{"id":2457,"date":"2021-09-02T11:58:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T11:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2021-09-02T11:58:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T11:58:31","slug":"toledo-leaders-slam-republican-senate-candidates-for-attacking-infrastructure-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/02\/toledo-leaders-slam-republican-senate-candidates-for-attacking-infrastructure-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Toledo Leaders Slam Republican Senate Candidates for Attacking Infrastructure Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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State Rep. Paula Hicks-Hudson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sojourner\u2019s Truth Staff<\/p>\n

On Thursday, August 26, several Toledo leaders held a press conference to condemn Republican Senate candidates\u2019 opposition to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrats are delivering for working families by creating good-paying jobs and investing in roads, bridges,\u00a0water pipes, and high-speed internet. But instead of standing up for our state and supporting this commonsense plan Ohio Republicans running for Senate are too busy jockeying for Trump\u2019s endorsement,\u201d said State Rep. Paula Hicks-Hudson during the event.<\/p>\n

The bill will bring a one-time supplemental appropriation of $548 billion to fund everything from major highway projects, to mass transit, to Great Lakes restoration and bringing broadband internet access to areas that don\u2019t have it.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the bill is the culmination of a bipartisan effort led, in great part, by Republican Ohio Senator Rob Portman who is retiring. The Republicans vying to replace him \u2013 Josh Mandel, former Ohio treasurer; Jane Timken, former chair of the Ohio Republican Party; J.D. Vance, author and venture capitalist; Mike Gibbons, Cleveland businessman; Bernie Moreno, Cleveland car dealer \u2013 have all issued statements opposing the Portman crafted legislation in order to curry favor from Donald Trump who has stated his own opposition.<\/p>\n

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Erika White<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Trump often announced that his administration would be creating an infrastructure bill \u2013 vowing to \u201cbegin the urgent task of rebuilding\u201d the USA \u2013 only to fail in four years to bring any such legislation to the table.<\/p>\n

CWA Local 4319 President Erika White: \u201cClearly, the Ohio Republican Senate candidates who are opposed to this funding don\u2019t care about helping working families or growing jobs in Ohio – or else they would support the bipartisan infrastructure bill. Instead, they only care about looking out for themselves and their political ambitions. Ohioans deserve leaders focused on Ohio. It\u2019s time for the House to pass this vital bill so we can make meaningful investments in our infrastructure and build our economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mandel, the polling leader in the race, has made it clear that his primary concern is more about the fact that the Republicans in the Senate who have supported the bill \u2013 19 of 50 senators \u2013 should not have embraced the spirit of bipartisanship. \u201cNow is not the time for bipartisanship in DC \u2014 now is the time for fighting the woke liberal agenda,\u201d said Mandel. \u201cIf I were in the Senate I would have fought tooth and nail to stop this bill which is a wasteful wish list of the radical left.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tony Totty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UAW Local 14 President Tony Totty would disagree with such sentiments: \u201cIt\u2019s past time for us to make upgrades to our roads, bridges, public transit, and water pipes. It\u2019s shameful leading Ohio GOP Senate candidates have decided they would block progress for all of our families to put their corporate special interest donors first.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parts of the infrastructure bill will be paid for by redirecting money from previously awarded coronavirus relief funds and enhanced unemployment funds that states rejected. The Congressional Budget Office\u00a0has said<\/a>\u00a0the bill will add $256 billion to the federal deficit over 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sojourner\u2019s Truth Staff On Thursday, August 26, several Toledo leaders held a press conference to condemn Republican Senate candidates\u2019 opposition to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act \u201cDemocrats are delivering for working families by creating good-paying jobs and investing in roads, bridges,\u00a0water pipes, and high-speed internet. But instead of standing up for our state and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[72],"class_list":["post-2457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headline","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=2457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}