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People are starting to take an interest
……Primaries have begun and Stacey Abrams won the Georgia Democratic Primary for Governor by more than 3-1.
……The New York Times is covering a candidate almost every day. There was a story about Stacey Abrams https://staceyabrams.com/ before the primary. New York magazine did a story on the Georgia primary. The New Yorker did a story on Abrams.
……The New Yorker story compared Stacey Abrams to Bill Clinton. She reminds me of him, too.……Spelman College instead of Georgetown.…Truman Scholar instead of a Rhodes Scholar…University of Texas, LBJ School of Public Affairs instead of Oxford…Yale Law School — Works for both of them…Some sloppy financial embarrassments instead of sexual embarrassments…Smartest person in the room — Works for both of them…Charming — Works for both of them…A force of nature — Works for both of them…Grew up poor — Works for both of them…She had educated parents who had a happy marriage. He did not.…She is a woman, of course. He’s not.…She is black. He’s not.…She is single, never married. He’s married.…She is twenty-five years younger.
……Stacey Abram’ intelligence and her way of encompassing everything that she deals with reminds me of Bill Clinton.
……Stacey Abram has stories to tell. About how poor they were in Gulfport, MS. Her father working on the docks; her mother a librarian. When they moved to Atlanta, both parents trained for and became ministers.
……About being black.
……Chosen as one of MIssissippi’s representatives to a Girl Scout convention, her mother left her at the airport gate. The white girl scouts, (she was the only black) left without her. Weather interfered and she had to stay overnight alone in another city. Stacey Abram got to the convention a day late and, she recalls, hung out with kids from other states.
……Invited to the Georgia governor’s mansion along with other class valedictorians, the guard would not let Stacey Abram and her family in. She remembers how hard her father had to work to explain and persuade so that they could go in. She remembers nothing about the event.
……Part of a protest at Spelman after LA police were acquitted in the Rodney King beatings, Abrams thought Mayor Maynard Jackson’s response to the protest was too aggressive for a peaceful event. Stacey Abram organized communications to reporters to make that case. Invited to a forum as a result, Jackson listened to her and told her she didn’t know what she was talking about. He offered her and others internships.Sheasked to get paid. She was hired for a paid research positions. She also got a taste for politics.……Not only politics.
……Stacey Abram was a tax lawyer after Yale. Lucrative work. She wrote a book about tax law. She could have done tax law for a life time.
……Stacey Abram wrote books about romance, romance novels. Under an assumed name so, she says, not to be confused with her writing about tax law. No one claims the novels are deep. People do buy them.
……Elected to the state legislature, Stacey Abram served on the appropriations, ethics, judiciary – non-civil, rules and ways & means committees. She became the minority leader. In this case, minority means Democrat.
……Stacey Abram record is pragmatic. She is criticized for not fighting hard enough for Democratic priorities. In the primary, she was targeted for agreeing to decrease funding for the HOPE Scholarships. She says she preserved the program and ensured full day kindergarten.
……If elected, Stacey Abrams https://staceyabrams.com/ will be the first African American woman to serve as a governor in the United States. The general election campaign has begun. Help her make it a success. If it is a success, it would not be a surprise if you saw a little more of her.
……Previously, I acknowledged an error in judgment regarding the NE 02 Congressional campaign. The Idaho gubernatorial campaign was a different kind of error – premature exposition. I supported a candidate who was the only Democrat running. Paulette Jordan entered the race for governor later. In Idaho, as in Nebraska 02, a relatively unknown woman and themore progressive candidate beat a man of the establishment. If Paulette Jordan, were to be elected Governor of Idaho, she would be the first Native American woman to be elected governor of any state just as Stacey Abrams, if elected, would be the first African American woman to be elected governor of any state. Let’s help them break those ceilings.……………………………………………………
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