Perdue, Loeffler win big in Dawson County
News January 5, 2021
DAWSON COUNTY, Ga. –Republicans in Dawson County gave incumbent senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler their overwhelming endorsement in the U.S. Senate runoff race Tuesday.
Perdue won the county vote 12,146 to Democrat Jon Ossoff’s 2,227. Loeffler defeated Rev. Raphel Warnock by an almost identical margin of 12,108 to 2,271.
But when the county vote was completed by around 8:30 p.m. the Democrats were holding a 7 percent lead statewide with 50 percent of the reported.
Dawson County Republican Party Chairwoman Seanie Zappendorf said she was pleased with the effort in Dawson. “We sent out a lot of emails and letters and handed out a lot of cards and it paid off. Our voters don’t want socialists coming in to the Senate.”
BKP speaks with Republican Senator David Perdue
Election, Featured News, Featured Stories, News December 30, 2020
Mere days before the run-off election deciding the Georgia’s Senate seats for this term, David Perdue (R), current Senator and incumbent candidate, is preparing for the final push up to election day. Counties across the state have reported record turn-outs for voting during 2020 and it looks like this election will see more voters than usual as well.
Voters are also turning out to rallies and campaign events as well. With debates still going over the Presidential Election and voters asking for continuing support, Perdue notes that he was among the few Senators who supported Trump before he was initially elected. Perdue said he fought with Trump as he turned the nations economy to it’s “best economic turnaround in history.”
Going through options and ideas in fighting what they are calling corruption in the recent election.
It is constantly a struggle against the Democrats according to Perdue who said that he is continuing to do everything that Trump asks him to do for that support.
Perdue noted, though, that people who are angry need to support Trump and the Republicans, but they also need to get out to vote. With numerous registered voters in every district still not voting on election day, Perdue calls to citizens saying that they are trying to fight the corruption and make the vote fair. He said they are working hard but it is very frustrating that people are still not voting.
Part of the efforts he has been working towards, Perdue has spoken with President Trump on Christmas Day. Perdue noted the stimulus and support for small businesses, people, and those in need from the pandemic fallout.
Perdue went on to speak on the omnibus bill at the federal level and looking at the efforts of the president fighting for people.
Senator David Perdue
This was a great focus of Perdue in his time with BKP as he pointed to national security and what is at stake in the January election.
Perdue said that Jon Ossoff has been paid for two years by the Chinese Communist Party. Perdue said, “This is another example of how the Chinese Communist Party is trying to influence American Politics. They got in Hunter Biden’s pocket, they got into Congressman Swalwell’s bedroom, and they got into Jon Ossoff’s ego and his ambition to be an elected official. For two years after he ran for the U.S. House of Representatives and lost against Karen Handel in 2017. The very next year they hire him and pay him for two years. He hid it from the people of Georgia during his Primary this year. He lied about it. When he got caught, he came clean and then lied about it again.”
Perdue said that Ossoff is not good for Georgia because he is being controlled and influenced by China just like Biden and Swalwell. He noted that if the Republicans lose these two seats, then Biden will absolutely ruin everything in America that we have fought for.
Perdue called on voters again and said, “Don’t do it for me, don’t do it for Kelly, don’t do it for yourselves. Look at the children and think about their children. This is what’s at stake right now, the form of America. What America will look like in 50 to 100 years is determined by these two Senate races.”
Advance voting starts Monday in high stakes Senate race
News December 11, 2020
Sen. David Perdue
Jon Ossoff
DAWSON COUNTY, Ga. — One of the most important elections in U.S. history will take place Jan. 5 when Georgia Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue face Democrat challengers Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff respectively in the General Runoff. The eyes of the nation will be on Georgia to learn which party will control the U.S. Senate during the next administration.
Advanced voting will begin Monday Dec. 14 and continue Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. until Dec. 31. All voting will take place at the Board of Elections Office, 96 Academy Ave. in Dawsonville. There will be no Saturday voting and the office will be closed for Christmas Holiday Dec. 24 and 25 and Jan. 1. On Jan. 5 voters will report to their respective precincts which will be open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m.
