Preet Bharara: "Who is running against this craven un-American ignorant asshole named Doug Collins?"

[Miles Archer]

Preet Bharara
@PreetBharara

Who is running against this craven un-American ignorant asshole named Doug Collins? I will max out to you tomorrow. I hope you all join me.

Link to tweet

[Hortensis]

1. I'm from GA-9 and LOVE it! Thank you, Preet! Unfortunately,

Collins has no Republican challengers right now. It'd be wonderful if public awareness of his corruption, abandonment of all principles, and betrayal of his duty caused a principled conservative to jump in. People who know him don't recognize the character he's playing on TV.

Democrats have two candidates running for congress, Antwon Stephens and Dan Wilson. Also unfortunately, the 9th is among the most conservative districts in the nation, sometimes in the top single digits in ratings of thousands of districts, usually in the teens. Democrats run because people should have good choices, not just scum like Collins and his ilk.

[IndyOp]

2. Would donations to the state Dem party help flip a different

Congressional seat from red to blue? If we aren’t going to get rid of Collins in the next election, can we make the GA delegation as a whole more blue?

[Hortensis]

9. :) Absolutely. At least 5 districts are official flips that

voted for Obama and then Trump. And there are others.

Even more, Georgia's a swing state, really could finally go blue. A third of of Georgians are AA, a third of whites vote Democrat. Heck, even in Collins' blood-red, heavily white district across beautiful north Georgia, 20% of us voted Democrat against him.

And of course, without massive, massive election suppression and theft around many areas of the state, we might well have elected our first Democratic governor, black and female to boot. (52-48.8%)

[certainot]

31. 3 georgia universities support 14 limbaugh stations - and are good places to protest collins

GEORGIA 14 $1,050,000 Georgia 7, Georgia Tech 5, Georgia Southern 2

at $1000/hr x 15 hrs/day x 5 days makes each station worth $75,000/week to collins and other GA republicans

all those stations support GA republicans like the asshole collins

if protests pushed one of those unis was pushed to discuss the stupidity of broadcasting sports on stations that deny global warming and sell pols who want to defund public education, the others would be shamed into at least discussing it - and advertisers on all GA republican stations would head for the hills.

some or many of those stations would have to change programming to keep advertisers

trump and reps like collins are fuckign dittoheads. they can't do shit without dems ignoring talk radio

[Scarsdale]

3. The gop attracts the

strangest people. Not too bright, since no democratic voter would vote for them. We like our candidates SMART. This Collins even looks strange. Is he related to little Susie "I am concerned" Collins? That gene pool is as shallow as the tRumps pool.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

4. Wow, that's some shit he projected onto Democrats.

God I hate these 1984-talkin’ overgrown scumbags.

[FakeNoose]

5. Why is Faux Snooze allowing this crap on their airtime?

It's good that Preet is throwing a spotlight on this shit, since most of us don't watch that horrid channel.

[Different Drummer]

25. "Why is Faux Snooze allowing this crap on their airtime?"

It's Faux Snooze, so...

[Ilsa]

6. Collins' district is heavily gerrymandered and

covers a lot of real estate in north Georgia. Even some potentially liberal pockets in 6 and 7 were pushed in to attempt to keep districts 7 and 6 safe.

There were several really good Democrats that ran two years ago. I'm not certain the strongest on paper won to face off Collins in the general. My guess is that the state D party has given up on our district.

[Hortensis]

12. I don't blame the state party for investing where it can

make a difference. Note that Preet spoke of sending his own money because he knows that, by definition, it must be badly needed. We're liberals in a very politically corrupt state that's always been controlled by conservatives.

Our district not too long ago had a couple of elections without any Don Quixotes, but since then each time candidates have invested enormous personal effort and whatever donations we sent them to at least give our district a choice. In the midterms 20% of us voted Democrat against Collins. Good for us for riding out to tilt, but let's face it, the demographic realities don't exactly make trying to help us flip our district a priority investment for the state.

[Ilsa]

19. ITA. I don't blame the state D party, either. nt

[Hortensis]

20. And I agree but don't feel any candidate could be as strong

as we'd need, but both had some creds, university professor/high school teacher, ex-EPA and Hillary campaign.

Lol, just noticed one evaluation rates the 9th district THIRD most "Republican" in the nation for 2018, out of 435.

[dem4decades]

7. That's quite a statement from Preet, he's usually more reserved. But he's right, Collins is an

ASSHOLE!

[djacq]

8. Who ordered the termination of Osama bin Laden?

Thank You Obama!

[calimary]

11. And that's something the donald will NEVER be able to top.

And he’s DESPERATE to outdo and outshine President Obama.

