Abby Finkenauer in 2022 IA Senate race
On Families & Children:
Better access to child care as infrastructure investment
[On social infrastructure]: "In 2020, Republicans spent millions of dollars to try and make sure that somebody like me--who went to Washington, who voted for pay raises for Americans, who voted for better access to child care, who voted for the
best infrastructure investment that our country had ever seen--couldn't get back to Washington," she said. "They don't want people like me there--folks who understand working families and aren't afraid to fight for them."
Source: Des Moines Register on 2022 Iowa Senate race
Jul 22, 2021
On Government Reform:
Advisor to "Next 50," increasing youth political engagement
Finkenauer, who was elected along with a wave of Democratic women nationally, represented Iowa's 1st Congressional District. She toppled incumbent Republican Rod Blum to swing the district in favor of Democrats that year, but she lost her
2020 reelection bid to Republican Ashley Hinson. Since leaving office, Finkenauer has been working as a senior adviser to The Next 50, a group focused on increasing youth political engagement.
Source: Des Moines Register on 2022 Iowa Senate race
Jul 22, 2021
On Jobs:
Voted for the PRO (Protecting the Right to Organize) Act
About 40 people gathered outside federal offices in Sioux City to call for the passage of the PRO (Protecting the Right to Organize) Act. Finkenauer said she was proud to vote for the PRO Act while in Congress. "If you send me to the
United States Senate, I am going to make sure we get this bill passed," Finkenauer said. "It is the difference between families like the one I grew up in being able to make a living or have a good life."
Source: Carroll Times Herald on 2022 Iowa Senate race
Jul 27, 2021
On Principles & Values:
Since insurrection, GOP has turned its back on democracy
Finkenauer, in a video about her announcement, lambasts Grassley and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as two people who are "so obsessed with power.""Since the Capitol was attacked," Finkenauer says, invoking the
January 6 insurrection, "they've turned their backs on democracy and on us. They made their choice. And I am making mine: I am running for the United States Senate."
Source: CNN Politics on 2022 Iowa Senate race
Jul 22, 2021
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