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April 02, 2020 02:11 PM UTC

Gardner Delivered 'Historic Unemployment,' says GOP Ad

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  • by: Jason Salzman

(D’oh! — Promoted by Colorado Pols)

Most politicians like to boast that they deliver jobs.

But if you believe an advertisement this week, the Colorado Republican Party thinks people will vote for U.S. Cory Gardner (R-CO) if they’re convinced he delivered “historic unemployment.”

The Colorado Republican Party did not return an email asking if the ad was supposed to state that Gardner delivered “historically low unemployment,” a claim that would be further from the truth but is closer to Gardner’s normal talking points, say progressive labor leaders.

The ad, which appeared in Colorado Politics, a weekly online and print publication, reads, “CORY GARDNER DELIVERED MORE AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE, HISTORIC UNEMPLOYMENT, PUBLIC LAND PROTECTION.”

Jared Wright, Publisher of Colorado Politics, said in an email to the Colorado Times Recorder that his publication was not responsible for the text of the advertisement.

“Wow – that sure is a typo,” Wright emailed after being alerted to the apparent error. “It was delivered to us by the advertiser that way. We did not perform the design. That said, I will let them know to send a new file. Thanks for catching that.”

Asked to comment on the GOP ad, Dennis Dougherty, director of the Colorado AFL-CIO, said, “Cory Gardner did deliver working Coloradans something: historically low pay.” The AFL-CIO gave Gardner a zero rating on key votes in 2018 in support of working families.

In fact, 44 percent of American workers barely earn enough to live on, according to a January Brookings report.

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2 thoughts on “Gardner Delivered ‘Historic Unemployment,’ says GOP Ad

  1. Spelling, grammar and proofreading skills are not as important as blind Trumpism when hiring Cory’s congressional staff. This isn’t the first hilarious copy error in Cory’s newsletters and publicity. 

  2. Another week or two, and the ad may well be correct. 

    workforce of 165 million;

    • 3.5% unemployment to begin with, (5.775 million total),
    • report last week was 3.3 million unemployment applications (8.875 million total),
    • report this week was 6.6 million (15.475 million total),

    That's 9.3% unemployment

     Chicago Tribune put it this way:

    The magnitude of the layoffs has led many economists to envision as many as 20 million lost jobs by the end of April. That would be more than double the 8.7 million jobs lost during the Great Recession. The unemployment rate could spike to as high as 15% this month, above the previous record of 10.8% set during a deep recession in 1982.

     

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