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But let’s be clear : Having children is why you’re worried about your price for gas. It’s why you’re concerned about how much food costs, for women, this is not a reductive issue. You ca n’t divorce being forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy from the economic realities of having a child. And so these are — it’s important for us to have ‘ both and ’ conversations. We do n’t have the luxury of reducing it or separating them out. Stacey Abrams SAYS SHE'S' BEEN IN CONVERSATIONS' WITH THE WHITE HOUSE, WANTS BIDEN TO JOIN HER ON CAMPAIGN TRAIL.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I’m so proud to endorse my friend, Charlie Bailey, to be the next lieutenant governor for the great state of Georgia, i am proud to be Leader@staceyabrams’ chosen running mate.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Across the South, we have local leaders dedicated to improving the lives of those around us, and our goal is to call upon that common bond and support this transformative work through the Southern Economic Advancement Project, sEAP exists to connect, amplify and ultimately help produce exciting innovations and opportunities for the South.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The moral equivalent of saying that voter turnout defuses or disproves voter suppression is like saying that more people getting in the water means there are no longer any sharks.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have to remember, voter suppression isn't about stopping every voter, it's about blocking and impeding those voters who are considered inconvenient.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have to reach every single voter, in every way we can. We had record turnout and we saw a composition of voters the state had never seen before, my mission in'22 is to go back to those voters and tell them how working together, we can make certain they thrive, and that will lead us to victory in November.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
George Soros and the Soros family have demonstrated nothing but deep investment and commitment to social justice.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When Stacey Rice apply for a job, and Stacey Rice very publicly don't get it, it can be a little hard, through no fault of Stacey Abrams own, it was stolen.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Concession needs to say something is right and true and proper. ... You can’t trick me into saying it was right.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I will always acknowledge the legal outcome of an election. I have never failed to do that.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
To watch an elected official – who claims to represent the people inthis state, baldly pin his hopes for election on the suppression of the people’s democratic right to vote – has been truly appalling, so let's be clear, this is not a speech of concession.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The stiffest of stiff arms came courtesy of Stacey Abrams, who refused to appear at Biden's voting rights speech in Atlanta last month. That's her big issue, by the way, and we never did find out what Abrams's scheduling conflict was, the truth is, Biden is human kryptonite for anyone hoping to win politically. Even the dullest of Democrat knives in the drawer know that Biden is clueless on stopping the biggest issue facing us now, which is inflation.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Because when you say that you want people to be safe, how can you say that you are willing to take away background checks and mental health checks before someone can have a weapon in this state?
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I do not believe in the privatization of justice, there is a profit motive behind private prisons that is anathema to the core of who we are as Americans.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We have to reallocate resources, so, yes, if there is a moment where resources are so tight that we have to choose between whether we murder Black people or serve Black people, then absolutely: Our choice must be service.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We have to have a transformation of how we view the role of law enforcement, how we view the construct of public safety, and how we invest not only in the work that we need them to do to protect us but the work that we need to do to protect and build our communities, and that’s the conversation we’re having: We’ll use different language to describe it, but fundamentally we must have reformation and transformation.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If you want to know what happens in nine days, if we don’t get out and vote, looking at what’s happening in Texas.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
You see, I'm here to tell you that just because you win doesn't mean [you've] won, i come from a state where I was not entitled to become the governor, but as an American citizen and as a citizen of Georgia, I'm going to fight for every person who has the right to vote to be able to cast that vote. And here in Virginia, you need to cast that vote for Terry McAuliffe!
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
If you want to figure out what could happen to you if you don't get out and vote, pick up a newspaper that talks about Georgia. If you want to know what happens in nine days, if we don't get out and vote, looking at what's happening in Texas, if you want to know what happens to Virginia, if we don't vote, if you don't turn out on November the 2nd, then remember what you felt like in November of 2016.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Voters without a driver's license or state ID must surrender their personal information and risk identify theft just to receive an absentee ballot.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
No one has ever objected to having to prove who you are to vote, it's been part of our nation's history since the inception of voting. But as the RNC pointed out over the weekend, the Georgia Democrat had a sharply different stance just two months ago, linking voter ID requirements to.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
That's one of the fallacies of Republican talking points that have been deeply disturbing. No one has ever objected to having to prove who you are to vote. It's been part of our nation's history since the inception of voting.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
What has been problematic is the type of restrictive ID that we've seen pop up, our point is simply that the restrictions on the forms of ID should meet the needs of the people. And what he is proposing makes sense because it says what we've had in this country for so many decades which is that people can prove their identity in various ways but we should not narrow the playing field so much that we push voters out of participation simply because of restrictions that make no sense and do not increase security.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The characters and their adventures are what I'd wished to read as a young Black woman -- stories that showcase women of color as nuanced, determined, and exciting, as Selena Montgomery.Berkley and as Stacey, I am proud to be a part of the romance writing community and excited that Berkley is reintroducing these stories for new readers and faithful fans.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
My romance novels really helped me think the different lives that people lead and how important it is to tell stories so you can bring people to the table and they understand why issues matter to them.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's nice to like somebody and have somebody like you, I wrote a lot of books about it.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We have seen dramatic turnout among communities that typically are not at the top of mind for candidates. We have seen them be engaged, be encouraged and we have seen them turn out.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
According to the current analysis we are running even or ahead of where we were in 2020 November election, but we know that this is just the beginning we still have to get to Election Day and I don't count anything until it's done, but we are incredibly enthusiastic not only about African American turnout, but we have seen increases among Latino and API voters.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We have been working at this for more than a decade. And there have been dozens of organizations and hundreds of people who've made this their primary mission.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I had two messages. One, voter suppression is real and we have to have a plan to fight back. Two, Georgia is real. You've got to have a plan to fight here, we were very privileged to know that by the time Joe Biden won the nomination, Joe Biden had Georgia on Joe Biden mind.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
