Iowa House hopeful’s ‘middle-class’ model clashes with millionaire life-style

Iowa Democrat Christina Bohannan has constructed her marketing campaign for Congress across the picture of a hard-working, middle-class advocate who understands what it is like “to struggle to put food on the table.” 

However, her actual property portfolio and monetary disclosures paint a really completely different image — considered one of costly houses, a Florida waterfront rental and profitable inventory investments that place Bohannan among the many rich elite she claims to need to battle towards in Congress.

“You know, I know what it’s like to work so hard and to, to still struggle to put food on the table,” Bohannan beforehand told a crowd on the Iowa State Fair. Throughout her a number of campaigns – Bohannan has run for a similar seat within the House for the previous two elections and misplaced – she has touted her historical past of rising up in a trailer park and being compelled to decide on “between putting groceries in the cart and filling prescription drugs.” 

In an interview with Iowa Public Radio, Bohannan reportedly reiterated as soon as once more that “she knows what it’s like to struggle.”

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However, Bohannan’s personal monetary disclosures and native actual property information paint an image that clashes along with her alleged working-class picture. In June, Bohannan bought University of Iowa basketball coach Fran McCaffery’s $1.55 million mansion in Iowa City, whereas for years she has additionally owned a waterfront rental inside a gated neighborhood in Sarasota, Florida. The gated neighborhood sells houses starting from as little as $300,000 to over $1 million, plus requires 1000’s in annual home-owner’s charges.

Meanwhile, based on Bohannan’s monetary disclosures, her Sarasota rental has additionally helped her web as a lot as $50,000 in rental earnings yearly.

Bohannan’s personal monetary filings additionally present that she and her husband personal over six-figures in particular person tech shares, reminiscent of Apple, Alphabet and Meta, from which they haven’t divested regardless of Bohannan’s “ETHICS PLAN” proposal aimed toward compelling members of Congress to stop buying and selling shares whereas serving on Capitol Hill.

Fox News Digital reached out to Bohannan for remark however didn’t obtain a response in time for publication. 

Bohannan is about to tackle Republican incumbent Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who represents Iowa’s 1st Congressional District.

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Earlier this month, Bohannan tried to stir backlash towards her GOP opponent over her “true values,” pointing to a photograph of Miller-Meeks sitting first-class on an airplane, “as her constituents suffer from Trump’s policies.”

“This photo tells you more about Miller-Meeks’ true values than her entire town hall did,” Bohannan wrote in a tweet that included an alleged picture of her Republican opponent flying firstclass.

But the tried jab didn’t go unnoticed by a regionally elected district supervisor, Austin Hayek, who slammed Bohannan for worrying about Miller-Meeks sitting firstclass when she had simply purchased a $1.55 million mansion. 

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“Christina Bohannan is concerned with 1st class – weird since she just bought a $1.55 million dollar home,” Hayek commented on Bohannan’s photograph of Miller-Meeks allegedly sitting firstclass. “Seems she’s wanting others to share the wealth, but not herself and she cares more about her personal living than the ‘poor,'” the native elected official concluded. “Stop the virtue signally [sic].”