Antigay Sen. Lindsey Graham ripped into Stacey Abrams for being an effective leader last week.
Appearing on the rightwing syndicated radio program The Mike Gallagher Show, Graham called Abrams a con and a thief because she was successful at turning out new voters in Georgia, resulting in Biden becoming the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state in 28 years.
“Stacey Abrams conned the Republican leadership in Georgia into a consent decree that basically adulterated the signature verification system, so that you’re comparing the ballot signature to the application signature,” Graham raged.
Hmmm. A crusty old white dude calling a smart Black woman a “con” for being better than him at her job. Sounds like some racially coded B.S., if you ask us.
How about we take this to the next level?
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Graham continued by saying Abrams essentially orchestrated a massive voter fraud scheme in the Peach State by changing the rules about voters’ signatures.
“You should be comparing the ballot signature, the envelope signature on the ballot, to a signature that existed before the application was made,” he said. “She changed that.”
This, of course, is totally false.
The AP reports that no such consent degree preventing Georgia clerks from scrutinizing signatures exists. And election officials in Georgia have said multiple times now that the election outcome was fair and accurate, as shown by multiple recounts.
Graham went on to implore GOP leaders in the state to quickly change the laws so they can “stop Stacey Abrams from stealing the Senate race,” referring to the two Senate runoffs scheduled for January 5 that will likely determine the balance of power in Congress.
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michael_totzke
Oh Aunt Pittypat, tut-tut & swirl your skirts & petticoats, & stamp your little slipper-shod foot all you might … ain’t NOTHIN’ gonna change things.
MacAdvisor
Love Miss Pittypat’s Porch in Atlanta. Some of the best biscuits I’ve ever had.
Man About Town
Now that you mention it, I can picture him whining “Uncle Peter, my smelling salts!”
Jay002
This is how the Republicans try to control which votes get counted and which ones get thrown out. I live in all mail in ballot state and I remember when Barrack Obama ran for president the first time my vote did not get counted because they said my signatures did not match. After the election I had to go into our election office and sign my name three times. My signature is always different so Stacey Abrams was right to have that rule changed. I think they only seek out certain people to say their signature doesn’t match. My real name is usually only used by Black males so I wonder why I was excluded for voting in that election in 2008.
Roy Ajax
Why did the author make this a racial thing?
Kangol2
Because it is, girl, it is a “racial”–racist–“thing.” Aunt Pittypat Lady G doesn’t give a damn about signature matching in Mississippi, Idaho, Oklahoma, or her own home state of South Carolina! She only cares about it because that brilliant Black woman challenged voter suppression in Georgia, registered a slew of new voters, urged them to vote, and in so doing defeated the White Supremacist Monster Don the Con. Got it, now?
DarkZephyr
Graham’s endorsement of voter suppression didn’t raise your hackles but mention of race did? Hmmmm.
Roy Ajax
Just saying it is doesn’t make it so. There is absolutely no proof that it’s a race-based comment.
TheAbsoluteTRUTH
Because it’s 2020, they use one of three excuses for EVERYTHING..it’s racist, homophobic, misogynistic oh i also forgot transphobic…spin the wheel for the excuse du jour
barryaksarben
Ms graham has been photographed with a confederate flag so YEAH it is a racial thing with him. I live in the south and the white people who are not racist are never photographed with a rebel flag. Trust me it is done. stop trying to defend this giant closet case. He has no redeeming qualities and his anger towards Georgia is because of its large black vote
Huffman
Please educate yourself on a racial voter suppression….Let me help you….Google: “Southern Strategy” ….it is very hard to understand racism that isn’t always a spectacle. Lindsey Graham and most Republicans only have suppression and gerrymandering to help elect them. Without the racism, no Republican would be elected. It is a long-time practice to scare white people (using scary images of minorities) into voting against their own interest. The last card Republicans have is division.
Roy Ajax
You can’t even see how divisive the democrat platform is with all the identity politics. If there are strategic racists in politics, if you actually do some real research, you would see it’s the democrats.
KyleMichelSullivan
Because it is racist. He wanted to invalidate as many black votes as possible and blames a black woman for turning out more black voters than he expected. On top of that, him even trying to do this is a violation of election law. He’s in South Carolina, not Georgia, so has no standing. So put a plug in it. Stop trying to minimize what the RWNJs like Graham are all about.
Creamsicle
“She reduced barriers to legally vote for eligible voters.” Is a weird thing to complain about in a Democracy. Lots of Republicans slip up and tell us what they’re really thinking, and Graham is almost doing it again here.
Republicans know that they win by suppressing voter turnout. Then they turn around and call it a “con job,” or “cheating,” when community organizers inform people of how they can participate in a system that tries to deliberately lock them out and prevent resources from going to their communities.
Liquid Silver
Why can’t she run for Speaker? Just sayin’ is all.
BGreen1963
Because she isn’t in any Legislative Branch. Although I’d vote for her to be the Speaker of Getting out the vote.
Liquid Silver
Speaker doesn’t have to be a member of the House per the rules. 🙂 She’d be more effective than “Nick out” Nancy and knows how to get a job done.
Hell, I’d lobby for her, I’ve always practically worshipped Abrams and her work.
