Dems pick up 2 seats in Georgia's House of Representatives
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Deborah Gonzales won House District 117 with 53 percent of the vote and Jonathan Wallace won House District 119 with 56 percent of the vote. Both seats are in the Athens area and both were vacant, hence the special elections. But not only were the two seats previously held by Republican incumbents, they were uncontested in the 2016 elections.
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There was an important TSPLOST ballot item as well. (Transportation Special Local Option Sales Tax to continue funding progressive and alternative transportation development in our blue city.)
GOTV and Democrats win big!
This is the only time I've been happy to read the news since last November.
The Athens, GA state and federal congressional districts were sliced and diced up by the State GOP over recent decades in order to gerrymander and take away the voting power of our progressive and Democratic Southern college town.
Take that GA GOP! Democrats kicked your sorry asses.
Brian Kemp (R), current GA SoS & candidate for Governor is from Athens. He's currently busy wiping hard drives to conceal Russian election interference and GA GOP collusion to steal elections. I hope he's having a terrible day.
Edit: add link to DU post about how the GA GOP and GA SoS are attempting to conceal collusion to steal elections.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10462064
