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Phillips for Congress Releases Video Series Featuring Former Erik Paulsen Voters

After voting for Erik Paulsen in 2016, SURVEY USA shows 17% are making the switch in 2018

Excelsior, MN – With four weeks to go before Election Day, Dean Phillips’s campaign for Congress today released a video series featuring former Erik Paulsen voters sharing their personal stories as to why they are supporting Dean Phillips this year.

With over 65,000 individual contributors and more than 1,500 volunteers, Phillips’s campaign is powered with the help of Democrats, independents and Republicans coming together to spark conversations and elect Dean Phillips this November.

It’s a movement that’s gaining steam: a recent KSTP SurveyUSA Poll showed that 17% of people who voted for Erik Paulsen in 2016 plan to vote for Dean Phillips in 2018. Continue reading “Phillips for Congress Releases Video Series Featuring Former Erik Paulsen Voters”

Dallas is tired of the lip service from politicians like Congressman Paulsen and wants genuine conversation that leads to action.

Dallas is as Third District as you can get, having lived here his entire life. So he has been able to see the stark difference between Erik Paulsen’s quotes, and Erik Paulsen’s votes. He’s excited to help elect Dean to bring frank, responsive representation back to the Third District.

Are you a former Erik Paulsen supporter?  Let the campaign know here.

99% of companies hoarding tax breaks instead of increasing wages

Republicans left middle-class families behind with a tax scam aimed at making the rich richer.

Credit: Greg Nash

Mountains of evidence continue to expose the the Republican tax scam as terrible deal for working-class families but a boon for rich corporations.

Case in point: Some 99 percent of companies said the tax scam was not prompting them to increase minimum wages for employees, according to Aon, a human resources consulting firm.

Aon’s survey of 1,000 companies was reported by the Wall Street Journal, and is consistent with other surveys of how companies are using the massive giveaway orchestrated by Trump and Republicans in Congress.

New Phillips for Congress Ad Highlights Paulsen’s Partisan Voting Record and Inaccessibility

“Wall” is a metaphor for Paulsen’s record of serving party leaders over constituents

Excelsior, MN – Dean Phillips released a new TV ad today, highlighting Congressman Erik Paulsen’s highly partisan voting record and refusal to listen to the people he was elected to represent. In the ad, entitled “Wall,” Phillips is seen sitting in front of a larger than life concrete mural of Paulsen, a striking metaphor for the Congressman’s inaccessibility and partisanship.

Erik Paulsen has sought to paint himself as a bipartisan moderate who will break from party leadership when his district demands it, but the facts show otherwise. “Wall” notes the Congressman’s votes against common sense gun reforms, which recently earned an “A” rating from the NRA (up from an A- in 2016), and the fact that he has voted with the Trump Agenda 98% of the time in Congress, despite President Trump receiving just 41% of the vote in this district two years ago.

“As countless voters are now recognizing, Erik Paulsen’s quotes do not match his votes,” said Zach Rodvold, campaign manager for Phillips for Congress. “Congressman Paulsen talks about standing up to President Trump yet he votes with him 98% of the time. He says he’s seeking ‘solutions’ to our gun violence epidemic yet he’s consistently voted against common sense gun violence prevention measures, earning him the NRA’s highest grade. And while he claims to be an independent voice, Erik Paulsen is the fifth largest recipient of special interest money out of 435 members of Congress. At a minimum, Minnesotans deserve honesty, and they’re not getting that from Erik Paulsen.”

Phillips is committed to being an independent voice for Minnesota, and refuses all campaign contributions from special interests, PACs, federal lobbyists, and members of Congress. Instead, he is running a people-powered race with more than 120 public events and over 65,000 individual contributors to date.

Big Pharma has hand in election

Erik Paulsen has repeatedly maintained, “I do what’s right for my constituents regardless of who donates to me.”

And, receive donations, he does: Paulsen ranks sixth of 435 U.S. representatives for the amount of money he receives from PACs: over $2 million. Is it really possible that Paulsen is unaffected by this money?

As a nurse practitioner who prescribes drugs, Minnesota law prohibits me from taking more than $50 annually from any pharmaceutical or other such company. Why? Because research consistently shows that I would likely be influenced by any gift provided me. A 2017 study found that professionals who received gifts from pharmaceutical companies not only prescribe more drugs, but more costly ones, compared to those who did not receive gifts. A big difference in my case: Any company who might gift me with a meal, an education credit, a book a pen or other, is not able to track if I am actually prescribing the drug they are promoting. Continue reading “Big Pharma has hand in election”

Dean Phillips offers a new direction for Third District Voters

Phillips emphasizes bipartisanship, transparency, and common-sense reforms at MPR News debate

Dean Phillips, DFL candidate for Congress in Minnesota’s Third Congressional District, today shared his vision of a Congress that puts people over the interests of corporations and wealthy special interests at a debate hosted by Minnesota Public Radio.
Phillips laid out thoughtful, specific plans to protect and strengthen Medicare and Social Security, guarantee access to quality affordable health care for all Minnesotans, and return transparency and accessibility to a political system that has become mired in dark money interests. Phillips is the only Congressional candidate in the country who has not self-funded or accepted any money from corporations, special interests, PACs, or Members of Congress.

On health care: “I think it’s time that our nation makes the moral decision to ensure that everybody has health care because we are the only developed nation in the world that chooses not to do so right now… I believe in choice. I believe in the freedom to have options. I believe in competition. I believe the way forward is to ensure that there is more competition and more choices… I think it’s time that we start rewarding prevention, rather than rewarding procedures.” Continue reading “Dean Phillips offers a new direction for Third District Voters”

Erik Paulsen voted to keep Trump’s tax returns a secret

Republican U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen is paddling toward reclaiming his seat as quickly as he can, in part by promising to “stand up to” his party “and President [Donald] Trump” if push comes to shove.

Well, last month, he had his chance. He did not take it.

At issue were Trump’s tax returns, which have remained secret and are now back in the limelight. After 18 months of trawling through the Trump family’s financial dirty laundry, The New York Times published a scathing report accusing the sitting president of “dubious tax schemes” and “outright fraud,” helping his parents sidestep taxes, and undervaluing that money so he could siphon as much as possible to himself and his siblings.

A Trump lawyer has called these allegations “100 percent false.” Trump himself described the story as “a very old, boring and often told hit piece.”

View the complete October 5 article by Hannah Jones on the CityPages website here.