Tennessee 5th Congressional candidate Beth Harwell called out “Washington D.C. groups trying to buy Tennessee’s 5th District” and said “the D.C. Swamp will control Andy Ogles.”
“Tennessee’s 5th District has become the newest playground for Washington D.C. insider groups looking to handpick the next representative. They can’t vote in this district, I bet most have never even been to Tennessee, but they’ve spent millions misleading voters and propping up Andy Ogles,” the former Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives said in a press statement.
The Harwell campaign statement then lists the number of expenditures made by Club for Growth-affiliated groups to attack her and other members of the TN-5 field, as well as the amount of money spent by the Koch-controlled organization that is spending money to support Ogles.
“The Club for Growth-aligned groups (School Freedom Fund and USA Freedom Fund) have spent about $1.6 million on attack ads against Beth Harwell and other opponents. The Pro-Amnesty group, Americans for Prosperity, has spent over $250,000 supporting Andy Ogles. At the same time, Andy Ogles has only raised about $243,000 in contributions to his campaign,” the Harwell campaign said.
“It’s clear if Andy Ogles wins, he will be controlled by the D.C. swamp. He owes everything to them and I don’t think that’s right for the people of Middle Tennessee,” Harwell added in the statement.
“All of this comes after Andy Ogles admitted to coordinating with outside groups while he was an official candidate for Congress three weeks into the campaign,” added the campaign.
“As Speaker of the House, Beth Harwell led the fight to cut the more taxes in her eight-year tenure than ever before in Tennessee history; passed pro-business policies making Tennessee one of the top 5 states in the ALEC-Laffer State Economic Competitiveness Index in 2017; and took on illegal immigration putting Tennesseans first,” the statement concluded.
The Tennesse Star previously reported the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List’s candidate fund political action committee endorsed Harwell in the race for Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District seat.
“Beth Harwell is a faithful champion of the unborn who proves that pro-life is truly pro-woman,” said Hon. Marilyn Musgrave, SBA List’s vice president of government affairs.
“Beth’s dynamic efforts as House speaker led to a pro-life constitutional amendment, strongly approved by voters, paving the way for swift enactment of life-saving laws. She did not rest, but immediately put her support behind health and safety requirements to hold the profit-driven abortion industry accountable, as well as legislation to protect women’s right to see an ultrasound and hear their baby’s heartbeat,” she said.
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Photo “Beth Harwell” by Beth Harwell.
