Danny Kaye Rudisill, age 75, of Cleveland, Georgia went to his heavenly home on Tuesday, August 30, 2022.
Mr. Rudisill was born on December 16, 1946, in Rockport, Indiana to the late Elmo and Wanda Lee Thompson Rudisill. He was a member in good standing of the Church of Latter Day Saints Cornelia Ward. Mr. Rudisill was an electrical engineer and had worked with numerous companies throughout his career. He was a veteran of the United States Navy, having served during the Vietnam War. Danny was passionate about his Lord and Savior as well as his family.
Survivors include his loving wife of 53 years, Lindsay Rudisill, of Cleveland; son and daughter-in-law, Heath and Rose Rudisill, of Cleveland; daughter and son-in-law, Sonya and Bill Vandygriff, of Corning, CA; son and daughter-in-law, Nathan and Robin Rudisill, of Gainesville; adopted son, Shane Faw, of Buford; seven grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter; brother, Forrest Rudisill, of San Antonio, TX; sister, Susan Abdelsalam, of Indiana; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Graveside Services will be held at 4:00 p.m., Saturday, September 3, 2022, at the Yonah Memorial Gardens with Bishop Mike Wall officiating.
The family will receive friends from 2:00 p.m. to 3:45 p.m., Saturday, September 3, 2022, at the Whitfield Funeral Home, North Chapel
Arrangements have been entrusted to the Whitfield Funeral and Crematory, North Chapel at 245 Central Avenue, Demorest, Georgia 30535.
Thomas “Tom” Jay Steusloff, 76, died on August 28, 2022. He was born August 1, 1946, in Toledo, OH, to the late Lester A. Steusloff and Violet L. Steusloff. His greatest pride was the love for his family as he is survived by his devoted wife of 45 years, Jean Rhudy Steusloff; two sons, Jay Randall “Randy” Steusloff and Garrett Rhudy Steusloff (and wife Michelle); grandchildren Aiden James Steusloff, Charlotte Grace Steusloff, and Jackson Rhudy Steusloff; brother Phillip Steusloff (with wife Pat) and nieces Nicole Morris and Danielle Cox.
Tom was a varsity letterman in baseball, football, and wrestling. After graduation, he left for the University of Cincinnati where he graduated in 1969 with a BS in Aerospace Engineering. He then accepted a job with Lockheed and immediately moved to Atlanta, GA where he began a career in aerospace sales. He took the opportunity to travel the world and use his engaging personality to drive his success.
After meeting and marrying his wife Jean in 1977, Tom became a loving, devoted, and endlessly supportive father to his two boys. So much so that he left Lockheed to pursue domestic opportunities that allowed more time for family. He later returned to Lockheed; ending his career with a stint in contracting.
Tom followed all sports but particularly loved to cheer for his Ohio State Buckeyes, Cincinnati Bearcats, and Green Bay Packers. Separately, he loved being at and boating on Lake Lanier, sailing around the Caribbean on a catamaran with close friends, and traveling with his family. His family trips included Hawaii, Canada, the Caribbean, New Zealand, Central America, and national parks out west. Through it all, everyone Tom met was greeted with an entertaining story highlighted by his dry wit.
A celebration of life will be held at a future date. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the V Foundation for cancer research (www.v.org) or the charity of your choosing.
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Historical Society staff and board members and members of the planning committee are working on Hispanic Heritage Month. Pictured left to right are Audrey Davenport, Emily Pahuamba, Olga Vyrjikovskaia, Debby Satterfield, Silvia Corwin, Suany Latty, and Stewart Swanson. (Margie Williamson/Now Habersham)
The latest population breakdowns for Habersham County show the Hispanic population at 38% in Cornelia. However, Habersham 200, the latest history published in 2019 about Habersham County makes no mention of the county’s Hispanic residents. The lack of recognition of the county’s cultural diversity is something Emily Pahuamba and Audrey Davenport hope to change through Hispanic Heritage Month in September.
High school student Pahuamba serves as president of the Habersham Central High School student organization Hispanic Organization Promoting Education (HoPE). Davenport serves as the executive director of the Habersham County Historical Society. Both want to help the Hispanic population of Habersham County to be seen and appreciated. Sadly, the contributions of the Hispanic community often remain below the radar and are not clearly recognized.
