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With a call to a friendly Detroit radio station Tuesday, Democratic Congressman John Conyers announced his retirement as pressure grew following a flood of sexual harassment charges. Also in the world of sexual harassers: Fed up with Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake sold out his supposedly conservative principles and donated $100 to Moore’s liberal opponent. During ABC’s World News Tonight, the network celebrated Flake while downplaying Conyers.
In a tweet Tuesday afternoon, Senator Flake posted a picture of a check he wrote to the campaign of Doug Jones, the liberal Democrat running against Moore. On the memo line, Flake declared “country before party” in a clear case of virtue signaling. The check marks the Senator’s literal selling out of the conservative principles he claimed to have held, seeing as Jones was a strong supporter of abortion.
In a tweet responding to the check, Nebraska Republican Senator Ben Sasse rebuked the donation, noting: “This donation is a bad idea. It's possible to be against BOTH partial birth abortion AND child molestation. Happily, most Americans are.” Flake could have easily supported a write-in candidate or asked people to stay home if he cared about his principles.
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