Last updated August 30th, 2022 at 6:19pm GMT.
- Mandela Barnes will be a rubber-stamp for Joe Biden and DC Democrats.
- Throughout his career, Mandela Barnes has been soft on crime, supporting the elimination of cash bail, allowing criminals to be released early from prison, and in the past, has suggested his support for the defund the police movement.
- Mandela Barnes supported the largest tax increase in Wisconsin history and he voted for a 29 percent increase in gasoline taxes.
- Mandela Barnes has said that the founding of America was quote “awful” and wants to include Critical Race Theory in schools, which teaches that the United States of America is racist and redefine the meaning and establishment of the United States as a country .
- Mandela Barnes has campaigned on Biden’s liberal agenda, which includes trillions in new spending that has contributed to inflation, hitting a 40-year record. And Barnes promises to vote for trillions more if elected. At the same time, Wisconsinites are paying nearly $5 dollars a gallon, and groceries are considerably more expensive.
- As Wisconsin families pay more for everyday items, Mandela Barnes has opposed cutting income taxes, has called tax cuts a “scam,” and once called an 8-cent per gallon gas tax increase in the state budget merely “modest.”
- Barnes is a fan of Rep. Ilhan Omar who he called “brilliant” and the rest of The Squad who he said are “bringing big bold ideas to Capitol Hill.”
- Barnes has been endorsed by far-left figures and groups like Elizabeth Warren, Democracy for America, Center for Popular Democracy, and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
- Despite his belief that the rich and powerful should “pay their fair share in taxes,” Barnes has consistently failed to pay his fair share of income and property taxes in Wisconsin.
- Barnes believes that the Green New Deal is “a necessity for us at this moment.”
- Before he ran for Lieutenant Governor, Barnes was a member of The Wisconsin Working Families Party, a chapter of a national movement that Sen. Bernie Sanders praised as “the closest thing” to his style of socialism and staunch supporters of the “Defund the Police” movement.
- Mandela Barnes supports Joe Biden and DC Democrats’ plan to give $80 billion dollars to the I-R-S so they can hire 87,000 new agents to harass and audit thousands of Wisconsin families, farmers and small businesses.