A new disclosure with the US Senate shows that Mark Pukita is making money from companies that make the vaccine.
According to a financial disclosure viewed by Insider, Pukita has up to $50,000 in Johnson & Johnson stock and up to $1,000 in dividends in the past year.
He made up to $1,000 in dividends on his Pfizer stock in the past year.
Pukita has personal stock investments of up to $15,000 each in two companies. Both companies make COVID-19 tests.
During a candidates' forum last week in Columbus, Ohio, Pukita stated that he was the only candidate in the crowded GOP field who had not received the vaccine.
"It's one thing to talk, it's another thing to act, and I was out protesting against vaccine mandates and masks," Pukita said. I'm the only one up here.
He challenged Josh Mandel to share whether or not he's vaccine-free. Mandel declined to do so.
The campaign ad he issued about Mandel was criticized as antisemitic. The ad was not anti-Jewish.
His campaign website says he is anti-vax but anti-force and that he is the only Ohio US Senate candidate to state he has not vaxed.
The website calls for an "all-out attack on the SWAMP, deep state and big tech" and an end to the "unholy alliance of the Deep State and Big-Tech" but Pukita's Senate financial disclosure shows he owns stock in several tech giants.
Pukita did not reply immediately.
The GOP Senate primary in Ohio has a candidate who missed the deadline to file financial disclosure forms, but still has yet to do so.
