Bill McCollum (FL)

During a decades-long political career in Congress, Bill McCollum’s policy priorities were clear: work on behalf of Republican orthodoxy instead of small businesses and working families.

When he was in Congress, he pushed for rampant deregulation of financial firms,¹ opposed making student loans more affordable² and even tried to prevent the creation of low cost bank accounts for working families.³ He even voted against closing a loophole that let wealthy U.S. citizens renounce their citizenship to evade taxes.⁴ By the time he left Congress to run for the U.S. Senate, McCollum earned a rating of 8 out of 100 from a consumer protection group, the Consumer Federation of America.⁵

When McCollum left Congress, he became a lobbyist for an organization that had a program that the IRS determined was a scam: ‘self-serving, circular-financing arrangements’ used to collect fees from home builders, who got their money back by inflating home prices. These buyers were more likely to default on their federally insured mortgages.⁶

While campaigning for the U.S. Senate, McCollum wrapped himself so tightly to President George W. Bush’s policies that one journalist called him Bush’s “overcoat.”⁷ One of his Senate campaign promises was to lead the fight to make Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy permanent.⁸

Tell your friends to ask Bill McCollum to stop supporting the failed policies that devastated our economy.

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