Sen. Kelly Loeffler
Raphael Warnock
The county has provided ad Official Absentee Ballot Drop Box located at the Board of Elections office; 96 Academy Avenue,
The other race on the ballot is for District 4 Public Service Commissioner where incumbent Republican Lauren Bubba McDonald Jr. will face Democrat Daniel Blackman.
Fetch Your News is a hyper local news outlet that covers Dawson, Lumpkin, White, Fannin, Gilmer, Pickens, Union, Towns and Murray counties as well as Cherokee County in N.C. FYN attracts 300,000+ page views per month, 3.5 million impressions per month and approximately 15,000 viewers per week on FYNTV.com and up to 60,000 Facebook page reach. If you would like to follow up-to-date local events in any of those counties, please visit us at FetchYourNews.com
“Freedoms on the ballot”; Mike Pence encourages Georgia voters
Election, Election 2020, Feature News, News November 23, 2020
VP Mike Pence looks out at Georgia crowd in Gainesville.
Vice President Mike Pence pointed into the lively crowd and said Georgia is “up for the task” as the Jan. 5 runoff approaches for the U.S. Senate election.
“Here in Georgia, we’re going to have us a rodeo.”
Pence made his way to Gainesville as part of his “Defend the Majority Rally.” The stop was held at the Chicopee Woods Agricultural Center promptly at 3:15 p.m.
Mike Pence, Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, as well as Commissioner McDonald, spoke to hundreds of Georgia voters.
With the first election results for Senate, Warnock obtained under 33% of the vote. Loeffler received under 26% and Republican Doug Collins – who ran against Loeffler for the conservative vote – received under 20%. Since Collins conceded Loeffler, he has since then endorsed her. This gives potential to unite the Republican vote in the January runoff.
Loeffler will face Rafael Warnock. Perdue will run against Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff.
A runoff election is a second election that is held to determine a winner. This happens when neither candidate in the first election met the required threshold to win. Georgia law states that if no candidate breaks 50%, the top two vote-getters will run again to determine a winner.
Perdue stressed to voters the importance of early voting with his worry of ice storms in Georgia.
“We need your help to make sure the road to socialism never runs through the state of Georgia,” Perdue said. “By getting the vote out again, we will tell America and the Democratic party and the world that the work we’ve done the last four year has not been for not. We’re going to protect the work of Donald Trump and Mike Pence over the last four years that made America great again.”
Pence promised the voters that they are and will continue to fight on a legal matter with getting in the correct votes for the 2020 election and for America. Pence said President Donald Trump and himself stand strong with both Perdue and Loeffler.
“We’re going to keep fighting until every legal vote is counted. We’re going to keep fighting until every illegal vote is thrown out and whatever the future holds, we will never stop fighting to make America great again,” Pence said. “That’s why Georgia and America need David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler back in a Republican majority.”
Pence spoke to the crowd to campaign for Perdue and Loeffler with the upcoming January runoff. The runoff is crucial to the Republican party, beings it will determine which party has control over the Senate.
Loeffler reiterated to voters what is important to her, which is “conservative values.”
“It is our job to keep America great, keep fighting for this President, keep fighting for this Vice President because they love America,” Loeffler said. “We’re going to be fighting for your conservative values.”
The Vice President also took the time to talk about the successes of the Trump Administration, highlighted the restoration of America’s military and said Trump has been a man of his word. Additionally, Loeffler, Perdue, Pence and Trump are firm believers in supporting law enforcement.
Pence stated that Pfizer turned in their vaccine to the FDA, with 40 million vaccines to be distributed across America by the end of the year.
“That’s the leadership of President Donald Trump; we’re in the miracle business,” Pence said.
The Georgia Secretary of State officially reported President Trump’s loss of Georgia overall in the 2020 election. President-elect Joe Biden makes him the first Democratic presidential nominee to win Georgia since Bill Clinton in 1992.
