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Brian Kemp

Kemp might not be racist, but racists sure love him

Hateful, xenophobic rhetoric have become the norm amongst the Right. Trump has been fanning the flames of fear and vitriol since before he was elected. He treats women, especially female reporters, disrespectfully and encourages violence toward the free press. He’s denigrated Jews, Muslims, Hispanics, African Americans, the disabled and members of the LGBTQ community. In the past two weeks, we’ve seen horrific events unfold in the U.S. A Trump supporter mailed bombs to people and

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Brian Kemp

Kemp’s voter suppression isn’t working

Kemp and his conservative cronies are using every trick in the book to try to hold on to their power in Georgia. They’ve purged voters from the rolls at alarming rates, thrown out absentee ballots, and turned around a bus of elderly black voters. A longtime architect of voter suppression, Kemp should not have been allowed to oversee his own election when it’s clear that he’s using power to try to sway the outcome of

Healthcare

Trump’s unaffordable healthcare “solutions” threaten Georgians

Trump has done two things that make insurance less affordable: he eliminated individual mandates, and he signed an executive order allowing people to receive cheaper coverage through potentially fake, low coverage, “association plans.” Although neither of these changes “undo” the Affordable Care Act, as Trump likes to brag, they both succeed in taking affordability out of the equation and will have serious consequences, especially for older and poorer Americans. Removing individual mandates takes away the

Healthcare

Georgia #2 state for biz, but policy makers continues to fail families

Georgia pulls in a top ranking for this state’s business climate, while continuing to fail on measures of child welfare, seniors health and financial security. Georgia’s families cannot sustain themselves on awards the state receives, and we need policy makers that are committed to doing more. As the gubernatorial race heats up ahead of the 2018 election, candidates should heed these numbers and offer more than shallow commitments to the Georgia families that depend on

Equality, Rights & Justice Issues

Georgia is failing our elderly population

In Georgia, if you aren’t the politically powerful, policymakers just don’t care about you. GPB recently reported about how Georgia’s elderly, increasingly placed in nursing homes, must contend with terrible conditions and poorly trained, poorly paid staff. Georgia Public Broadcasting, citing a Kaiser Family Foundation report, says that “the state consistently ranks at the bottom in terms of care and quality.” One Atlanta woman experienced this when her grandmother, who does not speak English, went