Sen. Joni Ernst claims she's a champion for mental health. Her record says the opposite

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By Josh Israel -September 22, 2020 5:17 PM

Ernst also continues to push the debunked claim that mental illness is the cause of gun violence.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) launched a new campaign ad Monday, framing herself as a protector of mental health care. But over her six years in the Senate, she has backed numerous attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act — commonly known as Obamacare — and its mental health coverage protections.

Her latest spot features an Iowan who lost her brother to suicide. "If it wasn't for Joni Ernst increasing our telehealth and mental health services, we wouldn't have the support we need," the constituent claims. "I think it's going to save a lot of lives."

While Ernst and Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) did successfully get mental health provisions for rural farmers and ranchers included in a 2018 farm bill, the first-term Republican senator has hardly been a champion of mental health care.

During her 2014 campaign, Ernst ran ads showing her shooting at a gun range, with the narrator claiming that "once she sets her sights on Obamacare, Joni's gonna unload."

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/joni-ernst-iowa-senate-election-mental-health-obamacare-gun-violence/

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1. Because she's crazy. Clearly knows nothing about mental health,

not does she give a shit for anybody dealing with it.

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2. Iowa farmers have one of the highest suicide rates in the country

and it has a lot to do with the simple fast that the "guy" that should have been thrown out of power in Feb is to blame when he started with his trade wars and his total abject failure to handle the pandemic and what it did to the food supply chain and the stress of this incurred on the farmers.............and she knew, she was suppose to be there to protect her citizens and she has failed and she also has the Blood On Her Hands...................

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3. I live in Iowa - some of her commercials are just disgustingly disingenuous.

They're trying to play her as this incredibly decent and empathetic person, and one literally tried to make her out to be a champion of the Violence Against Women act, just because she admitted to taking some beatings at the hands of her total RW-wackadoodle ex-husband. A completely pathetic ploy to steal this credit away from Biden on VAWA.