Georgia has a cast of character’s whose names appear on the 2022 election ballot. I don’t know where to start with these characters. Instead, I’ll start with attempting to vote last week.
Yesterday, my wife and I went to vote where we have for more than 20 years. When we pulled into the parking lot on Whitlock Avenue, one mile west of Marietta Square, we were pleased to see no people in line. We asked a woman coming out of the building if we could vote inside the building. She told us that this location is no longer used for voting. We’d have to go across town to another location. We did successfully the next day. But was this the result of the new Georgia election laws passed by Republicans in 2021
Effect of Georgia Election Laws
The Georgia Election Integrity project identified at least three ways that the election laws in Georgia affect voters.
- Anyone, without evidence, can challenge an unlimited number of voters from voting. This has been widespread, including the county where I live (Cobb). In an AJC article, it was reported that 65,000 voter were already challenged.
- Citizens can be criminalized for giving water or food while people are waiting in line. It doesn’t matter where the water comes from, neighbors, churches or friends.
- The laws have made it harder for people to vote. Instead of driving 4 miles to vote, I had to drive 15 miles to vote. What if I didn’t have car, or there wasn’t public transportation to get me there (there isn’t). Also, ballot drop boxes are no longer available 24/7. They are locked up inside official election sites.
There are seven people on the Georgia 2022 ballot that are listed in Table 1. These seven republicans are notable for their positions on abortion, health care, voting integrity, the Big Lie, conspiracy theories, and democracy. People in other states have written to me to ask how some of these people could be on the ballot. Well they are.
Table 1 is a list of seven running for office in Georgia for state and federal positions. I’ve checked media sources to back up the “notable achievements” of each candidate.
Cast of Characters
| Republican Character Running for Office | Office | Notable Achievements |
| Chris Carr | Attorney General | Stop the Steal Advocate; Big Lie; Election denier; current Georgia AG; Sued to invalidate the Affordable Care Act, claiming it was unconstitutional; Urged supporters to march to DC on Jan. 6 to dispute certification of Joe Biden as President; Anti-choice advocate; Pro abortion ban; |
| Marjorie Taylor Greene | US House District 14 | Stop the Steal Advocate; Big Lie; Election denier; Scallywag, Promoter of white genocide conspiracy theory, QAnon and Pizzagate; House Bully, Kicked off House Committee assignments; Voted to challenge Georgia’s election results; Threatened members of US House; Harassed Parkland shooting survivor, David Hogg calling him a coward claiming his activist was funded by George Soros; She supported comments such as “a bullet to the head would be quicker” to remove Nancy Pelosi from office; Conspiracy theory ideologue. |
| Bert Jones | Lieutenant Governor | Fake elector in 2020; Stop the Steal Advocate; Joined a legal filing to support the state of Texas to have Supreme Court intervene in the Georgia election; |
| Brian Kemp | Governor | Governor of Georgia; Pushed back against Trump’s request to bring the GA legislature into session in Dec. 2020 to change the vote in Trump’s favor; Supports and signed the Heart Beat GA Abortion Law; Signed the Election Integrity Act behind closed doors, not allowing anyone in to witness the signing except for 5 male legislators; Administered the COVID-19 pandemic in a slipshod manner; Georgia ranked 47 from the top of States performance dealing with the Pandemic; Kemp created dangerous conditions by not implementing CDC guidelines to deal with the virus when there were no vaccines; he also opened Georgia businesses too early ignoring scientific guidelines; he got into legal arguments with many majors in Georgia who wanted to enforce masking-up; Kemp took the major of Atlanta to court; they settled out of court; During the 2016 primary, one of Kemp’s ads showed him pointing a loaded shotgun at a teenager who was interested in dating one of Kemp’s daughters; I’m not making this up; |
| Barry Loudermilk | US House District 11 | US House representative; Stop the Steal; Big Lie; Voted to challenge Georgia’s election results; anti-vaccination advocate; Led a tour of the Capitol on Jan. 5, the day before the Capitol attack; |
| Brad Raffensperger | Secretary of State | Phone call with Donald Trump and Trump allies on Jan. 2; He held his own during the phone call and pushed back on Trump assertions and request to find votes to overturn Georgia’s presidential vote; beats Trump ally in the Georgia Republican primary for secretary of state; supported the Election Integrity Act of 2021 which overhauled elections; Unfortunate that he supported the bill in that he acted with integrity during the 2020 presidential vote; Oddly, the bill he supported removed the secretary of state from the state elections committee |
| Herschel Junior Walker | US Senate | Stop the Steal Advocate; Election denier; Big Lie; Advocate Pro Abortion (except for women he impregnates); Moved from Texas to Georgia to run; Denied that Trump mobs attacked the US Capitol; Unwilling to answer “hard” questions; As a Trumpster, he denies any charge brought up. Some call him a pathological lier. |
Who’s Running
- Herschel Junior Walker vs. Rafael Warncok (US Senate)
- Brian Kemp vs. Stacey Abrams (Governor)
- Bert Jones vs Charlie Bailey (Lieutenant Governor)
- Brad Raffensperger vs. Bee Nguyen (Secretary of State)
- Barry Loudermilk vs. Antonio Daza (US House, District 11)
- Chris Carr vs Jen Jordan (Attorney General)
- Marjorie Taylor Green vs Marcus Flowers (US House, District 14)
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