In Leaked Audio, Brian Kemp Expresses Concern Over Georgians Exercising Their Right to Vote

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Source: Rolling Stone

Brian Kemp, Georgia Secretary of State and the Republican nominee for Georgia governor, expressed at a ticketed campaign event that his Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams’ voter turnout operation “continues to concern us, especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote,” according to audio obtained by Rolling Stone.

An attendee of the “Georgia Professionals for Kemp” event says they recorded 21 minutes and 12 seconds of the evening, held last Friday at the Blind Pig Parlour Bar near Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood. As proof of their attendance, the source shared with Rolling Stone a receipt of their donation, which granted access to the gathering.

Not long after Kemp began his remarks, the candidate expressed worry about early voting and “the literally tens of millions of dollars that they [the Abrams camp] are putting behind the get-out-the-vote effort to their base.”

Kemp then asserted that much of that Abrams effort is focused on absentee ballot requests. “They have just an unprecedented number of that,” he said, “which is something that continues to concern us, especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote — which they absolutely can — and mail those ballots in, we gotta have heavy turnout to offset that.”

Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/brian-kemp-leaked-audio-georgia-voting-745711/

[Gothmog]

1. The GOP can only win by suppressing the vote

[Bleacher Creature]

2. In any other time and place this would be a game changer.

This is worse than Macaca and Romney's 47% statement combined.

[NewJeffCT]

12. As much as I want Abrams to win

I'm struggling to see what is bad about him expressing his concern about his opponent's seemingly superior GOTV operation?

If he had said something, "and we're responding by intentionally misprinting absentee ballots, making it harder for African Americans to register to vote and closing down polling places in certain urban districts" then it is huge.

[groundloop]

15. Agree.... I read it the same as you

The way I read the article was that he's worried that Stacey Abrams superior GOTV efforts will overwhelm the goper turnout. IMO we should be concentrating on bigger things, such as the 53,000 ballots that Kemp is preventing from being counted, or rebuking the nasty lies Kemp advertising has put out.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. That proves intent.

[7962]

4. Well, he WOULD be concerned, since the polls show them pretty much tied.

He does say "..exercises their right to vote — which they absolutely can-.."

[BumRushDaShow]

5. THAT should be an ad. nt

[saidsimplesimon]

6. Thank you lisa and Rollingstone

Put it in an ad for Ms. Abrams. A win for Stacy would be so sweeeet. Make it happen Georgia

[JustAnotherGen]

8. They absolutely should

[ms liberty]

7. They recorded 21 minutes, 12 seconds of audio?

Generally, when you see those two sets of digits used, and in that order, you can easily guess the author's favorite band. Easy for me of course, they're one of my favorite bands too! Good on this person for sharing the recording. We need more people doing this; the RWNJ's save all their best lines for private events, lol. Except Comrade Dumbass that is, who lets it all hang out, all the time. They don't call it verbal diarrhea for nothing!

[Ccarmona]

9. If We Had a SCOTUS This Wouldn't Have Happened

When they allowed the gutting of the Voter Rights Act, it re-opened the path to legal voter suppression around the Country. Even from the grave, Scalia is ruining USA.

[djacq]

13. Shelby County vs. Holder worst decision ever

So called Orange POTUS announced that he is a “Nationalist”.

Racism is not over.

[bronxiteforever]

10. Jim Crow feels free to nest again thanks to the Supreme Ct

[Freethinker65]

11. Purge baby purge

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Just what Georgia needs: a governor who doesn't believe in democracy.

[TeamPooka]

16. The whole GOP doesn't believe in democracy.

[Mr. Ected]

17. A state secretary of state should recuse himself if running for office, period

If that isn't a conflict of interest, what is?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. My God we can't have that

[Cold War Spook]

19. "if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote-

which they absolutely can-and mail those ballots in, we gotta have heavy turnout to offset that" Tell me what is wrong about what he said. Also Google state Secretaries of State running for governor, both Democrats and Republicans are.