Georgia Recorder
Georgia voters will get the rare opportunity to send two candidates to the U.S. Senate in a Jan. 5 runoff. At top, appointed GOP U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler is set to face Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock. Bottom left is Democrat Jon Ossoff who will face incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue. Photos by Georgia Recorder staff
The last time two U.S. Senators from Georgia were up for election at the same time, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover were at the top of the ballot.
Nearly a century ago, it was the death of a sitting senator that made way for the rare appearance of dual Senate races.Â
of gun reform, i don t think anyone is better other than the parkling kids, but is it possible the party needs to expand its vision in georgia? they re up in arms because stacey abrams does not want to be a senator and she s made that clear. if she doesn t run we re doomed. great candidates running for senate there, teresa tomlinson, wonderful candidate known in the state. there are other people. is the party too narrowly fixated? yes. that s yes. cecile already made the point and in particularly when we look at what we ve seen since the 2016 presidential election, the truth is black women in particular and women in general have always been the foot soldiers of the democratic party without being allowed to be the front-runners, the leaders of the party, and one of the things that the party is struggling with is how do you build a bench? the republicans have done this better, quite frankly, is looking locally, building,
film and television production yielded a $9.5 billion haul in the state for 2018 alone. joining me now is teresa tomlinson who is running for the united states senate, and judd, i saw this in your newsletter, how many companies are thinking about pulling out? i think there is no companies that i know that said they re pulling out now, but i think what netflix and bob igor said is if they don t strike this down they will probably pull out. it is fairly serious to say. i think you have seen individual actors and producers saying they will no long er work in georgia. he sort of puts down the
after defeating john osoff. mcbath called herself a man on a mission after her 17-year-old son was shot and killed in 2012 by a man who thought jordan s music was too loud. she s be the first democrat since 1979 to represent georgia s 6th district, same district that tom price gave up to become donald trump s health and human service secretary before resigning in scandal. it s the district represented for two decades by one newton leroy gingrich. joining me is the mayor of columbia, georgia, theresa tomlinson. l tell us a little bit about this win. how is it that lucy mcbath was able to pull off a win where john osoff could not? well, the thunder you hear is the return of the two party system to georgia, joy. this is really incredible, you re right to put lucy mcbath
votes remain to be counted. there are voices that are waiting to be heard. across our state folks are opening up the dreams of voters and absentee ballots and we believe our chance for a stronger georgia is just within reach. with just over 60,000 votes separating stacey abrams and brian kemp abrams insists the race is way too close to concede. kemp has taken a victory lap and resigned as georgia secretary of state claiming the total 20,000 provisional ballots yet to be counted in the governor s race is not enough to trigger a runoff. abrams who has spent much of her career combating brian kemp s voter suppression efforts says there are thousands of other ballots left. she is vowing to stay in the race until every single vote is counted. joining me now is mayor teresa tomlinson and there is a