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TexasTowelie

(116,756 posts)
Mon May 6, 2019, 10:58 PM May 2019

Abrams: Conceding elections condones "systems used to oppress us"

Former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is making her rounds around the nation to spread the message of election integrity, but along the way, she has continued the narrative that she didn’t lose the governor’s race in Georgia last year.

The Houston Chronicle reports:

“I’m here to tell you a secret that makes Breitbart and [Fox News host] Tucker Carlson go crazy: We won,” Abrams said, “I am not delusional. I know I am not the governor of Georgia — possibly yet.”

Abrams was in Texas on Friday for a fundraiser hosted by Annie’s List, a group that supports progressive women seeking public office. She once again called Governor Brian Kemp “an architect of voter suppression that spent the last eight years knitting togetther a system of voter suppression that is unparalleled in America.”

According to Texas Tribune reporter Patrick Svitek, she said in her remarks that “we don’t have to concede elections anymore, because when we concede, we are condoning systems that are used to oppress us.”

Read more: https://www.allongeorgia.com/georgia-state-politics/abrams-conceding-elections-condones-systems-used-to-oppress-us/

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Abrams: Conceding elections condones "systems used to oppress us" (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2019 OP
'a system of voter suppression that is unparalleled in America."' elleng May 2019 #1
K&R 2naSalit May 2019 #2
California has RED and BLUE areas ROB-ROX May 2019 #3

ROB-ROX

(767 posts)
3. California has RED and BLUE areas
Tue May 7, 2019, 05:04 PM
May 2019

The rural areas are RED and the urban areas are BLUE. My district stretches from rural to urban and to me the district looks gerrymandered. By stretching my district into the urban area it dilutes the RED vote. The district still elects GOP until more BLUES move into this district. California remains democratic because 66% are blue and 33% are red.

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