The Win It Back Political Action Committee (PAC) released an ad on Friday detailing how U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Arizona) “ditched his nine-month pregnant wife” for a Washington, D.C. lobbyist.
“Ruben Gallego wants to be a U.S. Senator, but he doesn't want people to know who he really is: a man whose wife was dumped when she was nine months pregnant and replaced by a new model who's a Washington, D.C. lobbyist. Tell Ruben to stop blocking the release of his divorce records,” a narrator says in the ad, obtained exclusively by Breitbart News.
The ad from Win It Back PAC, which is affiliated with Growth Action Club, was featured in a January article by the Washington Free Beacon. Opening Gallego's Divorce Record:
In Arizona, like many other states, court records, including those relating to divorces, are open to the public. But in the Gallegos' case, Overall Record That the information is sealed is highly unusual in a state where even sealed information is typically limited to certain sensitive information, such as the identities of minor children.
At the same time, Gallego himself made the dissolution of his marriage an integral part of his political history. Long Interview and The Washington Post Last March, Gallego blamed the divorce on post-traumatic stress disorder he suffered after serving in Iraq, which he told the newspaper made him drink too much, smoke too much and be prone to “extreme outbursts.” (Gallego was a congressman at the time.)
Conservatives and Republicans Attacked Gallego spoke about the issues surrounding the divorce.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) ran an ad in November 2023 stating that “rotten Ruben Gallego…dumped his wife when she was nearly nine months pregnant, then married a Washington lobbyist.”
Free Beacon Reported In February, Gallego said that if elected to the Senate, he would “not be tied down” to lobbyists or other special interests.
But Gallego appears to have voted in favor of 38 bills that his wife, a lobbyist, lobbied for in her role as director of government advocacy for the National Association of Realtors.
The National Association of Realtors reportedly promotes many of the bills that Gallego has proposed or supported.
Galician sponsor The Neighborhood Housing Investment Act of 2020, a bill backed by the National Association of Realtors, would provide tax credits to developers who build housing in low-income neighborhoods. The association also supports Gallego's proposed SAFE Banking Act of 2023. Co-organized byIt would provide federal protections to landlords and banks that do business with state-licensed marijuana retailers.
Gallego voted in 2019 and the couple began dating. [Sydney] Baron, For invoices The bill would increase deductions for state and local taxes, and critics say it's a handout to wealthy Democratic homeowners. Sixteen Democrats, including Arizona Rep. Greg Stanton, voted against it. The National Association of Realtors said it “strongly supports” passing the bill.
“I will never run a Kyrsten Sinema-style campaign; she has raised millions of dollars from the wealthiest people in the country and almost nothing from ordinary people,” Gallego said in a 2023 fundraising email, insisting he would not be “tied down” to lobbyists.
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