MGP Doesn’t Offer Health Insurance to Staff, Autoshop Employees
Even though Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez says expanding healthcare is a “top priority”, a new story from the Washington Free Beacon shows that MGP doesn’t offer health insurance to her campaign staff or to her autoshop employees.
She will rip off her workers (and constituents) to make a buck every time.
Read more below.
Washington Free Beacon
Ethan Barton
September 30, 2026
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D.) has said that expanding health care access and driving down costs is a “top priority” as she faces a difficult race to hold her swing seat in Washington’s Third Congressional District. But that apparently doesn’t apply to the Democrat’s staff. Gluesenkamp Perez doesn’t provide health coverage to her campaign staffers, according to financial disclosures reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Nor does she provide health benefits to employees of the auto shop she co-owns with her husband, according to a former mechanic at the shop.
“When I was there we did not have health care,” Colton Stender, who worked full-time at Dean’s Car Care from 2016 to 2019, told the Free Beacon. “I’m pretty damn sure that no one else was.”
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It doesn’t appear that policy changed in the ensuing years. A job listing in 2021 for a full-time service writer, which named Gluesenkamp Perez as the contact, didn’t list health insurance as a benefit.
Likewise, Federal Election Commission records show that Gluesenkamp Perez’s campaign has paid for some benefits like liability and workers’ compensation insurance, but no direct payments were made for a group health plan. It does employ the human resources platform Gusto, which sometimes manages benefits like health care, but the records don’t show what services the company provided for the campaign, which did not respond to a request for comment. Her 2022 and 2024 campaigns were similar.
Her failure to provide her employees with health care coverage stands in stark contrast to her comments on the campaign trail.
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