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J.D. Vance in the News---For All The Wrong Reasons. [1]
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Date: 2022-08-20
In the last 24-hour news cycle, J.D. Vance has made some headlines---for all the wrong reasons. This morning Salon came out with a story highlighting Vance’s phony populism, www.salon.com/...;
“J.D. Vance, the billionaire-backed U.S. Senate candidate in Ohio, has routinely positioned himself as an anti-opioid China-hawk, promising to rein in Big Pharma and bring jobs back to the U.S. But in recent weeks it has been revealed that Vance, a Trump-backed author, worked for a white shoe law firm that represented multiple Chinese companies and lobbied for Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. Vance then hired an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) resident who cited Purdue-funded studies to downplay the role overprescribing painkillers plays in the opioid crisis as the addiction specialist to Ohio's Appalachian region for his nonprofit, "Our Ohio Renewal." ”
The other story was broken by David Sirota, whom I like but know is not a favorite on this site. He detailed how J.D. Vance exploited the carried-interest tax loophole, Sirota assets Vance has structured his own personal finances to take advantage of that loophole. And one of the super PACs that is infusing his campaign with millions of dollars is funded by private equity billionaires that benefit from this loophole. Hope these items become front and center in the campaign. I will be out this morning but will be happy to respond to comments this afternoon.
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