Tom Zawistowski, president of the We the People Convention, said he believes Bernie Moreno, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Ohio, will emerge victorious over incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) in the November 5 general election.
While Brown has consistently led Moreno in previous polling taken over the last several months, a poll released Wednesday by the Napolitan News Service shows Moreno leading Brown by two percentage points (48 percent – 46 percent) among likely voters.
Zawistowski said Brown’s dip in polling comes as Ohioans come to realize that the incumbent senator is “just a phony.”
“Brown is just a phony. Matter of fact, he’s running ads saying that he’s not with a party, he’s with the people and that he’s not a stone cold commie Democrat. No one’s buying that, and that’s why you’re seeing this,” Zawistowski explained on Wednesday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
Zawistowski discussed a bill carried by Brown in the U.S. Senate that would land 33 million small business owners in jail or slapped with hefty fines if they were not to fill out and file a form with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network by January 1, 2025.
Brown introduced the Corporate Transparency Act in 2021 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act to prevent and combat “money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, and tax fraud.”
While then-President Donald Trump vetoed the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress voted to override the president’s veto and enacted the Corporate Transparency Act.
Under the law, small businesses with sales of less than $5 million must fill out and file beneficial ownership information reports by January 1, 2025, or face imprisonment for up to five years and up to $250,000 in fines.
Zawistowski, who is a small business owner himself, said Brown’s bill is “devastating” to small business owners and warned that the requirement is essentially a compiled “hit list” of the middle class.
“When we say Kamala Harris is a communist or ‘Tiananmen Tim’ and all this stuff, we’re not kidding. They are at war with the American people and the only way they win is that they kill capitalism, which is small businesses,” Zawistowski added.
Zawistowski said the war against small businesses, as seen by efforts including Brown’s Corporate Transparency Act, is another reason for Ohioans to make a plan to vote and encourage others to vote as well.
“We’ve got to register people to vote…We’ve got to talk to people and get them to vote. We’ve got to vote early because once you vote, then we don’t have to spend more money with text messages, emails, phone calls, or door knocks to get you to vote. That then gives you time to help us get more people to vote. This is it. This is the bottom line if we do not stop these people who want to create a socialist country where the government controls everything,” Zawistowski said.
“This is our last chance and we’re doing everything we can here in Ohio,” Zawistowski added. “Let’s just keep fighting the fight.”
Watch the full interview:
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Ohio Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
