close
close

Apre-salomemanzo

Breaking: Beyond Headlines!

    • Ohio’s Sherrod Brown and Bernie Moreno are here on key issues
    aecifo

    Ohio’s Sherrod Brown and Bernie Moreno are here on key issues

    Umito Posted on

    The race between Democratic incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown and Republican candidate Bernie Moreno is likely to help determine control of the U.S. Senate.

    Dispatch Editorial Board
    | Columbus Expedition

    play

    Ohioans cannot afford to stand by and do nothing.

    The race between three-term Democratic incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown and Republican candidate Bernie Moreno, a Cleveland-area car dealership owner supported by former President Donald Trump, is likely to help determine control of the United States Senate.

    Below, we compare the candidates’ positions on the top three issues raised by Ohioans. Rasmussen Report were the most important to them: the economy, border security and abortion.

    As you will see, there are stark differences between the two men vying to represent Ohio.

    First, we will review recent priorities and achievements

    MORENO’S The team did not respond to a request for a meeting with our editorial board.

    The top five priorities of the 16th listed on Moreno’s campaign site include: empowering parents to make educational choices; secure U.S. borders, end amnesty, and destroy Mexican drug cartels; restore the integrity of our elections; massively reduce anti-growth regulations, reduce public spending and end inflation; and defeat communist China.

    BROWN told our board members that if re-elected, he would continue to invest in housing, transportation and traffic – issues of particular importance to Columbus, the center of Ohio’s economic and population growth .

    “The challenges in this community when it comes to housing are as great as any community in the Midwest,” he said. “I do a lot with the (Columbus) Partnership. I do a lot with the labor community on how we need to anticipate growth. That means housing. That means transportation. That means public schools, hospitals and health care health.”

    Brown is chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, which also focuses on insurance, financial markets, securities, housing, urban development and transit, international trade and finance, and economic policy.

    He told us the Banking Committee aims to work in a bipartisan manner, something it has long strived to do.

    His supporters reflect this.

    Brown has been endorsed by a list of prominent Ohio Republicans, which includes former Ohio Governor Bob Taft, who authored a Dayton Daily News guest columnist support Brown.

    Taft wrote:

    “While I do not agree with Senator Brown on all policy issues, I believe Ohioans really need a highly effective and experienced advocate in the U.S. Senate – someone who is focused directly to the needs of Ohio and America,” Taft wrote. “He worked hard to advocate for the Dayton area where I live, working with Republican Congressman Mike Turner and others to advance the interests of Wright Patterson Air Force Base, the state’s largest employer of Ohio.”

    Brown worked with fellow Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Trump’s running mate on the GOP ticket, to advocate for East Palestine residents affected by the 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment.

    Brown said his committee gained buy-in from senior member Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., on issues including DEFEND the fentanyl bill. and the RECOUP law which, according to Brown, holds bankers responsible for the failure of their banks.

    Brown co-authored the FEND Off Fentanyl Act which targets illegal Chinese fentanyl suppliers and Mexican drug cartels.

    He says the bill on the tax credit for social housing and Stop Predatory Investing Law are essential to solving Ohio’s housing problems.

    “I presented (the Stop Predatory Investing Law) to attack predatory investors who come to the neighborhoods. (We’re seeing) a lot of that in Cincinnati and Cleveland — it’s starting to happen in Columbus,” he said. “They buy large plots of houses – usually rental houses – and evict people. »

    Investors add a new coat of paint and make small improvements like basic carpeting before raising rental prices.

    Brown also serves on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, nutrition and forestry, as well as commissions on veterans affairs and finances.

    Restoring the child tax credit is among Brown’s priorities.

    “I was the main sponsor of it and it changed people’s lives,” he said.

    Notice: Brown: They “bury” you for your mistakes. Banks and Wall Street executives should not receive bonuses for failure

    The economy

    BROWN helped secure $42 million for the Central Ohio Transit Authority’s LinkUS bus rapid transit project, and was instrumental in passing bills that directly impact the region, including the CHIPS Act and the Inflation Reduction Act, which proved critical to Intel’s Licking semiconductor factory. County and Honda’s new battery plant in Fayette County.

