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Georgia's Senate is ground zero for election misinfo.
While 3 senators were stripped of chairmanships, a review finds nearly half the GOP-led committees are chaired by lawmakers that supported overturning election. #gapol https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/02/11/few-consequences-so-far-for-georgia-senators-who-pushed-election-misinformation
Georgia's Senate is ground zero for election misinfo.
While 3 senators were stripped of chairmanships, a review finds nearly half the GOP-led committees are chaired by lawmakers that supported overturning election. #gapol https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/02/11/few-consequences-so-far-for-georgia-senators-who-pushed-election-misinformation
While they may not have stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, a group of GOP state senators in Georgia took extraordinary measures of their own to overturn the Nov. presidential results in recent weeks, despite no evidence of widespread fraud or misconduct. https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/02/11/few-consequences-so-far-for-georgia-senators-who-pushed-election-misinformation
From supporting on to an amicus brief in a failed Texas SCOTUS lawsuit to signing a letter to Mike Pence seeking a delay in the Electoral College using debunked fraud claims, many Republican senators actively worked to toss GA’s 5 million votes. #gapol https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/02/11/few-consequences-so-far-for-georgia-senators-who-pushed-election-misinformation
Some, like powerful Rules chairman Jeff Mullis, signed on to the Texas AG’s failed suit in the Supreme Court that Republican GA AG Chris Carr’s office said was "constitutionally, legally and factually wrong." https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/02/11/few-consequences-so-far-for-georgia-senators-who-pushed-election-misinformation
None of those who cast doubt on the legitimacy of the presidential election expressed any reservations about the integrity of the votes on the same ballots that elected them to office. https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/02/11/few-consequences-so-far-for-georgia-senators-who-pushed-election-misinformation
Democratic @senatorjen on R-led hearings with Rudy Giuliani post-election:
“The big problem overall is that those hearings have a direct connection to what happened on Jan. 6,” she said. “Words matter, what you do as an elected official matters...” https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/02/11/few-consequences-so-far-for-georgia-senators-who-pushed-election-misinformation
“The big problem overall is that those hearings have a direct connection to what happened on Jan. 6,” she said. “Words matter, what you do as an elected official matters...” https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/02/11/few-consequences-so-far-for-georgia-senators-who-pushed-election-misinformation
Among the signatories to the Texas SCOTUS brief was Sen. Blake Tillery (R-Vidalia), who was reappointed this year as chair of the powerful Appropriations committee that is tasked with crafting the state budget. https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/02/11/few-consequences-so-far-for-georgia-senators-who-pushed-election-misinformation
Nine senators joined a petition for a special session calling to override election results: Ligon, Beach, Jones, Dolezal, Brass, Harbin, Thompson, Harper and Gooch. https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/02/11/few-consequences-so-far-for-georgia-senators-who-pushed-election-misinformation
Then there's a letter to VP Mike Pence, asking him to delay the Electoral College count for 12 days, citing debunked claims of fraud in Fulton County.
Sen. Burt Jones was in D.C. with the letter and had dinner with Pence the night before the Capitol riot...
Sen. Burt Jones was in D.C. with the letter and had dinner with Pence the night before the Capitol riot...
Jones wasn’t the only state Senator meeting with Pence. Sen. Tyler Harper was also at that dinner - and Harper posted a picture on January 6 in the evening, hours after the VP was evacuated from the Capitol during the insurrection attempt.
https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/02/11/few-consequences-so-far-for-georgia-senators-who-pushed-election-misinformation https://twitter.com/tylerharperga/status/1346956641283887105
https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/02/11/few-consequences-so-far-for-georgia-senators-who-pushed-election-misinformation https://twitter.com/tylerharperga/status/1346956641283887105
