Tag Archives: Kelly Loeffler

White House Pressured Georgia Senators Into Calling For Resignation Of Republican GA Secretary Of State

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: This was supposed to be the week that Republicans united behind U.S. Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue for a pair of Jan. 5 runoffs that could decide control of the Senate. Instead, the two senators leveled unfounded claims of a disastrous “embarrassment” of an election at fellow Republicans who oversaw last week’s vote – and …

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Republican Georgia Senators Demand Resignation Of Republican GA Sec Of State Over “Dishonest” Election

From Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Sen. David Perdue: The management of Georgia elections has become an embarrassment for our state. Georgians are outraged, and rightly so. We have been clear from the beginning: every legal vote cast should be counted. Any illegal vote must not. And there must be transparency and uniformity in the counting process. This isn’t hard. This …

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Warnock And Loeffler Advance To GA Senate Runoff

Atlanta’s CBS News affiliate reports: Georgia’s once crowded US Senate special election is headed to a January 5 runoff between Republican Kelly Loeffler and Democrat Raphael Warnock. Incumbent Loeffler secured 29 percent of votes while Warnock raked in 28 percent by 10:40 p.m. election night. At least 50 percent of votes were needed to be secured by one candidate to …

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Loeffler “Not Familiar” With Trump’s P-Grabbing Tape

Atlanta’s NBC News affiliate reports: Sen. Kelly Loeffler said Wednesday that she doesn’t disagree with anything President Donald Trump has said or done. Earlier this month during a debate, Loeffler was asked if President Trump had ever said or done anything she’d disagreed with. Her answer was emphatically “no.” Loeffler told reporters Wednesday that she doesn’t know anything about an …

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Warnock +17 Over Loeffler In New GA Senate Poll

Just in from Public Policy Polling: PPP’s newest Georgia poll finds that both of the state’s Senate seats appear headed for runoffs. In the regular Senate election Jon Ossoff is getting 44% to 43% for David Perdue, with Libertarian Shane Hazel’s 4% well exceeding the difference between the two of them. In the special Senate election, Raphael Warnock continues to …

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Kelly Loeffler: “China Gave This Virus To Our President”

First, a reminder of her current situation: A poll of likely Georgia voters released Tuesday by Quinnipiac University showed Democrat Raphael Warnock ahead in the special election to complete the term of former Sen. Johnny Isakson, with Warnock pegged at 31%, Sen. Kelly Loeffler at 23%, and Republican Doug Collins at 22%. Democrat Matt Lieberman followed at 9%, with Democrat …

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Matt Gaetz Claims Sen. Kelly Loeffler Offered Trump Team $50M To “Take Out” Her GOP Senate Opponent

The Daily Beast reports: A leading congressional ally of President Donald Trump alleged last week that Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) threatened to withhold financial support for the president’s re-election effort unless he helped get her top primary opponent out of the race. According to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Loeffler or her representatives approached the Trump campaign and offered to spend …

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GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler Rages After Hometown Paper Calls Out Her Interview With Host Linked To Neo-Nazis

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler granted an interview to a TV pundit associated with white supremacy and Nazism. The interview aired on One America News Network on Thursday and Loeffler promoted it heavily on her Facebook and Twitter accounts Friday, tagging the controversial host. Jewish groups and media observers pointed out that Posobiec promotes conspiracy theories and …

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GOP Senator Who Co-Owns WNBA Team Opposes League’s “Divisive” Plan To Honor Black Lives Matter

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler objected to the WNBA’s plans to honor the Black Lives Matter movement, warning Tuesday that subscribing to a “particular political agenda undermines the potential of the sport and sends a message of exclusion.” Loeffler, a Republican who co-owns Atlanta’s WNBA franchise, urged Commissioner Cathy Engelbert in a letter to scrap plans for …

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Loeffler Won’t Drop Out Because Critics Of Her Insider Trading Are Just Liberals Who Hate “Free Enterprise”

