Unlike Loeffler, Perdue was a good candidate in 2014, a good Senator, ran ahead of Ossoff on Election Day, & was undone by Trump's post-election tantrum, but also true that the (unfair) flaps over his stock trading were unhelpful. Big decision for Doug Collins which race to run.https://twitter.com/DavidRutz/status/1364225556703711245 …
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I will defer to your expertise and read your piece, but obviously the thing to do here is, at worst, have senators put their stock into a blind trust but, better yet, ban them from trading stock. They are *public* servants.
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I agree that it would be a better practice - Perdue & Loeffler came, through hard experience, to the conclusion that they'd be better off out of individual stocks - but the charge was that Perdue abused his position to make money, and that's just not supported by the evidence.
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You can’t say “Perdue’s trade volume is not irregular” and compare him to any other regular investor if he’s a senator. His trade volume as an elected official was unusual - it was the highest in congress. He was rightly hammered for this obvious corruption. And he lost. Good.
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The "this" Dan referenced as his area of expertise is actually "twisting basic facts in order to defend anyone with an (R) next to their name".
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Shouldn't he have reasonably taken steps to avoid even an **appearance** of a conflict of interest?
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