During his “1 GEORGIA” virtual town hall, Ossoff calls on Sen. Perdue to take a stand for the voting rights of his constituents
Sen. Perdue and the Senate GOP failed to pass another stimulus package that could have included funding for the USPS
Atlanta, Ga. — Today during his “1 GEORGIA” virtual town hall, investigative journalist and Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Jon Ossoff slammed President Trump’s outrageous and blatant effort to sabotage the United States Postal Service and disrupt voting by mail during a pandemic.
Ossoff also called on his opponent, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.), to take a stand for the voting rights of his own constituents and call out Trump’s efforts.
Trump admitted last week he wants to stop emergency funding for the USPS so that Americans cannot vote by mail, an outrageous assault on our democracy.
Perdue, however, in the face of this undemocratic attack, has been completely silent.
Over 75 percent of American voters are eligible to vote by mail in November, at a time when many voters will choose to vote from the safety of their home to protect their health and the health of others in their communities.
The USPS bipartisan Board of Governors has said the Postal Service needs $25 billion from Congress to ensure timely mail delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic. Democrats have pushed for that funding in coronavirus relief bills and Speaker Pelosi is now calling members of Congress back to D.C. to vote on legislation to protect the USPS.
Click here to watch Ossoff call out this dangerous assault on our democracy during today’s “1 GEORGIA” town hall.
Click here to download the video of Ossoff’s remarks.
“What we’re seeing from President Trump right now is one of the most disgusting efforts to undermine American democracy in modern American history,” Ossoff said during the town hall. “We’re in the middle of a pandemic. We need to empower voters to participate in our democracy without putting their own health at risk. And a lot of voters are going to be relying upon voting by mail in order to make their voices heard, and to play a role in determining who leads and represents us in government.
“And against that backdrop for President Trump to be trying to deny the postal service funding explicitly, openly, blatantly — he says it out in the open — in order to interfere with voting by mail, is beyond outrageous. He’s behaving like … an authoritarian leader who wants to interfere with the electoral process because he’s afraid that in a free and fair election, he’ll lose.
“And for Senator David Perdue, my opponent, to remain silent while the president tries to undermine election integrity is stunning to me. It’s like the man has no spine, no principles, no willingness to stand up and say, ‘Okay, doesn’t matter if the man’s from my own party; doesn’t matter if he’s my political patron. I’m going to take a stand for the voting rights of my own constituents.’
“Instead, David Perdue is cowering in silence on the private island where he lives, having come home from Washington for a month long vacation, without passing more support for small businesses, without extending unemployment insurance, without extending the moratoria on evictions, while his own constituents face bankruptcy, and eviction, and joblessness from a pandemic that he told us would pose low risk to our health and have little impact on economic growth. Against that entire backdrop, he’s chilling at home, having accomplished nothing in Washington and sitting there silent while the president attacks voting rights.”
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