A former Congressman running for a U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota today embarks on a weeks-long, statewide RV tour in defiance of the state’s “stay-at-home” order.
Yesterday, April 16, U.S. Senate candidate Jason Lewis announced that over the next several weeks, he is launching his “Re-Open Minnesota for Business” RV tour beginning with several stops in the Twin Cities area tomorrow. The tour will consist of Lewis meeting one-on-one with small business owners at their shuttered businesses to hear about the economic hardship that the shutdown is inflicting on their businesses and families. Select stops will be open to the media.
“Several weeks ago, I was the first to call for Minnesota to gradually re-open while protecting the vulnerable and defeating the virus, which was met with praise from small business owners,” Lewis said. “I am pleased to see more and more beginning to call for the economy to re-open, but the time is past due for tone deaf politicians like Sen. Tina Smith to take heed, and therefore I am embarking on a ‘Re-Open Minnesota for Business’ tour to help struggling small business owners tell their stories and be heard.
“Right now there are 22 million Americans out of work, and just today Minnesota-based Best Buy announced they are furloughing 50,000 employees,” Lewis said. “Enough is enough – Minnesotans desperately need further economic relief. Just today, the Small Business Administration announced they are out of money from the first come, first serve Paycheck Protection Program. This is not a game. Sen. Tina Smith twice voted to block economic relief to work in funding for her liberal pet projects like funding the Kennedy Center and the Green New Deal, and we can’t afford for her to play politics any further. Lives and livelihoods are on the line.”
Lewis called on Smith to stand with him in demanding Minnesota re-open for business when the stay-at-home order ends on May 4.
