Stacey Abrams' record complicates 'radical' label

[TexasTowelie]

DALTON, Ga.—Campaigning in a north Georgia county where President Donald Trump got 70 percent of the vote, the Democratic nominee for governor recently talked about helping small businesses, expanding access to affordable health care and quality public education, and championing emerging energy markets.

Much of Stacey Abrams' pitch could have come from any of the business-friendly Democrats or moderate Republicans who've occupied the Georgia governor's mansion for the last half century.

Yet Abrams isn't one of those men: The Yale law graduate and former state legislative leader is a black woman from Atlanta and an unapologetic progressive who Republicans blast as an extremist.

"Most radical liberal to ever run for governor," one Republican Governors Association ad intones. Her opponent, Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp, talks of a battle "literally for the soul of our state" because Abrams, he says, is a tool of "billionaires and socialists who want to turn Georgia into California."

Read more: http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/national/story/2018/aug/21/stacey-abrams-record-complicates-radical-label/739733/

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1. I really hate the way California is used across "trump country"

as some sort of communist socialist gay hell.

Ronald Reagan and Dick Nixon were both from California.

The John Birch Society started in California.

Besides that, California (other than the forest burning) is doing pretty good.

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2. 'radical liberal' 'soul of our state'

'socialists who want to turn Georgia into California."' and keep African Americans from voting.

Sounds like a swell campaign.

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3. KKKemp supporters include a high percentage of ignorant white wing racist trumpsters.

Those losers won’t give Abrams a fair look for one reason, well maybe two if you count being a lady.