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BAD NEWS BERNIE: Moreno Faces Scrutiny For Record “Stiffing Workers” & Failing To Disclose New Car Dealership Business

Columbus, OH – It’s been nothing but bad news for Bernie Moreno as he continues to face scrutiny for his record “stiffing workers” and unreported public records show that he failed to disclose the businesses associated with his new car dealership. Plus, recent reporting exposed that Bernie Moreno wants the Department of Education to be “eliminated” and his campaign and affiliated committees accepted $46,000 in contributions from Betsy DeVos and her family.

NEED-TO-KNOW THIS WEEK:

  • Over 1,200 women penned a letter to Bernie Moreno speaking out against his recent comments “mocking” Ohio women and his support for a national abortion ban that will overturn the will of Ohioans who voted to protect abortion rights last year.
  • Unreported public records show that Moreno 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.
  • Bernie Moreno wants the Department of Education to be “eliminated” by 2025 if he is elected to office, and his campaign and affiliated committees accepted $46,000 in contributions from Betsy DeVos and her family.

💰 CAR DEALER OUT FOR HIMSELF: 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 facing multiple lawsuits for mistreating his employees. Read more from WKYC here:

  • WKYC: “During the course of the campaign, Moreno has dealt with several questions about his past business dealings.”
  • WKYC: “In January 2024, the Associated Press reported that three discrimination suits were filed against Moreno in Cuyahoga County between 2015 and 2017.”
  • WKYC: “Also in January 2024, Moreno discussed the outcome of a Massachusetts lawsuit that he lost related to overtime wage theft on a radio show. In 3News’ VERIFY series, Stephanie Haney showed that Moreno’s claims that the Massachusetts Supreme Court overturned federal law were false.”
  • WKYC: “The Ohio Capital Journal also found an additional wage theft lawsuit was filed against Moreno by a former employee.”

🚫 NO ONE’S LAUGHING, BERNIE: After over 1,200 women penned a letter to Bernie Moreno speaking out against his recent comments “mocking” Ohio women for caring about a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions, Ohioans are reading that Moreno is “unfit” for the Senate because he supports a national abortion ban that will overturn the will of Ohioans who voted to protect abortion rights last year.

🚘 FAILURE TO DISCLOSE: 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 – the latest in Moreno’s lies about his new car dealership. 

  • *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.

Visit MercedesBenzofSunbury.com to learn more.

🎒 MORENO SEEKS TO ELIMINATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: New reporting from Heartland Signal revealed Bernie Moreno wants the Department of Education to be “eliminated” by 2025 if he is elected to office, and his campaign and affiliated committees accepted $46,000 in contributions from Betsy DeVos and her family – DeVos is “on record saying that she thought ‘the Department of Education should not exist.’”

🗞️ WHAT OHIOANS ARE READING THIS WEEK:

  • Heartland Signal: “[Moreno stated] the hope was that the Department of Education would be “eliminated” by 2025.”
  • Statehouse News Bureau: “[Moreno’s campaign] did not address a question about whether Moreno would vote for a national abortion ban if it were to come before him.”
  • Jenny Conrad of Mt. Orab, Statehouse News Bureau: “I was insulted by Bernie Moreno’s comment about people over 50, women over 50, being just a little crazy. I’m a 72 year-old-woman and of course I’m concerned about womens’ reproductive issues. I’ve got daughters, I’ve got sisters, I’ve got nieces, I’ve got friends, all who I care about… I care about their right to be able to make their own health care decisions.”
  • Jezebel: “Last year, Ohio voters decisively passed a ballot measure to restore abortion rights in the state… So, you have to wonder why Moreno thought it wise to call the many women who supported this ballot measure ‘a little crazy’…”
  • WCMH: “Moreno’s image is underwater, with 37% favorable and 46% unfavorable.”
  • Signal Cleveland: “In a 2022 interview, Moreno described himself as ‘absolute pro-life, no exceptions.’”
  • The Columbus Dispatch: “​​Moreno also faced criticism after NBC News reported that he bought a $9.5 million parcel of land in Delaware County north of Columbus for a new Mercedes-Benz dealership. Moreno signed a $40 million mortgage agreement for the property… the purchase came after Moreno repeatedly said he sold off his businesses to focus on the Senate race and avoid potential conflicts of interest.”

🐤 TWEET OF THE WEEK:

🎶 CODA: “Ohio women do not trust Bernie Moreno.”

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NEW: Bernie Moreno Failed To Disclose New Car Dealership Business On His Personal Finance Disclosure For Years

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.

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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As Early Voting Begins, Here’s What Ohioans Know About Bernie Moreno

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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ICYMI: Ohio AG Dave Yost Speaks at Extreme Right-Wing Summit Alongside Project 2025 Architect 

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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REMINDER: OHIOANS MUST REGISTER TO VOTE BY TODAY

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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