With early, in-person voting in Georgia starting on Dec. 13, Pence said it is crucial to go out and vote for Senators that will continue to defend important American rights.
“A careful study of U.S. history shows that every time the American people are given a choice, between a future of more freedom and a future of less freedom, the American people choose freedom every time…so go tell them freedoms on the ballot on January 5.”
https://youtu.be/7bqZNhZArFc
Party in-fighting erupts among Georgia Republicans
Feature News, Featured, Featured News, Featured Stories, News November 9, 2020
ATLANTA, Ga – Republican Senators David Perdue, Kelly Loeffler, and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) trade barbs concerning the integrity of Georgia’s election process.
In a joint statement, Perdue and Loeffler requested the resignation of Raffensperger, citing “the management of Georgia’s elections has become an embarrassment for our state” and failure to deliver honest elections.
However, the statement lists zero evidence of voter fraud or specific examples of the Secretary of State’s election failures. The Georgia Republicans and Senators are both in separate January 5, 2021 runoffs. Perdue is facing Democrat challenger Jon Ossoff. Loeffler is in contention against Democrat Raphael Warnock.
The statement goes on to address that every legal vote should be counted and for transparency in the county process.
“We believe where there are failures, they need to be called out – even when it’s in your own party. There have been too many failures in Georgia elections this year and the most recent election shined a national light on the problems.”
The complete statement from Georgia Republicans and Senators Perdue and Loeffler.
Raffensperger’s Response
In a rebuttal statement, Raffensperger asserts that he has no intention of resigning, “the voters of Georgia hired me, and the voters will be the one to fire me.”
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R)
The Secretary of State lists the facts pertaining to the November 3 election and the days following. Almost five million Georgians cast ballots in this election. 75 percent voted in person, and 25 percent voted no-excuse absentee ballot. The no-excuse absentee law was passed by a Republican legislature with support from Speaker David Ralston and signed by then-Governor Sonny Perdue.
Senator Perdue received more votes from Georgians than President Trump, and the president garnered the most votes ever for the Republican presidential candidate in Georgia.
The Secretary of State’s office is and will be investigating any “specific allegations of illegal voting.” It also has a monitor in Fulton County, “one of the longtime problem Democrat-run counties.”
“I care about counting each and every legal vote… and assuring that illegal votes won’t be counted,” Raffensperger added.
He agrees that illegal voting probably occurred in Georgia, but not to the extent, or margin necessary, to change the presidential race outcome.
Concerning the lack of transparency charge, he directed attention to the daily, sometimes twice daily, press conferences and hourly number updates.
Raffensperger alludes to problems with federal law when it comes to maintaining “clean voter rolls.”
“Federal law, not state law, is what allows people to register to vote before a runoff even if they weren’t registered in for the general election. Now that Senators Perdue and Loeffler are concerned about elections, hopefully, they can fix these federal laws.”
Secretary of State ends with a promise to do his duty as an elected official and is concerned about Republicans maintaining the U.S. Senate. He suggests that Perdue and Loeffler “focus on that.”
Statement from Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger pic.twitter.com/Sf1JIWH5qg
— GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (@GaSecofState) November 9, 2020
Collins says when dust clears Wednesday he and Warnock will be in a runoff
News October 31, 2020
Rep. Doug Collins greets supporter on bus tour stop in Dawsonville Friday.
DAWSONVILLE, Ga. – Congressman Doug Collins (R-Ga.) brought his campaign for the U.S. Senate to the steps of Dawsonville Gun and Pawn Friday. It was the fourth stop of the day on a long 17-day, 60 city bus tour that spanned 4,000 miles. But if the former preacher was growing tired, it didn’t show.
Speaking to a crowd of approximately 100 Dawson County conservatives, he was charged with the same energy and fiery rhetoric with which he has defended President Donald Trump and the president’s appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture Gary Black, who introduced Collins Friday, blasted Sen. Kelly Loeffler(R-Ga) following a report that surfaced in the Daily Beast on Thursday that members of her team offered members of the Trump campaign team $50 million to get Collins out of the race.
