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THREAD: Self-serving Ron Johnson announced his reelection campaign 16 days ago. It has NOT gone well. Wisconsin voters are seeing @WisDems billboards, @dscc TV ads, & digital & traditional media exposés of his corruption. Chip in to keep it going & read on!secure.actblue.com/donate/billboa…

@WisDems @dscc Johnson promised in 2010 AND 2016 that he’d only serve two terms. But for Johnson, promises are like cobwebs: annoying trash to be wiped away. Why the change of heart? Maybe because his net worth has more than doubled while in office. 🧐
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When Ron Johnson announced, he blew hundreds of thousands of dollars on TV ads trying to explain away his breaking of his two-term promise. Meanwhile, the @dscc put ads on TV explaining who he really serves: himself.

Meanwhile, @WisDems and other friends of democracy have been putting up billboards all over Wisconsin—on, for example, Interstate 41, where drivers who went to Lambeau Field this past Saturday (ugh) couldn’t miss it.

The billboards—powered by grassroots donors like you!—won’t just reach people in their cars. They’ll reach people watching the news from home—because they’re being covered by local TV.

Local voices—workers, small business owners, community leaders—have had enough of Ron Johnson. So we’ve launched a statewide tour to help lift up their voices and ensure that local media hear from trusted messengers about how Johnson has betrayed them.

Meanwhile, other than gathering to hear speeches, the Wisconsin GOP doesn’t appear to be doing any significant organizing—while Democrats have already started calling voters to remind them they can request absentee ballots for the entire year at myvote.wi.gov.

This whirlwind of early organizing, communication, and energy is driven by a core clarity: Johnson’s got to go. Wisconsin elections are often close. And we can’t wait a single second. We have to make sure every voter knows just how self-serving Ron Johnson has been.

Johnson may have gotten himself booted off of YouTube for spreading COVID misinformation, but he’s relentless in pushing the lies that he thinks will get him another term in office. We have to make sure the truth spreads even further—and faster.

It’s a level of intensity necessitated by the stakes. 2022 is a year when Democrats can’t take a single thing for granted—and where the future of our democracy, as in 2020, hangs in the balance. Help us keep up the pressure and beat Ron Johnson: secure.actblue.com/donate/billboa…