Rep. Saira Draper
@SairaForGeorgia
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State Representative for Atlanta-DeKalb. Lawyer, Asian/Hispanic American, and mom of 3. Big fan of democracy and voting rights.
Atlanta, GA 🍑
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It's official! I'm on the ballot for the May primary. With your support, I will continue my service as the representative for House District 90!
There are 180 legislators in the Georgia House of Representatives. Only a handful have young children. And only two are women.
#gapol
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Don't tell me energy is low around voting.
Just received a report out of Kansas that a voter was told she couldn't vote while wearing her partisan t-shirt.
So she took it off and voted in her bra.
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I’m deeply concerned about the raid directed by the Georgia Attorney General’s office today in Edgewood, a dense and thriving residential neighborhood in Atlanta.
I’m trying to get more information.
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I don’t know the specifics of the charges yet, but at this moment, SWAT and helicopters seem grossly excessive for arresting individuals accused of money laundering and “charity fraud.”
What I do know is weaponizing the powers of the state for political gain is abuse of power.
🧵The GBI, along w/ the Atlanta Police Department, have arrested three people on charges stemming from the ongoing investigation of individuals responsible for numerous criminal acts at the future site of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center & other metro Atlanta locations.
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Georgia!
The NUMBER ONE THING you can do to elect
@ReverendWarnock
and
@ossoff
to the U.S. Senate on January 5 is use this link TODAY to sign up for your absentee ballot. Don't delay.
Please share.
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Well, today was a pretty neat day.
Not only did I have a tweet go viral for the first time, I also got elected to serve in the Georgia Legislature.
It’s an honor and privilege to sit in the seat formerly held by my forever leaders, Bee Nguyen and Stacey Abrams.
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Peaceful protest is as American as apple pie. Using heavy handed tactics to suppress peaceful protest is shameful.
Gov. Kemp’s statement is divisive, pitting police against protestors, and using a broad brush to paint all protestors as extremists.
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Polls are open 7am to 7pm.
If you are over 75 or disabled, you can skip the line between 9:30am and 4:30pm today.
Let’s get this man elected, Georgia. 💪
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Georgia Voters 👀
On Election Day, voters who are elderly or disabled have the right to go to the front of the line between the hours of 9:30 am and 4:30 pm.
During Early Vote, they have the right to go to the front of the line all day long.
Voter Protection: 888-730-5816
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Wake up!!! Biden has taken the lead in Georgia!
Today our voter protection volunteers will be in every corner of the state helping voters cure ballots.
Our hotline volunteers have helped bank votes for months. Our poll watchers saved votes at the polls.
Every vote mattered.
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So you want to help
@ReverendWarnock
and
@ossoff
win in Georgia?
Join the Voter Protection Team that helped turn Georgia BLUE.
We are recruiting volunteers for remote and on the ground opportunities.
Sign up here.
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When you’re knocking doors and you meet a 12 year old who has your entire campaign platform memorized 😄 It was great meeting you
@KnowaWasTaken
!
#HD90
#GaPol
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Atlanta, the cradle of the civil rights moment, must hold itself to a higher standard when it comes to voting rights. 🧵 1/
#gapol
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Meanwhile, in Georgia, the first vice chair of the Georgia GOP must pay $5000 for voting illegally *nine times* while under felony probation.
This seems balanced. Sure.
Breaking news: Crystal Mason, the Texas woman who was sentenced to five years in prison for trying to submit a provisional ballot in 2016 that was rejected, has been acquitted on appeal. Story TK. Background:
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I’m calling on the
@GaSecofState
to publicly release the names of voters that have been sent purge notices. Like he did in 2019.
Voters deserve to know. A nondescript piece of mail is inadequate.
@GeorgiaDemocrat
has 1000s of vols ready to provide voters the info they need.
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Santa has to follow the rules just like anyone else.
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Keep. Voting. Early.
#gapol
More black voters over the age of 65 have already voted in Georgia (201,889) than voted in total in the 2016 presidential election (193,993). There are still 9 days of voting remaining.
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Help protect the voices and the votes of Georgia this election.
We're looking for:
✅Poll watchers
✅Poll workers
✅Hotline volunteers
✅Text bankers
✅Phone bankers
Volunteer with our voter protection team:
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I’m visiting my parents in Dunwoody for Thanksgiving. So I decided to vote at the Dunwoody Library, one of the three locations in Dekalb County offering voting today.
Looks like a few other people decided to vote today, too.
#gapol
#VoteWarnock
#saturdayvoting
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Georgia’s registration deadline is Monday (one of the earliest in the country).
Think you are registered? The single best thing you can do this weekend is confirm your registration is correct. Pls share.
