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Political Note #300 Carolyn Bordeaux GA CD 07
2020 General Election
In 2018, Carolyn Bordeaux https://www.carolyn4congress.com came so close to defeating the incumbent Republican that he decided to retire. If Carolyn Bordeaux had picked up 500 additional votes in 2018, she would be the incumbent now. She would be running for reelection. Carolyn Bordeaux is the Democratic nominee again.
Carolyn Bordeaux was the best candidate to defeat Republican nominee Rich McCormick (More about him later). She has been a member of the faculty of the Andrew Young School of Public Policy at Georgia State University since 2003. For a while, she was Director of the School, a think tank for urban issues. She took a leave to serve as Director of the Georgia Senate Budget and Evaluation Office – a non-partisan job in a body with a Republican majority. The Georgia Senate voted to honor her for helping them navigate the 2007/2008 Great Recession.
Georgia State University is a great institution for Carolyn Bordeaux to be associated with. It is like many urban state universities only better. Jonathan Zimmerman, in a recent NY Review of Books article about the value of a college education, described GSU as one of the few to provide systematic and successful assistance to low income students to navigate their college experience successfully.
GA 07 is a great place for Carolyn Bordeaux to be running for office. Like other suburban Atlanta district, GA 07 has become diverse. Asians are about 15 percent of the population. African Americans are slightly more than 20%. Hispanics slightly less. Whites are a plurality, but not a majority in the district.
The US congress is a great place for Carolyn Bordeaux. She is a White southerner whose learning is in great northern universities. She would represent a suburban district and is an expert on cities. She is a policy wonk who works well with people. She is a Democrat who works effectively with Republicans. She is experienced in the legislative process and can make it work toward positive ends.
Carolyn Bordeaux is resolute. She came to Georgia having grown up in the South – in Roanoke, Virginia. Her parents were school teachers. Roanoke’s star high school student, she went to Yale. That was the beginning of her education outside of the South. From New Haven, she went to Washington to work as an aide for Senators Menendez and Wyden. After five years, she left for Los Angeles to get an MPA at the University of Southern California. She returned east to upstate New York for a PhD in Public Administration at Syracuse University. Then she got her job at Georgia State University.
Carolyn Bordeaux’s opponent in 2018 had been elected as part of the Red Wave of 2010. He chaired the Republican Study Committee — about 150 conservative Republicans whose focus was reducing non-military spending and balancing the budget. He voted for replacing the Affordable Care Act and for the substantial tax cuts. He was deeply conservative on social issues — co-sponsoring a bill to recognize fetuses as living persons and fighting court decisions regarding same sex marriage by looking to state by state decisions.
Richard McCormick, an emergency care physician would be equally conservative. An opponent of the Affordable Care Act, he has been attacked by the DCCC for having suggested, at the end of February, 2020, that the Coronavirus was nothing to worry about. Once it was clear that the coronavirus was something to worry about, he became an advocate for hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the disease.
The people of GA 07 will have a choice between a public policy expert praised by Republicans and Democrats alike and a medical doctor whose views about medicine are consistent with the views of Donald Trump.
Carolyn Bordeaux is coming to this contest well-armed. On May 20, she had $650,000 on hand. Dr. McCormick had $200,000. Outside groups spent just under $400,000 to help his campaign. We can expect them to spend some more. Outside groups spent $225 to support Carolyn Bordeaux https://www.carolyn4congress.com. You can help her offset the outside money. Donate to her campaign.
Below are Congressional seats Democrats are trying to flip from incumbent Republicans. The ones with asterisks* ran in 2018. In 2018, Democrats flipped 40 Republican seats in the House. Let’s flip 20 more.
Alaska AL Alyce Galvin* to defeat incumbent Don Young
Arizona 06 Hiral Tipirneni* to defeat incumbent David Schweikert
Arkansas 02. Joyce Elliott to defeat incumbent French Hill
California 25. Christy Smith to defeat incumbent Mike Garcia who won the May special election.
California 50 Ammar Campa-Hajjar* to win this now open Rep seat
Florida 15 Adam Hattersley to defeat incumbent Ross Spano
Florida 16 Margaret Good to defeat incumbent Vern Buchanan
Georgia 07 Carolyn Bordeaux* to win this open seat
Illinois 13 Betsy Dirksen Londrigen* to defeat incumbent Rodney Davis
Indiana 05 Christina Hale to win this open Republican seat
Iowa 04 JD Scholten* to win this open seat
Kansas 02 Michelle De La Isla to defeat incumbent Steve Watkins
Michigan 03. Hillary Scholten to win this open seat
Michigan 06 Jon Hoadley to defeat incumbent Fred Upton
Minnesota 01 Dan Feehan* to defeat incumbent Jim Hagedorn
Missouri 02 Jill Schupp to defeat incumbent Ann Wagner
Montana AL Kathleen Williams* to win this open Republican seat
Nebraska 02. Kara Eastman to defeat incumbent Don Bacon
New York 02 Jackie Gordon to win this open Republican seat
New York 21 Tedra Cobb* to defeat incumbent Elise Stefanic
New York 24 Dana Balter* to defeat incumbent John Katko
North Carolina 09. Cynthia Wallace to defeat incumbent Dan Bishop
Pennsylvania 01 Christina Finello to defeat incumbent Brian Fitzpatrick
Pennsylvania 10 Eugene DePasquale to defeat incumbent Scott Perry
Texas 02 Sima Ladjervardian to defeat incumbent Dan Crenshaw
Texas 21 Wendy Davis to defeat incumbent Chip Roy
Texas 22 Sri Preston Kalkuri to win this open Republican seat
Texas 23 Gina Ortiz Jones* to win this open Republican seat
Texas 24 Kim Olson to win this open Republican seat
Washington 03 Carolyn Long* to defeat incumbent Jaime Herrera Beutler
Wisconsin 07 Tricia Zunker to defeat incumbent Tom Tiffany who won the May Special Election
