July 24, 2022 / Newsletter 286 |
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Ninth District Democrats are proud to announce
STACEY ABRAMS
is coming to Rabun County!
THURSDAY, JULY 28th @ 6:30pm The Parker Ranch
95 Parker Lane, Clayton, GA 30525
Park at Clayton City Hall - Shuttles start @ 5:30pm No parking available at The Parker Ranch.
Bring a chair and water!
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Hall County Democratic Caucus to elect state convention delegates.
When: Saturday, August 6, 2022; 12:30 sign-in; caucus runs from 1:00-3:00 pm.
Where: Gainesville Civic Center
For the LATEST information about this exciting opportunity, please see the article below.
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WE HAVE STACEY ABRAMS YARD SIGNS!
Show your support for Stacey Abrams for Governor with a yard sign..For a donation to Hall County Democratic Party, you can walk out with a sign! All donations welcome.
We have signs for Jen Jordan too!
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The Georgia Democratic Convention is coming up
August 27th in Columbus--
Here's how YOU can be involved!
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The Democratic Party of Georgia will host its 2022 State Convention on Saturday, August 27th in Columbus. This gathering will showcase our now incumbent Democratic United States Senator, our amazing slate of candidates and do other important things like adopt our platform.
The state convention is an excellent opportunity to hear from party leaders, meet delegates from across the state, and build a network of like-minded Democrats throughout Georgia. It's also a chance to have a say in the party platform for 2022.
Hall County can send a total of 8 delegates to the convention, 4 to be voted on by the Hall County Democratic Party committee and 4 to be voted on by all Hall County Democrats. The committee and the party members will each also vote on 2 alternates.
We are holding the caucus to elect delegates on Saturday, August 6th, at the Gainesville Civic Center. Sign-in starts at 12:30 PM. All Democrats registered to vote in Hall County can participate. All you have to do to vote in the caucus is complete an affidavit that you are a Democrat and a registered Hall County voter. Those wishing to run for a delegate slot will also need to fill out a delegate application form.
The August 27th convention will be held at the Ironworks in Columbus. The DPG will be sending us details about hotel blocks, agenda and other information soon, and we'll share that here. We'll also help our delegates form car pools to get to and from Columbus. The convention starts on Saturday morning, so delegates may want to plan on going down to Columbus on Friday. The official business should conclude early enough on the Saturday for delegates to get back to Hall County that evening.
APPLY TO BE A DELEGATE:
- Download the Delegate Affidavit form below.
- Open the form in Acrobat, and either complete the form online or print out the form to complete it by hand.
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If you complete the form online, please SaveAs and add your initials to the filename. If you complete the form by hand, either scan or take a photo of the completed, signed form.
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Attach the file (form, scanned form or photo) to an email & send it by Saturday, July 30th to HallCountyDemocrat@gmail.com and put State Convention Delegate in the subject line.
- Bring the original signed document to the August 6th caucus. If you can’t attend the caucus, you can still apply to be a delegate. Just contact us to work out arrangements to provide us with the original application before the convention.
Democrats who are not delegates are welcome to attend the convention. Non-delegates will not be allowed to vote at the convention.
If you are coming to the caucus but don't want to be a delegate to the convention, you can shorten the sign-in process by filling out the form below and bringing it with you to the meeting.
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State Convention Delegate and Delegate Elector's Affidavit form
Clicking on the thumbnail should open a form that you can fill out online, or print and fill in by hand.
If the form doesn't allow you to fill it out online, look on the right toolbar in Acrobat and click Fill & Sign.
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Candidate News
Volunteer, attend an event, host an event, contribute
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Kim Floria, candidate for Georgia House District 30 has been endorsed by Georgia WIN List! GA WIN List is a grassroots political action committee dedicated to changing the face of power in GA. For the latest news on Kim's campaign, check our her FaceBook page https://www.facebook.com/kimfloriaforgeorgia
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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:
Jody Cooley--Georgia Senate District 49. His website is now up! http://jodycooley.com/ .To contribute to Jody's campaign, hit the Contribute button on his site, You can follow him on Twitter @vote_Jody.
Isabel Martinez Flynn--Hall County School Board Post 2
We'll add links for our other Hall County candidates as they become available. Candidates can email us at HallCountyDemocrat@gmail.com with information about their campaigns.
Get the word out and support these Democratic candidates.
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On the Brink of a Coup:
Public Hearing #8: "Unending destructive energy"
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That's how Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi) described Trump and his plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Co-chair Liz Cheney also had some things to say about Trump's coup plot: "Donald Trump made a purposeful choice to violate his oath of office, to ignore the ongoing violence against law enforcement, to threaten our Constitutional order. There is no way to excuse that behavior. It was indefensible."