Habersham Central High’s HoPE chapter president Emily Pahuamba speaks before the Cornelia City Commission on Aug. 2, 2022. She told commissioners that “as a Hispanic, Latino and Mexican, I sometimes do feel underrepresented.” (livestream image)
Pahuama is proud of her Mexican-American heritage and would like for Habersham residents to get to know the county’s Hispanic population. “I’d like to help educate people about who we are so they’ll know that we are not a threat,” Pahuamba explains.
When Davenport came on staff at the Habersham County Historical Society, she was surprised to find there was no reference to Hispanics in the current written history of the county. As she leads the Historical Society toward its 50th anniversary in the spring, Davenport wants to recognize what Hispanics have accomplished in the county. “We’ve got an opportunity, a window, for Hispanics to be seen, so they’ll no longer be in the background,” she states.
First-of-its kind event
The first-ever Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration is scheduled for Saturday, September 24th, from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Silvia Corwin serves on the planning committee for the major focus of Hispanic Heritage Month – a street festival on September 24th. Corwin, originally from Lima, Peru, first came to the United States to study. She stayed on afterwards, working with community members as a Magnate Advocate Teacher at both Baldwin and Cornelia Elementary Schools. Corwin is excited for her culture to be seen and enjoyed by others through the celebration.
Corwin emphasizes that not only is the Hispanic community more than a third of Cornelia’s population, it represents multiple Hispanic countries. “We have people from Mexico as well as Venezuela, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Columbia, and other Latin America countries,” she says. “The festival will give representation for the first time to all these groups.”
One way those different cultures will be represented is through the food that will be served at the celebration.
“We’ll have different kinds of food from different Hispanic countries,” Corwin states. “All Hispanic food is not Mexican, and we’re excited to introduce those foods to the community.” The festival will also offer local Hispanic crafts and music.
The event will be held at the Skate Park in conjunction with Cornelia’s Big Red Apple Festival on September 24th. The Skate Park is located next door to the Historical Society office on Chattahoochee Street, behind the Cornelia Library. Chattahoochee Street will mostly be closed to vehicle traffic to open the way for pedestrian traffic. The event runs from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Over a quarter century of Hispanic history
The Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration will be held in conjunction with the Big Red Apple Festival in Cornelia. (Hadley Cottingham/Now Habersham)
Suany Latty has been in Northeast Georgia for 30 years, coming originally from Panama.
“In 1996, the first graduating class with Hispanic students had 6 graduates,” Latty recalls. She points out that later graduations with those referred to as second generations had many more Hispanic students involved.
“Those graduates received more scholarships and have found more upper level jobs. Many of them began their own business and bought homes.”
The majority of this group which is called “The New Americans” have not stayed in this area after graduating. Instead, they’ve sought greater opportunities outside of the county. Still, Latty emphasizes, “These graduates have always been an asset to the community.”
Stewart Swanson’s family began the Habersham County Historical Society and he remains active in the work of the organization. He’s also passionate about creating inclusion of all groups within the Habersham community. Swanson spent six years working in Latin America, building cellular networks. He was amazed at his personal experiences there. “We were always welcomed,” he says, “and the people there worked together well with us.” The result of Swanson’s work there has been significant. “They were given the chance to move up in society,” he says. “They became more efficient, and were more able to communicate with others.”
Swanson’s dream is that the internationals who come into this region will be received as openly as he was and will be allowed to add to the culture here as well.
Davenport’s goal is to begin to record the history of the people in these ethnic groups who have lived in the area for more than 30 years. She has worked with Story Corps to begin capturing those histories and personal stories digitally. Story Corps will not be bringing its Airstream Trailer on-site but the Historical Society will be utilizing their app to record stories on their devices and upload them so that they end up with the Library of Congress.
The Historical Society
The Historical Society houses two historical collections. The Standard Telephone Company Museum preserves the history of telephone service that came into both Cornelia and Clarkesville in 1904. The museum houses artifacts that trace the progress made in the communications industry through the telephone.
The Regional African American Museum of Northeast Georgia, Inc., preserves the history of “the cultural heritage of communities who attended the Cornelia Regional [Colored] School (CRCS); an “equalization” school built and maintained by Boards of Education in Banks, Habersham, Rabun, and White counties from 1955-1966. The school was built to avoid integration of the high schools of Banks, Rabun and White counties. Students from these counties were bused to Cornelia Regional [Colored] School, when entering high school.”
