Republican Rep. Will Hurd is losing the fundraising game to Gina Ortiz Jones, the Daily Kos-endorsed Filipina-American former Air Force Intelligence officer running for Texas’s 23rd Congressional District. So he’s decided to start lying about the money Jones is raising.
“When you raise more money from Massachusetts than you do from Texas, that is not a good indication of your broad-based support,” Hurd said of Jones.
More money from Massachusetts, a far-away state with less than 7 million residents, than from Texas, the state the race is located in with more than 28 million residents? Whoa, if true … but it's really, really not true.
Hurd’s campaign is counting every donation that went to Jones through ActBlue as coming from Massachusetts, because that’s where ActBlue’s office is. But ActBlue is, as its many many donors know, a conduit. It passes money from donors around the country to candidates and causes. And what do you know? It turns out that more than $167,000 from Texas donors went to Jones via ActBlue, and that she has gotten hundreds of thousands of dollars more from thousands more Texas donors than from Massachusetts.
This is the kind of dishonesty that reeks of desperation—a lie that’s easy to disprove with hard numbers. Will Hurd likes to fashion himself the kind of Republican who’ll stand up to Donald Trump when it’s called for, but this is some Trumpian nonsense right here.
Become an honorary Massachusetts resident by giving Gina Ortiz Jones $3 through ActBlue to fight back against this kind of dishonest attack.