“Not only am I not dropping out, but I’m gonna win. And no one’s going to intimidate me into thinking that that’s the right course for our party, for our state, for our country. I’m working hard to help reelect the president. “I’m working hard to win my seat and keep the Senate in Republican hands. This is the liberal …

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Loeffler’s Husband Donates $1M To Pro-Trump PAC

Seems like somebody doesn’t want to be prosecuted: Jeff Sprecher, the husband of Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), sent a $1 million check to the leading pro-Trump super PAC even as she been fending off criticism around her family’s stock trading. Sprecher, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, donated to America First Action on April 29, according to a …

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GOP Senator Craters To 12% Against GOP Front-Runner

The Washington Examiner reports: In the special election for appointed Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s seat, again, none of the rivals attract the 50% support needed to skip a runoff. Loeffler’s campaign in the so-called jungle primary has been derailed by allegations she and her New York Stock Exchange chairman husband Jeffrey Sprecher made favorable trades after she received a private …

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GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler Again Monetizing Pandemic

The Daily Beast reports: The Georgia Republican is taking every chance she gets to plug her presidential appointment to a White House task force on “reopening America.” She’s using the appointment to attempt to court campaign supporters, taking out paid ads promoting it, and has even set up a stand-alone campaign website offering coronavirus information to constituents—a site that also …

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Loeffler: Criticism Of My Insider Trading Is “Socialist”

The Daily Beast reports: Embattled Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) waved off the firestorm of controversy over stock trades she made following Senate coronavirus briefings, telling Fox News on Friday that the criticism she’s received is nothing more than a “socialist attack.” Noting that Loeffler had appeared on their program last month to deny any wrongdoing, America’s Newsroom co-anchor Sandra Smith …

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Loeffler Pledges To Liquidate Personal Stock Holdings

The Daily Beast reports: Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) pledged on Wednesday to liquidate her personal stock holdings amid a firestorm over trades that coincided with non-public Senate briefings on the novel coronavirus. “ Although Senate ethics rules don’t require it, my husband and I are liquidating our holdings in managed accounts and moving into exchange-traded funds and mutual funds,” Loeffler …

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GA Rep. Collins +23 Over Loeffler Amid Stock Scandal

This is quite a reversal. Politico reports: Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) holds a significant lead over Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) in the race for her Senate seat, a new poll found. A Battleground Connect survey of likely voters in the upcoming special election first reported by Politico revealed that 36 percent support Collins, who has represented the 9th district in …

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Carlson: Loeffler Must Resign If She Knew Of Trades

The Daily Beast reports: Two weeks after calling on Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) to resign if he couldn’t explain his suspicious stock dumps, Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) must leave office if it is revealed she knew in advance about stock trades her financial advisers made. Last month, after news broke that Burr …

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New Docs Show GOP Senator Dumped $19M In Stocks

The Atlantic Journal-Constitution reports: U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s most recent financial disclosures show that millions of dollars in stocks were sold on her behalf at the same time Congress was dealing with the impact of the coronavirus. The largest transactions — and the most politically problematic — involve $18.7 million in sales of Intercontinental Exchange stock in three separate deals …

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Loeffler Claims No Advance Knowledge Of Stock Trades

Fox News reports: Tucker Carlson grilled Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., on Friday after allegations of insider trading-like behavior were lodged against her and three other U.S. senators. Loeffler’s husband is Jeffrey Sprecher, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Loeffler told Carlson on Friday that her financial advisers make stock buying and selling decisions in her portfolio. “I’m …

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Second GOP Senator Dumped Stocks Amid Assurances

The Daily Beast reports: The Senate’s newest member sold off seven figures’ worth of stock holdings in the days and weeks after a private, all-senators meeting on the novel coronavirus that subsequently hammered U.S. equities. Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) reported the first sale of stock jointly owned by her and her husband on Jan. 24, the very day that her …

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