LANSING — The Gander reported that Sandy Pensler – who joined the crowded GOP Senate primary field last week – has a dangerous anti-abortion record.
The story noted that Pensler is on the wrong side of issues that matter most to Michiganders. He called Roe v. Wade “tyrannical.” Pensler opposed fair wages for working Michiganders. He described the Affordable Care Act as a “disaster” and said “he wouldn’t think twice about repealing the healthcare program if elected to Congress.”
Read The Gander’s reporting on Sandy Pensler’s entrance into the chaotic primary and his dangerous views:
The Gander: Anti-abortion businessman joins crowded Republican race for Senate in Michigan
- Pensler, 67, is the founder of a private investment firm near Detroit and has spent several million dollars of his personal fortune on two failed attempts to get elected to Congress—both in 1992 and most recently in 2018, when he lost the GOP primary for Senate (by over 9 percentage points) to John James. James went on to lose to incumbent Sen. Debbie Stabenow in 2018…
- On the campaign trail in 2018, Pensler made it clear that he opposes reproductive rights across the country—even once labeling the precedent set in Roe v. Wade as “tyrannical.”
- As a businessman, Pensler has also long opposed efforts to increase the minimum wage in Michigan, and has said that former President Donald Trump’s policies were “terrific.”
- In a 2018 radio interview, Pensler also labeled the Affordable Care Act as a “disaster” and said that he wouldn’t think twice about repealing the healthcare program if elected to Congress—a decision which would cause an estimated 3 million Michiganders to either be denied healthcare, or potentially lose their healthcare insurance coverage.
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