Both museums are open on Saturdays from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., or by setting up an appointment. Museum guide Olga Vyrjikovskaia says only about 100 people visit the museums each year. Debby Satterfield, who serves on the society’s board of directors, hopes the festival will also introduce people to the Historical Society. “We are trying hard for our city and county to know about the work of the Historical Society,” she says.
“We’ve had five decades of the Historical Society in operation,” Swanson says. “But the community and the population make up has changed. People don’t have as much extra time to volunteer, so we struggle to get volunteers to help save our history.”
While the organization needs more funding as well as more volunteers, progress has been made. The University of Georgia is digitizing the History of the Standard Telephone Company, preserving that history for the future. Davenport notes that the African American materials needs work for preservation as well. She also hopes to offer programming and speakers to support the Society’s work.
A Celebration of Life service for Gladys Ellen Bogard, 91, of Cornelia, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 10 at Mountain View Baptist Church in Baldwin.
Mrs. Bogard passed away on Aug. 24, 2022.
Born Feb. 22, 1931, in Denver, Colorado, she was the daughter of the late Henry and Geneva Martin. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Charles E. Bogard; three sisters; and three brothers.
Mrs. Bogard was a loving mother, devoted grandmother, adoring great-grandmother, and cherished great-great-grandmother.
She is survived by daughter, Louise Elaine Lindler; grandchildren, Gary Joseph Morris Jr., Tammy L. Dragony and husband, Steven, Jennifer M. Nichols, and Kevin C. Rafferty and wife, Kristina; great-grandchildren, Alisha A. Morris, Christina M. Sadler, Melissa E. Eller and husband, Jade, Jacob T.A. Dalton, Mara J. Morris, Cody B. Teasley, Madison R. Rafferty, Koby M. Rafferty, and Emylie E. Nichols; great-great-grandchildren, Gracey E.R. Eller, Lillie C. Eller, and Augustus H. Eller; sisters, Shirley Payrouse and Grace Maes; adopted granddaughter, Heather Nichols; and adopted great-grandsons, Dakota and Gabriel Nichols.
Linda Smith Murphy, age 65 of Clarkesville, passed away on August 24, 2022.
Born in Columbia, South Carolina on April 1, 1957, Mrs. Murphy was the daughter of the late Edward Horace and Nancy McNeely Smith. Mrs. Murphy worked for Georgia Mountain Cabin Rentals in administration. Linda rescued and cared for animals. She loved dogs, cats and horses and had a heart of gold.
Survivors include her sons, Michael Murphy (Amy) of Toccoa, Zachery Murphy (Amber Holden) of Clarkesville, Charles “Bubba” Cason of Clarkesville, daughters, Sarah Murphy Martin of South Carolina, sister, Margaret Smith Conrad (John) of Texas, 5 grandchildren as well as numerous nieces, nephews and extended family.
A memorial service will be held at 11:00 AM, Friday, September 2, 2022, at Hillside Memorial Chapel. The family will receive friends at the funeral home following the memorial service.
Governor Brian Kemp today signed two executive orders extending the temporary suspension of state taxes on motor and locomotive fuel as well as the supply chain state of emergency. Both orders will be effective through October 12.
Kemp used the occasion to criticize Democrats in Washington.
“As I’ve said since we first suspended the fuel tax back in March, we can’t fix everything Washington has broken, but we can use the resources we have as a result of our responsible budgeting to keep more money in the pockets of hardworking Georgians.”
Since the temporary suspension was first implemented, Georgia’s average gas price has remained one of the lowest in the nation and is currently roughly 46 cents below the national average for a gallon of regular gas, according to AAA.
Clayton Yates of Sulphur Springs, Arkansas formerly of Lula entered rest Sunday, August 28, 2022.
Clayton was known for being an active member of Liberty Church in Lula while he and his boys lived in Lula. He was faithful to the food pantry at Liberty, along with various ministries at the church. He always was loving on others and being an encourager. He will be missed.
Please pray for his family during this time.
Memorial services will be held at 12 noon on September 12, 2022, at the park in Sulphur Springs, Arkansas.
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If you’re hitting the road this long Labor Day weekend, you’ll have plenty of company. A late summer online survey by Triple A found that about 32% of Americans will travel for Labor Day. Of those, the vast majority (82%) will go by automobile.
