Ann Killion: WNBA and Atlanta Dream deserve credit for Raphael Warnock unseating Kelly Loeffler [San Francisco Chronicle]
Jan. 10—”Overjoyed,” the former Cal basketball player said.
Clarendon watched the returns in Georgia’s U.S. Senate races at home in Oakland with their wife and 2-week-old infant, and witnessed what the WNBA helped achieve: The Rev. Raphael Warnock defeated incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler.
“I was a little bit in shock at what we were able to accomplish,” Clarendon said. “To see the power that we have.”
The WNBA is owed a lot of credit for what happened in Georgia, where control of the Senate was flipped and the balance of power in Washington was shifted. Players in the league did not “shut up and dribble,” did not “stick to sports” but instead took an active stand to make a change.