November 6, 2022 / Newsletter 301 | |
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ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT TO GET OUT THE VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS IN HALL COUNTY!
Sign up to canvass for Abrams/Warnock and our local Democratic candidates
Democrats across Georgia are making a last big push to knock on doors and hand out literature. Meeting voters face-to-face is still the most effective way to get people to the polls.
If we want Georgia to turn blue, this is ourLAST CHANCE to get out the Democratic vote in Hall County.
The best way to canvass is with a friend, or a group of friends, so sign up together!
We will provide all the information you need to be a part of this statewide effort. Just wear comfortable shoes, and bring water and a fully-charged cell phone.
You are the key to making sure we put Stacey in the governor's mansion, return Reverend Warnock to the Senate, and elect our local candidates to state and county office.
Shifts are available starting at noon and 3:00 pm. You will need a smart phone (iPhone or Android).
Sign up below to canvass on Sunday, Monday, or Tuesday. Sign up for every shift you can work.
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Get Out the Vote in Gainesville · Mobilize | The best way to make sure that Democratic voters head to the polls on November 8th is to knock on doors. With the U.S. Senate and the future of Georgia at stake -- don't sit on the sidelines! We have thousands of voters we need to talk to and we need YOUR help getting out the vote. | | | | |
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Polls Are Open TUESDAY
7 AM - 7 PM
Last Chance to Vote
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November 8
Election Results Watch Party
Watch the early results with friendly fellow Democrats, including many of our local candidates.
When: Tuesday, Nov. 8, 6 pm - 10 pm
Where: Tino’s Tex-Mex Cantina
inside the Ramada Inn, 400 E.E. Butler Pkwy
Gainesville, GA 30501
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Vote on Election Day
If you have not voted early, either in person or via absentee ballot, please vote Tuesday, in person. Polls are open 7 am to 7 pm. If you are in line by 7 pm, STAY IN LINE TO VOETE.
You must vote at your assigned precinct location. If you don't know where that is, check via MyVoterPage. Complete list of precincts for ELECTION DAY: https://www.hallcounty.org/DocumentCenter/View/10151/Hall-County-Precincts-List-November-2022?bidId=
ATTENTION VOTERS OF
OAKWOOD 2
(West Hall Baptist Church)
BEGINNING WITH THE NOVEMBER 8, 2022 ELECTION
YOUR NEW VOTING LOCATION IS:
FLAT CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH
5504 FLAT CREEK ROAD – GAINESVILLE
ATTENTION VOTERS OF
ROBERTS
(MOUNT SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH)
BEGINNING WITH THE NOVEMBER 8, 2022 ELECTION
YOUR NEW VOTING LOCATION IS:
LANIER POINT CHURCH
6302 LANIER ISLANDS PARKWAY - BUFORD
FOR MORE INFORMATION: PLEASE CONTACT (770) 531-6945
(source: Hall County website.)
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We Need Help Putting Out Signs at Voting Precincts!
We need volunteers to put out campaign signs near voting precincts ahead of the November 8 Election Day. This can be done on Sunday Nov. 6th or Monday Nov 7th.
Contact Kim Copeland by phone or text to volunteer: (770) 532-6964
Come by HQ Sunday, Nov 6, or Monday, Nov 7, 12 pm to 7 pm to pick up signs and be assigned precincts.
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Voter Protection Volunteers Needed
for Paper Ballot Monitoring, Vote Review, and Duplication Review
One Georgia is managing the scheduling. Volunteers can indicate their availability on the form. Click this link to volunteer:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSduwwHUYWYzTT6HkRyiO1unFYglAE4bVdWlQJA_3gjmbUvoKA/viewform
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2022 Elections - Bee Nguyen Describes Initiatives on the Ballot in Georgia | Ballot Initiatives explained. | | | |
WE HAVE YARD SIGNS FOR STACEY ABRAMS, RAPHAEL WARNOCK, DEVIN PANDY and more! | |
Candidate News
Volunteer, attend an event, host an event, contribute
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Alisha Thomas Searcy, Democrat Candidate on 2022 Georgia School Superintendent General Election | Turner Strategy Group and Vexiom Media presents "Let's Talk! with Verdaillia Turner" a community talk show hosted by Georgia's education strategist, Verdaillia Turner, CEO of Turner Strategy Group. This is a one-on-one discussion with Former State House Representative and Deomocrat Candidate, Alisha Thomas Searcy. | | | |
Jody Cooley, GA State Senate, District 49
We’ve seen many Cooley yard signs and bumper stickers around town. Get yours and help get the word out!
