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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.comYou 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