New Ad: Ashley Hinson Used Her Position to Help Her Husband Make Millions. Now She’s Facing an Ethics Investigation.

WinSenate today launched a $3.4 million ad campaign in Iowa exposing Ashley Hinson for using her political office to benefit her husband’s business interests, resulting in an ethics complaint being filed against her.

Ashley Hinson’s husband, Matt Arenholz, chaired the government affairs committee of an insurance lobbying group and helped arrange meetings between its leaders and members of Congress, including Hinson. Hinson, who has positioned herself as a check on “Big Insurance,” advocated for tax breaks that benefit insurance companies like his. Now, an ethics complaintis questioning Arenholz’s lobbying ties, with her financial disclosures showing the couple holds up to $5 million in an insurance firm.

“[Ashley Hinson] wrote a law boosting insurance industry profits and giving tax breaks to companies like her husband’s,” the narrator says in the ad. “Ashley Hinson’s gotten up to $8 million richer since she went to Washington, and now she’s facing an ethics complaint. Ashley Hinson sold us out.”

The ad will air throughout Iowa on television, as well as digital and streaming.

Watch “Match Made Hinson.”