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Donate to our Democratic Candidates
Using the secure website ActBlue, you can donate to these Hall County Democrats running for office. Use the links below:
Isabel-Martinez Flynn, Hall County School Board Post 2
Pat Calmes, Hall County School Board At Large
Get the word out and support these Democratic candidates.
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Voting Is the Best Way to Save Democracy
While conspiracy theorists continue to work to undermine election integrity, those of us who want democracy to continue have one thng we can and must do: VOTE. By turning out for Democrats across our county, state and country, we can hold back the so-called Red Tide. (Editorial note: Trust the GOP to use a metaphor of environmental disaster to describe their desired election victory.) Ensure that Blue Wave>Red Tide.
Georgia is still in the forefront of efforts to hold accountable those who want to subvert elections through lying, intimidation, and outright illegality. In Pickens County, a group of right-wing conspiracy theorists demanded a full hand recount of GOP primary ballots for Governor and Secretary of State because Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger weren't extreme enough, in their view, to have won. They insisted that the Dominion voting system is insecure and wanted the conty electons office to overrule state decisions on how voting should take place. And as if that wasn't enough, they wanted the voting records to be released under "public records" laws. After reviewing the state codes and law books, the county attorney told them “My role is not to represent community values. My role is to tell you what the damn law is.” Read more about this below.
Two court rulings last week favored democracy. In one, a federal judge refused to dismiss the defamation lawsuit that Fulton county elections workers Ruby Freeman & Shaye Moss filed against Rudy Giuliani. You may remember Freeman and Moss from Moss's testimony before the January 6th committee, in whch she described the threats and harassment they were subjected to because Giuliani accused them of nefarious acts during the vote count in 2020.
In another case, the Supreme Court rejected Lindsay Graham's claims that he should not have to testify before the Fulton County Grand Jury investigating attempts to overturn the 2020 Presidential election results in Georgia.
The January 6th ;committee, meanwhile, continues to interview witnesses, including the head of Mike Pence's Secret Service security detail. Trump missed the Friday deadline for turning over documents to the January 6th committee. He is scheduled to testify before them on November 14th. So far only Raw Story as noticed the correlation between that testimony date and the date his team is floating for him to declare his candidacy for President in the 2024 election. Coincidence or cynical manipulation? We know which one we would bet on.
The DOJ rested their case against Elmer Steward Rhodes, the Oathkeeper on trial for seditious conspiracy for organizing a.violent assault on the Capitol on January 6th. Among the evidence the prosecution presented to the jury was an audiotape from January 7th in which Rhodes says “We should have fixed it right then and there. I’d hang (expletive) Pelosi from the lamppost.” On Friday, Rhodes began testifying on his own behalf.
On a final bright note, listen to Hall County Democrat Ashland Swann on Fannin County Dem's North Georgia Blue podcast. She talks about her role in the Abram's campaign.
