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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Replying to @baseballcrank
Why on earth--what possible ethical or empirical claim--justifes your remark about his stock trading? The journalism here was extensive. What Perdue was doing smelled, and there was every reason for it to be a political issue:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/02/what-we-know-about-david-perdues-stock-trades/ …
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Replying to @yeselson
This happens to be my area of professional expertise. https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/12/jon-ossoffs-insider-trading-argument-against-david-perdue-is-weak/ …https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/congress-insider-trading-controversy-richard-burr-unique-legal-jeopardy/ …
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Replying to @baseballcrank
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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Replying to @yeselson
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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Replying to @baseballcrank
Did you see, subsequent to yr piece, the discussion of Purdue's relationship to Cardlytics and, also, his trades around stocks pertaining to the Navy when he he was the chair of the Navy subcommittee? This is slimy practice and it's difficult to determine Purdue's motivations.
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Again, you should read thishttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/12/jon-ossoffs-insider-trading-argument-against-david-perdue-is-weak/ …
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