#gapol
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We Should Never Have to Vote in Person Again
"we find that turnout goes up among everyone, especially the historically disenfranchised: young people, voters of color, less-educated people and blue-collar workers."
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With all the talk about signature match in the context of the petition to the
@CityofAtlanta
, I’ve heard the phrase “exact match” thrown around a lot.
📣There is no such thing as exact match signature requirements.
Folks are conflating two separate election problems. 🧵1/
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At the dinner table last night —
Me: What are you thankful for?
6yo: We are not poor and not rich.
Me: Why are you thankful for not being rich?
6yo: Sometimes people lose the focus of being nice
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Signature match as method for verifying voter identity is unreliable, and prejudices the elderly, disabled, and voters with less common names. 2/
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If you think allegations of
#votersupression
are overblown, check our this excellent reporting by
@nytimes
featuring
#Georgia
.
And then sign up to volunteer with our voter protection team at
@GeorgiaDemocrat
.
#36days
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This is a good time to remind everyone that the voter protection team at
@GeorgiaDemocrat
is recruiting poll watchers now.
You don’t need to live in GA to apply.
Trump says that on election day he's going to send law enforcement to polling locations
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Our hotline just closed. Over 3000 calls today. And we’ll be open again at 8 am to help voters cure their ballots.
888-730-5816
@JLB_OR
and his team are rockstars.
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I am so dang proud of our work!
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Admitting you were wrong is not a failure. It’s leadership.
Expand Medicaid already.
Gov. Kemp’s plan for a conservative alternative to Medicaid expansion has cost taxpayers at least $26 million so far, with more than 90% going toward administrative and consulting costs rather than medical care for low-income people.
#gapol
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Think allegations of
#votersupression
in Georgia are overblown?
Let me tell you about the shameful performance I saw by Ga House Republicans this morning when SB463 was discussed in committee. SB463 revises the GA election code, and passed on a party line vote.
A thread.
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Georgians! 🍑 Is your county board of elections stepping up and sending registered voters an absentee ballot application for November? The Secretary of State isn't doing it, but your county can.
So far DeKalb and Clarke are in. Any others?
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A little more ✨personal news✨
I’m thrilled to announce my candidacy for Georgia House District 90.
By running for this seat, I want to continue to fight for Georgia voters.
More jolt: Over the last decade, Stacey Abrams and Bee Nguyen represented the same Atlanta-based Georgia House district. Now another prominent voting rights advocate —
@SairaForGeorgia
— wants to follow in their footsteps.
#gapol
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Great piece about Coffee County.
Voter suppression takes many different forms. Bringing criminal charges against someone who is lawfully assisting eligible voters has all kind of chilling ripple effects, especially in a small community.
Olivia Coley Pearson is a hero.
CNN’s
@elspethreeve
speaks to locals who believe the alleged Coffee County election office breach wasn’t an accident, but instead because of a long history of voter suppression. Watch:
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Statewide petition and referendum in Ga, anyone?
I've seen enough: in a victory for the pro-choice side, Ohio Issue 1, a measure to establish a right to an abortion in the state constitution, passes.
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Yesterday, I spoke out against the misinformation, harm, and discrimination proposed in SB 140. I want to make sure that any trans or otherwise LGBTQ+ child listening hears this loud and clear: you are loved, and we will continue to fight for your right to live authentically.
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Let me get this straight.
On the one hand he’s banning ranked-choice voting bc it “cause[s] confusion and fatigue among voters.”
But the bill he supports has our overseas military personnel voting by
*checks notes*
ranked-choice voting
#gapol
#electionsecuritytheater
Press Release: Lt. Governor Burt Jones Announces Legislation Banning Ranked-choice Voting
"I am proud to ban this electoral disaster and work to make Georgia's elections the safest in the nation."
Link:
#gapol
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At minimum, the City of Atlanta needs to offer these same guardrails. But I think we can do better than what republicans begrudgingly agreed to under suit.
I have shared my concerns with the city. I’m hopeful there is room for movement and I will update as I learn more. /14
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First day of 3rd grade and Kindergarten is in the books 📚
And yes they picked their own outfits!
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2024 Legislative Session, Day 1.
Let’s do this. 💪
For updates, sign up for my newsletter and follow me on social media.
#gapol
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Hi, friends. Some ✨personal news✨
Last Friday was my last day as the Voter Protection Director at the
@GeorgiaDemocrat
. I feel so grateful. Overwhelmingly grateful.
Long 🧵alert.
This is me on the first day of the job.
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The highlight of Sine Die was the bipartisan coalition that defeated private school vouchers that would have siphoned resources from our public school system.
#gapol
@orgdekalbed
@GAEvoices
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When GA got its new voting machines in 2020 and we were experiencing regular technical problems, the SOS found it infeasible to put a tech specialist at every precinct.