    He defended workers’ rights.

    “I have spent my entire career fighting for Ohio and for the dignity of work – the idea that hard work should pay off for everyone, no matter who you are, where you live, or what type of work you do,” he wrote. in a recent Columbus Dispatch guest column. “When presidents in my own party promoted bad trade deals that would hurt Ohio workers and send jobs overseas – from NAFTA to the Trans-Pacific Partnership – I always stood up and fought to keep jobs where they belong: here in Ohio.”

    MORENO placed blame for the economy on Brown and the Biden administration in responses submitted to the USA TODAY Network’s Ohio bureau.

    He wrote:

    “Thanks to the Biden administration’s reckless spending that Sherrod Brown voted for, we have seen record inflation. The Inflation Reduction Act, signed by this administration, was another capital spending bill that took no action to reduce costs for Americans Rather than reducing the inflation created by Biden, Harris and Brown, this bill was a down payment on the Green New Deal.

    Between 2015 and 2017, Moreno faced three lawsuits alleging discrimination against employees at his high-end Cleveland car dealership.

    Most recently, Moreno was sued for failing to properly pay salespeople overtime while running a Mercedes-Benz dealership in Burlington, Massachusetts, near Boston.

    He was ordered to pay more than $400,000 to two employees in one case. Fourteen other cases were settled for an undisclosed amount as of January 2023.

    Border security

    BROWN supported a bipartisan $118 billion package to provide security to the southern border and aid to Ukraine and Israel. The border security portion of the package includes about $20 billion to expand the Department of Homeland Security’s ability to find traffickers of fentanyl and other drugs and catch, process, house and transport migrants.

    The bill was rejected by Trump and rejected by Senate Republicans.

    MORENO supports the renewal of Trump’s policy of remaining in Mexico, reforming the Temporary protection status program and deport 10 million illegal immigrants.

    Abortion

    BROWN says he sides with the majority of Ohioans who believe women’s health decisions should be left to women and their doctors.

    When our editorial board asked about projections of the state’s population decline, Brown said passage of the abortion rights amendment in 2023 was among several important factors for the the future of Ohio.

    Before voters passed the amendment replacing Ohio’s ultra-restrictive abortion law, Brown said he heard from many young doctors worried about raising their children — their daughters in particular — in Ohio .

    MORENO’S opinion on abortion has evolved several times.

    He told a Cincinnati radio host he was “absolutely pro-life, without exception” in 2022.

    Moreno tried to walk support his support for a national ban on abortion.

    He now says abortion should be handled by each state. But just weeks before launching his Senate campaign, Moreno said the founding fathers would “murder you” for supporting abortion rights.

    “You don’t get pregnant because you were at the checkout line at Kroger,” he said. “It doesn’t happen that way. At least that’s what my mom and dad told me. So you have to take personal responsibility. Abortion is a heinous crime. It’s definitely not health care. It’s definitely not birth control. And yet here we do it.

    In recent weeks, he was criticized for asking on camera why older women care about abortion during a town hall in September.

    He said: “There’s a lot of single issues – you know, the left has a lot of voters who are focused on a single issue. Unfortunately, by the way, there are a lot of suburban women, a lot of suburban women who say ‘listen , abortion, that’s it.’ If I can’t have an abortion in this country whenever I want, I’ll vote for anyone else Ok, that’s kind of crazy, by the way. But, especially for women who are over 50, I figure it’s no problem for you Oh, thank goodness my wife didn’t hear that one, I was going to be in trouble.

    The nation will be watching Ohio on November 5th.

    Make sure your voice is heard.

    This analysis was written on behalf of the editorial board of The Columbus Dispatch. Opinion articles are fact-based assessments of issues important to the communities we serve. These are not the opinions of our staff, who strive to ensure neutrality in their reporting.

    Umito
    View all posts

    You Might Also Like