Jon Ossoff confronts Susan Collins over her past support for voting rights legislation

[turbinetree]

By Igor Derysh, Salon
Published January 20, 2022

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Sen. Jon Ossoff, one of the two Georgia Democrats elected in last year's runoff elections, confronted Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, on the Senate floor Wednesday over her previous support for voting rights legislation and her opposition to Democrats' new voting rights proposal.

Ossoff, the youngest member of the Senate, called out the fifth-term senator before she joined the Republican filibuster to block the voting rights bill. Democrats later held a vote to change the filibuster rule in an effort to advance the legislation but as expected, Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., joined every Republican in the chamber to sink the rules proposal, and with it likely the Senate's last hope of passing voting rights legislation ahead of the 2022 midterms.

Ossoff called out Collins, a self-described moderate, for opposing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act despite voting to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act in 2006.

https://www.rawstory.com/jon-ossoff-confronts-susan-collins-over-her-past-support-for-voting-rights-legislation/

Good on Jon Ossloff.....

[in2herbs]

1. Additional proof that Ds need new and younger blood in Congress.

[turbinetree]

2. And to think that she thinks that everyone in Maine has really no rights to have a vote

in democracy....

[AZLD4Candidate]

6. We need more AOC and less "well, we'll see and pen a strongly worded letter" types.

[kairos12]

3. I'm sure her pearls got a huge tug. She's a disgrace.

[dchill]

4. Jon Ossoff is a great Senator.

Susan Collins is a train wreck.

[AZLD4Candidate]

5. Susan Collins concern level rising.

[calimary]

8. She's an absolute shameless disgrace.

How does that make you look, voters in Maine? You keep sending this pathetic excuse for a Senator back to the Senate, IN YOUR NAME, representing YOU, but to what end?

Why do you keep her around? SURELY, you can do better!

[Evolve Dammit]

9. Maine's second district is largely MAGATS. LeRage running again and may well win.

[SouthernDem4ever]

11. Everry repug senator is an absolute disgrace

Susan Collins is no longer concerned.

[monkeyman1]

7. her concern was rising just before she checked her bank account ?

[OneCrazyDiamond]

10. The GQP

should have to recuse themselves from votes on election bills. They have a conflict of interest, as unconstitutional voter suppression is the method by which they sit there.

[Blue Owl]

12. Self-described moderately concerned