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Equality, Rights & Justice Issues

Don’t let Kemp steal this election

As you’ve probably already heard, voter suppression architect Brian Kemp has put 53,000 voter registrations “on hold,” — 70 percent of these voters are African American. So, is Kemp actively suppressing voters to win the election? Stacey Abrams would say “Yes!” In fact, she already did. On Meet the Press, Abrams called the so-called “exact match” voter registration law that’s denying so many African Americans the right to vote “a pattern of behavior where [Kemp] tries

Economy

Commit to a governor that will finally help rural Georgia

Politicians have been failing rural Georgia for decades. Since Nathan Deal was elected governor, we’ve seen six rural hospitals close, making it the third highest state in the nation for hospital closures. Long after most of the United States has bounced back from the Great Recession, rural Georgians are still having a difficult time finding quality jobs and rural schools are still suffering. In Georgia, rural unemployment rates are double the rest of the state. Rural

Voting Rights

Gov. Deal signs bill to silence minority voters

Gov. Deal recently approved a measure carving out land from the city of Stockbridge near Atlanta, giving some voters the opportunity to create a new municipality with more concentrated wealth and much fewer minority voters. The new city, Eagles Landing, was named for its local country club of the same name and proposes to take about a third of Stockbridge’s residents but half of the its revenue. The median income of Eagles Landing will be

Elections

Let’s bring honesty to the insurance commissioner’s office

Although it lacks the flash of the governor’s office, Georgia’s Insurance Commission has the ability to transform the lives of Georgians by protecting Georgia families and overseeing insurance corporations. The Insurance Commissioner chooses whether to help insurance companies to continue to rake in obscene profits by taking advantage of consumers or whether to help improve the safety, health and well-being of Georgia’s citizens. In the twenty years leading up to 2010, when Hudgens was elected,

Education

Arming school staff would endanger students, teachers

Laurens School District near Warner Robins, Ga. is becoming the first school district to allow staff members to carry guns in order to protect students, despite all the research showing that increasing the amount of guns at schools decreases student safety. Although Trump has touted arming teachers and school personnel as a solution to school shootings, the high number of accidental shootings that have occurred in classrooms and school buildings by trained professionals should scare

Brian Kemp

Georgia is sick of gun “jokes,” ready for legislation

Competition for Georgia’s top political positions is starting to reveal just how out of touch GOP candidates really are about gun control. While a new poll shows that Georgians of all political stripes are increasingly in favor of tightening gun laws and regulations, a gubernatorial candidate can be seen pointing his gun at a minor in a vile TV ad and one candidate for lieutenant governor has challenged another to a shootout. Incompetent failure Brian