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Devastating Picture of Kelly Loeffler Emerges With Her Posing for Pic With Former Georgia KKK Leader

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There are some non-starters in American politics that essentially no one will tolerate, other than maybe the bottom 20% and that’s not going to be enough to get Kelly Loeffler sworn back into the Senate.

If somehow the runoff was the result of a three-way race where Loeffler beat the next opponent by ten percentage points, she might be able to survive this type of revelation with some mealy-mouthed, “I didn’t know, I was taking pictures with everyone, he just stood there and it was done,” standard type stuff.” But given she was only a couple of points ahead, stuff like this can bury her.

From Crooks and Liars:

How bad is Chester Doles? When a photo circulated earlier this year with the QAnon nutjob Marjorie Taylor-Green and Chester Doles it damaged her campaign. In September, they had to throw Doles out of one of her events lest another picture of the two of them emerge. Apparently though, Kelly Loeffler has no such qualms about appearing in pictures with Nazi-sympathizers and former leaders of the KKK.

From Bend the Arc: Jewish Action

ALERT: Kelly Loeffler just posed for a photo with Chester Doles, a former KKK leader who runs the white supremacist American Patriots USA.

In 1993, Doles nearly beat a Black man to death.

In 2017, he marched in Charlottesville.

This is who @KLoeffler is proudly appealing to.

Chester Doles made headlines earlier this year when he posed for photos with @mtgreenee (Marjorie Taylor-Green), the QAnon-supporting Representative-elect.

Kelly Loeffler knows who he is & took a photo with him — because her campaign is built on catering to white supremacists.

This is just one more instance of the old adage that not all Republicans are racist but all racists are Republicans, or at least to the extent a Republican party still exists. It looks more and more to us like there is a Trump party and a Republican party. Unfortunately, all elected officials fall into the Trump party, while most of the Republicans out of office fall into the second.

Anyway, Loeffler appears to have new trouble. Big trouble, the kind of trouble from which one can lose it all. It is worth watching, this particular element.

UPDATE:

Loeffler has disavowed the photo.

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Jason
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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