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The Hall County Democratic Party will be holding elections for 9 seats on our Committee on June 27th. We are looking for Democrats who are excited to work towards electing Democrats in Hall County, the 9th District, and Georgia as a whole!

We've made great strides over the past 6 years in fielding Democratic candidates, registering voters, and turning out the Democratic vote in Hall County. This is your chance to make even more progress towards a Georgia that is governed by people who truly care about Georgians.

Committee members serve a 4-year term and have a vote in how our party is run. We hold quarterly meetings to coordinate all the critical activities of a political party, including fundraising, candidate recruiting, candidate training, communicating with our members, and getting out the vote. Being a member of the Committee also provides networking opportunities not only in Hall County, but throughout the state of Georgia.

Seats up for election this year include at least one seat in each district in Hall County. Districts coincide with the districts for the Hall County Commission. To run for a post in a district, your address on the voter rolls much be in that district. We also have some at-large seats up for election this year; those standing for these seats may live anywhere in Hall County.

We are currently seeking candidates to run for these seats:

District 1 (South Hall) 2 seats (map)

District 2 (Southwest/West Hall) 2 seats (map)

District 3 (East/North Hall) 1 seat (map)

District 4 (Gainesville) 1 seat (map)

At large (anywhere in the county) 3 seats

You must be registered to vote in Hall County and sign an affidavit that you are a Democrat and will support Democratic candidates.

Send an email to hallcountydemocrat@gmail.com with "Run for Committee seat" in the subject line. In the body of the email, include your name as it appears on the voter rolls and your street address (so we can verify your district). Then come to our meeting on June 27th to participate in the election.

June 21, 2022 General Primary Runoff Early Voting will be held from

Georgia Democrats head back to the polls on June 21st to select nominees for 4 statewide offices. Be sure to make your plan to VOTE! Remember, if you didn’t vote in the Democratic primary on May 24th, you can’t vote in the runoff. Click on the candidate’s name from the list below to visit their site or Facebook page.

Details about early voting from the Hall County Elections Office is below. EARLY VOTING STARTS TOMORROW.

On Thursday evening, in a prime time hearing broadcast on most major network and cable news channels, the Select Committee investigating the insurrection on January 6, 2021, laid out a damning series of facts tying Donald Trump and many Republican supporters in positions of power to the attempted coup.

This televised hearing was the first in a series, which will provide the narration for the first draft of history for this chilling attempt to undermine democratic elections and, for the first time in the 233 years since the Constitution was ratified, to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power.

Even for those who have been keeping up with details in the news for the past 17 months, the Committee revealed new information. Deftly setting up the narrative through a combination of statements from the co-chairs, live and recorded witness testimony, video, and audio, the hearing somberly walked viewers through the days following the election, all the way through the events on January 6th last year. Never-before-broadcast video of the attack on the Capitol showed the overlapping chronology of the planned infiltration by members of right-wing extremist groups the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, the events taking place inside the House Chamber while the insurrectionists broke in, and the exhortations from Trump to make VP Mike Pence “do the right thing” by breaking his oath to the US Constitution and throwing out legally certified electoral votes. The testimony of Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards, accompanied by video of her being slammed to the ground by insurrectionists, was gripping, as she described floors slick with the blood of her fellow officers.

There were bombshells, like Rep. Liz Cheney’s revelation that Scott Perry and other GOP members of Congress had sought pardons for their role in the insurrection. For those and other enablers of the attempted coup, Cheney had this pronouncement: “There will come a day when Trump is gone. But your dishonor will remain.”

The hearings continue tomorrow at 10 AM, with two more hearings scheduled this week for 10 AM Wednesday and 1 PM Thursday.

You can watch history unfold here: https://january6th.house.gov/committee_activity

Kim Floria (GA House District 30, with husband Anthony), Mike Ford (GA 9th District Congress, with wife Jere and with Anthony Floria), Devin Pandy (GA House District 29)

Thank you to EVERYONE who turned out to support the nationwide effort to get the federal and state legislators to enact sensible gun safety laws!

If YOU have an opinion you want to share, you can submit a letter to the editor here: https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/about-us-main/contact-letter/

If you'd like us to help with a letter to the editor, email hallcountydemocrat@gmail.com and put "letter to the editor" in the subject line.

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PLEASE NOTE: Any articles we post about 2022 Georgia Democratic candidates in a primary runoff race are intended to keep you informed. They are not an endorsement of any candidate.

The executive director of this important project is Andre Cheek Castleberry, who is also a member of the HCDP Committee.

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