As a young black woman, growing up in Mississippi, I learned that if you don't raise your hand, people won't see you, and they won't give you attention, but it's not about attention for being the running mate, it is about making sure that my qualifications aren't in question, because they're not just speaking to me, they're speaking to young black women, young women of color, young people of color, who wonder if they too can be seen.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
From the beginning of this catastrophe, Governor Kemp has demonstrated that Governor Kemp has absolutely no competency in this process.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I would share your concern about not picking a woman of color, because women of color -- particularly Black women -- are the strongest part of the Democratic Party, Democratic Party, but that loyalty isn't simply how we vote, it's how we work, and if we want to signal that that work will continue, that we're going to reach not just to certain segments of our community, but to the entire country, then we need a ticket that reflects the diversity of America.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Voter suppression is no longer billy clubs Jim Crow. It's closed polling sites + 6 hr waits w/o pay. COVID is no excuse, who needs to vote in person ? The disabled. The homeless or displaced. Voters w/language barriers. Folks who didn't get their ballots in time. Americans.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
They knew that he was impaired because he had parked in that driveway, and they knew when he ran away that he did not pose a danger that was a deadly force incentive.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
For me it was déjà vu. I am very aware of the frailty and the fallacy of the notion of acts of democracy in Georgia, we watched the secretary of state in 2018 set up a system of voter suppression and we watched the current secretary of state continue the same work. The reality is this was a mix of incompetence, malfeasance. It was a deliberate indifference to voters and it's a solvable problem.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I tried to steam it open because I watched a lot of' Perry Mason.' It didn't work, and so I had to go vote in person.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There will be legitimate fears about using absentee ballots, we have to use every tool in the toolbox.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The worry is that while trying to push a false opening of the economy, we risk putting more lives in danger, and there's nothing about this that makes sense.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The most economically vulnerable are struggling to survive, unable to afford groceries or medicines for their children, let alone cover utilities, car payments, and rent.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I know that my résumé... is usually reduced to' She didn't become the governor of Georgia.' But it is important to understand all the things I did to prepare for that contest, that campaign was not a whim. It was the outcome of decades of deliberate work building my capacity to serve as many people as I could, in the most effective way possible.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think this is the right time. Look, I think it was important that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders have the time Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders needed and the space Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders needed to make the decision about what Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was going to do with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders campaign and now Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has endorsed, President Barack Obama has endorsed, and I was very, very glad to do it today.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The notion of identity politics has been peddled for the last 10 years, and its been used as a dog whistle to say that we shouldnt pay too much attention to the new voices coming into progress.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I would argue that identity politics is exactly who we are, and its exactly how we won.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Citizens tried to exercise their constitutional rights and were still denied the ability to elect their leaders, under the watch of the now - former secretary of state, democracy failed Georgia. So lets be clear, this is not a speech of concession.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I believe so, for me, the conversation that led to me writing' Lead from the Outside' is that we have to start evolving what the face of leadership looks like.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Running in a primary to be the vice president is very different than someone who has been selected by the party to be the nominee asking you to serve as a partner. I am open to all options.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think that I am a skilled communicator, i think Im a very good thinker. No, I know Im a good thinker. I know I have policy chops. I have foreign policy experience.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I need women of color, particularly black women, to understand that our achievements should not be diminished.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The shutdown was a stunt engineered by the president of the United States, one that defied every tenet of fairness and abandoned not just our people but our values.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Make no mistake, the former secretary of state was deliberate and intentional in his actions, i know that eight years of systemic disenfranchisement, disinvestment and incompetence had its desired affect on the electoral process in Georgia.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Georgia still has a decision to make about who will we be in the next election. And the one after that. And the one after that, so we have used this election and its aftermath to diagnose what has been broken in our process.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
So let's be clear -- this is not a speech of concession, because concession means to acknowledge an action is right, true or proper, as a woman of conscience and faith, I can not concede that. But, my assessment is the law currently allows no further viable remedy. Now, I can certainly bring a new case to keep this one contest alive, but I don't want to hold public office if I need to scheme my way into the post. Because the title of governor isn't nearly as important as our shared title -- voters. And that is why we fight on.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Whether or not it results in a run-off is to some extent just one point of this.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I'm so bullish on Medicaid expansion because I know it works, it's a bipartisan proven solution that even Gov. Mike Pence did in the state of Indiana.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Voter suppression is not simply about being told' no,' it's about being told it is going to be hard to cast a ballot. And that's the deeper concern that I have. Because under( his) eight years of leadership, Mr. Kemp has created an atmosphere of fear around the right to vote in the state of Georgia.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I'm an African American woman who is charting a very different path to doing this, i think people want to know : Will it work ? But I also think they're excited by the possibility it could work. Because it changes the conversation about how we have these debates, how we run these campaigns. It shows that there's another way to win.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
When you know that what you are doing is going to have a disproportionate affect on people of color and on women and you do it anyway, that erodes the public trust in the system and that's problematic.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Part of the responsibility is to have honest and authentic conversations about race, what we have to talk about is how race intersects with power. And my mission is to demonstrate that we can change the face of power, evolve it to include more people and people of different complexions and different backgrounds without diminishing anyone else's access to opportunity.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Our state's rich and complicated history courses through our memories on nights like tonight, when the unexpected becomes the truth.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
In front of the most powerful place in Georgia, telling me I don't belong there, that's resonated for me for the last 20 years. The reality is having a right to be places does not always mean that you'll gain admission.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I'm very aware that as an African-American woman, I will be doing something no one else has done.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
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