CFFE PAC Will Run a Multimillion Dollar Independent Expenditure Program in Support of Sen. Brown with the Goal of Knocking More than 600,000 Voters’ Doors

September 9, 2024

WASHINGTON – Today, the Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy PAC (CFFE PAC) announced its endorsement of Sherrod Brown for U.S. Senate. Family-friendly policies that combat the high cost of caregiving are top of mind for voters in this election, and Senator Brown has proven himself to be a champion for working families in Ohio and across the country. 

CFFE PAC is running the largest independent expenditure field program in Ohio and is one of the country’s largest field operations talking to voters in battleground states this election cycle. This endorsement comes as part of CFFE PAC’s 2024 electoral program and its historic $40 million effort to drive votes for Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, Sherrod Brown, and Democrats in battleground states including Ohio. CFFE PAC is running robust door-to-door field and relational organizing programs, paid advertising, and direct mail to elect candidates who champion policies that prioritize family budgets – including paid leave, quality, affordable child care, and affordable prescription drugs– over Republican extremist agendas that hurt families and make it difficult to get by and impossible to get ahead. CFFE PAC recently announced that it has knocked on one million voters’ doors throughout the battleground states, and aims to knock on another two million voters’ doors in the final two months before election day. 

Senator Brown has a long record of voting in favor of legislation to lower the cost of prescription drugs and policies that provide relief for working parents and child care providers, including the Inflation Reduction Act and the American Rescue Plan Act. 

In contrast, his opponent Bernie Moreno is proudly running alongside Donald Trump, whose Project 2025 agenda would increase the cost of medication for 687,430 Ohioans and strip more than 30,000 children in Ohio of access to early childhood education by eliminating Head Start programs.

“Sherrod Brown is the only candidate in this race who will put family budgets ahead of passing an extreme and out-of-touch agenda,” said Sondra Goldschein, Executive Director of CFFE PAC. “He is the leader we need in Washington to ensure that Ohioans have the tools and opportunities they need to thrive– from affordable child care to paid leave to lower prescription drug costs. CFFE PAC is out in force telling voters what’s at stake in this race so we can send Sherrod Brown back to the Senate to address the kitchen-table economic challenges Americans are facing.”  

Across the country and in Ohio, voters support kitchen-table economic solutions that will lower the cost of caregiving. 

• 70% of adults would be more likely to vote for a candidate who supports expanding child care options for families. 
• Four in five women – nearly 90% of Democratic women and 68% of Republican women – identified paid family and medical leave as an important factor to their vote in the presidential election. 
• 85% of voters in battleground states favor paid parental, family, and medical leave.

“Paid leave allowed me to be my mom’s caregiver when she needed it most without sacrificing a job I value or my financial security,” said Columbus, Ohio resident Bethany Sanders. “I’m supporting Senator Sherrod Brown and Vice President Harris because I believe they will fight so that every family has the same safety net that I did.”

Senator Brown is the only candidate in this race with a track record of fighting for people like Bethany. As a U.S. Senator, Sherrod Brown co-sponsored the Expanding Childcare in Rural America Act of 2023 to improve the availability, affordability, and quality of child care in agricultural and rural communities. He also reintroduced the Better Care Better Jobs Act, which would expand access to home and community-based services for older adults, people with disabilities, and injured workers, while also increasing pay and improving benefits for caregivers. Further, he voted in favor of the American Rescue Plan Act and Inflation Reduction Act, which provided millions in relief for child care providers, capped the price of insulin and reduced drug prices for seniors.

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The Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy PAC (CFFE PAC) is fighting for a future where all people can afford to care for themselves and their loved ones. In 2022, CFFE PAC ran a $13.5 million program communicating with voters about where candidates stand on policies that lower the cost of prescription drugs, ensure paid family and medical leave, and provide affordable elder and child care. In 2020, CFFE PAC spent almost $18 million on a program in support of Kamala Harris and U.S. Senate candidates that spanned Wisconsin, Michigan, Maine, Iowa, Montana, Virginia, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Florida and Georgia.