But police at every precinct is ok? Got it.
Georgia’s top election official just called for a significant ramp-up in security at the state’s polling places in a key election year -- and wants to add more GBI agents to investigate election-related cases.
#gapol
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Most Georgians register to vote when they get or renew their driver license. During that process we sign a digital pad with a digital pen, resulting in scrawl that may or may not resemble our handwritten signature. 3/
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I stand in solidarity with the Jewish community, the transgender community, and with anyone who has been targeted by hate and ignorance.
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The City of Atlanta certainly has a right, and arguably the legal obligation, to verify that referendum advocates get the legally required number of signatures to put their issue on the ballot. Is signature match the best way to do so? Hard no. 8/
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“We have seen countless examples of voters mistakenly slated for removal from the rolls even though they are eligible to vote at their address,” Draper said. “The [SOS] should be less eager to remove voters from the rolls and more helpful in getting eligible voters registered.”
Nearly 44,000 Georgia voters who lost their registrations in the nation's largest purge four years ago re-registered and cast a ballot in November’s election, the AJC found.
#gapol
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I’m heartbroken to say
#sb63
passed the House today. I voted no.
Much appreciation to my colleagues who spoke so eloquently and passionately against this bill today from the House floor.
“The most expensive thing you can be in Georgia is poor.”
@willisforGA
#Gapol
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This incident violates the personal security and well-being of our community members, and I’m calling on local law enforcement to investigate swiftly and hold those responsible to account.
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Alternatives that actually provide evidence of eligibility are:
1. Verify the printed name was a registered voter and Atlanta resident in 2021.
2. Verify the individual provided all the requested information as legally required.
3. Verify entries are not duplicates.
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“State Rep. Saira Draper, who once led the state Democratic Party’s voting rights arm, said the stalled federal voting measures raise the importance of the Biden-Harris campaign to invest “fully” in Georgia voter infrastructure.”
#gapol
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When I said we should not change Georgia election laws to placate *conspiracy theorists,* I wasn’t being hyperbolic. 👇
VoterGA is a self-styled “election integrity” organization that has advanced various election conspiracy claims, even in litigation.
VoterGA’s founder & leader is Garland Favorito. And it is underappreciated just HOW MANY conspiracy theories he has endorsed. Including 9/11 ones.
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Voting has started in GA!
As the fmr voter protection director at
@GeorgiaDemocrat
, I have lots of insight when it comes to Georgians’ experiences voting.
Quick 🧵 with some tips and reasons why I highly encourage voting early in person asap.
#gapol
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As a state legislator, I can’t help but view this incident and our legislative policy choices as related.
During the 2023 legislative session, the Georgia General Assembly failed to pass proposed legislation to curb rising rates of antisemitism.
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Perhaps the cruelest twist to all of this was that in order to cure their ballot (ie, make it count), they had to submit an affidavit that they had to sign(!!) and that could also be tossed out on signature match grounds. 7/
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My statement in response to new information revealed in the autopsy results released by DeKalb County related to the death of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán.
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My new bipartisan bill, HB 559, takes the wait time guessing game out of voting for parents of young children. If passed, it would allow voters accompanied by kids 5 or under to go to the front of the voting line– a support voters who are elderly and/or disabled currently enjoy.
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Already 120 people in line in a polling location in Cobb County.
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There is a direct line between these policy decisions and creating an environment that emboldens hate groups and normalizes discriminatory rhetoric. It’s not enough for leaders to say they don’t tolerate hate; our policy agenda must do the same.
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So grateful for the advocacy of
@MomsDemand
. We are here and we aren’t going away without change.
And it’s a cherry on top to see wonderful
#hd90
constituents (with their 🍑👶) at the Capitol. Start ‘em young.
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When I led the voter protection effort at
@GeorgiaDemocrat
, we heard from Georgians all around the state and about their challenges with voting. Some of the saddest cases were from voters who voted absentee, many who physically could not vote in person, and their signatures 5/
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Spot on,
@ajc
. Working moms can be -and are- incredible public servants. Like so many of our constituents, we have direct experience w the realities of working, parenting, and making communities stronger.
And no one ever questions a man like this. 🤮
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materially differed due to illness, age, or disability(eg stroke, paralysis, Parkinson’s). Their votes were rejected on signature match grounds even though they were the person voting their ballot. 6/
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During the legislative session, I received more emails about the Okefenokee Swamp conservation bill than any other matter.
The fam and I are taking a few days to check it out for ourselves. What a national and state treasure!
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Where’s the lie?
#gapol
If the GOP’s policies were popular, they wouldn’t have to gerrymander their way into office.🤷♀️
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“All parties had the ability to create an absentee ballot chase program and an absentee ballot cure program. It’s becoming more clear by the day that only one group came prepared.”
