by Byron Keelin
Immigration and the unchecked border disaster that President Biden and Vice President Harris have unleashed in their first term is a top issue on the minds of voters this year. So, a first look at a recent set of ads in Missouri from Stand For Us PAC talking about “Joe Biden’s open border policies” normally wouldn’t catch much attention.
The Jefferson City Swamp is trying to
boost a program that subsidizes health
care for illegals.Worse yet, it’s the same program behind
Planned Parenthood’s discount abortion
scheme.But Iraq War veteran @AndrewBaileyMO
is on guard & fighting back.Watch our new 📺 ad below pic.twitter.com/xOpJd1Hoa8
— Stand for Us (@StandforUsPAC) July 10, 2024
But there is growing talk of the Stand For Us PAC ads being the latest effort by Pfizer to influence the Missouri Republican Primary. That makes these ads something conservatives outside Missouri should pay attention to because as conservatives win more battles against the Left and its woke corporate allies, we should expect to see more of this type of behavior from those same woke companies and need to be ready for it unless we want to see our wins erode.
The ads in Missouri are aimed at boosting Jay Ashcroft for Governor and Andrew Bailey, the Attorney General, with Stand For Us PAC putting over $1 million into the ads in less than a month. That has caused quite a stir in the state, especially given how much of the group’s focus is on a healthcare program you may have never heard of—called 340(b)—and not the border wall or countless other easy-to-grasp aspects of the Biden Border Disaster. It has also turned heads that the group is backing Attorney General Andrew Bailey since he had a hand in expanding the 340(b) program in Missouri when he was the Governor’s General Counsel.
But things start to make more sense now that the open secret in Jefferson City is that Stand For Us PAC is running its ads using people who work for Pfizer and being bankrolled by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), which opposes 340b programs and has a history of receiving big money from Pfizer for political efforts.
Pfizer has every reason to care about who gets to be Missouri Attorney General, notwithstanding the candidates’ past positions on a program like 340(b).
You see, when it comes to racial preferences, gender ideology, and the woke agenda, Pfizer is about as bad as they come. Pfizer has become a poster child of using race-based hiring goals in the name of fighting “systemic racism,” been sued over its racial bias, and has been caught funding radical gender ideology efforts in hospitals alongside their buddies at PhRMA. And then there is the little issue of their COVID vaccines, which led Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, a rightwing champion, to sue Pfizer.
Indeed, Pfizer’s little COVID vaccine issue has already landed it smack in the middle of the heated primary for Missouri Attorney General, even before these Stand For Us PAC ads hit the scene and Pfizer’s involvement became the talk of the town.
Attorney General Bailey’s primary opponent, Will Scharf is representing Kansas and Attorney General Kobach in their lawsuit against Pfizer, after Kobach turned to the same team of lawyers who helped President Trump beat Jack Smith at the Supreme Court.
On the other hand, Bailey has been blasted for siding with Pfizer after cashing a maximum check from Pfizer’s PAC and landing money from Pfizer-linked lobbyists. And it drew a note from Missouri grassroots activists when Bailey was seen being led through the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee by a Pfizer lobbyist.
Given this dynamic, it really isn’t shocking to see Pfizer wade more deeply into the Missouri Republican Primary, which will surely determine who wins this year’s statewide offices.
And that is why conservatives across the country should be paying attention to what is going on in Missouri.
We have had a good run pushing back against the woke mind virus in Corporate America, with ESG in retreat, radical gender ideology under fire, and the woke blob reeling from our hits.
But that has made us a target. While they may be losing the fight on the battlefield of ideas, woke companies now look to be trying to change the direction of our efforts by meddling in our primaries, to boost their flavor of Republican and cut our legs out from under us.
What has started in Missouri isn’t likely to end at the Mississippi River or the Kansas state line. It is a bigger problem for the broader conservative movement. Conservatives everywhere should watch Missouri, pull for Will Scharf to win the nomination for Missouri Attorney General over Andrew Bailey in the upcoming August 6 primary, and then build off that success by standing ready to protect their home states from similar attacks from woke companies.
The Freedom Principle MO has sent two letters to Andrew Bailey calling for the Missouri Attorney General’s Office to launch an investigation into Pfizer but has received no response from Bailey’s office.
The Freedom Principle MO is a membership-based 501(c)4 organization promoting a pro-citizen, pro-Missouri First organization acting locally and statewide to protect our families and constitutionally protected liberties.
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Byron Keelin is the President of Freedom Principle MO.
Photo “MO A.G. Andrew Bailey” by MO A.G. Andrew Bailey and “Will Scharf” is by Will Scharf.
