‘We’re getting hit from every angle’: Georgia Dems fight attempt to bulldoze 2020 gains...as GOP Braces for Trump to F**k Up Their Georgia Hopes Again

[basquebromance]

double article megathread...will post excerpts from both later!

GOP takes aim at the engine that turned Georgia blue

Georgia became a swing state in 2020. Now Republicans are squeezing the region that made it happen.

www.politico.com

GOP Braces for Trump to Fuck Up Their Georgia Hopes Again

They worry the upcoming battle royale between Gov. Brian Kemp and former Sen. David Perdue will leave one winner: Stacey Abrams.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[Otis Mayfield]

Republican governor Kemp must be purged, roared trump.

That's what you get for defying trump.

trump wants his lapdog Perdue as governor.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

double article megathread...will post excerpts from both later!

GOP takes aim at the engine that turned Georgia blue

Georgia became a swing state in 2020. Now Republicans are squeezing the region that made it happen.

www.politico.com

GOP Braces for Trump to Fuck Up Their Georgia Hopes Again

They worry the upcoming battle royale between Gov. Brian Kemp and former Sen. David Perdue will leave one winner: Stacey Abrams.

www.thedailybeast.com

Politico and the D Breast are flaming left wing propaganda machines. They have to continue pushing their agenda because Joe Biteme is a worse president than Peanut Carter ever was. The Brown Turd Obammy looks more conservative than Joe does.

 

[Polishprince]

Republican governor Kemp must be purged, roared trump.

That's what you get for defying trump.

trump wants his lapdog Perdue as governor.

The Democrats are also trying dump Kemp you know.

That's what he gets for defying Stacy Abrams as well.

 

[Hellokitty]

Republican governor Kemp must be purged, roared trump.

That's what you get for defying trump.

trump wants his lapdog Perdue as governor.

Both Kemp and Perdue are rinos. TRUMP understand the republican base in Georgia isn't going to vote for Kemp no matter what, he also understands the RNC/GOP will not support a MAGA candidate. With Perdue the RNC/GOP, along with never-TRUMP whiners will have a harder time playing the, but he gets along with TRUMP card, when just 2 years earlier they were telling republicans they had to vote for Perdue regardless of their feelings.

 

[Hellokitty]

Politico and the D Breast are flaming left wing propaganda machines. They have to continue pushing their agenda because Joe Biteme is a worse president than Peanut Carter ever was. The Brown Turd Obammy looks more conservative than Joe does.

Joe Biteme The nicknames for FJB are never ending....

 

[basquebromance]

excerpts:

First came passage of one of the nation’s most restrictive voting bills. Then came efforts to overhaul the number of elected offices in one of Georgia’s largest counties.

Now, with the pending passage of a new congressional map, Republicans have taken another step toward dismantling the Atlanta-area engine that turned Georgia blue, powering President Joe Biden to victory in 2020 and flipping control of the Senate to Democrats.

“We’re getting hit from every angle,” said Dontaye Carter, a former spokesperson for the Fulton County district attorney and also a 2021 mayoral candidate in Sandy Springs, Ga., less than 20 miles north of Atlanta. “We're fighting against it. But the reality is we just don't have the political capital or the resources to make an impact.”

The newly redrawn congressional map — which is currently awaiting GOP Gov. Brian Kemp’s signature — is likely to erase one of those House gains. By splicing Cobb County, a one-time Republican stronghold that has trended Democratic in recent years, into four congressional districts, Republicans managed to dilute the county’s Democratic votes and force Democratic Reps. Carolyn Bordeaux and Lucy McBath to run against each other.

“‘One person, one vote’ is eroded...the way [Republicans] have done cracking in this map is with laser precision,” said state Rep. Erick Allen, who chairs the Cobb County delegation in the statehouse and is running for lieutenant governor. “I mean, they have broken communities of interests’ voices and diluted their political voice a tremendous amount.”

People of color are on track to become a majority of the population soon in Gwinnett, one of the fastest-growing counties in the state. Like Cobb County, it’s moved leftward as it’s become more diverse. Last year, Democrats flipped a majority of Gwinnett County offices, capturing control of the county commission and school board while winning the county sheriff and district attorney offices. All of the leadership posts in those offices and boards are now occupied by Black politicians.

In early November, however, Republicans in the state Senate set in motion legislation that could roll back those gains by doubling the number of members on the county commission and making its school board nonpartisan.