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We’re calling for a special session to address the gun violence epidemic in Georgia. Join us Wednesday.
To my Republican colleagues- Stop hiding. Georgians need you to act on gun violence now.
#leaddonthide
#gapol
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The fight is always local!
I testified against this bad bill, pointing out that it did the opposite of what the sponsor said he wanted to accomplish with it.
They wanted to rush me off. But the point had to be made.
#gapol
See my remarks here.
First, remember that this fight is always local.
In Georgia, the State Senate’s Ethics Committee voted to end automatic voter registration, which has helped millions of Georgians register and is the primary tool to ensure the voter rolls are accurate.
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The energy at the Capitol was electric.
I got chills when the crowd spontaneously started chanting “now, now, now!”
It’s the guns. Georgians are dying. We demand action now.
How many of my colleagues will join me in calling for a special session?
#gapol
#LeadDontHide
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Bottom line? Neither exact match nor signature match should be a policy adopted by the City of Atlanta.
(Nor “exact signature match” — whatever that is)
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4. Verify the signature isn’t obviously a different name than what is printed.
Any or all of these alternatives would be more reliable, and less discriminatory, than signature matching. 10/
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I am so pumped about this! A great new early voting option for residents of Fulton County. Early voting for the Primary runoff begins July 20. VOTE EARLY! Thank you to
@StateFarmArena
and
@ATLHawks
for stepping up for the community.
VOTE just went down.
@StateFarmArena
will be voting central
@FultonInfo
for August 11th primary runoffs. Said to be the largest precinct in the country! I'm live at NOON
@wsbtv
with how the
@ATLHawks
will play a role.
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I'm really proud of this result.
I took this story to
@markniesse
because after months of requesting documents and answers from the offices of
@GaSecofState
and DDS, I knew the truth needed to be forced out.
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Concurrently, the General Assembly prioritized the passage of legislation that discriminates against and harms transgender children and their families.
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Getting our right to bodily autonomy back requires us to elect pro-choice candidates all over the state. Whether you live in a candidate’s district doesn’t matter. A win for one is a win for all.
Join me in supporting my fellow
@GAWINList
sisters in November.
“Yesterday’s decision shows there’s never been a more important time to elect pro-choice women” - Saira Draper (HD-90) at the
@GAWINList
Press Conference this morning.
#gapol
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My bill to protect election workers is up for a committee vote today at 1.
#gapol
Election workers are under attack. That means democracy is, too
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🚩New year, new round of voter purges in
#Georgia
. 🚩
Georgians, check the mail closely over the next few days for a removal notice. The notices are nondescript. If you get one, take action quickly.
Questions? Call the
@GeorgiaDemocrat
voter protection hotline at 888-730-5816.
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This is not an isolated incident of hate. In fact, the group behind these flyers proudly claims it has distributed thousands of pieces of its propaganda throughout Georgia.
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That digital signature is used as an exemplar on most voter files— a basis for comparison during the signature match process. 4/
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In 2020
@GeorgiaDemocrat
successfully settled a lawsuit where we challenged the use of signature match. (Months later, Trump and his allies railed against the “consent decree” and blamed it for their 2020 losses). I was directly involved in those settlements negotiations. 11/
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It’s strange that a former senator doesn’t know what a filibuster is. I used the time allotted by the rules (of the GOP-run House) to speak out against a bill that harms county election officials, our voters, and our State. See my full speech here: .
#gapol
👀 Looks like we struck a chord with Dem lawmakers - who last night filibustered a bill to ban Zuckerbucks in GA.
Their outside $ slush fund can be used to influence local election operations - which is EXACTLY why we have to ban it.
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Thanks,
@ratemyskyperoom
! I’ll take it!
The cartoon is signed by
@mluckovichajc
and gifted to me by
@carriehorrocks
. It keeps me inspired and motivated to fight for
#votingrights
through the hardest of times.
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I'm delighted to share I was selected to the Georgia Tech Alumni 2023 class of 40 under 40! They say we're creating a buzz, near and far 🐝 😂.
Read more about the 2023 class here -->
#GeorgiaTech
#40under40
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This headline scares me to my core.
As a parent, the last thing I want is for my children to be in an environment surrounded by guns.
Stop playing with our kids' lives,
@burtjonesforga
. They are not fodder for your political ambitions.
I am seeing red right now.
#gapol
Lt. Gov. Burt Jones backs paying teachers a $10K stipend to urge them to carry guns and take voluntary firearms training courses as he preps for 2024 – and beyond ...
#gapol
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Hello Georgia voters!
A few words of advice as we approach Election Day from your friends at
@GeorgiaDemocrat
voter protection.
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