2019-20 GA special Senate race: on Principles & Values
Kelly Loeffler:
First in my family to graduate from college
Raphael Warnock: Here's a kid who grew up in public housing, I'm running against the wealthiest member of Congress.Loeffler: I was born and raised on a farm. I grew up working in the fields. I waitressed my way through school and I was the first in
my family to graduate from college. I worked hard to live the American dream and became a job creator right here in Georgia. The Democrats want to fundamentally change America and the agent of change is my opponent radical liberal Raphael Warnock.
Source: Senate Runoff: 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate debate
Dec 6, 2020
Kelly Loeffler:
I'm a Christian: a person of deep faith
Raphael Warnock: Had Kelly Loeffler listened to the sermon, she wouldn't have used her advantage to make millions on a pandemic.Loeffler: I'm a Christian, I'm a person of deep faith. I don't need a lecture from someone who has used the Bible to not
only justify attacking our military. That's not in Matthew 6:24. It doesn't say you can't serve the military and God, but he's also used the Bible to justify abortion.
Source: Senate Runoff: 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate debate
Dec 6, 2020
Kelly Loeffler:
Conservative values matter: uphold the Constitution
Loeffler: Conservative values matter, to uphold the Constitution. Our freedoms are under attack in this country, religious freedom, the right to life, the Second Amendment. And that's what helps create opportunity for all Georgians to live freely.
But my opponent, radical liberal Raphael Warnock, is a socialist. He supports policies that would grow our government, bankrupt hardworking families with high taxes. That's why I'm focused on helping every single Georgian succeed.
Source: Senate Runoff: 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate debate
Dec 6, 2020
Raphael Warnock:
My whole life is about service; Senate would continue that
Warnock: My whole life has been about service. It is why I entered into the ministry and I am running for the United States Senate as a continuation of that life project. This gives me an opportunity to work on the issues I've been working on for years.
I grew up in public housing, the first college graduate in my family of 12 number. I'm 11 and if it were not for Pell Grants, low-interest student loans, I wouldn't be here. I know the importance of good federal policy.
Source: Senate Runoff: 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate debate
Dec 6, 2020
Raphael Warnock:
Washington is not focused on ordinary people
Warnock: Here's a kid who grew up in public housing, I'm running for the Senate against the wealthiest member of Congress. Only in America is that possible. I am fighting to make sure that kids like me have access to the American dream that I believe so
much in. I'm concerned that Washington is not focused on ordinary people. You can't tell the difference between Washington back rooms and corporate boardrooms. My opponent represents the worst of that kind of problem.
Source: Senate Runoff: 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate debate
Dec 6, 2020
Raphael Warnock:
Have a moral foundation for everything that we do
Kelly Loeffler: Warnock said that you can't serve God and the military. He's used the Bible to justify these attacks.Warnock: I was preaching from a very familiar Matthew text that says you can't serve God and Mammon. It was about a moral foundation
for everything that we do. When you have everything in order, that actually makes you a better soldier. It also makes you a better Senator. Had Kelly Loeffler listened to the sermon, she wouldn't have used her advantage to make millions on a pandemic.
Source: Senate Runoff: 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate debate
Dec 6, 2020
Raphael Warnock:
I'm a Matthew 25 Christian: love your neighbor
Warnock: If you want to know who informs me and my sense of how we engage as people in the economic system you need look no further than Matthew 25, I'm a Matthew 25 Christian, that's what I am. I was hungry and you fed me,
I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was sick and you visited me. Love your neighbor, and for me that means you don't get rid of your neighbors healthcare particularly in the middle of a pandemic.
Source: Senate Runoff: 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate debate
Dec 6, 2020
Kelly Loeffler:
WNBA players endorsing opponent is "cancel culture"
In 2010, Loeffler became a co-owner of the Atlanta Dream--the WNBA's Georgia-based team. The league's players openly endorsed her opponent in the middle of the season. Loeffler responded to the players' bold move of supporting her opponent by
accusing them of being "more concerned with playing politics than basketball.""This is just more proof that the out of control cancel culture wants to shut out anyone who disagrees with them," she added.
Source: Business Insider on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Nov 6, 2020
Kelly Loeffler:
Donated maximum $2800 to Trump recount fund
When asked for a response to the president's statements about the election and Georgia's role in it, Sen. Kelly Loeffler's office directed media inquiries to the senator's Tweet, posted before he spoke at the White House, in which she said she
is "praying for four more years of Donald Trump." The AJC has learned that Loeffler has also donated the maximum $2,800 contribution to the Trump campaign's "Recount Account," a fund designated for financing post-election recounts and election contests.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Const. on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Nov 5, 2020
Kelly Loeffler:
Atlanta's "most expensive real estate transaction ever"
[Called] "Descante," the 15,000-square-foot mansion that Loeffler and her husband bought in 2009 for $10.5 million, was the "most expensive real estate transaction ever in the city of Atlanta."Here's how Atlanta magazine described "Descante,"
Modeled in the style of an old European estate, Descante is a stucco, steel, and limestone structure that boasts Versailles parquet in the dining room, a library with a secret passage to the living room, and a nineteenth-century pool house from France.
