Hayes said she wouldn't take corporate PAC dollars. Then she accepted over $100,000
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U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes speaks at a news conference at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo, in Bridgeport, Conn. March 29, 2021.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
WASHINGTON — In 2018 during her first run for Congress, then-candidate Jahana Hayes said she wouldn’t take campaign contributions from corporate political action committees as part of her commitment to clean up the influence of money in politics.
But now as a two-term congresswoman, Hayes, D-5, has accepted $102,000 for her campaigns from PACs run by many of the nation’s largest corporations, Federal Election Commission filings show.