U.S. Senate race: What are Smiley’s positions on issues?

U.S. Senate candidate Tiffany Smiley recently announced she’s pro-choice; she supports a woman’s right to an abortion up until fetal viability. And she’ll stand by this, even if elected!

This is Smiley “embracing change,” but unsurprisingly there’s no mention of her new pro-choice morality on her website.

Previously, Smiley “had questions” about elections. This too is gone; we must assume that she woke up to the fact that Trump did try to steal the election, and he did have lots to do with the un-presidential violent assault on the U.S. Capitol.

So now, she’s now going after public campaign financing! Too bad Smiley didn’t do her research: in the 2016 presidential election, candidates received $1.68 million in public campaign financing, but they raised and spent $1.5 billion. PACs raised and spent $4 billion.

So, Smiley is committed to ending 1 percent of public campaign funding, while she embraces billions in campaign dark money.

She wants to make us energy independent, and blames the Democrats for our dependence on foreign oil. Again, facts don’t matter: We already produce more oil than any other nation, and without conservation Smiley is dooming us to dependence on Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Russia and others.

As a patriotic American — who is educated, worked all my life, who votes and pays taxes — I’m just not sure our nation can handle any more of Smiley’s Pro-Choice, Woke Change.

David Freed

Clinton

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