September 4, 2022 / Newsletter 292 | | |
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September 6
Hall County Board of Elections meeting
The Elections office didn't include Sunday voting on the early voting schedule for Hall County. If this concerns you, attend the public meeting to let them know.
When:Tuesday, Sept. 6, 3:30 pm
Where: 4th floor, Hall County Government Center
2875 Browns Bridge Road, Gainesville, GA. 30504
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September 10
Union County Rally in the Mountains
Sponsored by the DNC
Hear from Statewide and local Democratic Candidates
When: Sept. 10 11:30 am - 3:30 pm
Where: Meeks Park
490 Meeks Park Rd
Pavilion #3
Blairsville, GA 30512
Sign up and get directions below:
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Rally in the Mountains! · The Democratic National Committee | On Saturday, September 10, the Union County Democratic Committee is sponsoring a Rally in the Mountains! It will be held from 11:30-3:30 at Meeks Park, pavilion #3, a beautiful setting by the river in Blairsville. We will have music by Butternut Creek and Friends; Nelson Thomas will be our MC and will also play some tunes for us. | | | |
September 12
Hall County Democrats
Wine & Cheese Party
Wine & Cheese at Linwood Ecology Center, 5:30 - 7:30, Monday, Sept. 12.
We’ll send more details, including directions and instructions on parking, after the holiday.
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September 18
Stacey Abrams in Forsyth County
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Sept. 20
Melita Easters, WIN Executive Director, Reproductive Rights Tour
When: Tuesday, Sept. 20
Stops scheduled at Noon in White County and at 5:00 pm in Hiawassee
Check the newsletter for more details as they become available.
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URGENT NEED FOR CANVASSERS
Sign up to canvass for Abrams/Warnock Coordinated Campaign
Help get out the vote for Democrats. Shifts are available:
Tues/Thurs 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Tues/Thur 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Tues/Thur 5:00 - 7:00 pm
or Saturday 10:00 am -4:00 pm
Sign up for one or more shifts by emailing 9th District Coordinator Chad Gowland cgowland@georgiademocrat.org :
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TIME TO COMMIT TO ACTION!
The election is 65 days away. If you haven’t already, it’s time to take action NOW!.
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Be sure you are registered to vote. Register by Oct. 11, and check your registration to ensure it is active. My Voter Page
- MAKE YOUR PLAN to vote, whether you vote early, on Election Day, or absentee.
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Become a poll worker or poll observer.
- Sign up to canvass (see above).
- Sign up to work at HQ.
- Sign up for phone banking or text banking.
- Donate to us and our candidates.
- Put up a sign in your yard and bumper sticker(s) on your car
- Work at the voter hotline.
- Share this link with overseas military & civilians so they can request their ballots NOW: fvap.gov or votefromabroad.org.
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WE HAVE STACEY ABRAMS YARD SIGNS! | |
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PARTY NEWS
Hall County Delegates at #TrueBlue2022
Last week's state Democratic Party Convention gave our delegates opportunities to hear from prominent Georgia Democrats--including Reverend Raphael Warnock and Stacey Abrams--attend training on key issues like voter protection, work with Democrats from across Georgia to refine the party's platform and messaging, and build bonds across the state with others who share our vision and values.
Fred Swann served on the Resolutions Committee, and Wilson Golden and Ruth Bruner served on the Platform Committee. Jennifer & Michael LaRose attended the Communications and Messaging session. Several other delegates attended the Voter Protection session. They all came back with knowledge and skills we will put to use as we work to elect Democrats this November.
What our delegates had to say:
"The convention boosted my morale. Seeing so many people who still believe in the promise of America gave me hope for the future." Chuck Bennett
"I gained insights into how the Georgia Democratic Party is structured and about the party's work to refine our platform and support candidates all over Georgia." Tanya Bennett
"Rev. Warnock attended Head Start (only one other congress person to do so) and he graduated from the same high school as my son-Johnson High School in Savannah , home of the Atom Smashers.
Stacey Abrams -“we can protect the 2nd amendment AND 2nd graders.” Linda Ostrow
"My biggest take away was that Democrats are doing amazing things on the federal level, so just imagine what they could accomplish on the state level. We have to elect Democrats up and down the ballot!" Jennifer LaRose
“Inclusion and diversity means everybody has to work together to move away from lies toward the truth and justice for all. We have a strong slate of true public servants.” Jackie Sosby
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Our 9th District Congressional candidate, Mike Ford, was one of the speakers at the convention. Georgia Publlc Radio political reporter Stephen Fowler, live-tweeting from the convention, took special note of Mike: Those of you who attended his announcement party at Luna's won't be surprised! | |
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Above: "Guardians of Democracy" Alternate Nancy Moore, Delegate Ruth Bruner and State Executive Committee member Jackie Sosby, all of Gainesville.
Below: Jennifer and Michael LaRose, Ashland and Fred Swann, Mike Ford, and Kim Floria. Ashand is working with the Abrams campaign, and the rest were Delegates. Mike and Kim are also candidates.