“We're seeing this alarming trend of Republicans trying to usurp local control,” said state Rep. Bee Nguyen, who is running for secretary of state next year. “They know that, in Gwinnett, it's going to be hard to have any kind of Republican control there. And so they're using other mechanisms to try and regain the control that they've lost.”

Under Georgia’s restrictive new voting law, the state can disband a local election administration office and replace it with a state-appointed superintendent. The state’s power to do so is limited — the law only allows election boards in four counties at a time to be disbanded. But if those four counties were Fulton, Gwinnett, Cobb and DeKalb, it could wreak havoc on Democratic prospects because Republicans would have the power to challenge election results, hold up certification and announce investigations in the counties that produce the bulk of Democratic votes.

Georgia Republicans have dismissed Democrats’ claims that any of their actions are motivated by racial or partisan considerations. Clint Dixon, the Gwinnett-based Republican state senator who is the lead sponsor of the two bills that would change the county commission’s size and make the school board nonpartisan, said the idea was “just false.”

“It's about our kids,” he said. “They've already been through a rough patch with the pandemic, and many of them have fallen behind because of virtual learning. And, you know, we need to move on that. We need to ... get them back on track and just focus on kids and protecting children. That's simply what it is.”

Dixon said he plans to broaden the school board legislation when it will be revisited during the January legislative session to make it a statewide policy that would make all county school boards nonpartisan. He called it “the first step in getting politics out of our school system.”

But the timing of the bills — less than a year after Democrats took majorities on the county commission and school board while the latter elected its first Black chair — is suspect.

“As soon as we elected all people of color to the Gwinnett County Commission, and have a majority of people of color leading the school board, we see efforts introduced to immediately strip people of color from positions of power, strip their power,” said state Rep. Sam Park, who chairs the Gwinnett County delegation in the legislature

“I think we were made vulnerable with what happened with the dismantling of the voting rights, and all of those things have been smaller, kind of like death by 1,000 cuts,” said Latosha Brown, co-founder of the organization Black Voters Matter, which aims to mobilize and turn out Black voters across the South. “At the end of the day, I think there's a fundamental question around, ‘Is democracy going to be protected and expanded in this country?’ I think Georgia is a microcosm of what we're seeing happening all around the country.”

“Everyone was celebrating Georgia going blue last year. And I was just kind of like, 'Oh, no, we did not win the state Legislature. We're in trouble,'” said John Jackson, chair of the DeKalb County Democrats. “Democrats really haven't registered in our minds how important the state legislature is, and why we need to have a better emphasis on winning the state legislatures. Republicans have stacked the cards in their favor.”

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

excerpts:

First came passage of one of the nation’s most restrictive voting bills. Then came efforts to overhaul the number of elected offices in one of Georgia’s largest counties.

Now, with the pending passage of a new congressional map, Republicans have taken another step toward dismantling the Atlanta-area engine that turned Georgia blue, powering President Joe Biden to victory in 2020 and flipping control of the Senate to Democrats.

“We’re getting hit from every angle,” said Dontaye Carter, a former spokesperson for the Fulton County district attorney and also a 2021 mayoral candidate in Sandy Springs, Ga., less than 20 miles north of Atlanta. “We're fighting against it. But the reality is we just don't have the political capital or the resources to make an impact.”

The newly redrawn congressional map — which is currently awaiting GOP Gov. Brian Kemp’s signature — is likely to erase one of those House gains. By splicing Cobb County, a one-time Republican stronghold that has trended Democratic in recent years, into four congressional districts, Republicans managed to dilute the county’s Democratic votes and force Democratic Reps. Carolyn Bordeaux and Lucy McBath to run against each other.

“‘One person, one vote’ is eroded...the way [Republicans] have done cracking in this map is with laser precision,” said state Rep. Erick Allen, who chairs the Cobb County delegation in the statehouse and is running for lieutenant governor. “I mean, they have broken communities of interests’ voices and diluted their political voice a tremendous amount.”

People of color are on track to become a majority of the population soon in Gwinnett, one of the fastest-growing counties in the state. Like Cobb County, it’s moved leftward as it’s become more diverse. Last year, Democrats flipped a majority of Gwinnett County offices, capturing control of the county commission and school board while winning the county sheriff and district attorney offices. All of the leadership posts in those offices and boards are now occupied by Black politicians.

In early November, however, Republicans in the state Senate set in motion legislation that could roll back those gains by doubling the number of members on the county commission and making its school board nonpartisan.

