Collins’ Campaign Attacks Loeffler Over Statements About Stock Sales
From a press release from the Doug Collins for United States Senate campaign:
Doug Collins’ Senate campaign responded to Senator Kelly Loeffler’s assertion today that criticism of her potentially illegal stock trades is a “socialist attack.”
“We have taken extraordinary measures to make sure that we can’t be attacked for our success … this is a socialist attack,” Loeffler said on Fox News Channel today.
“Using your public office to make private profits while some Georgia families lose everything is not the American Dream,” said Collins chief strategist Chip Lake. “Shame on you for saying it is.”
Lake pointed out that Loeffler has yet to identify the intermediary who she claims directed her stock portfolios and their uncannily timed sales and purchases of companies poised to win or lose based on the then-looming Coronavirus pandemic hours after Loeffler had received confidential government briefings on the matter. She has also failed to say whether she has sold all of her individual stocks and what she would do with the proceeds she generated on those sales.
Unlike North Carolina Senator Burr, Loeffler has not invited an investigation into her activities although one or more are widely believed to be underway. Ethics complaints regarding her pandemic profiteering have been filed with the Senate Ethics Committee by Common Cause and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
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You have to love ‘pandemic profiteering’.
Collins may still get his doors blown off but Loeffler’s put herself in the middle of a big bulls-eye that he’ll wear out between now and Nov.
Maybe GOP PUNDIT could offer an opinion on the race.
I noticed the moniker too. The thought that occurs Is that reporting of press statements and campaign commentary in this race is construed as taking sides.
Yes, so any criticism, whether based on public or private finances, could theoretically be labeled and demonized as “socialist”. It could theoretically even be used outside the scope of finances. A most broad brush.
But notice how the Collins response doesn’t use the s-word. (Of course, the whole statement likely not posted here.)
That indicates awareness that the useful slur of the s-word needs to be curated and preserved.
I then wonder how useful the word will be when it is has to confront the imminent advocacy for a public health insurance option or plan of some sort. Will it be socialist to want to use some public resources to save lives? (Hint and answer: Yes, it is!) This makes me further wonder if Augusta residents have by some significant percentage changed their opinions on public health options and plans incl. Medicaid expansion. Perhaps Mark R., if you still read this blog, or someone else competent, can do a quick poll to see if the current public health crisis has changed opinion on health care options. Would be an interesting policy canary in the coal mine, if not a slight tangent from the post’s original topic.
correction ^
Albany not Augusta
GOP_NEWS, A new handle for Lawton S. ? His usual beat is the absurd campaign PR quotes of the day. But it ain’t news.
I assumed it was Irish Pat. He regularly recycles ‘news’ from Collins.