About As Different As You Can Get

There’s a lot to talk about in a typical race for a congressional seat. Using the First Congressional District of Ohio for example, there are a great many differences between my opponent, Democrat Aftab Pureval, and myself.

Perhaps the most important legislation to pass in the current Congress was the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which I voted for, and which President Trump signed into law towards the end of last year. It, along with the elimination of a lot of unnecessary burdensome regulations, are the principal reasons we’re seeing a rejuvenated economy, increasing job opportunities, and improving consumer confidence. My opponent, on the other hand, would have voted against it, and thinks, like Nancy Pelosi, that we ought to raise taxes.

Another big issue, and a big difference between Mr. Pureval and myself, is on health care. I believe the American people deserve a whole lot better than Obamacare. I of course voted to repeal Obamacare, and replace it with something better – get rid of expensive mandates, get rid of more than a trillion dollars in higher taxes on our health care, give patients more choices, and end Washington bureaucrats’ stranglehold on our health care. Mr. Pureval believes Obamacare is good enough – I don’t.

How connected each of us is (or isn’t) to the congressional district is another stark difference. I was born in Cincinnati. Lived here my whole life. Raised my family here. Worked for the Cincinnati Recreation Commission. Taught at St. Joseph School in the West End. Practiced law here. Served the people of our community on Cincinnati City Council, the Hamilton County Commission, and now in the United States Congress.

Aftab Pureval moved into our district the day before he announced he wanted to represent us in Congress. He had barely served one year of a four year commitment to be our Clerk of Courts. Before that, he’d grown up in Beavercreek, which is in Greene County, outside our congressional district. He’d worked a couple of years for P&G, and was basically an intern with the local U.S. Attorney’s office – although he brags that he was a federal prosecutor – hardly. The bottom line is, my connections to the people of the First Congressional District are deep – his are tenuous at best.

But perhaps the most significant contrast between my opponent and myself is on what has been described as the moral issue of our time – abortion. Virtually anyone who cares about the issue, knows that I am strongly pro-life. In fact I was the principal sponsor of the Ban on Partial Birth Abortion Act, perhaps the most significant pro-life legislation to pass since Roe v. Wade. This was a multi-year fight from the time I introduced the bill in the House until it was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

So where does Mr. Pureval stand on abortion? He stands with the abortionists. Almost literally. The term planned parenthood at first glance sounds innocuous enough. But the organization that goes by that name performs well over 300,000 abortions in America every year. Another way to look at it is this – the population of Cincinnati is approximately 300,000, so Planned Parenthood wipes out the equivalent of the population of Cincinnati – every year. Yet Mr. Pureval, on his own website, had a photograph of himself and the head of Planned Parenthood with a caption saying “Great to meet a personal hero of mine, Cecile Richards, the President of Planned Parenthood, who does so much to empower women and girls. #ImWithHer”. I can’t come up with the words to express appropriate outrage, and revulsion, so I’ll let the caption speak for itself.

And if that revelation of my opponent’s view of abortion isn’t shocking enough, here’s something else we just discovered. Aftab Pureval recently received a substantial contribution, the maximum amount allowed under the law, $2,700, from Martin Haskell. So what? Who’s that? He just happens to be the very abortionist who popularized the barbaric partial birth abortion method. If there ever was an appropriate application of the term “blood money” to a political contribution, money from Martin Haskell certainly qualifies.

The bottom line is, when people go into the voting booth this year to choose between myself and my opponent, the differences between the two of us will be clear, defined, and stark. Particularly, if the protection of innocent unborn life is at all important to a person, there is only one choice.

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