Posted on 11/29/2019 6:40:29 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp will likely tap business executive Kelly Loeffler to the U.S. Senate despite strong criticism from his conservative base over Loffler’s affiliation with Planned Parenthood, Stacey Abrams, and establishment Republicans, according to a report released Friday.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Friday that Kemp plans to tap business executive Loeffler next week as he will attempt to appeal to Georgia suburban women despite the conservative opposition to Loeffler.
Kemp’s potential nomination of Loeffler will defy President Donald Trump, prominent conservative organizations, and Georgia’s conservative base that helped Kemp get elected to the governor’s office.
Breitbart News has reported how Loeffler has concerning ties to Democrat icon Stacey Abrams, and also that Loeffler’s basketball team, the Atlanta Dream, has promoted the abortion provider Planned Parenthood. Loeffler has also donated $750,000 to Mitt Romney’s failed 2012 presidential campaign as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars to former Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) campaigns and PACs.
The Georgia governor’s nomination of Loeffler could also spark a contentious primary fight, as House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA), Trump’s favorite for the seat, told the Journal-Constitution that he is “strongly” considering a run for the Senate seat if he is not picked.
Trump has reportedly lobbied Kemp to tap Collins three times in recent weeks. Trump expressed doubt over Loeffler, who remains politically untested.
Reports that Kemp will nominate Loeffler to the U.S. Senate has engendered outcry from conservatives in the House as well as across Georgia’s Republican base.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), a strong ally of Trump and supporter of his America First policies, said that Kemp is “hurting President Trump” by nominating a business executive who donated “$700k plus to Mitt Romney and nothing to Trump until she wanted in the Senate?”
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I will never vote for this Romney and Paul Ryan shill. You can forget about an Amy Coney Barrett type conservative ever getting a vote for the SC from an WNBA SJW warrior. She will be as bad as Lisa Murkowski
Yeah there’s a reason. But it has nothing to do with advancing the Trump agenda
I would point out that this applies to both parties - remember, Hillary took the northern/Midwest union zone for granted and thereby lost to Trump.
There is a lot of dead wood in the upper reaches of GOP leadership both at the state and Federal level. Example: Recently the Republican who is Speaker of the Texas House decided to start asking conservative organizations in the state to help him purge fellow Republicans that were more conservative than he/not under his control. He would even have preferred Democrats be elected. We know this because one of the organizations was so aghast at his conduct they secretly (but legally) recorded a meeting he had with them in which he pressed for aid to eliminate these elected officials, even to the point of being replaced by Democrats, in exchange for favors he would grant the organization.
The party also needs to stop running losers just because they’re incumbents, because it’s “their turn”, etc., etc. Bevin was a jackass and even as an incumbent was a bad candidate with horrible optics.
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A “Jeb-ster”.
May all the red ants of the Sahara Desert come up and infest his armpits.
Rather than trying to mend fences — which won’t work — he needs to double down. He’ll learn the hard way.
Too bad Kemp betrays his base; something that Abrams would have never done! Primary both Loeffler and Kemp in 2020 and 2022.
Kemp thinks appointing women and minorities to everything is going to help his reelection in 3 years. He is making a fundamental mistake and could not be more wrong. He is alienating the President who helped him get elected as well as conservative voters in Georgia. Apparently Kemp is not the polished politician we thought he was. Rather he appears to be a foolish rookie.
He's a complete lightweight that lucked in being Governor by having such a weak opponent.
Not only will Kemp's appointee have to run in 2020 for the remainder of Isakson's term, but then again in 2022 for re-election to a full 6-year term of her own. Loeffler can afford to self-fund two campaigns in two years.
I think you've got it backward -- Trump would not have won the GOP nomination without Kemp. As Georgia's secretary of state in 2016, Brian Kemp organized the "SEC Primary" in which Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia defied the RNC by changing their primaries to March 1, 2016. This negated the RNC's traditional fix which had always given "moderate" candidates a head start by piling up delegates in the early primaries of more liberal states. President Trump has acknowledged Kemp's pivotal role in his 2016 nomination.
