Wisconsin Senate candidate Eric Hovde had to walk back comments directed at nursing home residents, and now his bank faces a separate suit for elder abuse.
Hovde is challenging incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin this November, and he drew fire in recent days for suggesting widespread voter fraud occurred in Wisconsinduring the 2020 general election, and that nursing home residents should not be allowed to vote in elections.
Hovde has since walked back those claims; however, now the Senate candidate is facing a new controversy surrounding nursing home residents. Thereported Saturday morning that Sunwest, the bank where Hovde currently serves as CEO, was named as a co-defendant last month in a lawsuit alleging elder abuse, negligence, and wrongful death at a retirement home owned by the bank.
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