Mister P
Because it is a racial thing comet cleanser.
tjack47
Yet she persisted.
Bubbleandsqueal
Lady G. is a “con” (the French word, that is).
butchqueen
I see what you did there!!! I used to work with a horrible person named “Connie”. Her nickname was “Con”. When she was leaving the company, I told her what her nickname meant in French! Good times.
BGreen1963
Ajax, do they pay you in roubles or Lindsey Graham Blow jobs? I hope its roubles. I bet her blowjobs are terrible, just ask your buddy (t)Rump. Or maybe he just pisses on Donny?
Roy Ajax
I assume you’re referring to the Steele Dossier which is kinda timely because the “Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Tuesday declassified documents that revealed former CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Obama on Hillary Clinton’s purported “plan” to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as “a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server” ahead of the 2016 presidential election”
barryaksarben
Oh Ajax we all know that is a lie. Trump has been photographed in a diaper with a riding crop on the wall behind him. He cant get it up with a golden shower. The gop has been trying to prevent poc from voting since 1865 and hasnt stopped. If they cant suppress the vote they change the laws
Roy Ajax
You do realize it was a republican government that pushed for the right for black men vote in 1870? Just that one fact invalidates your argument.
Phillip
Graham is only jealous and projecting his own insecurities onto her.
He should be ashamed of himself and would be if he had a conscience.
DrJohn
All of the above notwithstanding, Ms. Abrams was blessed with one wicked astrological chart. I would not want to encounter her in a dark alley. Yeah, that bad.
LMG
Lindsey Graham is nothing more than a sniveling servile bug. He needs to be squashed once and for all. His attempted interference in the GA election is a good start towards removing him from office and forcing him into a plea deal in order to avoid prison time.
barryaksarben
If any election was corrupt this year it was the SC senatorial vote as ms graham was behind in many polls going back over the past two years or just ahead a few points but won by a large margin. NOW, that election looks fraudulent if any does
sillyme
Those rich white old farts in office and think they are All knowing and seeing have the only right in which to call “cheaters”, and she committed a true real act of being smart and a proud black woman who has a great education and beat the old crones (the white old tRUMP) supporters who are all loyal to that Cheetos jerk that can’t trust his own family from pulling out the batteries to his vibrating dildo to rip him off of anything and the want to be king is a spoiled rich white child that needs his fat arse kicked out of power and never allowed to tweet again nor allowed to have his say but be committed to a 1920 hospital without any type of social media ever.
ttm9
You certainly have the right name, SILLY, but that’s being kind!!
butchqueen
You need to learn how to compose a sentence. You might seem more intelligent. We’re on the same page, otherwise.
MynameisSid
My signature is like my coffee at bux, different every day.
Openminded
Yes, it is disingenuous for Flimsy Lindsey to bring this up now that “his side lost” but in all fairness, let the his side win in a newly modified situation where voter identity is not reasonably verified and you will be crying foul. In this time of electronics, there has to be a better way to verify voters and whom they vote for in a much more secure fashion. Both sides are guilty of not wanting to change the system anymore than what they see is to their benefit. Gerrymandering, suppression, and fraudulent voting have been around way too long for something real to not have been done about it. Of course, that can be said about almost all of America’s problems. Our real enemies are in Government politics, no matter which side of the aisle they claim to be on.
kennedyglenn
I agree that Lindsey Graham shouldn’t throw rocks however please dont put Stacey Abrams up on a throne or pedestal. Abrams is the poster woman for sore loser and has used race and every other excuse for her loss in the race she ran in. She did not win because contrary to what Stacey Abrams may think, not everyone likes her. She REFUSED to concede something that crazy Trump is doing right now, but somehow it’s ok if Stacey did it, why, because she is black and looks like Gwen Guthrie??? I wouldn’t put it past Abrams to do something on the sly to stick it to republicans but she is clearly relishing her celebrity status and trying no doubt to weasel her way into the incoming administration in some way. I guess that once that happens, she can finally pay off her credit card debts and be debt free. Not a fan!
Roy Ajax
Well said. Agree.
ElPillo
A significant number of us citizens have lost their morals
Berkleyguy
He’s an effing idiot. Just because she is outstanding at her job and he is totally worthless. He is a body and that is all. He is dangerously incompetent.
millvalleydon
How do I make a formal complaint about Lindsey Graham? Stacy has done a lot for her state for her country.
Mike Hunt
Miss Lindsey is such a stereotypical southern racist cracker who also happens to be a major closet queen. I for one am tired of seeing her clutch her pearls and reach for the smelling salts every time something doesn’t go the way she wants it to. Flokk that two-bit ho!
GayEGO
Linda Graham Cracker says whatever, blasting whomever he wants!
joeboyle49
LINDSEY GRAHAM YOUR SUCH A SISSY WHY DON’T YOU KJUST ADMIT WHO YOU REALLY ARE AND STOP COVERING MFOR THE CON ARTIST IN TH WHITE HOUSE?? YOU MUST KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE TO BE A CONARTIST BECAUSE YOU WERE COVERINGMFOR THE ONE IN THE WHITE HOUSE!! WHJY DOMN’T YOU TELL TRUMP[ TO CONCEDE LIKE HES SUPPOSE TOO!! STOP COVERING FOR THE LOSER!!