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January 6 committee interviews more Secret Service witnesses, including head of Pence's detail | (CNN) -- The House January 6 committee's focus on US Secret Service witnesses is intensifying, as the panel has conducted two additional interviews over the last two days, including one with the onetime head of former Vice President Mike Pence's security detail, multiple sources told CNN. | | |
Prosecution Rests in Trial of Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes | Federal prosecutors rested their case Thursday against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four associates charged in the U.S. Capitol attack after presenting nearly five weeks of testimony, videos and text messages they say prove the defendants were behind a violent plot to stop the transfer of presidential power. | | |
Ashland Swann, North GA Regional Director for Stacey Abrams' One Georgia Campaign - North GA Blue: Getting into Good Trouble | The North GA Blue: Getting into Good Trouble podcast covers democratic politics in North GA, the 9th Congressional District, and across the state of Georgia. The podcast is in Q&A/Interview format with various democratic politicos including county chairs, democratic operatives, politicians, a... | | | |
How one small-town lawyer faced down the plans of election skeptics | JASPER, Ga. - Word of the hearing had been spreading for weeks, and on a bright fall Friday, election skeptics from around northwest Georgia filed into the normally quiet Pickens County Courthouse, expecting that a victory for their movement was imminent. | | |
Trump ignores Jan. 6 committee deadline - what he may do next is an ever greater insult to the rule of law | Donald Trump has let pass a 10 AM deadline from the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, issued via a lawful subpoena ordering him to submit documents. But what he appears to have planned next is what could be seen as thumbing his nose at the Select Committee - and as an insult to, i... | | |
Judge Allows Poll Workers' Entire Defamation Case Against Rudy Giuliani Over False Election Fraud Claims to Move Forward to the Discovery Phase | Two election workers in Georgia won a victory in federal court on Monday as a judge declined to dismiss their defamation lawsuit filed against former New York City mayor and Donald Trump's longtime friend and erstwhile election attorney Rudy Giuliani. | | |
Supreme Court rejects Sen. Lindsey Graham's bid to avoid testifying in Georgia election probe | The Supreme Court has rejected Sen. Lindsey Graham's wholesale bid to block a subpoena for testimony before a Georgia grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn 2020 election results in that state. An unsigned statement appended to the order, however, made clear that Graham does not need to answer questions about conduct protected by the Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause. | | | |
Voting and Elections News | |
2022 Mid-term Election Dates
Now - Drop off your absentee ballot. Official Absentee Ballot Drop Box is available inside the Elections Office during business hours.
NOVEMBER 8 - 2022 MIDTERM GENERAL ELECTIONS
DECEMBER 6 - 2022 MIDTERM ELECTION RUNOFF (if needed)
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State & Local News (Some links may require a subscription)
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All eyes again on the Peach State: Georgia voters asked to decide U.S. Senate control - Georgia Recorder | ALBANY, Ga.-Shayla Jackson knocks three times before slipping a card with voting information under the blue-painted doors of apartments at Wild Pines, a complex tucked behind Albany State University. As a canvasser for the nonpartisan New Georgia Project, a group dedicated to registering Black, brown and young voters and getting them to the polls, she'll spend her day knocking on dozens of doors of registered Georgia voters. | | | |
Sen. Warnock asking questions of Postal Service after WSB report | After WSB Radio reported on a rise in incidents of checks being "washed" or stolen at a United States Post Office in Dunwoody, U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock is demanding answers from top USPS officials. | | | |
Longtime House leader says he will not seek another term as speaker for health reasons - Georgia Recorder | This story was updated with additional comment at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. The longtime leader of the Georgia House of Representatives announced Friday that he will not seek another term as speaker. House Speaker David Ralston, who has led the chamber since 2010, said in a statement that he needs to focus on [...] | | | |
Herschel Walker Wants Redemption, but Without Atonement | As evidenced by his poll numbers, Herschel Walker's tawdry past is getting a pass by Christian voters in Georgia. The reason? He says his past behavior was the result of mental health issues that have been overcome "by the grace of God." The implication is that his bad deeds occurred before he became a Christian. | | | |
Letters to the Editor
This past week, The Times published a letter from Frank Lock on the urgent need to elect candidates who will work on mitigating the effects of climate change. Let’s hope people in our community heed his message.
If you would like to write a letter to the editor, here is the link: https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/about-us-main/contact-letter/ By the way, The Times now limits letters to 350 words or fewer.
If you are willing to sign your name to a letter to the editor that we have composed, please email us at HallCountyDemocrat@gmail.com.
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Opinion: The necessity of fighting climate change | We all have two strategies we can use in dealing with the dramatic effects of the climate crisis. We can employ adaptation strategies, and/or mitigation strategies. Adaptation strategies involve hardening/reinforcing our homes, businesses and service, agricultural and government facilities against severe fires, floods, storms and droughts. | | | |
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Saturday 10-7
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