David Perdue & Kelly Loeffler have the Wrong Priorities

David Perdue & Kelly Loeffler are supposed to be helping Georgia’s working families. Instead they are helping themselves.

• David Perdue says he is proud that he spent most of his career outsourcing.
• Perdue voted to give tax breaks to corporations that moved jobs overseas.
• Both Perdue and Loeffler have traded millions of dollars in stock after receiving private briefings and information from CEOs, prompting investigations into insider trading.

Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff will fight against corporate profiteering and for working families. Vote for Warnock and Ossoff for U.S. Senate! 

Loeffler Does Not Support Good Union Jobs

Loeffler has not committed to supporting:

• Protecting Collective Bargaining Agreements Under One-Touch Make-Ready Act (S.3804) 
• No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act (S. 780)
• U.S. Call Center Worker & Consumer Protection Act (S.1792)
• Raise the Wage Act (S.150)

An investigative report has found that Loeffler may be taking advantage of a loophole in the 2017 Republican Tax Law to write off the cost of a campaign jet. 

Loeffler Has Failed to Support Worker Rights

Loeffler is standing with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and will not commit to support CWA’s number one legislative priority, the PRO Act, even after thousands of calls and emails to her office from union members.

Instead, she supports S.525, the National Right-to-Work Act, which places every private sector employee under Right-to-Work (for Less) and prohibits unions from requiring that workers represented by the union pay their fair share.

At a time when over 220,000 Americans have died from the Coronavirus and millions have suffered without much needed relief, Kelly Loefller voted to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Barrett has a record of ruling in favor of corporate interests over 75% of the time and has been a vocal opponent of the Affordable Care Act. 

Loeffler has Failed us on COVID-19 Relief for Workers & Communities

Loeffler voted against expanding paid sick leave to millions of Americans left out of the first coronavirus relief package and has not supported the HEROES Act, which would provide paid leave for all workers and state and local government relief. Instead, she supported the Republican “Skinny Relief” Bill which did not include aid for state and local governments or direct stimulus checks for Georgians, but did include protections for businesses that endanger the health and safety of their workers and consumers during the pandemic. 

Loeffler does not “see the big need” to extend the $600 weekly unemployment benefit provided through the CARES Act, which has helped millions stay afloat during the pandemic.  She introduced a bill to cut emergency unemployment benefits for thousands of Georgians who lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic. 

Loeffler’s financial disclosures “show that millions of dollars in stocks were sold on her behalf at the same time Congress was dealing with the impact of the coronavirus.” After receiving briefings on the pandemic, she  “invested in a company that makes COVID-19 protective garments” and  purchased “between $100,000 and $250,000 in Citrix, a technology company that offers teleworking software and which has seen a small bump in its stock price since Loeffler bought in as a result of coronavirus-induced market turmoil.”

Loeffler is sponsoring a bill to make it easier for businesses that received federal aid during the pandemic to lay workers off.

Loeffler has cosponsored the SAFE to Work Act, which is a corporate giveaway that makes it harder to hold corporations and businesses liable if they endanger the health and safety of their workers and customers by not taking proper precautions to reduce the risk of spreading the Coronavirus. She’s also sponsoring her own bill to provide most of those same protections to businesses that are putting their workers in harm’s way.
 

Loeffler on the Affordable Care Act

Loeffler has refused to comment whether she supports the lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The lawsuit “threatens coverage for roughly 20 million people and would also take away the law’s protections for people with pre-existing conditions.”

Loeffler has voted to confirm Judge Justin Walker to the DC Circuit Court, despite his history of attacks on the ACA. 

Loeffler voted against a bill that would block the Justice Department from supporting litigation to overturn the Affordable Care Act . By voting against the bill, she voted in support of the lawsuit to dismantle the ACA and end protections for those with pre-existing conditions.
 
Loeffler is sponsoring a bill to allow health insurance companies to sell junk insurance plans that don’t protect patients with pre-existing conditions, don’t cover essential services like preventive care and prescription drugs, or could include strict dollar limits on health benefits.

Loeffler on Money in Politics    

Loeffler has not supported H.R. 1, the For the People Act, which would: require secret money organizations that fund elections to disclose their donors and upgrade online political spending transparency rules to ensure voters know who is paying for the advertisements they see.

Loeffler has not supported the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would restore the full protections of the original Voting Rights Act of 1965 and provide tools to address discriminatory practices and protect all Americans’ right to vote. 

Loeffler plans to self-fund her campaign, putting in $5 million during the first quarter, bringing the total she’s loaned her campaign so far to $10 million.    

Loeffler was a top official at a company that created an offshore entity in the Cayman Islands that allows companies to defer their offshore profits: “If that money gets reinvested abroad, however, the tax is deferred. In other words, if American companies put profits from their foreign subsidiaries in offshore holding companies, they can access it tax-free.”

The nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute estimated in 2017 that deferred taxes on offshore profits will cost the U.S. $1.3 trillion over the next decade, or about $126 billion a year.

Loeffler on Social Security/Medicare

Loeffler is “100%” supportive of the Trump Administration's willingness to cut funding to Social Security and Medicare.  In his effort to defund these vital programs, Trump’s 2020 budget included slashing $2 trillion from Medicare and Medicaid and cutting billions from social security and recently, signed an executive order deferring payroll taxes, which funds the Social Security program. 

Senator Perdue has continuously supported legislation and Senate nominations that limit worker rights.

• Perdue will not commit to supporting the PRO Act (S.1306) in spite of the thousands of calls and emails to his office from union members on the importance of this legislation to their worker protections.
• Perdue introduced the MERIT Act, which weakens protections for workers in the process of firing and/or suspending federal employees. In addition, the bill creates more ambiguity around the criteria for measuring performance. 
• Perdue voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court in spite of Kavanaugh’s history of ruling in favor of corporations over the health and safety of workers. Notably, in a SeaWorld case, he sided with an employer, whose negligence resulted in the death of an employee. 
• Purdue voted to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court in spite of her record of ruling in favor of corporate interests over 75% of the time. 
• Perdue voted for union-busting Eugene Scalia for Labor Secretary. Scalia was the anti-union lawyer representing Cablevision during CWA’s fight for a fair contract. (Roll Call Vote #313, 9/26/19; National Labor Relations Board, accessed 10/25/19)
• Perdue voted for an amendment that would eliminate protections under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to over hundreds of thousands of workers who are currently protected by the NLRA if they work on tribal lands.
• Perdue is co-sponsoring a bill to create new loopholes that would waive hours of service requirements that protect truckers.
• Perdue is co-sponsoring a bill to repeal the “Davis-Bacon” law that ensures that workers on many federal contracts are paid at least the area’s prevailing wage.
• Perdue vowed to slash Social Security and Medicare if he gets reelected and is co-sponsoring a bill to create a “fast track” process to make it easier to pass legislation that would cut Social Security and Medicare. 
• Perdue is co-sponsoring a bill to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and make it easier for predatory lenders to rip off consumers. 
   

Senator Perdue takes pride in outsourcing good union jobs.

• Perdue stated that he "spent most of my career" outsourcing good American jobs. When asked to defend his comment, Perdue stated, “Defend it? I am proud of it!” 
• Perdue will not commit to support the No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act (S.780) or the U.S. Call Center Worker & Consumer Protection Act (S.1792). 
• Perdue has not committed to support the Protecting Collective Bargaining Agreements Under One-Touch Make-Ready Act (S.3804). 

Senator Perdue has sided with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over the American people by continuously voting against legislation that would provide necessary COVID relief to American working families.

• Perdue voted against expanding paid sick leave to millions of Americans left out of the first coronavirus relief package and has not supported the HEROES Act, which would provide paid leave for all workers and aid for state and local government workers.
• Perdue supports the SAFE to Work Act, which is a corporate giveaway that makes it harder to hold corporations and businesses liable if they endanger the health and safety of their workers and customers by not taking proper precautions to reduce the risk of spreading the Coronavirus.
   

Senator Perdue has failed hard working Americans on improvements to access to healthcare & affordable prescription drugs.

• Perdue received $315,953 in contributions from big pharma PACS this cycle. 
• Perdue voted to give tens of billions of dollars in tax breaks to drug companies, but voted against lowering drug prices by allowing prescription drugs to be imported from Canada.
• Perdue voted four times to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which would have eliminated protections for those with pre-existing conditions and supports the lawsuit to overturn the ACA, resulting in about 20 million people losing their healthcare. (Source: [SA 2328, 7/26/15; HR 3762, 12/3/15; HR 1628, 7/26/17; HR 1628, 7/25/17]) 
• Perdue voted against a bill that would block the Justice Department from supporting litigation to overturn the Affordable Care Act. By voting against the bill, he voted in support of the lawsuit to dismantle the ACA and end protections for those with pre-existing conditions

Senator Perdue is a beneficiary of big money in politics. 

• Perdue has not supported the For the People Act (H.R. 1), which would require secret money organizations that fund elections to disclose their donors and upgrade online political spending transparency rules to ensure voters know who is paying for the advertisements they see.
• Perdue has received nearly $4 million in campaign contributions from the finance, real estate, and insurance industries during his current term. 
• Between 2017 and 2020, while he sat on the Senate Banking Committee, Perdue traded at a minimum hundreds of thousands of dollars, possibly millions in bank stocks.
• Perdue bought and sold shares in several companies that were affected by the coronavirus pandemic, resulting in an increase in profit from his shares.