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Sen. Jeff Flake now owns the dubious title of most disliked senator

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

In just three short months in the U.S. Senate, our boy Jeff Flake has managed to dethrone the Septegenarian Ninja Turtle, Mitch McConnell, as the most disliked senator among Americans. Getting caught lying to a grieving mother who lost her son to gun violence will do that. The Atlantic Wire reports, How Jeff Flake Became the Most Unpopular Senator in America:

Public Policy Polling, in their latest survey on the fallout of the recent vote on gun legislation, explains just how much people don't like Mr. Flake:

FlakeJust 32% of voters
approve of him to 51% who disapprove and that -19 net approval rating
makes him the most unpopular sitting Senator we've polled on, taking
that label from Mitch McConnell.

Since December, it was hard to imagine anyone unseating McConnell because, according to PPP and
despite the Kentucky Senator's internal numbers, the Senate Minority
Leader was always' the old curmudgeon who represented the laughable state of America's hatred toward Congress.

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So what happened to the junior Senator from Arizona? According to
PPP's polling, conducted April 25-26 in the aftermath of the gun vote
that killed legislation on background checks, it's blowback — Democrats
and independent voters have really flaked on Flake:

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Down with Drones: Protest at Ft. Huachuca Today

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by Pamela Powers Hannley Southern Arizona peace activists have organized a anti-drone protest outside of Fort Huachuca today, Monday, April 29. Drones are a big deal in Southern Arizona. Ft. Huachuca, Davis-Monthan, Raytheon, the University of Arizona, and Cochise College– all have a piece of the military industrial complex's drone pie, and if our esteemed … Read more

Flake in the Rewrite

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell was a key legislative aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. From 1989 to 1991, he served as senior advisor to Senator Moynihan. From 1992 to 1993, he was staff director of the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, then chaired by Senator Moynihan. From 1993 to 1995, he was staff director of the United States Senate Committee on Finance, once again under Senator Moynihan’s chairmanship. O'Donnell has a deep respect for the history of the U.S. Senate and knows its institutional norms.

In his Rewrite segment on Tuesday, Lawrence O'Donnell heaped much-deserved opprobrium on Sens. Max  Baucus (D-MT) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) for their cowardly votes last week to filibuster to death consideration of the Manchin-Toomey background checks amendment.

Jeff Flake’s political posturing, trying to have it both ways

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

You may have read about this in the Arizona Republic last week. Caren Teves’ son Alex died during the Aurora theater mass shooting while
shielding his girlfriend from the gunman’s bullets. She wrote a letter
to Sen. Flake, in which she “invited him to our home to sit in our
son’s chair, his empty chair” and “feel the emptiness and have dinner
with us and discuss” guns. Senator Told Shooting Victim’s Mother He Supported Background Checks, Then Voted Against Them:

In response, Flake sent Teves a hand-written letter claiming that he
supported one of the most important steps Congress could take to improve
gun safety — expanding background checks:

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Just days after raising Teves’ hopes that the Senate would act to prevent
future mothers from experiencing the same pain inflicted upon her
family, Flake voted against background checks.
Flake claimed to oppose the bill because it “would expand background
checks far beyond commercial sales to include almost all private
transfers — including between friends and neighbors,” but this claim is false.

Jeff Flake’s “I support background checks” letter

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by David Safier Caren Teves, whose son Alex died in the Aurora movie theater shooting, sent a letter to Jeff Flake inviting him to her home to sit in her son’s chair and discuss guns. Flake responded saying he supports background checks. Later, he joined the Senate filibuster blocking the bill which would have passed … Read more