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Sherrod Brown is a
career politician who
puts himself before Ohio.
After 50 years in office, Sherrod Brown has lost touch with Ohio and he’s only looking out for himself. Despite portraying himself as working class, Brown has rubberstamped Biden’s agenda 99% of the time. When he isn’t pushing Biden’s disastrous agenda, Brown is working to benefit himself.
Sherrod Brown is a career politician who puts himself before Ohio.
Sherrod Brown has been an elected official for almost 50 years.
“Ohio senator Sherrod Brown has been in elected office longer than many 2020 voters have been alive: He was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1974 at age 22. He had graduated from Yale several months earlier.” (National Review, 3/4/19)
Sherrod Brown voted to raise taxes on Ohio families while refusing to pay his own taxes.
“Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, for years claimed an owner-occupancy tax credit at two properties, public records show — a potential violation of the state’s rules governing such incentives. Brown and his wife, journalist Connie Schultz, also were late paying the tax bill on their Cleveland house at least seven times since purchasing it in 2013, missing a payment deadline as recently as February, according to documents kept by the Cuyahoga County treasurer. At one point in 2015, the county labeled them as delinquent after they failed for months to pay a nearly $1,200 bill.” (NBC News, 5/3/23; Roll Call Vote #325, 8/7/22; New York Post, 8/15/22)
Sherrod Brown hid his wealth from the public for over a decade by failing to disclose $750k in assets.
“Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) neglected to disclose his wife’s six-figure investment and pension payments in past annual finance forms, deflating his net worth by as much as half-a-million dollars, according to his latest report. Brown, 70, in his 2022 financial disclosure revealed his spouse, Connie Schultz, held between $250,001 and $500,000 in a 401(k) from her time as a journalist with The Plain Dealer and cleveland.com. The news outlet, which employed Schultz as a columnist from 1993 to 2011, first reported the disclosures, along with between $100,001 and $250,000 she held from her teachers’ pension as a former professor at Kent State University.” (New York Post, 8/15/23)
Sherrod Brown fundraised with celebrities in Hollywood while East Palestine suffered from the train derailment and toxic chemical spill.
“Democrat Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown was fundraising in Hollywood, California, over the weekend while residents of East Palestine, Ohio, are still dealing with the effects of the toxic chemical spill affecting the Buckeye State.” (Fox News, 2/27/23; Fox News, 4/28/23)
Sherrod Brown doesn’t care if Joe Biden visits East Palestine.
“Democratic Ohio senator Sherrod Brown said during a town hall that whether or not President Joe Biden comes to the devastated town of East Palestine, Ohio, is not ‘a particularly big deal.’ ‘I don’t think whether the president shows up, and they have to close schools, and everything’s disrupted, is the issue,’ Brown said. ‘I’m fine if I know that [Transportation Secretary Pete] Buttigieg was here, I know the EPA administrator was here. I don’t know that the president himself coming particularly matters.’” (The Washington Free Beacon, 2/28/23)
Sherrod Brown is a swamp creature beholden to lobbyists and special interest groups.
Sherrod Brown promised to reject corporate PAC money when he ran for President but ditched the promise when he dropped out.
“When progressive Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) was briefly entertaining a run for the White House in early 2019, he promised that if he took the plunge, his campaign would reject corporate PAC money. But Brown—who since declining to seek the presidency has accepted more than $1 million in corporate PAC donations—will not make that same promise as he gears up for what’s sure to be a contentious re-election fight in 2024.” (The Daily Beast, 2/6/23; Politico, 2/6/23)
Sherrod Brown claims to fight against lobbyist influence but staffed his office with registered lobbyists.
“Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, who often claims to have ‘fought’ lobbyists and railed against them for having ‘too much power,’ has a history of hiring lobbyists to his own staff — including this year.” (Fox News, 6/12/23)
Despite denouncing special interest groups, Sherrod Brown secured millions for a lobbying association that used to employ one of his top aides.
“US Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown secured millions of dollars in federal grants for a transportation lobbying association, even as he denounced the special interest groups while pushing railway regulations. Brown (D-Ohio), 70, has steered tens of millions of dollars since 2021 from the Federal Transit Administration toward industry grants with the help of a senior adviser — including $1 million for a program at a top transportation lobbying group where the aide formerly worked, according to annual reports.” (New York Post, 6/28/23)
Sherrod Brown accepted campaign cash from companies that illegally raised drug prices for Ohioans.
“Since launching his first U.S. Senate campaign in 2006, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown has accepted at least $13,000 in campaign donations from political action committees tied to health insurance and pharmacy benefit management companies that are now being sued by the state of Ohio for allegedly illegally driving up drug prices, according to a review by Spectrum News.” (Spectrum News, 5/17/23)
Sherrod Brown is a far-left open borders radical out of step with Ohio voters.
Sherrod Brown said Trump’s border policies were “morally wrong” and “an embarrassment” but was silent when Biden reinstated them.
“A group of swing state Democrats, all up for re-election in 2024, are staying silent as President Joe Biden considers implementing an enforcement policy at the United States-Mexico border that they once opposed under former President Trump. … In 2018, when the Trump administration was proposing a federal regulation to allow for indefinite detention of adult border crossers and the migrant children they arrive with, Sens. Bob Casey (D-PA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined other Senate Democrats to denounce the practice. This proposed rule is an embarrassment to our great nation and the American people,” the Senate Democrats wrote of the Trump rule, also calling it “morally wrong” and “inconsistent with fundamental values.” (Breitbart, 4/2/23)
Sherrod Brown opposed emergency measures to secure the border as illegal immigration skyrocketed.
“Vulnerable Ohio Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown signed a 2020 Democrat letter condemning Title 42 as a “CDC asylum ban” — but now he wants to extend the order after its expiration Thursday night. Brown signed onto a letter in 2020 with several congressional Democrats — including then-Senator Kamala Harris, D-Calif. — calling to overturn Title 42, which the Trump administration pushed to curb the influx of migrants amid the COVID-19 pandemic… For years, Title 42 was one of the main processes border officials used to expel migrants who crossed the border illegally.” (Fox News, 5/12/23)
Sherrod Brown defended defunding the police and said police perpetuate “institutionalized racism.”
“Brown’s position is in line with President Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, but he also has a history of criticizing American police and supporting criminal justice reform measures. He also claimed in June 2020 that ‘policing didn’t create our nation’s institutionalized racism. It’s a product of it, and it reinforces it.’ ‘’Defund the police’ doesn’t mean we disband police departments. It doesn’t mean we don’t spend for law enforcement. It means we start thinking more about training police, about discipline, about making sure that mental health services are available in communities,’ Brown said at the time. That same month, Brown attempted to redefine meaning of the movement to ‘defund the police,’ according to Columbus’ NBC4, and said, ‘I don’t think anyone knows exactly what it means.’ ‘What we should do is look at how we’re funding the police,’ he added. ‘Do we spend a little less on police and more on social workers, and more on dealing with the causes of so much social unrest?’” (Fox News, 3/8/23)
Sherrod Brown even praised a Biden nominee who supported defunding the police.
“Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) has vocally supported the nomination of Solomon Greene, a Housing and Urban Development (HUD) nominee who has called for defunding law enforcement agencies.” (Breitbart, 5/3/23)
Sherrod Brown requested $750k for a group promoting a “drag queen song and story time” featuring toddlers.
“Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, recently requested a $750,000 earmark for a Buckeye State non-profit group that promoted a ‘drag queen song and story time’ event that was attended by children.” (Fox News, 9/14/23)
We Can’t Trust Sherrod Brown.
