHI-VOTE For Voting-Related Questions

COLUMBUS, OH – Ohioans must be registered to vote by today, October 7th, to vote in the 2024 general election.

Ohioans with a valid photo ID can register to vote online at iwillvote.com before 11:59 PM on October 7th. Ohioans can also register to vote by delivering a paper form to your county’s board of elections by 9:00 PM today, October 7th. For Ohioans who have moved and need to update their voter registration, today is also the last day to update your voting address.

Ohioans can reach Organizing for Ohio’s Voter Assistance Hotline by texting or calling 844-644-8683 (844-OHI-VOTE).

Here are additional helpful resources for Ohio voters to make a plan to vote:

• Check voter registration status here.
• Register to vote by October 7th here.
• Update voter information here. 
• Request absentee ballot by October 29th here.
• Find the closest polling location here.

Here are the key dates for the upcoming election:

• October 7: Voter registration deadline
• October 8: Absentee voting begins
• October 8 – November 3: Early voting 
• October 29: Deadline to request an absentee ballot
• November 5: Election Day

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Columbus, OH – It’s been another terrible week for Bernie Moreno as new reporting uncovered Moreno’s tenure on the MetroHealth board led to “increased prices on most of its services” at taxpayers’ expense. Plus, Moreno continues to face scrutiny for the “slew of lawsuits for workers’ wages and workplace discrimination” he has faced and getting caught in lie after lie on the campaign trail.

NEED-TO-KNOW THIS WEEK:

• New reporting found that while serving on the board of MetroHealth, Bernie Moreno approved budget plans that “gave bonuses to executives” and “increased prices on most of its services” at taxpayers’ expense.

• Former University of ❌ichigan football player Desmond Howard wished his fellow ❌ichigan Wolverine Bernie ❌oreno luck that one day he will get his ❌BA after reporting revealed ❌oreno is lying to Ohioans about having an ❌BA from the University of ❌ichigan.

• After NBC News caught Bernie Moreno “preparing a return to the auto industry,” Moreno is “under scrutiny” for lying to Ohioans and claiming he “sold off all of his businesses to avoid conflicts of interest.”

🤑MORENO VOTED FOR RISING HEALTH CARE COSTS: Recent reporting from the American Journal revealed that during his tenure on the board of MetroHealth, Bernie Moreno approved budget plans that “gave bonuses to executives” at the same time the hospital was “increas[ing] prices on most of its services” at taxpayers’ expense – the latest example that Ohioans “can’t trust Moreno to lower the cost” of health care.

❌ GOOD LUCK, BERNIE!: Three weeks after the Ohio Capital Journal found that Bernie ❌oreno is lying to Ohioans about having an ❌BA from the University of ❌ichigan, former University of ❌ichigan football player Desmond Howard wished his fellow ❌ichigan Wolverine luck that one day he will get the ❌BA he has falsely claimed to have. 

Desmond Howard, former University of ❌ichigan football player: “So rumor has it, you’re getting your MBA from Michigan. Man, I think that’s awesome. Now, listen, it’s not going to be easy… but with that being said, you know you’re there for a reason. So whatever you do, you know, don’t give up. Keep fighting. You’re going to get that MBA, and it’s going to be well worth it one day, my friend. So keep up the hard work. Pulling for you.

“I appreciate you being a big Michigan fan too. Thanks for your support. And why not make it four in a row against the Buckeyes, right? Alright, my man, Bernie, go Blue.”

🤥 MORENO LIED ABOUT SELLING BUSINESSES ALERT: Despite claiming he “sold off all of his businesses to avoid conflicts of interest,” Moreno is spending nearly $50 million – $9.5 million on land in Delaware County and $40 million in financing – to open a new Mercedes-Benz dealership.

Visit MercedesBenzofSunbury.com to learn more.

😾 FAT CAT SPOTTED: Ohioans were reminded of the at least 50 lawsuits against Fat Cat Bernie Moreno in Columbus. Ohioans slammed Moreno for his record of “stiffing workers” and destroying evidence to get out of paying his employees the overtime wages they earned, along with lying about selling the Chinese-made Buick Envision which contributed to Ohio jobs being “shipped overseas.”

🗞️ WHAT OHIOANS ARE READING THIS WEEK:

• American Journal: “Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno served on the board of a hospital corporation that gave bonuses to executives and raised prices for patients.”

• Statehouse News Bureau: “[Bernie Moreno] is a staunch opponent of abortion rights and has made some controversial comments that have angered some Republicans as well as some independent voters.”

• Columbus Dispatch: “Bernie Moreno committed wage theft. He stole from his own employees and had to pay in the neighborhood of $400,000… Facts don’t lie and this one fact should tell any reasonable person all they need to know about his true character and priorities: himself.”

• Vanity Fair: “Moreno’s business dealings have also come under scrutiny. ‘I’ve sold all my operating businesses,’ Moreno told Statehouse News in November 2023… but NBC News reported that Moreno recently filed a personal financial disclosure statement identifying ‘himself as a manager of two companies—including a realty business that he lists as an asset—that, according to public records, are developing a Mercedes-Benz dealership.’”

• The Athens Post: “Ohioans – Democrats and Republicans alike – must remember that Moreno’s hurtful language surrounding abortion and false narrative about his wealth make him the wrong candidate to represent women and the working class.”

🐤 TWEET OF THE WEEK:

🎶 CODA: “It doesn’t seem like candidate Moreno is running for the people, but rather for himself.”

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