But perhaps the strongest condemnation of the former President came from Illinois Republican Congressman and committee member Adam Kinzinger:
“Donald Trump’s conduct on Jan. 6 was a supreme violation of his oath of office and a complete dereliction of his duty to our nation. It is a stain on our history.”
On July 21, the House Select Committee on January 6th held a primetime hearing that lasted nearly 3 hours, focusing on the 187 minutes between the time Trump returned to the White House to learn that his supporters were violently attacking the Capitol and the time he sent out a tweet telling them to go home. Kinzinger, who served in the Air Force, and Democratic Representative Elaine Luria of Virginia, USN retired, conducted the questioning of the 2 live witnesses.
The witnesses, Matthew Pottinger (former Deputy National Security Advisor to the President) and Sarah Matthews (Deputy Press Secretary and Special Assistant to the former President) were both strong Trump supporters. Both of them were so appalled at Trump's failure to act to end the violence that they resigned on January 6th, 2021. Along with other White House staff testifying in recorded sessions, they told of multiple efforts by multiple advisors, and even Ivanka and Jared Kushner, to get the President to condemn the violence and tell his supporters to stand down. Even Sean Hannity texted Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to tell the President to stop the violence. But for over 3 hours, he refused.
Instead, he called Senators to lobby them to vote against cerifying the electoral count. He called Rudy Giuliani twice. He watched the storming of the Capitol on Fox from the private dining room in the White House. When asked by those under siege at the Capitol to send reinforcements, he ignored their pleas. He refused to take a call from the Pentagon trying to coordinate a response to the attack. It was only after Vice President Pence contacted the Secretary of Defense that the National Guard was released to respond to the Capitol.
Hugo Lowell of the Guardian wrote, “The former president knew as early as 15 mins after returning to the White House from his rally at the Ellipse that the US Capitol was under attack by his supporters, and yet acted only to find ways to stop the certification by calling senators to make objections, the panel showed.”
During the hearing, the frantic voices of Pence's Secret Service detail could be heard as they tried to find a safe window of opportunity to move him to an undisclosed secure location. From a radio transmission from the Secret Service: "If we lose any more time, we may have — we may lose the ability to — to leave. So, if we're going to leave, we need to do it now. They've gained access to the second floor and I've got public about five feet from me down here below." The agents called colleagues with good-by messages for family members.
And what did Trump do? He tweeted out to his supporters that Pence didn't have the courage to do what he needed done to overturn the election.
After the hearing, many people were joking about the video of Josh Hawley running to safety through the Capitol. But this hearing showed more than Hawley's lack of courage in the face of the mob he had earlier encouraged. It showed the depravity of a man who cares nothing about our country, our Constitution, or his own oath to faithfully execute the law.
Yes, Trump is a stain on our history. But the threat isn't in the past; he and the radical right wing are an ongoing threat to our democracy. That's why it's so important to vote for Democrats in November, to re-elect Raphael Warnock to the Senate, send Mike Ford to the House, elect Stacey Abrams, Bee Nguyen, Jen Jordan, and all the other Democrats running for state and local office.
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What we learned on Day 8 of the Jan. 6 hearings
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol concluded its first round of public hearings Thursday night, with a nearly three-hour pres...
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January 6 hearing video highlights: Trump's inaction
The January 6 committee, in its final public hearing until the fall, presented damning new evidence Thursday highlighting then-President Donald Trump's three...
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www.youtube.com
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The Lawfare Podcast: Jan. 6 Hearings, Day Eight Debrief
The final hearing in the spree of hearings the Jan. 6 committee has put on this summer took place Thursday evening during prime time. It focused on Donald Trump's personal conduct in the period in which the riot was taking place.
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www.lawfareblog.com
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How the January 6 panel set the stage for a criminal...
he House January 6 select committee advanced new evidence at its Thursday primetime hearing that Donald Trump took active steps to obstruct the congressional certification of Joe Biden's election win, paving the way for prosecutors to construct a ...
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www.theguardian.com
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Opinion | Liz Cheney's devastating final question puts...
In no small part, the GOP in the Donald Trump era has been marked by a craven failure to take offramps. Trump's encouragement of white supremacy, his strong-arming of a foreign ally, his multi-tentacled plot to destroy our political order, and...
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www.washingtonpost.com
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A quartet of letters to the editor published this week in The Times challenged our neighbors to think about the future of our country.
- Jim Grattan of Gainesville wrote a letter decrying the damage wrought by Trump.
- Brian Moss of Gainesville delivered a lesson on divisive rhetoric.
