{"id":1266671,"date":"2022-02-02T18:24:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T23:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1266671"},"modified":"2022-02-02T18:24:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T23:24:06","slug":"vulnerable-democrat-cindy-axne-breaks-promise-to-not-accept-corporate-pac-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vulnerable-democrat-cindy-axne-breaks-promise-to-not-accept-corporate-pac-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerable Democrat Cindy Axne Breaks Promise to Not Accept Corporate PAC Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvulnerable-democrat-cindy-axne-breaks-promise-to-not-accept-corporate-pac-money%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1266671&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1090959450-640x335.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Vulnerable Democrat Rep. Cindy Axne (D-IA), looking to build a bigger war chest ahead of a tough election, appears to have broken her promise to not take any corporate PAC money after previously attacking her opponent for the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>Axne <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/02\/01\/abby-finkenauer-outraises-democrats-u-s-senate-race-iowa-trails-chuck-grassley-politics-fundraising\/9286047002\/\">raised<\/a>&nbsp;$718,038 in the last fundraising quarter in 2021 that lasted from October to December. However, there was also&nbsp;36,000 worth of campaign contributions Axne took from&nbsp;political action committees, the&nbsp;<em>Des Moines Register<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/02\/02\/iowa-representative-cindy-axne-accepts-corporate-pac-donations-campaign\/9298336002\/?mc_cid=52f86c70c5&amp;mc_eid=93ba2ff814\">reported<\/a>. Axne accepted cash donations ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 from PACs representing&nbsp;Archer Daniels Midland Company and Berkshire Hathaway Energy Company<b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In 2018, Axne <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2129231534005021\">slammed<\/a> her opponent for taking PAC money. During a campaign stop, she promised, \u201cI am refusing to take corporate PAC money.\u201d She explained that she was taking the pledge because she wanted to \u201cwork\u201d for the people in her district, not special interests, unlike her opponent at the time. \u201cThat\u2019s not just words I\u2019m saying. That is a promise I intend to keep with you,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, during the same campaign stop, she also&nbsp;slammed her Republican opponent for voting with the Trump administration 99 percent of the time. However, if you compare Axne\u2019s votes with how many times she votes with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), she has voted 100 percent of the time, in the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/represent\/members\/P000197-nancy-pelosi\/compare-votes\/A000378-cynthia-axne\/117\">comparison<\/a> by ProPublica.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for \u201cAxne\u201d blamed \u201cdark money\u201d for the flip-flop, saying she needs to \u201cstay on a level playing field\u201d:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In the face of thousands of individual ads and millions in dark money spending already targeted at her in the past year, Cindy Axne will&nbsp;not let the people of Iowa be lied to or misled about her record of working for commonsense solutions for Iowa families and small&nbsp;businesses\u2026&nbsp;She is accepting donations from everyday Americans \u2014&nbsp;whether as individuals or through employee-pooled groups \u2014 so she can stay on a level playing field while working to keep someone in Washington who is on Iowa\u2019s&nbsp;side.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Axne, going up against an onslaught of Republicans looking to unseat her, will need a sizable war chest after the primary. Republican aligned-groups reacted to this revelation with accusations of hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCindy Axne is a hypocrite, and she knows it. She hoped this information wouldn\u2019t come out, but now Iowans can see that she has&nbsp;just become a member of the swamp,\u201d said&nbsp;Kollin Crompton, the&nbsp;Republican Party of Iowa\u2019s communications director.&nbsp;\u201cThese boldface flip-flops are&nbsp;inexcusable. Every Iowan&nbsp;should be demanding answers from Axne today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The National Republican Congressional Committee Spokesman (NRCC) Mike Berg said in a statement,&nbsp;\u201cWhether it\u2019s illegal stock trading or taking corporate PAC money after promising not to, it\u2019s clear Cindy Axne can\u2019t be trusted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Cindy Axne can\u2019t keep even the most central promise of her campaign, then how can voters trust anything else she has to say,\u201d asked Congressional Leadership Fund Press Secretary Cally Perkins. \u201cIt\u2019s yet another example of how Cindy Axne is a total fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vulnerable Democrat Rep. Cindy Axne (D-IA), looking to build a bigger war chest ahead of a tough election, appears to have broken her promise to not take any corporate PAC &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}