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The countdown is on for Georgia s runoff elections on Jan. 5, pitting incumbent Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler against their Democratic challengers, Jon Ossoff and Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock. With mail-in and early voting in full swing, Georgians of faith are working around the clock to mobilize their communities to vote.
The Democratic Party hopes to draw on Warnock s pastoral background to mobilize Black Christian voters. Warnock is the senior pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, the home congregation of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The linkage to King is core to Warnock s candidacy. For churches and many faith-based groups, on the other hand, the focus is nonpartisan. As Pastor Lee May from Transforming Faith Church in Decatur put it, If our people come out to vote, we win.
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One. there are two jobs here. that said, the gulf restoration is a huge project. it is not our most immediate project. the most immediate thing is the urgency of trying to protect the coast lands and get the darn spill stopped. the restoration seems to be a follow-on project. once we know how much damage there is and what the long-term prospects there are. you ve got to do that in the context of the rust belt of this country which has suffered other kinds of devastation. how do you sort of apportion what the country ought to be doing across regions? so, it sounds to me, david, like you re just frustrated generally with how every aspect of this has been handled, in sort of a lack of leadership? well, moran has experienced this firsthand, i defer to her on this. it sounds to me like what she s facing is what others have complained about, is that we have an overly bureaucracytized
yeah, and it s amazing to people that it did take so long. david, i mean, what is what s the source of that? is it just washington gridlock? the bureaucracy, i guess? in this case, you do have a republican party and democratic party both have their own interest groups. u.s. labor unions in this country was not in favor of waving the jones act because it does bring in these foreign sources. we have a super tanker come, owned by taiwan, as long as 3 1/2 football fields. it could be a potentially big, big answer on the skimming. why weren t things like this brought in earlier? there s a lot of politics in this. that s frustrating so many people going through this, just like the mayor. mayor connie moran, appreciate it, and david gergen, thank you both. coming up, even with its history of disasters, bp wants to ax its internal watchdog