{"id":31165,"date":"2020-11-09T19:35:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T01:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31165"},"modified":"2020-12-13T19:20:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T01:20:26","slug":"if-he-had-some-gall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/11\/09\/if-he-had-some-gall\/","title":{"rendered":"If He Had Some Gall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incumbent Republican Senators from Georgia Perdue and Loeffler are upset with the Georgia Secretary of State, responsible for the election in Georgia, because neither broke the necessary 50% barrier in order to avoid a Jan 5 runoff against their Democratic opponents. Here&#8217;s their statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is absurd and it is telling they give absolutely no examples of their alleged mismanagement. Georgia has been transparent and well managed throughout this process &#8211; out performing many other states. They are damaging faith in the system for singularly selfish reasons. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5a16SoxH9o\">https:\/\/t.co\/5a16SoxH9o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jessica Huseman (@JessicaHuseman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JessicaHuseman\/status\/1325909538659332097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>All the people mentioned in that statement? Republicans. In the absence of any evidence of cheating, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has a return volley. It&#8217;s weak tea:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Monday rebuked calls from Republican US Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue to resign as both of their Senate races\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/11\/09\/politics\/jon-ossoff-georgia-senate-runoff-race-cnntv\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appear to be headed for a January runoff.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Earlier today Senators Loeffler and Perdue called for my resignation,&#8221; Raffensperger, who is also a Republican, said in a statement. &#8220;Let me start by saying that is not going to happen. The voters of Georgia hired me, and the voters will be the one to fire me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Secretary of State, I&#8217;ll continue to fight every day to ensure fair elections in Georgia, that every legal vote counts, and that illegal votes don&#8217;t count,&#8221; Raffensperger continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know emotions are running high. Politics are involved in everything right now. If I was Senator Perdue, I&#8217;d be irritated I was in a runoff. And <em>both<\/em> Senators and I are all unhappy with the potential outcome for our President.&#8221;<em> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/11\/09\/politics\/georgia-2020-election-kelly-loeffler-david-perdue-brad-raffensperger\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>CNN\/Politics<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Raffensperger understands that he was just asked to abandon his duty and use his position to cheat the two Senators to renewed terms, he doesn&#8217;t betray it. But that&#8217;s the message.<\/p>\n<p>An honorable official would have come out and said it, and then informed the two Senators in no uncertain terms that it&#8217;s time for <strong>them<\/strong> to resign.<\/p>\n<p>Face it, Raffensperger. You no longer have a political future, because you didn&#8217;t cheat. Recognize it and go out with a big boom. You&#8217;ll feel better for it. And, like you said, let the voters fire you. Jokers like those Senators have no place in American politics &#8211; or shouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, I do like my drama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incumbent Republican Senators from Georgia Perdue and Loeffler are upset with the Georgia Secretary of State, responsible for the election in Georgia, because neither broke the necessary 50% barrier in order to avoid a Jan 5 runoff against their Democratic opponents. Here&#8217;s their statement: This is absurd and it is \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/11\/09\/if-he-had-some-gall\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31527,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31165\/revisions\/31527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}