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CIRULI: Roy Moore’s fate shows character counts — while control of the House teeters
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My Dec. 6 blog on the Alabama Senate race opened with, “Alabama Judge Roy Moore is in the first post-Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, et.al. sex scandal election.” His loss in a state that Republicans have held a near total lock on since the early 1990s was a powerful demonstration that character counts.Because of the uniqueness…
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Rep. Leslie Herod says it’s time for Democrats to hear black voices
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When Roy Moore lost the U.S. Senate race in Alabama this month, dogged by accusation of preying teenaged girls as a man in his 30s, it was black women who fought him hardest. Ninety-eight percent of black women voted for Democrat Doug Jones to ensure a close but improbable win in the most reddest of…
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INSIGHTS | In Roy Moore’s Alabama, old times there are not forgotten
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It was unusually cold and snowy across Alabama the Saturday morning before the special election, when I burst into a local Republican club’s Christmas breakfast. I knew a handful of the large group gathered in the back dining room at Kelly’s Kitchen. I offered to tell some Roy Moore jokes, but an uneasy laugh rippled up…
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SLOAN: Cory Gardner got it right in his approach to the Moore fiasco
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Roy Moore lost his bid for U.S. Senate in Alabama last week, and Democrats around the nation celebrated – rightly so, inasmuch as the victory in deepest-of-deep-red Alabama chiseled the GOP Senate majority to a bare 51-49. In their exuberance, many Democrats and liberals hailed the election as a bellwether for the mid-term elections, a…
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Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner: ‘People of Alabama deemed Roy Moore unfit to serve’
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Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner of Yuma had to be one of the happiest Republicans in Washington over the results of the Roy Moore-Doug Jones race in Alabama Tuesday night. Gardner is in charge of building on the GOP’s narrow lead in the chamber next year and beyond as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.…
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Republican Mike Coffman: The ‘absolute last thing Washington needs’ is ‘morally bankrupt’ Roy Moore
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As Alabama voters prepared to head to the polls Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, a Colorado Republican, denounced Roy Moore, the state’s Republican U.S. Senate nominee, as “morally bankrupt” and called a Moore win “the absolute last thing Washington needs.” The 70-year-old Moore, who was twice removed from the Alabama Supreme Court for defying federal law,…
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Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner says Senate should vote to expel Roy Moore if the Republican wins election in Alabama
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U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner said Monday the Senate should vote to expel Roy Moore if the Republican nominee wins election in Alabama. Gardner, the head of the Senate Republican campaign committee, said he believes the women who have accused Moore of sexual misconduct – including sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl and pursing relationships with…
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Cory Gardner calls on Roy Moore to drop out of Alabama Senate race if report on relations with teenage girls is true
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Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner, head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, called on Roy Moore, the GOP’s Senate nominee in Alabama, to withdraw from the race if a news report that he had relationships with teenage girls when he was in his 30s turns out to be true. “The allegations against Alabama Senate candidate Roy…
