Women Vote AND AFT SOLIDARITY LAUNCH NEW AD ON WILL HURD’S DISASTROUS RECORD ON HEALTH CARE

For Immediate Release
October 16, 2018

Women Vote AND AFT SOLIDARITY LAUNCH NEW AD ON WILL HURD’S DISASTROUS RECORD ON HEALTH CARE

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today EMILYs List’s voter mobilization and education project, Women Vote, in partnership with AFT Solidarity, announce a new television buy and ad campaign in Texas’ 23rd Congressional District. 

The ad, 8 Votes, highlights Hurd’s record on health care. It will run for two weeks on San Antonio cable and broadcast and El Paso cable. Women Vote has also added an El Paso broadcast and cable track of communications.

“Since taking office, Will Hurd has consistently said one thing in Texas, and then turned around and voted another way in Washington,” said EMILY's List President Stephanie Schriock. “Despite promises to protect health care, he padded his pockets with millions from drug companies and then went to Washington and voted to take away health care from Texans. EMILY's List is proud to support Gina Ortiz Jones, who will always prioritize protecting Texas' hardworking families.”  

“On eight separate occasions, Will Hurd voted to rip health care away from thousands of Texans. Now, he’s trying to hide that record – and where he stands – from voters, but his priorities are clear: campaign donors over organ donors,” said AFT President Randi Weingarten. “Hurd took millions of dollars from the big drug companies while voting against ways to lower the cost of prescription drugs. Texas needs leaders who will defend our children, the elderly, and all Texans, which is why Lonestar educators are backing Gina Ortiz Jones.”
  
Women Vote is EMILYs List’s independent expenditure arm which works to educate and mobilize women voters on behalf of pro-choice Democratic women candidates, and help turnout voters for Democrats up and down the ballot. Launched in 1995, the EMILY's List Women Vote project combines polling and research, sophisticated message testing, the latest innovations in data and technology as well as good old-fashioned voter contact to mobilize millions of women voters across the country.