- Stephanie Wells of Gainesville questioned the use of automatic weaponry on campaign signs.
- Vernon Dixon of Hiawassee wrote about the challenge of climate change, ending with an appeal to 9th District voters to contact Andrew Clyde in support of clean energy initiatives. We can also increase our chances of good climate legislation by voting for Mike Ford for Congress.
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/ The Times has long given short shrift to Democrats, so letters to the editor are a way to get out the message that we are here, we are active, and we care about Hall County and Georgia!
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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Opinion: Trump's legacy is damaging the nation for years
Surely the last couple of years in our nation's political and judicial history have been extremely disheartening, actually almost incomprehensible. Without a doubt, the vast majority of Americans would agree that the integrity of elections, the...
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www.gainesvilletimes.com
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Opinion: Campaign signs with automatic weapons ought to...
By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Opinion: Campaign signs with automatic weapons ought to be inappropriate Can you imagine what the families in Buffalo, Uvalde and...
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www.gainesvilletimes.com
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Opinion: Are Republicans for or against use of divisive...
"Language matters," instructs Newt Gingrich. Republicans have learned this lesson well. For instance, here in Georgia, Republican legislators created the "divisive concepts" law which prohibits the teaching of divisive concepts because being...
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www.gainesvilletimes.com
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Opinion: The case for clean energy
The U.S. is in grave danger of being left behind in the clean energy revolution with the resultant loss of millions of new jobs. China's new five-year plan promises to increase their dominance in clean energy technology unless the U.S. markedly...
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www.gainesvilletimes.com
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State & Local News (Some links may require a subscription)
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Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on...
ALBANY - Democrat Stacey Abrams likens Gov. Brian Kemp, her Republican opponent in the Georgia gubernatorial race, to a slick used car salesman. "He'll show you a nice, shiny vehicle with a polished grill and new tires," Abrams said during a...
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www.albanyherald.com
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Black Church Leaders in Georgia Intensify Their Voting...
Partly in response to Georgia's voting law, Faith Works, a new project with an initial budget of $2.6 million, will organize get-out-the-vote efforts at more than 1,000 churches. Good evening. Tonight we have some news from Georgia courtesy of...
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www.nytimes.com
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State regulators OK Georgia Power long-term plan to keep ...
State regulators have signed off on a roadmap that bolsters Georgia Power's shift away from fossil fuels, but critics argue it doesn't go nearly far enough to attack a growing climate crisis.
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georgiarecorder.com
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First Lady visits Athens summer learning program, plugs...
ATHENS - First Lady Jill Biden came to Athens Thursday to promote a key educational piece of her husband's American Rescue Plan. The first lady's visit came hours after the White House announced President Joe Biden has contracted COVID-19. Jill...
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georgiarecorder.com
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Fani Willis' Trump Probe "Target Letters" Are a Big Deal
Last week news broke that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had sent "target letters" to state senator Burt Jones, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp's running mate for lieutenant governor, as well as to the chairman of the Georgia Republican...
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slate.com
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Abortion clinics in legal limbo following immediate...
A federal court ruling on Wednesday immediately set Georgia's strict abortion ban into motion. It's taken abortion providers by surprise. They thought they would have about a month to prepare before House Bill 481 was enacted as the ruling made...
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www.gpb.org
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National News (Some links may require a subscription)
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Inside Trump '25: A radical plan for Trump's second term
Former President Trump's top allies are preparing to radically reshape the federal government if he is re-elected, purging potentially thousands of civil servants and filling career posts with loyalists to him and his " America First " ideology,...
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www.axios.com
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Is Democracy Constitutional?
Every American child in public school learns that the U.S. political system is one of checks and balances, in which the judicial, executive, and legislative branches constrain one another to ensure that no one branch of government exercises too...
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www.theatlantic.com
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GOP Ideologues Keep Flopping In Their Efforts To Take...
Conservative Republicans running for school boards in North Carolina and New York overwhelmingly lost their elections Tuesday night, the latest sign that the GOP's effort to wage a sweeping anti-LGBTQ, anti-Black culture war on public schools is...
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www.huffpost.com
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Your "We Are Headed Towards a Civil War" Friend Has a Point
This story was reported by , a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for their newsletters . Half of Americans agree somewhat that there will be civil war "in the next few years" and nearly one in five are similarly...
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slate.com
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HCDP Office hours:
NOTE: Due to pest control activities, the office will not be open for the next few weeks. We'll resume regular office hours soon.
Monday 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Tuesday 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Wednesday 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Thursday CLOSED
Friday 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Saturday 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sunday CLOSED
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314 College Avenue
Gainesville, GA 30501
Phone: (470) 892-5825
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