Stacey Abrams On Finishing the Job In Georgia

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Stacey Abrams On Finishing the Job In Georgia
“It can be undone just as quickly and as effectively as we did it.”

https://www.thecut.com/2020/11/stacey-abrams-on-flipping-georgia-blue.html

In the math-addled hours after polls closed on Election Day, as the New York Times needle tipped delicately toward blue in Georgia, the nation’s attention followed, homing in on one of its most transformative political figures: Stacey Abrams.

She is extraordinary, partly because she has one of the most detailed-oriented, forward-looking, compulsively organized brains in politics. Abrams — who served as minority leader in Georgia’s state legislature for seven years before running for governor in 2018, losing narrowly to Georgia’s then–Secretary of State Brian Kemp, in one of the most flagrantly voter-suppressed elections in recent memory — has been working to turn her state from red to blue for more than a decade.

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When I came in, I put together a 21-page Powerpoint deck that was my diagnosis of the challenges facing Democrats and what we’d need to do to claw back power by 2020.

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What I diagnosed was that we had lots of good groups that were doing work. Helen Butler and the Coalition for the People’s Agenda, who worked with the Concerned Black Clergy; the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials; and a group that was headed by Helen Kim Ho, focusing on this explosion in the Asian population. But the funding was small. You didn’t have scale, and you didn’t have an infrastructure that connected all of these pieces. And you had almost no visibility in South Georgia, where you have a lot of Black voters who are in rural Black counties that are deeply underfunded, or who are the minority in majority white counties that are hyperconservative.

So my contribution came from building infrastructure. You can’t build systems if you don’t have something solid that is impervious to who’s in charge.

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detailed article is at link

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It was very much a cross functional group effort that Stacey provided the infrastructure and facilitation for. It's a very good detailed interview of Abrams.

[Cha]

1. Stacy Abrams is one of our most

Important leaders right Now.. to help Get us the SENATE!

TY, ilt!

[Marie Marie]

2. It is amazing what she has accomplished. And I'm sure she worked her tail off to do so.

[Cha]

3. Oh Yeah.. we are so fortunate

to have Stacy Abrams in Georgie!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. DU actblue link for runoff and Fair Fight ...

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dufor2020runoff

[iluvtennis]

8. Thanks, Donated last week. Will do another donation early next month. nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. I am amazed every time Omaha Steve posts an update!

[Laelth]

5. She was heavily solicited to run for the Senate this year.

She said, “No, thank you. This isn’t about me. This is about the people of the State of Georgia, and we’re going to turn Georgia blue by insuring fair and honest elections.”

She succeeded. Stacey Abrams has my humble and enduring respect.

-Laelth

[crickets]

6. Stacey is amazing.

I hope Democratic party organizers in other states are paying attention to what she's doing and how she's doing it.

[mtnsnake]

7. Stacey was an inspiration for hard working honest people in every state across the country