MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsinites are holding MAGA extremist Congressman Tom Tiffany accountable for his extreme and expensive record. Tiffany voted for the “Big Ugly Bill” that put healthcare nearly out of reach for employees of small businesses, received thousands of dollars in donations from corporations associated with data centers while driving up utility bills and has denied the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The CapTimes: Editorial | Tom Tiffany serves the AI oligarchs
“But Tiffany’s record on AI regulation is atrocious. Earlier this year, he voted for a version of Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” that sought to ban states from enforcing laws regulating artificial intelligence for the next decade […] Tiffany gleefully cast a deciding vote — on a 215-214 split in the House — for the tech industry’s agenda.
It is certainly convenient that, since 2010, Tiffany has received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign funds from the energy and utility industries, including Chevron, WEC Energy Group, Xcel and Alliant, who stand to benefit significantly from data centers. Meanwhile, Wisconsin households are paying more on utility bills than they ever have before.”
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The CapTimes: Letter | Tom Tiffany can’t be trusted on healthcare
“I run an early childhood program, and I give my employees a monthly stipend to help them afford healthcare. Many rely on the marketplace to get coverage, and about half of my staff live outside the county where we operate, so that coverage is often the only way they can access care where they live. Since this bill passed, I’ve had staff come to me trying to decide whether they could still afford their coverage, and whether they could still afford their medications.
So I doubled the stipend. That decision alone has raised my costs by almost $40,000 a year, roughly 4% of our tuition income, just to keep my staff covered and healthy.
I need my teachers to be healthy. I need them to be able to take their medications, free from the stress of wondering if they can afford to see a doctor, so they can show up ready to teach and care for our youngest children. Early childhood teachers deserve real access to healthcare and medication, not a Congress that makes it harder to afford both.
Tom Tiffany voted for this bill. We can’t trust him with our healthcare.”
The CapTimes: Opinion | Tom Tiffany can’t hide his extremism
“No matter what his clever television ads try to make him, Tom Tiffany is the most extreme right-wing member of Congress, and he’s beholden to only one man: Donald Trump.
He’s declared rock-ribbed support for the Department of Homeland Security’s cruel deportation tactics and 100% backing for Trump’s war on Iran. He’s completely on board with Trump’s wild tariffs that have sent inflation soaring. […]
It’s not for naught that analyses rank him as the most conservative and partisan legislator in Congress […] he’s just fine with spending billions on corporate tax breaks and even establishing a Trump slush fund to compensate the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrectionists. He still agrees with Trump that the 2020 election was stolen, even here in Wisconsin […] he blocked the release of the Epstein files while saying that efforts to get justice for abuse victims were just an attempt to change the subject. He pushed for a national abortion ban beginning at conception, with no exceptions for victims of rape or incest.”
Wisconsin State Journal: Not a dime of difference between Donald Trump and Tom Tiffany
“No congressman has been more supportive of Trump and his policies than Tiffany. If you like Trump’s needless tariffs and his war with Iran, you should be supportive of Tiffany. Tiffany has been with Trump without fail every step of the way, be it climate change denial, reckless deregulation, limiting voting rights and of course the legislation that gave the wealthy and large corporations big giveaways by running up a huge deficit for our children and us.
Both Trump and Tiffany are infamous for their denial of the 2020 presidential election, and both had a hand in attempting to overturn the results of that election. Their unpatriotic actions on that election will forever blacken their names. They are Republican twins.”