The source of the report was Matt Gaetz (R-FL), a Collins supporter. It was confirmed by other sources who said the money had more to do with supporting other Senate candidates than with supporting the president.
“They took $50 million to try and tarnish the name of a good man,” said Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture Gary Black, who introduced Collins. “One of the things money can buy is confusion. Money can buy falsehoods. Money can’t buy courage. Money can’t buy integrity. That’s what our next United States Senator is all about.”
Collins carried the ball from there, lashing out at Loeffler, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Senate minority leader Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Cal) and other liberals. He also encouraged conservatives to “speak out” and “stand up” for their values.
The crowd erupted into applause when he asked, “How many of you think it’s time for Nancy Pelosi to not be in Congress anymore, but to go back home to California? I’m tired of California trying to run Georgia and the rest of the country by liberal values.”
The line that drew laughter was his reference to Schiff as “my lips are moving so I must be lying Schiff.” Conservatives believe Schiff lied throughout the impeachment hearing, especially about having direct evidence that President Trump colluded with Russia.
Collins surprised many in the crowd when he said, “I’ll tell you how this is going to play out. It’s not going to be like Donald Trump and David Perdue. That will be resolved next Tuesday night. This one is going to be a little different. There will be a clearing of the air. There are 20 candidates and 18 of them are going to be gone. Two will be left standing. There is going to be a runoff and the two left standing are going to be myself and Rafael Warnock.”
Fetch Your News is a hyper local news outlet that covers Dawson, Lumpkin, White, Fannin, Gilmer, Pickens, Union, Towns and Murray counties as well as Cherokee County in N.C. FYN attracts 300,000+ page views per month, 3.5 million impressions per month and approximately 15,000 viewers per week on FYNTV.com and up to 60,000 Facebook page reach. If you would like to follow up-to-date local events in any of those counties, please visit us at FetchYourNews.com
What’s the deal with Senator Loeffler’s stock trades?
News, Opinion October 29, 2020
Loeffler just keeps getting away with improper transactions. This is just one of them. And she knows that very few people can follow her trails.
Loeffler says she was ‘cleared’ by the SEC for her stock trades she made after a Senate briefing on Covid-19 back in January. What she doesn’t tell you is, she wasn’t actually ‘cleared.’ The SEC did not find sufficient evidence to move forward with the investigation of the stock sales through her brokerage accounts. But the real smoking gun here is what the SEC didn’t address; the sales of stock in INTERCONTINENTAL EXCHANGE (ICE), the company she is a majority shareholder with her husband. ICE owns the New York Stock Exchange along with 13 commodity exchanges where the futures are traded every day on all the commodities we use from food to lumber to cryptocurrency and OIL.
You see, immediately after that briefing on January 27, 2020, Loeffler basically walked out of the meeting and filed a Form 10b5-1 with the SEC. This form is a requirement the requires majority stockholders in a company to file a notice of intent to sell when a majority shareholder has ACCESS TO MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION. This is supposed to be protection for the public.
Loeffler and her husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, then proceeded to sell $15 to $18 MILLION in stock on the first day they could, February 26, 2020, exactly 30 days after the Senate briefing on Covid-19. This is not a coincidence. This was a deliberage act. The SEC only reviewed her stock sales that were made in her brokerage accounts that she claims are managed by a third party. She could have easily called her broker and told him to sell and/or buy certain stocks.
But KELLY LOEFFLER and ONLY LOEFFLER could file that form 10b5-1 and make the decision to sell ICE stock. There was no “third party” to blame the transactions on.
So, after receiving MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC information gleaned from a Senate briefing, she sold millions to further feather her nest. No wonder she has so much more money than her opponents to run for this Senate seat.
Senator Loeffler hosts meet and greet
Community, Election 2020, Featured, Featured News October 8, 2020
On Oct. 2, Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler and Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn hosted a meet and greet at Black Diamond Grill. Both Senators were behind schedule – planned to start at noon – due to getting tested for COVID-19 prior to their arrival.
