Discussion: Meet Karen Handel, The Georgia GOPer Taking On Jon Ossoff In June Runoff

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After she left office as Georgia’s secretary of state and lost her bid for governor, Handel joined the Susan B. Komen Foundation, where she served as the vice president for public policy. Handel made headlines in 2012 when she resigned from the foundation over her role in a push to end funding for Planned Parenthood. She later wrote a book titled “Planned Bullyhood,” in which she described the organization as “a bunch of schoolyard thugs.”

Let’s be specific…she spearheaded Komen’s movement to stop giving grants to Planned Parenthood for free breast exams for women who can’t afford them because Planned Parenthood does abortions. She’s a horrid individual. If Komen hadn’t caved to pressure, she’d have succeeded in killing low income women. Schoolyard thug, thy name is Karen Handel.

EDIT: On a side note, don’t donate to Komen. They waste the money on administrative expenses. Find another charity that actually spends the money on women’s health.

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”Meet Karen Handel…”

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I had disabled my ad-blocker, and up popped two spots for this awful woman. I turned it back on and poof! (I was having problems getting to the comments, but that’s apparently been fixed too.) Sorry, I don’t live in GA and wouldn’t donate to this person’s campaign with Donald Trump’s money. She is the worst of the worst, and I hope she gets spanked in the real election.

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"I think we can all agree that women deserve access to life saving, early detection procedures.”

Well, I think we can all agree on it, but apparently your buddies in Congress can’t agree on it. Or maybe you just haven’t following the news much lately, Karen. May want to actually start paying attention for once.

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Yet, had Democrats voted in the numbers republicans do we would not be here discussing this. What is it going to take to get people off their ass, I wonder? Yes, I know turnout was good for this special election, but it wasn’t good enough considering how hard Ossoff and his campaign worked. It’s the same thing with how Obama left it all on the road for Clinton, yet the fucking voters still couldn’t pull her across the finish line. This doesn’t happen with republicans. They always win the close ones. They show up. It’s as simple as that, and until that dynamic changes this is what we will keep on getting.

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Healthcare is Ossoff’s top issue. Closely followed by the GOP plan to attack social security. Stopping ‘extremism’ is the kind of umbrella term something a lot of people can get behind (or under, since we’re talking about an umbrella).

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It’s a bit early to start blaming the voters. Ossoff can still win this squarely red district. Probably best to keep giving this thing absolutely everything we’ve got.

But on the subject of the resilience of Republican voters: I call it the cockroach vote. Republicans could nuke Georgia, and their voters would still crawl out of the rubble like cockroaches and pull the lever (for the guys who nuked them, of course).

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Thick male face, bad hair and large body balanced on tiny feet…How does the GOP keep finding this type of hateful female candidate?

Voter suppression and Planned Parenthood scare tactics - in a word, ugh.

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“But on the subject of the resilience of Republican voters: I call it the cockroach vote. Republicans could nuke Georgia, and their voters would still crawl out of the rubble like cockroaches and pull the lever (for the guys who nuked them, of course).”

Good analogy. It is this “cockroach vote” that may very well allow the republicans to close an almost 30 point gap between Ossoff and Handel. The republicans can actually contemplate this as being doable and probably likely. If the tables were turned it wouldn’t even be possible to think about. I would like nothing more that to be proven wrong but I don’t think my view is anything that hasn’t been discussed before.

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I think we can all agree that women deserve access to life saving, early detection procedures.

Have you paid any attention to the policies of the party you are running as part of?

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“It’s all hands on deck for us,” she continued. “We know what’s at stake here, and I don’t think this is about any one person. We need to rise above it.”


Palin n Trump will be reunited soon.

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I live in Georgia and think this horrid woman is the best rival for Ossoff. She’s one of those perennial candidates for any open position, and has lost more times than she’s won. She’s not very likable, has no college degree, and is widely reviled for the mess she left at the Komen Foundation. Compare her to the highly educated Ossoff, and she does not come off well. She also has to decide how to deal with the large orange elephant in the room; either way shes does is problematic for her, I believe. I think Ossoff has a real chance to pull this off, though I wish he’d put a lid on the “victory for the ages” talk (from his speech last night).

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“Obamacare was passed months before my first day at Komen. -I thought it was bad legislation in 2010 and I support full repeal and replacement of the law today,” she said. “A small part of my job at Komen included advocating that mammogram screenings be covered under plans available on the exchanges —just as they are covered in other plans in Georgia. I think we can all agree that women deserve access to life saving, early detection procedures.


Attack ad

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There is that “access” word again. Access is not coverage. Don’t be fooled.

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The thing for Ossoff and his people to do is to build on the base that he’s built. Two months to get a lot more people out to the polls. As Joe Hill said, “Don’t mourn. Organize.”*

*Yes, I know. Joe Hill didn’t really say it. But it’s become associated with him indelibly.

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Tie her to Trump. He is erratic, unhinged and dangerous.

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She welcomes help from Donald Trump. ‘All hands on deck’ she says. Well I hope our POS president accepts her generous offer and inserts himself in the June general election. I have a tingly feeling that this special election will be awesome.

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To paraphrase the great Dylan
The Trump won’t work because Handel is a vandal.

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