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Above: Delegates Jennifer and Michael LaRose, of Flowery Branch, with Kim Floria.
Below: Jennifer and Delegate/GA HD29 candidate Devin Pandy, of Gainesville.
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Candidate News
Volunteer, attend an event, host an event, contribute
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Wine Down and Write Postcards with Kim Floria for GA HD30 · Mobilize | Join Kim on Wednesdays from 6-7:30 to write postcards to voters in South Hall and NE Gwinnett. We'll supply the postcards, addresses, and a short script. | | |
Wine Down and Write Postcards with Kim Floria for GA HD30 · Mobilize | Join Kim on Wednesdays from 6-7:30 to write postcards to voters in South Hall and NE Gwinnett. We'll supply the postcards, addresses, and a short script. | | |
Kim for Georgia-Canvassing · Kim Floria for Georgia HD 30 | Join us canvassing to help elect Democrat Kim Floria as Representative for GA House District 30. | | |
Mike Ford, US Congress, Georgia's 9th District
Mike Ford will be at the Rally in the Mountains on Saturday, Sept. 10 (see Events section for details). He’ll also be at the Chattahoochee Mountain Fair on 9/11 at the Habersham County Fairgrounds on Highway 17 in Clarkesville, from 2:30 to 4:00 pm.
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Pat Calmes, HC School Board At-Large
Pat Calmes promoting Constitution Week for the DAR at the Murrayville Library and North Georgia Technology Center.
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Jody Cooley, GA State Senate, District 49
Volunteer for Jody Cooley's Post Cards to Teachers campaign. Email Campaign22info@gmail.com
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Donate to our Democratic Candidates
Using the secure website ActBlue, you can donate to these Hall County Democrats running for office. Use the links below:
Isabel-Martinez Flynn, Hall County School Board Post 2
Pat Calmes, Hall County School Board At Large
Get the word out and support these Democratic candidates.
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Voting and Elections News | |
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Upcoming 2022 Mid-term Election Dates
August 22 - First day to submit application for absentee ballot
Important note: You can request absentee ballots now, but the elections office won’t start mailing them out until October 11th.
October 11 - Voter Registration Deadline for 11/8 election (& for 12/6 runoff for state and local races if needed)
November 7 - Voter Registration Deadline to be able to vote for Federal offices in Dec 6 runoff, if needed
NOVEMBER 8 - 2022 MIDTERM GENERAL ELECTIONS
DECEMBER 6 - 2022 MIDTERM ELECTION RUNOFF (if needed)
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Early Voting for November 8, 2022, General Election
Dates & Locations
Early voting will begin on Monday, October 17, 2022 and end on Friday, November 4, 2022. Hall County voters can go to any one of the listed below seven locations regardless of where in the county they reside or are registered to vote.
Early voting days & times:
Monday, October 17 - Friday, October 21 9AM to 6PM - ALL LOCATIONS
Saturday, October 22 9AM to 5PM - ALL LOCATIONS
Monday, October 24 - Friday, October 28 9AM to 6PM - ALL LOCATIONS
Saturday, October 29 9AM to 5PM - ALL LOCATIONS
Monday, October 31 - Friday, November 4 7AM to 7PM - ALL LOCATIONS
Early voting locations:
North Hall Community Center 4175 Nopone Road, Gainesville
East Hall Community Center 3911 P Davidson Road, Gainesville
Mulberry Creek Community Center 4491 JM Turk Road, Flowery Branch
Chicopee Woods Ag Center 1855 Calvary Church Road, Gainesville
Spout Springs Library 6488 Spout Springs Road, Flowery Branch
Murrayville Library 4796 Thompson Bridge Road, Gainesville
Gainesville Civic Center 830 Green Street NE, Gainesville
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Change in Voting Locations for Nov. 8 Election
(does not apply to early voting)
ATTENTION VOTERS OF
OAKWOOD 2
(West Hall Baptist Church)
BEGINNING WITH THE NOVEMBER 8, 2022 ELECTION
YOUR NEW VOTING LOCATION IS:
FLAT CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH
5504 FLAT CREEK ROAD – GAINESVILLE
ATTENTION VOTERS OF
ROBERTS
(MOUNT SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH)
BEGINNING WITH THE NOVEMBER 8, 2022 ELECTION
YOUR NEW VOTING LOCATION IS:
LANIER POINT CHURCH
6302 LANIER ISLANDS PARKWAY - BUFORD
FOR MORE INFORMATION: PLEASE CONTACT (770) 531-6945
(source: Hall County website)
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The Fight for Our Democracy | |
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FULTON COUNTY GRAND JURY:
MEMBERS OF TRUMP'S INNER CIRCLE TESTIFY
More news emerged this week about the Fulton County DA's investigation into election interference activities carried out by Trump and his inner circle. Trump lawyer and Big Lie proponent John Eastman--the man who peddled the false elector plan--took the fifth and invoked attorney-client privilege to avoid answering questions before the grand jury.
