Washington, D.C. – Senator Richard Blumenthal fully supports Biden’s reckless and unpopular agenda – voting with him over 98% of the time. Yes, the same agenda that is hurting Connecticut communities and placing a burden on Connecticut families’ pocketbooks. In addition to that, here are some things you may not know about Blumenthal:
- He lied about serving in the Vietnam War.
- He had a billionaire blunder.
- He received a campaign contribution from a lobbyist for Vladimir Putin’s Russian Nordstream 2 oil pipeline, and then voted against putting sanctions on the pipeline.
- During his tenure as both Attorney General and as Senator, he has had many ethical challenges of a financial nature including being accused of steering $65 million in legal fees to his former law partner, blocking access to records related to his office hiring of outside counsel and violating campaign finance laws.
- He voted to send COVID relief checks to convicted murderers and terrorists, including the Boston Marathon Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
- He and his wife owned a total of $150,002 to $350,000 in commercial retail assets located in China. Of that, they invested $100,000 and $250,000 in a Communist Chinese government-controlled luxury shopping complex in Shanghai, China, as well as in another shopping center in Shanghai.
- He claims to support Black Lives Matter and equality for all; however, he once signed a restrictive covenant allowing a developer to discriminate against minorities when the developer sold his property. Also, he has a racist, problematic past.
- Other liberal stances he supports: Medicare for all, the Green New Deal, abolishing the filibuster, expanding the Supreme Court, weakening voter ID laws and enabling ballot harvesting.
- He was silent after Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal.
- He spoke at a Communist event and touted the ‘Build Back Broke’ agenda that in fact gives tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires.
Statement from NRSC Chairman Rick Scott: “Richard Blumenthal is a phony career politician who supports Biden’s radical agenda that is failing Americans across the country with rising inflation, skyrocketing prices at the pump and grocery stores, surging crime rates and a raging crisis at our southern border. It’s time for a change.”
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