GOP Senate candidate claims to champion 'working class' but campaigns at country clubs

[AZProgressive]

Ohio Republican Senate candidate Jane Timken is running as a self-proclaimed champion of a "working class" agenda. But so far, her campaign has spent more than $23,000 for meals and drinks at private country clubs.

Timken, a millionaire attorney and former Ohio Republican Party chair, promised in May 2021 that if elected she would fight for ordinary working people. "The America First agenda is for the working class - for jobs and freedoms and the Constitution!" she tweeted.

In an interview with Crain's Cleveland Business in September, she asserted, "The Republican Party is now the party of the working class."

But according to her campaign's Federal Election Commission filings, she spent $23,691.24 on food and beverages for receptions at the Brookside Country Club, Chagrin Valley Hunt Club (a "historic private country club" ), Hyde Park Country Club, Lake Forest Country Club, Moraine Country Club, Western Hills Country Club, and Youngstown Country Club in 2021.

https://americanindependent.com/ohio-republican-senate-jane-timken-primary-working-class-country-clubs-campaign-funds/

[DFW]

1. And a huge number of the working class will believe her and vote for her

Even as they stare at her from outside the gates to the country clubs, the interior of which they will never once see.

[TheFarseer]

2. If she did that and

Campaigned on/Introduced a bill to raise taxes on the rich and do single payer healthcare, I’d probably be fine with that. I’m going to go ahead and guess that is not the case.

[Chautauquas]

3. Reminds me of Scott Walker's campaign

for governor of Wisconsin. Put out ads where he talked about driving an old car and bringing a paper bag lunch to work every day. Of course the ads didn't mention where his funding actually came from, which was corporations and wealthy repukes.