Judges ruled that Brian Kemp, Lindsay Graham, and Georgians who signed on as false electors must appear before the grand jury. Mark Meadows, former Chief of Staff for Trump, has been ordered to appear, along with several other attorneys for the Trump campaign.
And Fulton DA Fani Willis announced her office is investigating the security breach of Coffee County's voting equipment by more Trump allies desperate to prove the Big Lie.
Between the FBI and Fani Willis, justice is nipping at the heels of Trump and his cronies.
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Trump lawyer John Eastman refuses to answer questions from Georgia grand jury | John Eastman refused to answer questions under his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Eastman developed the strategy for Vice President Mike Pence to reject electors from key states. Eastman's lawyers contend he is being punished for unpopular political beliefs. | | |
Fulton County DA looking into voting system breach in Trump election investigation | Willis is seeking information about the alleged involvement of a Trump ally in the breach of voting equipment at a county 200 miles south of her Atlanta office. ATLANTA - Editor's note: The story above is part of the series of reporting on the election probe. | | |
The Daily - Is a Local Prosecutor Making the Strongest Case Against Trump? | Since he left office, former President Donald J. Trump has been facing several investigations. They include the congressional inquiry into the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol and the F.B.I.'s search of Mar-a-Lago, his club and Florida residence, as part of an investigation into his handling of classified material. | | | |
Opinion | Georgia judge to Republicans: You're not getting out of testifying | Sometime during the last administration, Republicans began to treat congressional and grand jury subpoenas as mere suggestions. They have raised bogus excuses or, in the cases of former chief of staff Mark Meadows, former White House aide Dan Scavino and former Trump confidant Stephen K. Bannon, have simply decided not to show up. | | |
Brian Kemp's Looming Testimony Is a Big Problem for Donald Trump | Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has been trying to have it both ways over his role in Donald Trump's efforts to steal the 2020 election-and on Monday the judge overseeing the Fulton County, Georgia criminal investigation of Trump called him on it. | | |
Judge says Graham must testify in 2020 election probe, limits scope of questions | Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) must appear before a Georgia grand jury investigating possible attempts by Donald Trump and his allies to disrupt the state's 2020 presidential election, a federal judge ruled Thursday. But the judge limited the range of questions that prosecutors can ask, partially acknowledging Graham's claim that his status as a sitting senator provides protection against such inquiries. | | | |
State & Local News (Some links may require a subscription)
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Georgia's top of the ticket candidates pair up campaigns as more voters start to tune in - Georgia 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 [...] | | |
Georgia's new abortion law is having some unintended consequences | ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) - Some Georgian residents are having trouble picking up medication that's been prescribed to them by licensed doctors. It's an unintended result of the U.S. Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade, and is complicating access to essential drugs. | | | |
Jan. 6 panel is asking former House Speaker Newt Gingrich for information | WASHINGTON - The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is seeking information from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich about his communications with senior advisers to then-President Donald Trump in the days leading up to the 2021 attack on the Capitol. The committee's chairman, Mississippi Rep. | | |
Abrams' environmental focus: resilience, green jobs, lower energy costs - The Current | In the middle of a campaign swing through Coastal Georgia, Democratic candidate for governor Stacey Abrams stopped Saturday at Green Bridge Farm in fast-growing Effingham County. There, founder Michael Maddox showed off the vegetable gardens that help feed the 10 families that live in the 25-acre "agrihood," where small houses and wooded lots are the norm. | | | |
National News (Some links may require a subscription)
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Biden sounds newly strong alarm: Trumpism menaces democracy | PHILADELPHIA (AP) - President Joe Biden charged in a prime-time address that the "extreme ideology" of Donald Trump and his adherents "threatens the very foundation of our republic," as he summoned Americans of all stripes to help counter what he sketched as dark forces within the Republican Party trying to subvert democracy. | | | |
January 6: Ex-police officer gets record 10-year sentence over Capitol riots | "Notwithstanding his background and training, Webster did not try to de-escalate the situation or leave the premises," the justice department said in court filings. "Webster spent eight minutes elbowing his way through the densely packed crowd so that he could position himself at the front of the mob." | | | |
Over 10,000 government docs without classified markings were seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago, DOJ says | In addition to troves of information marked "secret" and "top secret," the FBI's search of former President Donald Trump's Florida turned up over 10,000 U.S. government documents and photographs without classification markings, a newly unsealed Justice Department inventory of the seized items shows. | | | |
Have the Facts Finally Caught Up to Donald Trump? | The old law school aphorism holds that "if the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell." | | | |
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Please note there may be some days where our volunteer staff have an outside commitment, so check for the American flag our front to know that HQ is open.r
Monday 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Tuesday 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Wednesday 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Thursday CLOSED
Note: We will be at HQ on Thursdays when canvassing for the consolidated campaign for Abrams/Warnock is scheduled.
Friday 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sunday CLOSED
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314 College Avenue
Gainesville, GA 30501
Phone: (470) 892-5825
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