Project Logic Ga

The Georgia State House 154 contest between Republican Gerald Greene and Democrat John Hayes begins and ends for me with a few simple questions.  As you may know, Rep. Greene was elected as a Democrat in 1982.  That’s the year I graduated high school but Rep. Sanford Bishop has been in Congress too long to the Republicans.  Really?

For the record, I’m a Moderate Democrat who voted for GOP Senator Saxby Chambliss and GOP Senator Johnny Isakson in the past but gone are the Nathan Deal type conservatives who explained their governmental actions to people who voted for them as well as people who voted against them. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are right about differentiating traditional Republicans from Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) far right Republicans.  Personally, I think the MAGA people are the new majority in that party.

My state senator and state representative are Republicans and generally likeable fellows like Hayes and Greene.  But, I would have voted against them this year if they had opponents because I need Republicans to publicly state if they believe in Trump and Kemp and I need Democrats to say if they are for Biden/Harris and Stacey Abrams/Charlie Bailey.

In the newspaper today, Ms. Stacey Abrams drives home the importance of healthcare coverage for more Georgians while Governor Kemp mentioned job creation and blamed economic issues on President Biden.

John Hayes, Gerald Greene and every candidate on the ballot on every level this November should answer these questions:

1. Do you believe Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the White House or do you believe Donald Trump’s allegations of a stolen election?
2. Do you believe Trump was wrong to ask Georgia’s governor Kemp and Secretary of State Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes so he could win?

Also, there is a division among Georgia voters on the legal status of marijuana.  Generally, Republicans want the current prohibition while many Democrats support medical weed, decriminalization of marijuana or recreational usage.  How about these questions:

1. Do you support a statewide vote on legal marijuana?
2. Do you support a statewide vote on medical marijuana?

Birds of a feather flock together.  “No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else, he will hold to the one and despise the other.” “Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.”  Obama, Biden, Trump, Kemp and Abrams aren’t masters, birds or trees literally.  But, like it or not, they are leaders of teams and good people don’t condone the actions of Trump.  President Trump actually wanted our governor to commit a felony by pulling votes out of thin air. 

For me, the most courageous leader in Georgia is the Republican Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan who told Trump no to stealing the election and then could not in good faith run for reelection in Trump’s MAGA Republican Party.  Another question:

1. Do you favor Geoff Duncan and Barrack Obama’s cool tone for political/policy discussions or Donald Trump’s bullying bitter vitriol?

Jeb Bush said that if he had to be ugly to win the presidency, he rather not win.  He didn’t.  As quiet as it is kept, Senator Saxby Chambliss wanted out of Congress when the Far-Right wing of the Republican Party criticized his bipartisan negotiations in the Gang of 8.  Do what you want but I can’t support Gerald Greene or any Republican who stands idly by as bullies demonize Barrack Obama, Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and even Geoff Duncan. In her book Becoming, Michelle Obama wrote that she can’t get over Trump creating an environment that threaten the lives of her whole family.  You don’t play like that.  You don’t chill while the U.S. Capitol is under attack and an armed mob seeks to lynch the Vice President.

1. Did President Trump instigate the January 6 attack?
2. Would you vote for Trump again?

Campaigning is more than smiles and waves.  We need to get down to real issues and you can’t be good fruit growing on a rotten tree. I say one thing about Republicans: when the battle lines are drawn, they get in where they fit in.  They got over Trump’s drama filled past to win.  So, Democrats need to do the same.