From what I have heard, I agree completely. Sounds like a Swamp Denizen to me.
It’s discouraging, no doubt.
Well said.
Agreed. To begin with, Brian Kemp is staunchly Conservative and Pro-Life, so he deserves the benefit of the doubt until more facts come into focus. If we go back four years, Kelly Loeffler sounds a lot like the idea of Donald Trump as president did in 2015.
So Kelly Loeffler was a Romney donor? Well, so was I in 2012 when the alternative was the reelection of Obama. My donation was a whole lot smaller, but so are my means. In 2012 I realized that Romney was a weak alternative, but now I know that he is a corrupt Deep State player with hands in the Ukrainian cookie jar.
Kelly Loeffler and husband Jeffrey Sprecher own the NYSE so she can afford to self-fund her own campaign. That's a good thing because she will have to run in 2020 for the remainder of Isakson's term and then again in 2022 for reelection to a full 6-year term. How many viable candidates could do that?
Some people are reading bad things into Loeffler's seat on the board of Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital, one of largest public hospitals in America. But they might not realize that Grady was rescued from near-bankruptcy and closure in 2008 when Atlanta business leaders intervened to oust Grady's corrupt board, convert it to a non-profit organization, and pour in hundreds of millions of their own dollars. Today, Grady Memorial Hospital is successful, respected and profitable. Good on her for donating her time and expertise to this important institution.
Finally, I really like Doug Collins and his effective defense of President Trump. But Collins's new high-profile role obscures the fact that he is the least conservative member of Georgia's house delegation. For now, I prefer Doug Collins right where he as an effective member of Congress.
In summary, I know enough about Governor Kemp to trust him on this and save my ammunition for the election next year.
On first examination, she does indeed sound like a swamp denizen. But on closer examination, no one thing supports the negative hype. Kelly Loeffler is a business person. Governor Kemp is my guy, and I have to believe that he knows a lot more about Loeffler than we see on the surface. We shall find out...
It means they lost the GA 6th district which was Republican for decades (Newt’s old seat) even though it was held by a freshman Republican woman.
You’re onto something there but....Handel may have been a freshwoman in Congress but she bounced around Georgia politics for years. She almost lost to Jon Ossoff, a Hank Johnson staffer because his parents are big money donors-who didn’t even live in the district. Handel was weak but the state GOP wanted her and pushed her on the voters.
Handel was then beaten by McBath, a anti-gun activist, that didn’t even live in the state, yet no one made anything more than a feeble attempt to out her for it. Anti-gun in one of the most gun friendly states in the country. McBath recently called the cops at one of her townhalls, when her constituents started asking her questions. And Sandy Springs PD showed up and escorted the constituents out. ‘MERICA!!!
But, there has been a concerted effort by the Left to “Flip the 6th” and then finally did it. North of Atlanta, great schools, predominantly affluent and WHITE. Where all the Northern Liberals and Dem’s move to when the relocate and take all those jobs meant for Georgians.
At least, isn’t that what the politicians tell people when they give away the ranch to entice a company to move. “I got this company to move here and all of you are going to pay their bills for the next 10 years and they’ll bring all their workers with them to completely changed the voting demographics and change the state forever. Wait, wait, wait, wrong card. What I meant to say is...this company has decided to make Georgia it’s new home and will provided hundreds, if not thousands, of new jobs to the people of Georgia”.
socialite who has never served the public in her life .............. that isn’t a big deal. Our President never served the public and he’s doing a remarkable job.
I doubt the working class folks will take to kindly to the seat being offered to a mega-rich, connected, donor-class ..... that’s the money shot, right there.
She’s nothing but a rich, white chick from Buckhead who’s spent her life at the Ansley Golf Club, Piedmont Driving Club and can be seen at all the fundraisers for this hospital, or that hospital.
He's got his marching orders from Cocaine Mitch...
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