While there will be fewer travelers on the road this holiday weekend compared to the Fourth of July and Memorial Day holidays, drivers should still expect delays. Thursday and Friday, September 1 and 2, will be the busiest Labor Day travel days nationwide. North Georgians heading south to the coast on I-85 should expect significant delays in the metro Atlanta area, particularly on Friday.
Transportation analytics company INRIX placed I-85 South from Clairmont Road to MLK Drive at the top of its list for “Worst Corridors.” The heaviest traffic congestion in that area is expected between 2 and 4 p.m. on Friday, September 2.
To help with travel planning, INRIX also released a list of the overall Best and Worst Times to Travel.
State patrol to increase patrols
The holiday travel period officially begins at 6 p.m. Friday and ends at 11:59 p.m. on Monday, September 5. During the 78-hour holiday travel period, Georgia drivers can expect to see more law enforcement patrolling the roads.
“Celebrations across the state will increase traffic on our highways. We encourage all drivers to practice safe driving habits to make it to their destinations and back home safely,” says Colonel Christopher Wright, Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Safety.
State troopers and Motor Carrier Compliance Division officers will be highly visible over the weekend patrolling interstates and secondary roads, looking for impaired drivers, speeders, distracted drivers, seatbelt violations, and unsafe drivers.
Last year, 14 people died on Georgia’s roads during the long Labor Day holiday weekend.
The Main Street Manager's office is located in the Historic Train Depot and Museum in downtown Cornelia.
The City of Cornelia is making more departmental changes. This week the city named Special Events Coordinator, Lindsey Fitzgerald, to the job of Main Street Manager. Fitzgerald has been in her current position for almost two years. She has been responsible for organizing all city events including Christmas in Cornelia, the Big Red Apple Festival, and Downtown trick-or-treat, among others. She has also helped market the city and its tourist attractions and managed social media.
In her new role, Fitzgerald will be overseeing the Downtown Development Authority, Historic Preservation Commission, and the Main Street program including its annual accreditation. This will be in addition to her previous responsibilities. Fitzgerald will keep her current location inside the Train Depot, and she will continue to report to Community Development Director Jessie Owensby.
“The goal in creating a Special Events Coordinator in the first place was to slowly train someone to grow into the Main Street Manager position,” says Owensby.
Cornelia has a population of less than 5,000, so it is not uncommon to have one person overseeing the entire downtown district.
“I’m happy, nervous, and excited! I’m truly grateful to have the opportunity to work with our businesses and the community,” says Fitzgerald.
Owensby is also taking on new responsibilities. She will be overseeing planning and zoning administration in addition to economic and community development, and management of historic sites and the newly created Main Street Manager.
“As the city continues to grow, we want that growth to be smart and strategic. Therefore, it’s imperative that we have someone dedicated solely to planning, zoning administration, and economic and community development. I’m humbled that our City Manager and elected officials trust me to fill that important role,” Owensby says.
The change comes on the heels of a recent decision by City Manager Dee Anderson to consolidate management of the city’s police and fire departments and court services under a public safety director. Former Cornelia Police Chief Chad Smith was named to that position. His former Assistant Police Chief Jonathan Roberts is now serving as Cornelia’s police chief.
Tallulah Falls School has named Matt Crotta its new head varsity golf coach heading into the upcoming 2023 season. Crotta was previously the assistant coach both last in 2022 under Hannah Satterfield, and a few years ago under Allen Campbell.
The golf program is coming off a solid season in which the Lady Indians claimed seven team wins with a roster full of underclassmen. The Indians meanwhile, also had no seniors and showed improvement throughout the season.
Crotta, the Upper School Spanish teacher, has more than 40 seasons of coaching experience over the years. That includes coaching various levels of basketball, volleyball, and golf at TFS, and prior experience at New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) as head coach for various levels of lacrosse, soccer, basketball, and tennis. In 2007 and 2008, Crotta assisted in coaching the Hudson Valley Hawks in the National Professional Basketball League in which the Hawks won the 2007 championship.
As for golf beyond assisting at Tallulah Falls, he considers himself a student of the game and has been around the course for much of his life. He was trained a good bit by Joe Lacava, who has been a professional caddie for Tiger Woods since 2011, as well as being the bagman for Dustin Johnson and Freddie Couples. With his years of coaching experience and being able to glean from the likes of Lacava and others, Crotta brings a wealth of knowledge to the golf program.
