Despite efforts from LGBTQ advocacy organizations to get LGBTQ issues on the docket at last night’s Senatorial debate between Republican Kelly Loeffler and Democrat Raphael Warnock, there was no mention of Georgia’s LGBTQ community during the entire hour-long debate.
Loeffler and Warnock took the stage Sunday night (November 6) after Democrat Jon Ossoff debated an empty podium because his opponent, Republican David Perdue, declined to take part in the only debate before the runoff election in January.
According to The Guardian, Ossoff said Perdue avoided the debate so as not to “incriminate himself” over suspicious investments in companies set to benefit from the COVID-19 pandemic. “It shows an astonishing arrogance and sense of entitlement