ICYMI: Biden Coming to Wisconsin to Talk Jobs. Senate Dems Target Johnson for Opposing Them. [UpNorthNews]

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UpNorthNews: Biden Coming to Wisconsin to Talk Jobs. Senate Dems Target Johnson for Opposing Them.

By Pat Kreitlow

March 2, 2022

Key Points:

• When President Joe Biden visits northern Wisconsin on Wednesday, readers who follow the trip via the Superior Telegram will notice the president has some firepower supporting his message.
  
  
• The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is doing a “digital takeover” of the site, placing a barrage of ads about Biden’s bipartisan victory on an infrastructure package and criticizing Republican Sen. Ron Johnson for opposing it.
  
  
• The infrastructure plan… will bring more than $5 billion in projects and jobs to Wisconsin. Johnson, who told a conservative radio host last summer, “I’ll be the first to admit, I didn’t read the thing,” is running for a third term this fall despite an earlier pledge that he would not.
  
  
• “From voting against the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that is creating good-paying jobs and ensuring the US can out-compete countries like China, to refusing to support the creation of more than a thousand good-paying jobs in Wisconsin, Ron Johnson keeps showing Wisconsinites he’s only looking out for himself,” said DSCC spokesperson Amanda Sherman-Baity, “and that’s exactly why they’ll fire him in 2022.”

• The DSCC will put pressure on Johnson throughout the year.
  
  
• Although 19 Senate Republicans supported the infrastructure jobs package, Johnson was among 30 who voted against it, claiming the legislation isn’t fully paid for. Johnson had no deficit concerns about a 2017 tax bill that cost taxpayers more than $2 trillion, although he opposed the bill until a provision was added for “pass-through” companies—a benefit for Johnson and a handful of very wealthy donors.
  
  
• The DSCC is trying to build momentum around the idea of Johnson not fighting for Wisconsin jobs because of his recently stated opposition to lobbying Oshkosh Defense to locate a new project in his hometown. “It’s not like we don’t have enough jobs here in Wisconsin,” he said.
  

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