“I am honored and grateful to have the opportunity to take over the Tallulah Falls golf program this year,” says Crotta. “It is an exciting time in the program as we are a rather young team with a lot of young talent and potential. As we continue to rebuild, I look forward to working with some great upcoming golfers from the middle school team. I’m so proud of our returners and the work that many of them put in over the summer. The girls squad had a solid season last year and I expect even greater things from them this spring. The boys, led by senior captain Canon Brooks, should see a significant improvement in their record as well.”
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 6: (L-R) President Donald Trump shakes hands with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) during an event about judicial confirmations in the East Room of the White House on November 6, 2019 in Washington, DC. More than 150 of the president's federal judicial nominees have been confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
(GA Recorder) — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham could soon be peppered with questions by Fulton County prosecutors to determine whether he encouraged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger or others to toss out ballots and manipulate election practices in order to influence the 2020 presidential election.
U.S. District Court Judge Leigh Martin May on Thursday again rejected the veteran South Carolina politician’s motion to quash the subpoena to appear before the special grand jury as it investigates whether former President Donald Trump and his allies illegally interfered after he lost Georgia by fewer than 12,000 votes to Democrat Joe Biden.
The judge’s order limits what prosecutors can ask Graham since members of Congress are entitled to some protections while performing their legislative activities.
May is restricting questions about Graham’s conversations with Raffensperger and other Georgia officials that pertain to his “fact-finding” mission before making his decision on certifying the election results
But there will be opportunity for Graham’s testimony to get into whether he encouraged Raffensperger or others to break state law in an effort to overturn the election. Graham reportedly made at least two phone calls to Raffensperger and other state election officials between the November general election and Jan. 6, 2021, when U.S. Congress certified election results after the insurrectionists breached the U.S. Capitol.
Graham contacted the Georgia secretary of state’s office twice following Election Day in 2020 to ask about disallowing questionable absentee ballots, a call that Raffensperger called concerning.
“As the court has previously indicated, the calls themselves—again, calls between a U.S. senator from South Carolina and Georgia’s state election officials—are not manifestly legislative on their face,” May wrote in Thursday’s order.
Thursday was the second time that May rejected Graham’s attempts to block the subpoena after the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals delayed his testimony prior to his scheduled Aug. 23 appearance.
A date remains to be scheduled for Graham to appear before the 23-member grand jury that will issue a report with recommendations on whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should pursue charges.
Willis initiated the investigation after the public release of a recorded January 2020 phone call in which Trump pressed Raffensperger to find enough ballots to overcome Biden’s victory.
Among those who have testified in the grand jury probe into interference after Georgia’s 2020 presidential election are Raffensperger, who drew Trump’s ire for not preventing the state from certifying Biden’s win, and Trump’s former personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, named by prosecutors as a target for his role in pushing baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud in Georgia.
Meanwhile, a Fulton judge in charge of overseeing the special investigation has ordered that GOP Gov Brian Kemp must testify following his Nov. 8 re-election bid against Democrat Stacey Abrams. The judge in that case rejected arguments that the governor should not be forced to testify because of executive privilege and sovereign immunity, which protects the state from being sued without its consent.
And the grand jury will also hear from nearly all of the 16 Georgia Republicans who, during a secret December 2020 meeting at the Capitol, served as fake electors and cast illegitimate votes for Trump. A judge ruled in July that Republican state Sen. Burt Jones, who participated in the meeting of fake electors, did not need to testify in Willis’ investigation because she hosted a June fundraiser for his opponent in this year’s lieutenant governor’s race, Democrat Charlie Bailey.
Stacey Abrams lends her support to Sen. Raphael Warnock at a Marietta rally Wednesday. (Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder)
(GA Recorder) — A bus bearing the face of U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock pulled in to the Cobb County Civic Center parking lot Wednesday, but the freshman senator was not the only Democratic leader to deliver a speech in Marietta.
Gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, whose name will join Warnock’s near the top of Georgians’ ballots this November, tagged along to stump for the senator.
Abrams exhorted the crowd of Democratic voters to volunteer to knock on doors for Warnock, crediting his support for expanding voting rights, fighting mass incarceration and expanding Medicaid.
