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Cherie Lyn, St. Marys Resident: “Moreno Won’t Stand With Ohioans”

Columbus, OH –  Ohioans continue to slam Bernie Moreno for his “disrespectful” support for a national abortion ban that “flies directly in the face of what Ohioans voted for” and would “take away our rights and take away our peace of mind.” Bernie Moreno supports a national abortion ban that would overturn the will of Ohioans and opposes protecting access to contraception, including birth control pills.

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The Evening Leader: Bernie Moreno Wants An Abortion Ban, Doesn’t Respect Ohio Voters
Cherie Lyn
July 3, 2024

• The anniversary of the Dobbs decision this past week was a reminder of the many Ohio voters who showed up at the polls last fall, to enshrine reproductive rights in Ohio’s constitution, and vote by an overwhelming majority to enshrine abortion access in our state.

• But unfortunately, our work isn’t over.

• Bernie Moreno, who is running for U.S. Senate, supports a national abortion ban, and if he were elected to the Senate he would overrule the will of thousands of voters who made their voices heard on reproductive rights last year.

• Ohioans made it clear where we stand. Sherrod Brown has also made it clear he stands with us and has always been an advocate for a woman’s right to make her own healthcare decisions.

• Moreno doesn’t care that Ohioans overwhelmingly support a woman’s right to choose. Frankly, it’s disrespectful of Moreno to campaign on supporting a national abortion ban when he knows that flies directly in the face of what Ohioans voted for last fall.

• Moreno won’t stand with Ohioans and he doesn’t support our values. We can’t let Moreno take away our rights and take away our peace of mind. We have to reelect Sherrod this November.

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Columbus, OH – Bernie Moreno remains silent on the “string of inconsistencies” that are “dogg[ing]” his campaign and owes Ohioans answers about the lies he’s told on the trail, including the “signature pitch” of his campaign and other “dubious claims” he has made to Ohio voters.

Questions Moreno must answer about the lies “dogg[ing] his campaign”:

1. Why are you claiming on the campaign trail that you had a “lower-middle-class status” and lived a “bootstraps story,” when your family was actually “rich and politically connected,” lived in a luxury oceanfront condo, and “never completely left behind” your wealth and status?

2. Why did you claim you “didn’t take handouts” when reporting shows you got your dealership at a steep discount? Will you make documents around your 2005 insider deal available?

3. Why are you lying to Ohio workers by claiming you never sold Chinese-made SUVs? Will you apologize to Ohio workers who have criticized you for contributing to their jobs being “shipped overseas” and “hurt[ing] Mahoning Valley workers and families?”

4. Why are you lying about shutting down Cleveland State’s Confucius Institute?

5. Why are you lying about escaping socialism?

6. Why are you lying about bringing 5G access to Cleveland?

SEE ALSO: NEW: NYT Report Details Bernie Moreno’s Phony “Rags-To-Riches Tale” & Lies About “Bootstraps Story” As Part Of “Calculated Process of Self-Creation”; Questions Bernie Moreno Must Answer After New Report Exposes He’s Been Lying About How He Started His First Dealership; Bernie Moreno Again Caught Lying, This Time About Selling Chinese-Made Buick Envision; NEW: Moreno Lying About Getting Rid of Confucius Institute; NEW: Bernie Moreno Caught Lying About “Escaping” Socialism; Moreno Caught Lying Again – This Time Falsely Claiming Credit For Bringing 5G Access To Cleveland

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Ohio Physician Dr. Nicole King: “Moreno Still Refuses To Accept The Will Of Ohioans”

Columbus, OH –  In a new opinion piece for the Cincinnati Enquirer, Ohio physician Dr. Nicole King makes it clear that Bernie Moreno’s support for a national abortion ban means that “the fight to protect Issue 1 is not over,” and “the reproductive rights we fought to protect by passing Issue 1 are still at risk.”

At the same time, Moreno, who calls himself “100% pro-life” and who “doesn’t believe in any exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother,” is campaigning behind closed doors with Senator John Thune, who also supports a national abortion ban, and State Rep. Melanie Miller, who – like Moreno – wants to overrule the overwhelming majority of Ohioans who voted to enshrine access to abortion in the state constitution.

