Colorado Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, who lost her re-election bid nearly a month ago, has yet to call her opponent or even officially concede the race and has, since Election Day, steadfastly refused to talk to the media. But it looks like someone was able to convince her to channel her bitterness and anger into helping mobilize voters to support Sen. Saxby Chambliss in his run-off election in Georgia yesterday:
In her first public comments on her re-election loss – made in a mass phone call to Georgia voters – Rep. Marilyn Musgrave blamed her defeat on “leftist special interests” that “smothered the truth with vicious attacks and lies.”
Musgrave’s remarks came in a so-called “robo-call” that went out to 275,000 Georgia voters Monday and Tuesday on behalf of Sen. Saxby Chambliss, a Republican who was forced into a runoff with Democratic challenger Jim Martin. The election was Tuesday and Chambliss won.
“Hello, I’m Marilyn Musgrave. Until last month I was the congresswoman from Colorado,” Musgrave said in the call, which was paid for by the Susan B. Anthony List Candidate Fund, a political committee that supports anti-abortion candidates.
“Leftist special interests from around the country poured money into my district to defeat me. They overwhelmed us with money. And they smothered the truth with vicious attacks and lies.
“We are seeing the same pattern in Georgia. Pro-abortion radicals and liberal activists won’t stop until they have a chokehold on our government. You can stop them with your vote. It’s too late to change the results in Colorado, but on Tuesday you can cast your vote for Saxby Chambliss.”
Musgrave hadn’t spoken publicly since shortly after vote totals started coming in the evening of Nov. 4. The three-term Republican incumbent was crushed by Democratic challenger Betsy Markey, 56 percent to 44 percent.
The incumbent never conceded defeat or called Markey to congratulate her. Musgrave hasn’t given an interview since the election.
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The robo-call was made on behalf of “Team Sarah,” which was created by the Susan B. Anthony List to build “a coalition of women dedicated to advancing the values that Sarah Palin represents in the political process” … Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, said she contacted Musgrave on Monday about recording a robo-call for the Georgia race and Musgrave agreed.
“She truly is one of the best people I know, and a lot of money can go a long way toward painting a completely different picture, you know, kind of painting a straw woman, so to speak,” Dannenfelser said in a phone interview.
Dannenfelser said Musgrave recorded the call for Chambliss because “she wanted to do something instructive and help somebody else.”
You can hear her robo-call here.
