RAYMOND, Wis. — ER Nurse and Democratic candidate for Congress Mitchell Berman today called out incumbent Republican Bryan Steil for accepting and keeping $9,000 in campaign contributions from Ohio Republican Max Miller, who is credibly accused of domestic abuse by multiple women. While many Republicans have condemned Miller and others have returned the money or pledged to donate it to charity, Steil has kept every dollar and stayed silent.
This is part of a pattern of covering up Washington misconduct for Steil, after he tried to pressure a reporter into staying silent to protect another disgraced colleague of his, former GOP Rep. Mark Green.
“Bryan Steil took $9,000 from disgraced Washington politician Max Miller, who is accused of domestic abuse by multiple women,” Berman said. “It’s been over two months since police video of Miller’s ex-wife describing those allegations became public. Rather than calling out an abusive Washington politician, Bryan Steil is taking his money. It’s shameful and it’s exactly why we need new leadership.”
FEC records show that Steil has accepted four contributions from Miller’s Political Action Committee (PAC), totaling $9,000 to date.
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Berman, an emergency room nurse who spent a decade at the Department of Veterans Affairs, is a union nurse and has been a union member at every organized facility where he has worked. He is running to unseat four-term incumbent Bryan Steil, who has made healthcare more expensive for Wisconsin, passing the largest Medicaid cuts in history, opposing extending expiring ACA subsidies, and siding with the drug and insurance industries that have given him nearly $1.2 million over working families at every opportunity.