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The Cincinnati Enquirer: Vote for Moreno puts access to reproductive care in danger
Dr. Nicole King
June 30, 2024

• June marked the second anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, a decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and threatened the reproductive freedoms of women across Ohio. But thanks to the relentless work of [healthcare] workers and organizers across Ohio, we passed Issue 1 last fall by an overwhelming majority.  A ballot measure that enshrined reproductive rights, birth control and infertility treatment protections into our state’s constitution.

• Unfortunately, with Bernie Moreno running for U.S. Senate, and promising to pass a national abortion ban if he’s elected, the reproductive rights we fought to protect by passing Issue 1 are still at risk. When the Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs decision, women in Ohio were rightfully scared, facing the risk of losing the fundamental freedoms we had worked so hard to attain.

• Moreno had a different response. He celebrated the Dobbs decision as “a monumental victory.”

• Women and men across Ohio got to work to get Issue 1 on the ballot and make sure it passed, but Bernie Moreno opposed the effort relentlessly. Moreno donated $100,000 to Protect Women Ohio, the group spearheading the effort to defeat Issue 1. 

• Thankfully, on Election Day last fall, Bernie Moreno found himself on the opposite side of nearly 2.2 million Ohioans who passed Issue 1. Moreno voted against Issue 1, and in doing so he voted to ban abortion without exceptions for rape or incest and voted against protecting access to contraception, infertility treatment, and miscarriage care.

• Moreno still refuses to accept the will of Ohioans.

• He is selfish and ignorant enough to support a national abortion ban that would overturn access to abortion – access that Ohioans overwhelmingly support. He has also opposed guaranteeing a woman’s right to access contraception, including birth control pills and opposed federal protections for IVF.

• His bravado and false sense of purpose and justice is a weapon he is using to eliminate the rights enshrined within our own state constitution. Rights overwhelmingly supported by the constituents of Ohio.

• Moreno has said he is “100 percent pro-life with no exceptions,” showing what his priorities would be if he ever makes it to Washington.

• Issue 1 is about so much more than access to reproductive freedom; it is about the health and safety of women. Before Issue 1, Ohioans experienced the dangerous and frightening reality of the lack of abortion protections, even when faced with dire medical emergencies.

• During this time, politicians were allowed to make [healthcare] decisions for women, inserting themselves into private, personal [healthcare] discussions that should be kept solely between a woman, her chosen loved ones and her physician. Moreno’s support for restrictive bans would subject Ohio women and women across the country to a reality devoid of access to safe reproductive care.

• Ohio women cannot trust Moreno because he cares more about his politics than our safety.

• When it comes to protecting reproductive freedom, the stakes are just as high in 2024 as they were in 2023. We must make our voices clear once again that [healthcare] decisions are between a woman and her doctor. Politicians like Moreno have no business inserting themselves into sacred private relationships between a woman and her physician.

• The fight to protect Issue 1 is not over. We must continue the fight by making sure Bernie Moreno is never elected to the U.S. Senate.

Salon: Senate Republicans set to seize on Supreme Court’s abortion opening
Cecile Richards
June 29, 2024

• Every mainstream Republican candidate running for a seat in the United States Senate would be a vote for a national abortion ban.

• And they won’t stop there. In the last month alone, Republican senators have blocked Democratic legislation to protect access to birth control and IVF.

• Moreno doesn’t believe in any exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother.

• Sherrod Brown – has a long track record of fighting to protect access to abortion.

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Read What Ohioans Are Saying About Moreno’s Record Of Looking Out For Himself And “[Selling] Out American Workers”

Columbus, OH – It’s been 12 weeks since reporting revealed that Bernie Moreno sold the Chinese-made Buick Envision and lied about it, and Ohio workers are making it clear that they “cannot trust Moreno” after he contributed to “Ohio jobs being shipped overseas.” Moreno faces ongoing blowback from Ohioans for “[selling] out American workers” and remains “dogged” by his record of  “shredding evidence,”  “stiffing workers,” and telling “lie after lie” to Ohioans.

12 Things Ohioans Are Saying About Moreno’s Record Of “Stiffing Workers” And Contributing To “Ohio Jobs Being Shipped Overseas”:

Dave Green, Former President of Local 1112 in Lordstown: “Putting profits over people is not what people in the Mahoning Valley deserve. We deserve somebody who’s going to fight for working people and has continued to fight for working people like Senator Sherrod Brown.”

