Tag: Stacey Abrams

Stacey – Running for the Governor of the United States of America!

We already know that the two Democrat candidates, Stacey Evans and Stacey Abrams, have tons in common.  They are both experienced, qualified, lawyer, legislator, women, and candidates for the Governor of Georgia.  They would both be breaking barriers by being the first woman governor for Georgia.  With the May 22nd primary looming over us, how

Evans Campaign Says Ethics Complaint “Frivolous” and “False”

Don’t believe the ethics complaint. That’s the not-unexpected response from Stacey Evans’ gubernatorial campaign. In a statement sent to news outlets on Friday, Seth Clark, a spokesperson for the Evans campaign blasted the complaint filed against his boss.  “The complaint filed by Stacey Abrams’ campaign manager is frivolous,” he wrote. “It is filled with factual

I Think Stacey Evans Just Went Negative Using A Positive Endorsement

Stacey Evans may have neutralized a massive chunk of Stacey Abrams support. In a day of trading endorsements, Evans had the better one. Emmanuel Jones, the former chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus took great effort to show what he perceived was Abrams’ too-eager willingness to work with Republicans on signature Democratic issues. Here are

Stacey Abrams Endorsement Compilation — Georgia Equality Edition

One of Georgia’s largest LGBT groups threw it’s muscle behind Stacey Abrams in the Democratic Primary for Governor. Georgia Equality said it was endorsing the former House Minority Leader for her long-standing commitment to LGBT rights. Perhaps what’s most important about this endorsement is that Abrams’ rival, Stacey Evans, is fast running out of constituencies

Gubernatorial Candidates Missing in Action

Last night all the Georgia gubernatorial candidates were invited to participate in a community forum at Atlanta Technical College.  Of the nine candidates invited five confirmed their attendance yet only one candidate for the Governor of Georgia appeared before the packed audience – Representative Stacey Evans.   The event hosted by Delta Sigma Theta sorority, Zeta

Cagle, Abrams Continue to Lead in Halfway-Useless Poll

Let’s get the big part out of the way: half of the Democrats polled in the lastest Mason-Dixon Georgia Gubernatorial poll don’t know who either Stacey is so who really cares what those numbers are (Stacey A. 29% to Stacey E.’s 17%). Also, this poll was conducted before the Delta-NRA fiasco and Casey Cagle has the support

Abrams Proposes Earned Income Tax Credit for Georgia

Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Stacey Abrams says she wants an Earned Income Tax Credit in Georgia. Unveiling her sweeping “Economic Mobility Plan” on Thursday (PDF), Abrams said Georgia’s version would start with a refundable credit at 5% of the federal EITC. Eventually the state EITC would move to a 10% credit. The cost of the Georgia