Both. Loeffler and Blackburn had been in contact with President Trump in recent days. Both senators’ tests came back as negative. Loeffler’s goal for her campaign and the upcoming election is to shake up the status quo as a businesswoman.
Blackburn –who introduced Loeffler – said since Trump has been in office, the economy has grown as well as the strength of the country. It will continue to grow with the leadership of figures like Trump and Loeffler, according to Blackburn.
“This country is coming back because with Donald Trump and Republican leadership, we can do this again and we will,” Blackburn said.
Loeffler said Washington is in need of more businesspeople like herself and Trump. Her fight for the Georgian’s will not stop, according to Loeffler.
“There’s nothing that the radical left fears more than a strong, conservative businesswoman, so I am proud to stand by you,” Loeffler said. “The radical left is working overtime to take away our freedoms, our opportunities, our way of life here in Georgia. They’re trying to get outsiders, like myself, like President Trump out of Washington but we’re not going to let them.”
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcrkSdOKon4[/embedyt]
Loeffler’s campaign is based on the American Dream and to continue to fight for it. Loeffler has focused on her core values of pro-life, pro-second amendment and holding China accountable.
“I have stood up to the radical left’s cancel culture and I’ve drawn the line and said we will not be canceled; we will not be silenced. I’m going to be that voice for every single Georgian who feels like they can’t speak out,” Loeffler said. “I am working for you…for all Georgian’s.”
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6_m8MShpm0[/embedyt]
Kelly Loeffler finale rally and the “American Dream”
Election, Election 2020, Politics September 3, 2020
Senator Kelly Loeffler hosted her grand finale “All About Georgia Tour” rally at Smoke House BBQ and Catering. Loeffler was introduced by U.S. Senator Tom Cotton.
Cotton said the past eight months with Loeffler at the capital, it has been a “breath of fresh air.” Additionally, Cotton said that Loeffler has been a “great champion” of “conservative values,” such as the second amendment and anti-abortion.
With election season well underway, Cotton said Washington is in need of a candidate to preserve the ‘American idea.’
“With so much at stake but with so much controversy…it takes more than just an ordinary republican to withstand the heat in Washington,” Cotton said. “It takes a true defender of America…and that’s what you have with Kelly Loeffler.”
Loeffler’s main drive with her campaign is to protect the American dream. At the rally, Loeffler reflected on her younger years of learning what it means to be a hard worker; being a fourth-generation farmer and the first in her family to graduate from college.
“It gave me a deep respect for hard work,” Loeffler said.
Loeffler also touched base on how she ‘spoke out’ on the topic of Black Lives Matter.
“I’ve put my actions where my words are. I recently spoke out against the BLM political organization,” Loeffler said. “Let me be clear; it’s very different from the statement ‘black lives matter’ because we know that the life of all African Americans is important and there is no place for racism in this country, we have to root it out.”
Loeffler said the BLM number one goal is defunding the police within the next five years, as well as “promoting violence across the country.”
According to Loeffler, homicides went up 240% within a month. Loeffler expressed her passion of the relevance of developing manufacturing jobs on U.S. soil rather in China.
“If it’s going to be America first, it has to be American-made,” Loeffler said. “We have to keep America safe.”
Devin Nunes Endorses Doug Collins for Georgia Senate
Election 2020, Press Release February 28, 2020
“I’m honored to endorse my good friend, Georgia Congressman Doug Collins, for the U.S. Senate,” said Nunes. “A strong conservative, Doug was a bold leader in the battle against the Russia collusion hoax and the sham impeachment against President Trump. Doug is a fighter, and we need more of those in the U.S. Senate. Please join me in supporting Doug Collins for U.S. Senate in Georgia.”
House Intelligence Committee Hero calls Doug “bold leader in the battle against the Russia collusion hoax and the sham impeachment against President Trump.”
“I shared a very small foxhole with Devin Nunes for a very long time and I know his character,” Collins said. “That’s why his endorsement means so much to me personally. He’s a great American patriot who stood firm against the worst the D.C. Swamp could throw at him. I’m honored to have his support. ”