Anti-Corruption Champion Cavanaugh Pledges to Reject Corporate PAC Money and Won’t Trade Stocks
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September 17th, 2025
Anti-Corruption Champion John Cavanaugh Pledges to Reject Corporate PAC Money and Won’t Trade Stocks as a Member of Congress
Omaha, NE — John Cavanaugh today announced that his campaign for Congress will not accept corporate PAC money. This builds on the pledge John took last week; John will not trade individual stocks in Congress, and will lead the fight to ban all Members of Congress from trading stock.
John published this op-ed in the Omaha World Herald last week: Greedy self-dealing is destroying faith in Congress. Here's what I'd do about it.
In the op-ed, John writes:
We desperately need Congress to step up and address the challenges we’re facing here in Nebraska — homes that are getting too expensive, a strained healthcare system, and everyday costs that just keep going up.
It’s hard to trust that members are really focused on those challenges when they’re so financially invested in the industries and corporations that they’re supposed to be overseeing and regulating.
Clearly many members of the U.S. Congress do not share that view and we can’t just rely on members making the right decisions. That’s why I’d also support legislation to ban, finally, members of Congress and their spouses from trading stocks.
With Donald Trump profiting off of the presidency, and selling Trump branded bibles and sneakers, Nebraskans need an anti-corruption champion in Washington to stand up to him and his enablers.
Democrat John Cavanaugh is a current State Senator and candidate for Congress in Nebraska’s second Congressional District. Polling shows John has a 21 point lead in the Democratic primary. John is running to lower costs, protect healthcare and Social Security from the Trump Administration’s attacks, and fight corruption.
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