Veteran Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. Bob Casey has made “greed” and raising prices in stores a key election platform in 2024, but donor records reviewed by Fox News Digital show he has benefited from the big stores that he criticizes during the campaign.
“Bob Casey calls it greed and is fighting back,” says an ad released in March by the campaign.
“My plan gives the Federal Trade Commission the power to punish corporate price gouging. Let’s reject their huge tax breaks to put the money where it belongs, in your pocket.” Casey says in the ad.
Another advertisement, published in AprilHe detailed that the prices of chicken, toilet paper and cereals have increased, blaming “large corporations.”
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Sen. Bob Casey, Jr., D-Pa., leaves the Capitol after a vote on April 18, 2023. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Fox News Digital reviewed contributions from Casey donors and found that despite sounding the alarm that chicken prices had risen 35%, Casey’s campaign received $9,000 from a PAC representing the largest poultry producer in the US. .USA, Cargill Inc., since 2017. Data from the Federal Electoral Commission show.
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“Toilet paper up 10%; profits up $100 million,” an April ad states. The corporate PAC of Procter and Gamble, the company behind Charmin, has donated $15,500 to Casey’s campaign since 2017. according to FEC data.
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A box of Frosted Mini Wheats from Kellogg’s in New York on February 3, 2019. (Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Casey has also benefited from massive cereal producer Kellogg’s despite criticizing cereal companies for offering “the same packaging, smaller box, familiar logo and fewer servings amid inflation issues under the Biden administration.”
A review of FEC data shows that PACs associated with Kellogg’s donated a combined total of $16,000 to Casey’s campaign since 2017.
Kellogg’s PAC, the Kellogg Company Committee for Better Government, no longer exists after Kellogg’s split into two companies last year. The PAC run by WK Kellogg Co. has since donated $1,000 to Bob Casey for Senate.
“CEOs are sneaking around, downsizing their favorite brands and charging more for less. Same packaging, smaller box, familiar logo, fewer servings,” Casey said in the April announcement.
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Fox News Digital reached out to Casey’s campaign and asked if it plans to return donations in light of criticism against big companies and their CEOs.
“Bob Casey is an independent fighter who will always stand up for workers against corporate greed and companies that rip off Pennsylvanians,” Maddy McDaniels, Bob Casey’s Senate spokeswoman, told Fox News Digital.
President Biden speaks while visiting firefighters at the Allentown Fire Training Academy in Allentown, Pa., as Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., left, looks on. (AP)
The two ads did not cite the companies by name, but Casey had already mentioned the corporations in several Senate reports released by his office.
“One of the sneakiest examples of shrink bloat is a change made to Dawn Ultra and Dawn Ultra Platinum dish soap. Proctor & Gamble [sic], The creators of Dawn reduced the dish soap that previously weighed 7 ounces to 6.5 ounces, but left the bottle the same physical size with the same price. They simply filled the bottle with a little less liquid and hoped the families wouldn’t notice. The following year, P&G reported that it saw no need to offer sales or price cuts and celebrated returning “$3.8 billion in cash to shareholders through approximately $2.3 billion in dividend payments and $1.5 billion in common stock repurchases,” Casey wrote in his report. inflation contraction report published in 2023.
“Frosted Flakes: Kellogg increased prices on its products more than 14 percent between Q2 2022 and Q2 2023,” Casey’s Greedflation since november detailed.
Inflation has fallen sharply from its 2022 peak of 9.1%, the highest rate since 1981, and now sits at more than 3%, which is still higher than the Federal Reserve’s target rate of 2%. . Since then, the economy and inflation under the Biden administration have become one of the top voting issues heading into the 2024 election.
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“Even as inflation has slowed, families continue to pay higher prices, thanks to corporate greed, or greedflation. Under the guise of inflation, corporations are raising prices on American families while making record profits. From July 2020 to July 2022, inflation increased 14 percent, while corporate profits increased more than 74 percent, almost five times the rate of inflation,” Casey adds on his official Senate page.
Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick in new ad (Dave McCormick Campaign)
Casey has served in the Senate since 2007 and is anticipated to have one of the most closely watched races this year when he faces Republican challenger Dave McCormick.
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“It’s going to be a close, tough race,” Casey told NBC earlier this year. “But look, the stakes are always high. Every time I ran for public office in Pennsylvania, I had to earn the vote and the trust of the people. And I have to do it again.”
McCormick’s campaign released an ad this week detailing the Bronze Star recipient’s time at West Point.
“I went to West Point with Dave McCormick, and Dave stood out there as an all-around leader,” said former U.S. Army Capt. Cliff Harris. he said in the video. “In the classroom. And as an athlete. Dave McCormick embodies the values ​​of duty, honor and country instilled in us at West Point.”
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Several polls from the past month show Casey ahead of McCormick, although the Republican challenger has recently closed in on the Democrat as the election season heats up even further.
