Republican congressional candidate Ashley Hinson apologized for plagiarism in her opinion pieces and website and cut ties with a Virginia-based consulting firm she said was responsible.
that an employee for a consulting firm hired by her campaign included the plagiarized passages in pieces of writing that she later approved.
"That firm that I had been using and that employee have both been terminated. I’m not doing any more work with them," Hinson said in the KWWL interview. Her campaign manager, Jimmy Peacock, confirmed that the firm is FP1 Strategies, based in Arlington, Virginia. Campaign finance reports show Hinson's campaign has paid the firm $106,000 since May 2019.lists 20 current or former Republican U.S. Senators as clients, including Iowa's Joni Ernst, as well as 35 current or former U.S. Representatives, including former U.S. Rep. David Young, a Republican who is running in Iowa's 3rd District, which he lost to Democrat Cindy Axne in 2018.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which supports Democratic candidates for the U.S. House, has criticized Hinson for the plagiarism and pointed out that Hinson has featured her past work as a journalist in
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