A claim by Christine Serrano Glassner that one of her opponents in the GOP U.S. Senate primary is a business partner with a once-blacklisted Chinese company turned out to be false.
Serrano Glassner’s campaign alleged that Curtis Bashaw joined forces with China State Construction Engineering on a Manhattan development project.
In an email sent today to county committee members, Serrano Glassner political director Ethan Adams accused Bashaw of financially benefitting from “Chinese firms that scoop up American real estate.”
“Bashaw should immediately divest his business interests with China and declare his intent to never do business with the Chinese again,” Adams said.
But Bahaw divested from the firm involved in the project in 2019, one year before President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning American companies and individuals from owning parts of some Chinese companies.
“He makes zero dollars on this New York City project,” said Jeanette Hoffman, a spokesperson for Bashaw’s campaign. “Flailing campaigns take desperate shots, and this one is a swing and a miss by Ms. Serrano-Glassner, who’s spreading wild conspiracies.”
Hoffman said that while Bashaw has not been a partner at Cape Advisors in nearly five years, his company, Cape Resorts, has restored and run Congress Hall and The Virginia, 100% American-owned hotels at the Jersey Shore.
“Sadly, Ms. Serrano-Glassner is trying to distract from her plagiarized website and dire fundraising numbers that put her on track to a losing campaign,” Hoffman said.