And he will NEVER be able to outdo OR outshine President Obama.

He will NEVER even be worthy to touch the hem of President Obama’s trouser leg.

Maybe President Obama’s skin color is dark. But trump’s heart is black as doom (assuming, of course, that he even has one).

[NewJeffCT]

10. The two Democrats running so far

are Antwon Stephens and Dan Wilson

https://ballotpedia.org/Georgia%27s_9th_Congressional_District_election,_2020

Collins won by 59 points in 2018, so it's a VERY RED district. He had no Democratic challenger in 2016 and won by 61 points in 2014.

[mahina]

23. Also Devin Pandy. Filed 3 weeks ago?

More info
EDUCATION
Georgia State University
Fort Knox High School
WORK EXPERIENCE
Actor at CONTO Ventures, Inc.
June 2010 - Present
Chief Warrant Officer II (CW2) at Retired from US Army after 21 years of service
MOS 353T - Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Systems Manager
MOS 35T/33W - Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Systems Maintainer
MOS 96B, Military Intelligence All-Source Analyst
MOS 92Y, Logistics Specialist

June 1993 - September 2014

[NewJeffCT]

24. seems like a good candidate

but, I was going by what I had seen in Ballotpedia

[mahina]

27. I'm glad to read your post too.

All good news. Aloha.

[Omen78]

13. A democrat running for congress

hasn't carried more than 25% of the vote in that district. I live in Georgia and will say that in my opinion throwing money at a congressional seat in District 9 would not yield the results everyone wants. Collins would have to get caught in bed with the Ayatollah to lose. That doesn't mean we ignore the district, but apply the resources in impacting localities and building a base.

[rockfordfile]

14. Americans should get rid of that right-wing squidbilly pos

[iscooterliberally]

15. It was Trump that took a big dump on Gold Star Families. n/t

[Fritz Walter]

16. Paddle faster, Preet. I hear banjo music

"Talk about genetic deficiencies!"
--Bobby, played by Ned Beatty (at 1:50)

[dalton99a]

17. Kick

[IronLionZion]

18. Trump has spewed forth insults against Gold Star families

because they are Muslims or spoke against his policies like travel bans and immigration restrictions.

Trump/GOP said white nationalists are very fine people after committing violence against Americans on American soil multiple times, because they support him. Some of them are definitely domestic terrorists.

[mahina]

21. Love Preet. I listen to his free podcast and subscribe

To his insider podcast too. I don’t think I’ve ever heard him cuss. He must be really mad. God love him.

Well said, Preet.

[mahina]

22. Running: Devin Pandy is a 21 year vet with military intelligence background

Who plans to work with Stacey Abrams to get our the vote.

I wish Stacey would run for this or Ga senate but she knows best.

EDUCATION
Georgia State University
Fort Knox High School
WORK EXPERIENCE
Actor at CONTO Ventures, Inc.
June 2010 - Present
Chief Warrant Officer II (CW2) at Retired from US Army after 21 years of service
MOS 353T - Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Systems Manager
MOS 35T/33W - Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Systems Maintainer
MOS 96B, Military Intelligence All-Source Analyst
MOS 92Y, Logistics Specialist

June 1993 - September 2014
(From Merit Pages)

[malaise]

26. Gold Star families like the Khans?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/gold-star-families-attack-trump-over-comments-about-ghazala-khan-n620671
<snip>
The families of 17 service members who died fighting for the U.S. demanded an apology from Donald Trump on Monday, accusing him of "cheapening the sacrifice made by those we lost."

They said the Republican presidential nominee's suggestion that the Muslim mother of a U.S. soldier who died in Iraq had not “been allowed” to speak at the Democratic National Convention was akin to "attacking us."

A letter signed by the Gold Star families — the term for those who have lost loved ones during military service — also called Trump’s comments "repugnant, and personally offensive."

"When you question a mother's pain, by implying that her religion, not her grief, kept her from addressing an arena of people, you are attacking us," the letter added. "When you say your job building buildings is akin to our sacrifice, you are attacking our sacrifice."

[JAD]

28. Hey Preet work on disbarring Bill Barr in New York.

Preet you used to be the US Attorney for New York. Go get BARR.

[Skittles]

30. something tells me Preet knows how to multi-task

[George II]

29. Uncharacteristic of Bharara, he's usually so level headed and professional. Collins....

....must have really gotten to him.

[moondust]

32. Preet is right.

Any worthless asshole taking the disgraceful cheap shots that Collins has taken does NOT belong in DC, does NOT belong in a military uniform, and does NOT belong in a church pulpit. Did he inherit a fortune like Donny Dufus and buy his way into those things? Somebody's screening practices have failed miserably.