“The UAW is thousands of working families right here in Missouri. These UAW members are entering a fifth week on strike, to protect wages and benefits for their own families and other working families throughout our state,” spokesman Eric Slusher said then.
The ad also claims Galloway’s family has “gotten rich” from lobbying for $11 million in tax breaks.
Asked for more information, Mike Berg, spokesman for Uniting Missouri, noted that Galloway’s husband, Jonathan Galloway, was a registered lobbyist for the Mortgage Research Center, also known as Columbia-based Veterans United Home Loans, from September 2013 to March 2015.
Veterans United received $11 million from the state’s Quality Jobs and Missouri Works programs in 2013, according to the Missouri Accountability Portal.
Berg didn’t provide any information showing that Galloway’s family had “gotten rich” via Jon Galloway’s lobbying.
The ad doesn’t mention that Jon Galloway was lobbying for a mortgage company specializing in veterans home loans, or that the credits were for workforce development efforts, something Parson has long touted.
The Galloway campaign said the ad “falsely claims that Auditor Galloway’s husband lobbied for or benefited from tax credits his employer received.”
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