meeting. and also received an email from a parent of a student who also works for the district. and it was brought to my attention that this book was deemed divisive. and there had been an investigation to follow. so on monday, march 13th, i was placed on administrative leave with pay, and that continued until may 5th when the district let me know that they would be moving towards termination. so you are understanding of this is that it was initiated by a parental complaint? that s what initiated this proceeding? correct, yes. and that complaint was pursuant to the new georgia law that passed with sanctions for teachers if they introduced divisive concepts? yes. it was very vague of how this was brought to their attention, the district, and i was not able to ever define to me how this book was divisive. or what was the divisive about it. this is a book that is
again, time is running short. there is some optimism on both of these issues you just mentioned however, only time will tell, which i know is in my crystal ball is broken here. final thing ask for a new one. it falls under the same category but where does the race stand between raphael warnock and herschel walker in georgia because while democrats will maintain a majority in the senate but the difference between 51-50 and 51-49 is significant. absolutely. you re seeing both campaigns really go for split ticket voters for example. they re going for making sure their bases turn out and making sure that every single person that because they can t add to it because of the new georgia law, they re not allowed to add and register any more voters so they have the pool they re working with and the money, jim, that is flowing into this race as we expected is just going to
in a runoff election that is so close. the time is just really running out. there s only about two and a half weeks left of this runoff period. there s a lot of work to do and a lot of money still to be pumped into georgia, this remaining widow. now my, i m glad you talk about that before you mention and during this whole renovation of modernizing elections after, that you actually cut that time to less than four weeks. as a result they didn t allow for that window of registering new voters. and alas election, there was 50,000 young people that were eligible to register because they have come of age in that short six-week period. but because now they have a new georgia law, it s as if you have to register before 30 days out. they purposely did it because they recognize that they didn t want young voter participation. so maya, king thank you for your incredible reporting and giving me that insight. before the end of the year, a major piece of bipartisan
and well. we re watching it happen right now in doherty county. don t let anybody tell you it does. here is why i know it does, there s some folks working really hard to make sure you don t use it. we heard jim crow, president biden called it worse than jim crow, the new georgia law. well, look at that number on your screen right now, well past 2.2 the million ballots already cast early in the state of georgia after the law was implemented. that is a smash record in the midterm cycle. the lying about jim crow and the suppression has been exploded before our eyes, and i think that that s somewhat satisfying. republicans save democracy. charlie, what have you got? the ultimate flop this week is john fetterman, his backdrop of american flags blew away. oh, man. i would say this guy, these guys are snake bit except for it s all of their pro-climb pro-crime policies that s an am amateur campaign
Also big new developments, we are following with the Trump Organization as it braces for criminal charges that could come as early as next week. What we know about those charges, the legal implications and what we can expect when, in fact, they are announced. And former President Donald Trump trying to keep the republican spotlight with him with a rally in ohio. What is he rallying for . Plus major action on the Voting Rights front. The doj announcing it plans to sue the State Of Georgia over its restrictive voting law, the first of its kind, Major Federal Action Against republicanled voting laws. We do, in fact, want to start in florida where rescuers and residents are clinging to hope that more survivors will, in fact, be pulled from the rubble of the champlain towers condominium as the mayor of miamidade orders a massive building inspection effort. I want to go now to surfside florida. Thanks for reporting for us on this. What more are we learning about the possible cause of this co