House Speaker Thom Tillis, the Republican nominee for Senate in North Carolina, cast doubt that Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) voted for the stimulus knowing that her husband would benefit from that vote.
Tillis’s comments expressing doubt during a Senate debate on Thursday night follow Politico reporting that Hagan’s husband’s manufacturing company benefited from stimulus funding.
“Do you think she voted for it knowing she would profit sir?” Tillis was asked during the debate.
“I doubt it,” Tillis said. “But the real question is the judgement after you make a vote. Should you really have actually taken that extra step to have your family benefit from it.”
Republicans have repeatedly called attention to that as a line of criticism of Hagan. Hagan, throughout the debate and since the report, has maintained that she took the proper ethical steps to make sure there was no conflict of interest.
The TPM Polltracker average finds Hagan leading Tillis by 3.2 points.
And I doubt that Tillis hasn’t voted for the decimation of people’s rights without thinking about how much of a bigot he is.
What in the H am I reading in this article?
Is this headline an attempt to get the GOP talking point to stick after the GOP candidate himself shot it down?
Bingo!
Okay, so he doubts she did anything unethical. Cool. Now: “The real question is the judgement after you make a vote. Could you really have actually taken that extra step to have your family benefit from it.”
Wait, what?! You should check your ethics and motivation only AFTER you vote for a bill? This guy’s logic diagrams out like a road map of London.
Did Hagan sit their silent or did attack tillis on this hugely unethical dealings