On that last point, Abrams cited a recent report that WellStar Health System is considering closing Atlanta Medical Center, which the 460-bed downtown Atlanta hospital later confirmed.
“It’s not that the resources necessary don’t exist. They do exist. It is because we have a governor who refuses to expand Medicaid,” Abrams said. “But we’ve got a senator in Raphael Warnock who has been fighting to expand Medicaid and serve 600,000 Georgians right here in our state.”
“If we re-elect Raphael Warnock, then as governor, I will have a partner, not opposition in serving the people of the state of Georgia,” she added. “When we re-elect Raphael Warnock, we will have a voice of the people, someone who speaks about our needs and knows how to get good done. He has an opponent who doesn’t seem to believe in anyone or anything. But I know that if we want to save our hospitals and save our people, we need somebody who knows how to save souls, Raphael Warnock, as the senator from the great state of Georgia.”
Abrams’ presence at the rally is, in a sense, not surprising. The two belong to the same party and have been friends for more than a decade. But the Marietta appearance marks one of the first in the campaign since both Democratic favorites qualified in March with the election just over two months away.
For much of Georgia’s history, candidates typically operated their own independent campaigns, said University of Georgia political science professor Charles Bullock, but the lack of joint rallies had raised questions.
“Doing this today at least tamps down those inquiries,” Bullock said. “The implication behind the inquiries being ‘Don’t you want to be seen campaigning with your candidate for governor?’ So that puts that to rest.”
From left. Herschel Walker, Gov. Brian Kemp, and Sen. Burt Jones pose for a photo at the 8th District GOP Fish Fry in Perry. (Burt Jones’ Facebook)
The pair’s Republican opponents, Gov. Brian Kemp and Senate hopeful Herschel Walker, made one of their first joint appearances over the weekend at the annual 8th District GOP Fish Fry in Perry, along with Republican lieutenant governor candidate Burt Jones.
Warnock and Kemp, the two incumbent candidates, have trended higher than their challengers over the course of the election, despite coming from different parties.
The Real Clear Politics average of recent polls gives Warnock a 2.7% lead over Walker but sees Kemp 4.6% above Abrams. Analysts have pointed to Kemp and Warnock’s incumbency advantage, Walker’s lack of experience and history of false statements, and four years of conservative attacks on Abrams.
But a pair of polls conducted in late August give Walker a slight advantage over Warnock and Kemp a larger lead over Abrams.
Pollsters with the Trafalgar Group gave Walker 47.5% of the vote to Warnock’s 46.7%, with 2.9% undecided. The same poll found Kemp has 50.6% support to Abrams’ 44.2%, with 3.5% undecided.
An Emerson College poll split the Senate vote 46% to 44% in Walker’s favor and shows Abrams slightly closer to Kemp than Trafalgar with 44% of the vote to Kemp’s 48%.
Both incumbents could be weighing the costs and benefits of appearing with the candidate trailing them, Bullock said.
“Part of (Warnock’s) effort is to get some Republicans who are going to vote for Kemp to then cross over and vote for him. An appearance with Abrams maybe would make it a bit harder for him to get that,” he said. “And the fear on the Republican side is that some Republican voters will also do this, have a split decision, vote for Kemp but not vote for Walker. If Walker is indeed a drag, then Kemp doesn’t want to attach himself to that.”
If Warnock feels dragged down by Abrams, he didn’t show it Wednesday. His speech touched on familiar themes – a list of his accomplishments since being elected, including a cap on insulin prices and a bill to expand domestic computer chip production as well as his history as an activist pastor before seeking office – but he also shouted out Abrams.
“Long before I was in the Senate, I was fighting for health care, trying to get Georgia finally to expand Medicaid. We need to expand Medicaid in Georgia. We need a governor who will expand Medicaid in Georgia. We need Stacey Abrams.”
And if the theme of togetherness becomes a trend, it will happen at a time when undecided voters will begin seriously paying attention to the races, Bullock said.
“Each successive week, there will be more voters who are going to start to be paying attention to what’s happening in these campaigns,” he said. “For a lot of voters, it’s been out there, but they’ve successfully managed to block it from their consciousness, but as we move closer and closer to the election, there will be more and more voters who start to tune in.”
Danny Kaye Rudisill, age 75, of Cleveland, Georgia went to his heavenly home on Tuesday, August 30, 2022.
