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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CC27 on July 12, 2023, 09:20:50 AM
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BlueWaveNeverEnd (5,553 posts)
African American Georgia state rep (Democratic stronghold of Atlanta) switches to GOP
A Georgia state representative has switched her political allegiance from the Democrats to the Republicans, citing a change of heart and values.
Mesha Mainor was elected in 2020 to represent the citizens of House District 56 in the Democratic stronghold of Atlanta, where she is originally from. She ran and won her primary by over 20 percentage points, successfully campaigning for issues including mental health, the environment and government accountability, according to her campaign website.
Her shift in partisanship is expected to provide more power to the current Republican majority in the Georgia House of Representatives.
Mainor later tweeted that she didn't leave the Democratic Party but that it was the other way around, due to Democrats' embrace of "left-wing radicalism, lawlessness, and putting the interests of illegal aliens over the interest of Americans."
Link to tweet
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democratic-state-representative-flips-to-gop-blindly-followed-a-vision/ar-AA1dJvzR
hlthe2b (97,437 posts)
5. Impossible to think otherwise. IMO, there is a special kind of horrific to someone put in power
based on professed concern for people who are suffering, who then rapidly turn on them. Self-serving rationale or a brain tumor is the only explanation for me. But, since I believe it is likely the first, may the contempt of her constituents follow her for life--much like the NC turncoat who switched to ensure women would lose all rights to choice.
ecstatic (31,418 posts)
20. Moral? Running on false pretenses and misleading thousands of people is moral?
Last edited Wed Jul 12, 2023, 08:01 AM - Edit history (1)
Switching to a party that supports police brutality, taking away women's rights, taking away voting rights is moral? Does she need a dictionary? She needs to be recalled immediately.
Edited to add: I just noticed the additional "a" right before the word moral. Lol! Amoral, indeed. She might be self aware after all. Or her autocomplete is.
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BumRushDaShow (114,042 posts)
38. Well I only mention that as *her* "pre-text"
If you look at when the final shit hit the fan and she made the decision to "leave", it was months ago, not suddenly "now".
And I also mentioned that this is only her 2nd term so she might have also been a 2020 "plant". She replaced a Rep. who had been an Atlanta politico for decades (both in the state House and on the Atlanta City Council), so in the chaos of that election, she managed to slip through, but it really has little impact on the domination of the GOP down there.
I have a bunch of cousins, who were born and raised northerners - predominately from here in the Philly area and 'burbs, who for some reason (am guessing because of the lower cost of living and a thriving black community there), chose to move down there to the city and surrounding suburban towns. One of them brought my aunt down there with her for caretaking. They have been keeping me up to date on the bizarre bubble-world of northern GA.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218082768
DUmmies are pissed and full of rage over this.
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218082768
DUmmies are pissed and full of rage over this.
The Democrat Party has never given up on the idea that they should own other people.
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The Democrat Party has never given up on the idea that they should own other people.
Specially if they are black :thatsright:
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DUmmies are pissed and full of rage over this.
Jiggly with rage:
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What she said, without the DUmmie Filter:
Georgia Dem Switches Parties — Absolutely Savages Radical, Lawless Democratic Party
https://ijr.com/georgia-dem-switches-parties-savages-democratic-party/ (https://ijr.com/georgia-dem-switches-parties-savages-democratic-party/)
She tweeted, “I represent a blue district in the city of Atlanta so this wasn’t a political decision for me. It was a a MORAL one. I will NEVER apologize for being a black woman with a mind of my own.”
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“I didn’t leave the Democrat Party,” Mainor wrote later in another social media post. “The Democrat Party left ME when it embraced left-wing radicalism, lawlessness, and put the interests of illegal aliens over the interest of Americans. I have nothing to apologize for.”
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Fox News reported Mainor broke Democrat ranks in March to vote for Georgia Senate Bill 233, which would have created $6,500 vouchers for students at schools performing in the bottom 25 percent in the state. Parents could use the money to send their children to private schools or for homeschooling.
She explained in a video she posted to social media Tuesday, “The Democrats at the Capitol took a hard position and demanded every Democrat vote against children and for the teachers union.”
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Mainor told Fox, “For far too long, the Democrat Party has gotten away with using and abusing the black community.”
“They crucified me. When I decided to stand up in support of safe communities and refused to support efforts to defund the police, they didn’t back me. They abandoned me,” she added.
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I see they’re resorting to their usual lazy, simplistic explanations of why everyone who isn’t a far-left loon behaves the way they do.
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putting the interests of illegal aliens over the interest of Americans.
BOOM!
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Because she wants to improve the education of black people, she is accused by the left of turning against them. This highlights the disconnect between the ideology of the far left and the people it claims benefit from said ideology.