GA-Sen A: Jon Ossoff (D) Launches Ad Campaign Slamming Perdue (R) Over His Pandemic Profiteering
U.S. Sen. David Perdue’s financial portfolio saw heavy trading during the month of March, a period during which Congress passed three different spending bills to address the spread of COVID-19 and the markets took a turn for the worse.
The report lists 112 transactions, including 76 stock purchases costing as much as $1.8 million and 34 sales worth up to $825,000. Compared with the 26-month period before the coronavirus swept across America, Perdue’s portfolio activity has increased nearly threefold. There were an average of 38 individual transactions in monthly reports from January 2018 through February 2020.
Perdue logged 82 transactions on the report dated March 3. The report filed Sunday includes 110 stock-related line items.
Trading volume was up overall in March, with activity on the Dow Jones index more than double compared with one year prior. Raymond Hill, a professor of finance at Emory University, said the influx of new and sometimes conflicting information during the coronavirus pandemic spurred the flurry of activity.
“The result of that is you get huge volatility, and the volatility is a reflection of people doing a lot of trading in response to the latest big news,” Hill said.
And Jon Ossoff (D. GA) is already making this a campaign issue:
Ossoff is continuing to register voters for the upcoming election:
And to adapt to the current climate, Ossoff is making his campaign go completely digital:
We’re announcing something huge:
We’re launching a MAJOR digital organizing initiative to elect Democrat Jon Ossoff to the U.S. Senate!
We’re building a massive online army to make thousands of phone calls, text thousands of voters and run targeted digital ads. Together, we’ll protect voting rights in Georgia and lay the groundwork for victory over Trump ally Sen. David Perdue!
But this will be expensive. We need to raise $25,000 more this week to get our new digital campaign off the ground.
Can you chip in right now to launch Jon Ossoff’s huge digital campaign?
Jon is running in one of the most important U.S. Senate races in the country. If we win here, we can win back the Senate!
And his Republican opponent is as corrupt as it gets. He was just caught trading casino and pharmaceutical stocks right after the Senate was briefed on Coronavirus!
It’s more important than ever we spread the word across Georgia — but we can’t do it without you.
Will you chip in to build our brand new digital operation?
Any amount will help: https://go.electjon.com/chip-in
Thanks,
Team Ossoff
Click here to donate to Ossoff’s campaign.