Source: Jezebel.com on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Nov 5, 2020
Kelly Loeffler:
Endorsed QAnon candidate for fighting "radical left"
Loeffler celebrated an endorsement from Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican congressional candidate who has voiced support for the QAnon conspiracy theory. The two appeared together at a campaign stop. The senator showered Greene with praise,
calling her exemplary of "conservative values" and a warrior fighting the "radical left." "What impressed me with Kelly is I found out that she believes a lot of the same things that I believe," Greene said from behind a Loeffler campaign podium.
Source: Vanity Fair on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Oct 29, 2020
Raphael Warnock:
America at its highest: equal voting, health care, education
Those of us who believe in what America is at its highest, who believe in the American ideal of freedom, of "one person, one vote," those of us who believe in the dignity of our humanity and that that ought to be reflected in our public policy, which
means that people ought to have access to healthcare, that children, regardless of their ZIP code, ought to have access to a quality education, and that everybody ought to be able to vote, it's up to us to stand in this moment.
Source: Democracy Now on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Jul 29, 2020
Matt Lieberman:
Don't wait for a miracle; we must make changes
Lieberman said, "Being Jewish is not an issue. Sure, there's a small percentage of folks who are anti-Semitic and for whom it would be an issue. I wouldn't be counting on their votes anyway."Lieberman said the "timeless lessons of our faith" have
influenced his campaign. "As a Jew of post-Holocaust and post establishment of Israel, I know we're not supposed to wait for a miracle or change, but we're supposed to make change. We must do our best to make the world better."
Source: Atlanta Jewish Times on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
May 29, 2020
Allen Buckley:
Absolute separation of church and state
Separation of church and state: Absolutely.Abortion˙needs to remain a private matter without government funding. Given the facts that it is very hard to stop an abortion (i.e., policing-wise)
and a person who is willing to have an abortion to prevent herself from being a mother, I believe the best government policy is to stay out.
Separation of church and state˙should be maximized.
Source: 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate campaign BuckleyForSenate.org
May 2, 2020
Raphael Warnock:
2008: Joined black pastors defending controversial sermons
Warnock's national profile grew when he joined a group of black pastors who defended a prominent Chicago pastor whose sermons became a flashpoint in Barack Obama's 2008 bid for president. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the no-holds-barred former senior
pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, was known for his fiery, and some would say inflammatory, sermons. Warnock was among the religious leaders who said Wright had been taken out of context and misinterpreted by the mainstream.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Const. on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Mar 2, 2020
Ed Tarver:
In the Army, it was about serving "one nation"
Tarver kicked off his Senate bid with an˙online video˙that emphasized his military service as an Army captain and featured photos of the candidate with Obama, who chose Tarver to become southern Georgia's first African-American U.S. attorney.
He pledged to work toward bipartisan solutions to improve access to health care and battle climate change. "In the Army, we were never asked if we were conservatives or liberals," Tarver said in a news release. "It was about serving one nation."
Source: Times Free Press on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Feb 20, 2020
Doug Collins:
Impeachment smeared a president who put America first
He also mocked Rep. Adam Schiff, the lead House impeachment manager, for getting choked up toward the end of his closing argument, saying, "Adam Schiff getting emotional is a little bit farcical to me." Collins added, "if he wants
to get emotional about something, get emotional about the fact that you have smeared a president who has done his job and put America first, in a position of world leadership, not the tearing down politically what you tried to do to him."
Source: Newsmax on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Jan 26, 2020
Kelly Loeffler:
Will abide by Senate ethics rules, won't address conflicts
She faces questions about whether she'll serve on committees that oversee the financial industry or cast votes that could influence her husband's company or the Bakkt cryptocurrency firm she runs. Loeffler said she would abide by Senate ethics rules but
would not say how she planned to manage her finances or whether she would sit out votes that could influence her business. Nor would she say whether she would pursue positions on committees that have oversight over the financial industry.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Const.on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Dec 10, 2019
Doug Collins:
Impeachment started with tears in Brooklyn in 2016
On impeachment: "You know what's driving this? " Collins says. "Two things, it's called the clock and the calendar. They want to do it before the end of the year. Why? Because we're scared of the elections last year that we'll lose again.
So we got to do this now. The clock and the calendar are what's driving impeachment. Not the facts,""It didn't start with Mueller, it didn't' start with a phone call--it started with tears in Brooklyn in November 2016," he says.
Source: ABC This Week interview: 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Dec 4, 2019
Matt Lieberman:
Will "err on the side of propriety"
Matt Lieberman promises there is a wall between his father's ZTE work [former Senator Joe Lieberman is a registered lobbyist for the Chinese telecom company ZTE Corporation] and his campaign advisory role. "If
I am fortunate enough to be trusted with this Senate seat by the people of Georgia, I will, of course, abide stringently by all Senate ethics rules," he said. "If there's ever a gray area, I will err on the side of propriety."
Source: RollCall.com on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Oct 21, 2019
Jason Carter:
Comfortable talking about his religious faith
Jason Carter stepped into the pulpit of South Columbus United Methodist Church for a Palm Sunday sermon and offered a message of Christian responsibility to the poor, with his phone in hand. "How many of you have the Bible (app) on your phone?
I bet all of you do," Carter said to laughs from the crowd. Worshippers listened as the Democrat running for Georgia governor read from his phone a New Testament verse about the importance of "things that are not seen."
Source: Chattanooga Free Press on 2019-20 Georgia 2-year Senate race
Jun 30, 2014
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