“We're seeing this alarming trend of Republicans trying to usurp local control,” said state Rep. Bee Nguyen, who is running for secretary of state next year. “They know that, in Gwinnett, it's going to be hard to have any kind of Republican control there. And so they're using other mechanisms to try and regain the control that they've lost.”

Under Georgia’s restrictive new voting law, the state can disband a local election administration office and replace it with a state-appointed superintendent. The state’s power to do so is limited — the law only allows election boards in four counties at a time to be disbanded. But if those four counties were Fulton, Gwinnett, Cobb and DeKalb, it could wreak havoc on Democratic prospects because Republicans would have the power to challenge election results, hold up certification and announce investigations in the counties that produce the bulk of Democratic votes.

Georgia Republicans have dismissed Democrats’ claims that any of their actions are motivated by racial or partisan considerations. Clint Dixon, the Gwinnett-based Republican state senator who is the lead sponsor of the two bills that would change the county commission’s size and make the school board nonpartisan, said the idea was “just false.”

“It's about our kids,” he said. “They've already been through a rough patch with the pandemic, and many of them have fallen behind because of virtual learning. And, you know, we need to move on that. We need to ... get them back on track and just focus on kids and protecting children. That's simply what it is.”

Dixon said he plans to broaden the school board legislation when it will be revisited during the January legislative session to make it a statewide policy that would make all county school boards nonpartisan. He called it “the first step in getting politics out of our school system.”

But the timing of the bills — less than a year after Democrats took majorities on the county commission and school board while the latter elected its first Black chair — is suspect.

“As soon as we elected all people of color to the Gwinnett County Commission, and have a majority of people of color leading the school board, we see efforts introduced to immediately strip people of color from positions of power, strip their power,” said state Rep. Sam Park, who chairs the Gwinnett County delegation in the legislature

“I think we were made vulnerable with what happened with the dismantling of the voting rights, and all of those things have been smaller, kind of like death by 1,000 cuts,” said Latosha Brown, co-founder of the organization Black Voters Matter, which aims to mobilize and turn out Black voters across the South. “At the end of the day, I think there's a fundamental question around, ‘Is democracy going to be protected and expanded in this country?’ I think Georgia is a microcosm of what we're seeing happening all around the country.”

“Everyone was celebrating Georgia going blue last year. And I was just kind of like, 'Oh, no, we did not win the state Legislature. We're in trouble,'” said John Jackson, chair of the DeKalb County Democrats. “Democrats really haven't registered in our minds how important the state legislature is, and why we need to have a better emphasis on winning the state legislatures. Republicans have stacked the cards in their favor.”

I hate to burst your fucking bubble, but the voting in Delaware, where Joe Biteme resided has tougher voting laws than what is being voted for in Georgia. What? you didnt know that? Come on man.....

The Blue States That Make It Hardest to Vote

Democrats are criticizing Republicans for pushing restrictive voting laws. But states such as Joe Biden’s Delaware can make casting a ballot difficult.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[basquebromance]

I hate to burst your fucking bubble, but the voting in Delaware, where Joe Biteme resided has tougher voting laws than what is being voted for in Georgia. What? you didnt know that? Come on man.....

The Blue States That Make It Hardest to Vote

Democrats are criticizing Republicans for pushing restrictive voting laws. But states such as Joe Biden’s Delaware can make casting a ballot difficult.

www.theatlantic.com

i knew it. doesn't make what's happening in Georgia ok.

enjoy your day, racist

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

i knew it. doesn't make what's happening in Georgia ok.

enjoy your day, racist

Umm, you need to check your white supremacy at the door, dude. As a matter of fact it does make it okay in Georgia to have FAIR and HONEST elections.

 

[Osiris-ODS]

I hate to burst your fucking bubble, but the voting in Delaware, where Joe Biteme resided has tougher voting laws than what is being voted for in Georgia. What? you didnt know that? Come on man.....

The Blue States That Make It Hardest to Vote

Democrats are criticizing Republicans for pushing restrictive voting laws. But states such as Joe Biden’s Delaware can make casting a ballot difficult.

www.theatlantic.com

He's just stirring the pot. He doesn't anymore believe that shit than you do. It's his shtick.

 

[basquebromance]

 

[themirrorthief]

i knew it. doesn't make what's happening in Georgia ok.

enjoy your day, racist

awww, the sweet sensitive liberal...