–perpetrated on Delaware’s unsuspecting voters by…wait, I’m getting ahead of myself.
The ads are everywhere. In your mailbox, on the internets, in the paper, all congratulating Coons on having ‘won’ the 2020 ‘Champion For Healthy Seniors Award’. It’s right there on p. 29A of the Sunday News-Journal, which I can’t cut & paste b/c it’s subscription-only, and not allowed to be shared. Coons received the award from the ‘Partnership To Fight Chronic Disease’.
It all seems impressive until you find out just who is behind the ‘Partnership To Fight Chronic Disease’. Let me give you a hint–it’s not a group of healthy seniors, a group of unhealthy seniors or even a group representing seniors.
Let’s do what any reporter could do, if they were inclined to, you know, report. Let’s head on over to the Center For Responsive Politics’ Open Secrets and, well, read for yourself:
*Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (a subsidiary of Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America.
That’s right, kids. The ‘award’ that Coons got is actually from Big Pharma. It’s not an award at all. It’s Big Pharma carrying Coons’ water by deliberately misrepresenting what Coons stands for. And giving him a phony award that nobody is supposed to know is from Big Pharma.
Coons has received $170,000 from pharmaceutical PACs since 2015, and a total of $233,160 from the industry during that time. But the fact that Big Pharma has distorted Coons’ record in order to send him back to DC to do their bidding tells you everything you need to know about who Coons really represents in DC.
Not to mention–Coons knows that this award is phony. But this self-styled champion of morality and piety hasn’t said a thing. Let’s be honest–he’s a phony too.