Mary Ola Stemple, Former Lordstown GM Employee: “Bernie Moreno is not standing up for people like me, he is too busy putting himself and his profits first. Moreno’s business decisions hurt Mahoning Valley workers and families, and he has proved he will not fight for us.”

Jose Arroyo, Vice President Of The Mahoning-Trumbull AFL-CIO Labor Council: “Bernie Moreno has shown Ohio workers over and over that he does not care about anyone besides himself. He lied to us about selling cars made in China at the expense of Ohio workers and lied to us about not paying his employees the overtime wages they earned. It is clear that Bernie Moreno is not on our side and that we can’t trust him.”

Jim Devlin, UAW Local 1112’s Vice President and a former Lordstown GM worker: “I know that Ohioans need a Senator who will fight to keep our jobs here – not one who made his fortune selling cars manufactured in China, because decisions like that led to Lordstown closing and Ohio jobs being shipped overseas.”

Tony Totty, UAW Local 14 President: “Bernie Moreno was sued for stealing wages from workers. How can you be pro-worker when you’re stiffing them in their paycheck?”

Jeff Adams, UAW 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.”

Shari Obrenski, President of Cleveland Teachers Union Local 279: “Time and again, Bernie Moreno betrayed workers to help himself and then lied about it. He destroyed evidence to try to get out of paying his employees overtime, sold Chinese-made cars at the expense of Ohio’s auto workers, and lied about all of it. Ohio workers won’t fall for Moreno’s lies because it’s clear he is only out for himself.”

Lynn Radcliffe, SEIU Local 1199 retiree: “[Moreno’s] nonstop lies and his phony persona are insulting and they can’t hide the truth: Moreno is a liar who only looks out for himself.”

Linda Taylor, Mahoning Valley Resident: “The truth is Bernie “Pants-On-Fire” Moreno has lied over and over in a calculated attempt to reinvent himself to fool us into giving him our vote. Moreno doesn’t respect Ohioans enough to tell us the truth. He’d rather pander to us by lying to our faces.”

Wade Kapszukiewicz, Toledo Mayor: “I think it’s true that you never have a second chance to make a first impression, and the first impression that voters in Ohio have of Bernie Moreno is that he is someone who just does not tell the truth.”

Carla Thompson, Lima City Councilwoman: “He’s lying to turn himself into someone he is not to appeal to Ohioans. There’s no need to do that. Ohioans are smart enough. If you bring your real self, we can decide those things on our own.”

Pat Joseph Johnson, Lima Resident And Former Educator: “Ohioans can’t trust Bernie Moreno to represent us, because he’ll keep doing what he’s always done: building lie upon lie while putting Ohioans last.”

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Columbus, OH – It’s the start of a new month, but Bernie Moreno is still being dragged down by heavy baggage and his record that’s “prov[ing] to be a liability.” From the “dubious claims” “dogg[ing]” him on the campaign trail to his record of “stiffing workers” and “shredding evidence,” Ohioans continue to see that Moreno is “someone who just does not tell the truth” and “can’t be trusted” to look out for Ohioans.

5 Things Ohioans Need To Know About Bernie Moreno:

1. Moreno’s record has been clouded by lawsuits that “could prove to be a liability,” including over a dozen lawsuits where Moreno refused to pay his workers the overtime they earned, then 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 is facing scrutiny for the “dubious claims” and “string of inconsistencies that have dogged his campaign” as lie after lie is exposed. Moreno has shown Ohioans he can’t be trusted after he was caught 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, lying about shutting down Cleveland State’s Confucius Institute, lying about “escap[ing]” socialism, lying about bringing 5G to Cleveland, and lying about his business origin story.

3. Moreno would vote for a national abortion ban without exceptions that would overturn the will of Ohioans. Moreno has said he is “100% pro-life without exceptions,” called the overturning of Roe v. Wade a “monumental victory,” and opposes protecting a woman’s right to access contraception, including birth control pills.

4. Moreno is not the outsider he claims to be. Moreno exploited his “inside” political connections, hefty campaign contributions, and public board appointments for years to steer government contracts and taxpayer dollars toward his businesses – leading Moreno to ultimately cash out for “at least $5 million.”

5. Moreno is out for himself, not Ohioans. When asked how he would work across the aisle to deliver for Ohioans, 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. Moreno also 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.

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