Kim Campaign Calls on Tom MacArthur to Give Back Opioid Campaign Money

MARLTON NJ — After it was revealed that GOP Rep. Dan Donovan of New York pledged to donate $10,000 in campaign donations from big pharma executives, the Andy Kim Campaign is calling on Tom MacArthur to donate or return the $37,500 in campaign money from his donors who were sued for their role in the opioid crisis.

“Congressman MacArthur should donate or return the campaign cash he accepted from corporations that were sued for their role in worsening the opioid crisis,” said Kim spokesman Forrest Rilling. “Again and again Congressman MacArthur has decided to line his and his corporate donors’ pockets at the expense of New Jersey families. This is part of a pattern, like when MacArthur took over $400,000 from prescription drug and insurance companies and wrote the bill to make prescription drugs unaffordable, raise the cost of premiums, impose an age tax on older Americans, and gut protections for people with pre-existing conditions. MacArthur should take a look at Rep. Donovan’s decision and do the same—anything less shows he stands with drug companies and not New Jersey middle class families.”

Congressman MacArthur has taken over $400,000 from pharmaceutical companies and the insurance industry. While writing the health care repeal bill, he invested nearly a million dollars of personal money into corporations that stood to profit from the bill. Later, shortly before voting for the GOP tax bill, MacArthur again invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in oil and gas companies that got a $25,000,000,000 tax break.