Now we just need to get her voting in Republican primaries." "Didn't know she had a change of heart on the President," wrote Phillips. (Her campaign said she voted for Trump in 2016.) Then there was Brandon Phillips, the former Georgia chair of the Donald Trump presidential campaign, who questioned her support for the president. Our phone lit up with questions about how much money she would pump into her campaign (she will partly self-fund) and who is advising her ( Corry Bliss, recently of the Congressional Leadership Fund.) Republicans greeted her with a mix of curiosity and derision. “Voters here will simply not accept someone who thinks she can buy our seat in Congress to cozy up to Donald Trump while being condescending and dismissive toward women leaders of color,” added Carolyn Bourdeaux. “It just goes to show you what Homrich and the GOP really think about communities of color,” said Nabilah Islam. The Republican newcomer's opening video, laced with attacks on liberal members of Congress like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, immediately drew fire from two of the Democratic contenders for the Gwinnett and Forsyth-based district. Lynne Homrich's plunge into Georgia's Seventh District race on Monday has Georgia's political class chattering. Without getting too specific about how big a pay cut this would be, let's just say I'm pretty confident that if your boss told you to take a similar pay cut, you'd tell him where to go. I could not advocate on behalf of capitalism, host my radio show or make appearances on Fox Business. I would have to let go of most of my business interests.
…At the same time, I was told what the ethical restrictions would be. Senate and play a longer game – i.e., a rematch with an incumbent Gov. But also consider that the film is also the kind of thing that, by harnessing last year’s Democratic outrage, could also allow Abrams to skip a race for U.S. No doubt, this an unsolicited resource that Democrats in Georgia are sure to make use of in 2020. He’ll try to keep the length to 35 minutes, to allow for discussion at the end of a hypothetical evening meeting. It will be made available for free, and is intended as an organizing tool – for candidate recruitment and such. It’s hard to think that it is only an issue of bureaucracy.” “But the counties that over and over and over again were subjected to the greatest combination of voter suppression were counties where there were a majority of African-Americans.
“Yes, 159 counties, yes, bureaucratic challenges,” the director said. We asked Greenwald if he’d be touching on that. One thing the national media often overlooked when writing about voting in Georgia was that, while an elected secretary of state oversees balloting across the state, election officials in 159 counties are where the rubber often hits the road.
Greenwald hasn’t yet interviewed Stacey Abrams, but hopes to. Republican Brian Kemp, who as secretary of state supervised his own election as governor, is sure to figure into the film. As you can see from the trailer, the Randolph County effort to eliminate voting precincts ahead of a general election is one topic.
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