Ron Johnson’s Definition of a “Good Job”

This morning, Senator Ron Johnson joined The Jay Weber Show, bragging about “getting things inserted into pieces of legislation” – like the $79 million in tax breaks he delivered to his two mega donors – and claiming he’s “gotten good at this job quite honestly.”

We beg to differ.

Here’s a taste of what self-serving Senator Ron Johnson defines as a good job:

• Sneaking a massive tax break for his mega donors into the 2017 tax bill, which delivered $79 million in savings for his two wealthiest donors in 2018 alone
• Voting against the 2018 Farm Bill, which included millions of dollars of support to:
  • Expand rural broadband, support rural emergency medicine, improve drinking water quality, and help small businesses
  • Improve tools for Wisconsin’s dairy industry and family dairy farmers
• Voting against the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal without reading it. This bill will:
  • Eliminate lead service pipes and lines and deliver clean drinking water
  • Fix the 979 bridges and 1,949 miles in roads in poor condition in Wisconsin
  • Modernize public transit to cut down on the extra 62.7% of time Wisconsinites spend on their commutes
  • Improve infrastructure resiliency to lessen the damage of extreme weather events, of which Wisconsin has had 16 of in just 10 years
• Advocating for the outsourcing of American jobs, despite the fact that Wisconsin lost 11,331 jobs to outsourcing between 2011-2016:
  • Johnson said, “Let the billions of people around the world do that and provide us these goods — high quality, dirt cheap.”
  • “In 2014, he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that outsourcing was ‘quite beneficial to America.’”

NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. While it is believed to be reliable, Urban Milwaukee does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.