If Kemp wins reelection in November, he said he will propose $25 million in next year’s budget to help schools recruit more counselors. Another $15 million would give thousands of paraprofessionals $3,000 in reimbursable grants to offset the cost of becoming certified teachers.
The Republican also addressed safety, saying he would establish “intruder alert drills” and voluntary anti-gang training.
The proposals are among a handful of new policy initiatives unveiled by Kemp as he campaigns for a second term against Stacey Abrams. The Democrat has called for $50,000 base pay for teachers, and to boost school spending and repeal college “campus carry” firearms laws.
“Once again, Brian Kemp’s last minute election year half-measures are too little, too late to address the serious and growing issues facing our students and educators under his watch,” said Abrams spokesman Alex Floyd. He added that Kemp’s “campaign season gimmicks won’t fool Georgia parents.”
Kemp, meanwhile, called Abrams’ plan too expensive. “Either one of two things is going to happen,” he said. “If she were governor, she’d fulfill those promises by raising your taxes or she’s not going to fulfill them and she’s not going to raise your taxes.”
Kemp framed his call for a new “learning loss” grant as a response to school districts that played “pandemic politics” by delaying a return to in-person classwork. In 2019, 73{af0afab2a7197b4b77fcd3bf971aba285b2cb7aa14e17a071e3a1bf5ccadd6db} of third-grade students were reading at or above grade level, a number that dropped to 63{af0afab2a7197b4b77fcd3bf971aba285b2cb7aa14e17a071e3a1bf5ccadd6db} this year.
After meeting a 2018 campaign promise to boost teacher pay by $5,000, Kemp’s proposal doesn’t call for another pay hike for public school educators or staffers. He said the state must explore other ways to address a shortage of public school educators.
The paraprofessional grants “will help get more teachers in the classroom,” Kemp said, “and assist Georgians already passionate about our students achieving career success.”
He said he would propose the $25 million to hire more school counselors, because he thinks they are “undeniably a critical asset to the overall health, well-being and long-term success of our future leaders.” He said educators tell him student mental health is among their top concerns.
That element of his proposal drew criticism from an Oconee County mother. Julie Mauck, the Oconee chapter president of Moms for Liberty, was the first person allowed to ask a question at Kemp’s event outside the school.
“One of the things that parents have been screaming over the past couple of years is that our schools don’t belong in the mental health or the health clinic business and we’re just seeing that unfold before our very eyes with you as governor,” Mauck said, “and to me, it’s overreach. To most Republicans, it’s overreach.”
Kemp responded that Georgia school districts have local control and could spend the money as they see fit.
His answer didn’t satisfy Mauck, who ran on the GOP ballot for the Oconee school board this year and lost in the June runoff election. She is concerned that schools will intervene in student decisions about sexuality or vaccination, without parental consent.
Though Mauck views Kemp as out of touch with what parents want on this issue, Kemp has signed several parental rights-type bills into law that were passed by the GOP-led General Assembly, including one that restricts how teachers can talk about race and another that streamlines the process for removing books that some find objectionable.
Sen. Burt Jones, R-Jackson, a candidate for lieutenant governor who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump, was on hand to introduce Kemp. Jones praised him for raising teacher pay and signing legislation to “empower parents” and to reduce the number of standardized tests.
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An outsider looking to oust an incumbent, he blames U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, President Joe Biden and Democratic-controlled Washington for the stubborn inflation that has forced consumers to pay more for groceries, household products and other things they need.","_id":"AM3CHMFYZRCDXPGJSYFRWZSEH4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662988288781,"type":"text","content":"“Fuel costs are still high. Grocery costs are still high. My utility bill has gone up, and so inflation is still up and everyone knows that,” Walker said Friday at a campaign event in Gwinnett County. “And it’s because of Sen. Warnock. You know that. And President Biden.”","owner":"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc","copyright":"Ben Gray 2022","address":"locality":"Norcross","region":"Ga","caption":"Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker speaks frequently about inflation on the campaign trail, blaming higher costs on his opponent, Democratic U.S. Sen. 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On the campaign trail, he blasts “Biden-Abrams” inflation and said he has little power to “fix all the broken problems coming out of Washington” but can help with more limited initiatives.","_id":"HNTJWRNMCVEWTJC66NYUIUMRSI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662940766784,"type":"text","content":"“That’s what we’re working to help you fight through,” he said. “It’s why we suspended the gas tax and why I’m going to work with the members of the General Assembly to see what else we can do to help Georgians fight through this tough time.”","level":1,"_id":"HWJIKDWERFEHZCK56F3D6XRLAQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1663076553590,"type":"header","content":"Who’s right?","_id":"UZHZ3I7UJVFBXMPMHDPF62F34U","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1663016993143,"type":"text","content":"Unlike Walker, Kemp has a record to promote.","_id":"G6UNOM2BTBHWBIU6O2QG7KR5P4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662940766780,"type":"text","content":"Two massive auto plants that plan to pump out thousands of electric vehicles were lured with the promise of a talented workforce, sophisticated logistics and huge packages of incentives.","_id":"ICA6KPRPHJAZRMZVAAQ64YQFWA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1663076553593,"type":"text","content":"And the state has amassed record state budget surpluses — fueled by federal spending and boosted taxes collected on higher wages and prices of goods. Kemp opposes calls by Abrams to use this year’s surplus to finance a slate of programs she said would help lift Georgians out of poverty. Kemp said those “generational promises” would be too costly in the long run.","_id":"SZJIAMSIJJEGBNVXURQAORJS2A","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1663076553594,"type":"text","content":"He’s also regularly announcing new ways to spend billions of federal funding adopted by the Democratic-controlled Congress over the objections of Kemp and other Republicans.","_id":"7QMVTFD6SNA6TMYGYC5ZOTCOJE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1663016993146,"type":"text","content":"Democrats, meanwhile, have said that the major pieces of federal legislation boosting spending on infrastructure and climate initiatives will help rein in rising costs while at the same time shifting jobs to growing sectors such as the green industry.","owner":"id":"ajc","copyright":"Atlanta Journal-Constitution","address":"locality":"Athens","region":"GA","caption":"When Gov. 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The port in Savannah, for instance, is a huge driver of Georgia’s economic growth, but its expansion has also been funded by millions of dollars in federal money.","_id":"OI53NQCBUVD3XB2UJHNKE5DCA4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662993471014,"type":"text","content":"Still, he said, the federal government has far more sway over macro trends, such as inflation.","_id":"PDI2VJWLMJBJ5HNX6KPWTCZKI4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662993471015,"type":"text","content":"“And that’s the part of the economy people interact with more frequently,” Toma said. “It’s an important part of the equation, but it’s a lot more complicated than that.”","_id":"52DYR773RBCPFJUNW2T3UL5CCM","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662993471016,"type":"text","content":"But facts don’t always dictate how voters feel about an issue. 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Brian Kemp outlined a second-term education agenda Monday with an additional $65 million to address “learning loss,” recruit more counselors and help school staffers become full-fledged teachers.","_id":"BAXQPO2GLJD6JPMSNYPCCT4YEY","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1663000848605,"type":"text","content":"The money is a fraction of the state’s $10.7 billion education budget this year or the nearly $6 billion in pandemic-related federal aid for Georgia’s schools, but Kemp said a chunk of this new state funding would be targeted to tens of thousands of Georgia students.","_id":"R4IH7I6HKVEHXFE6CWN4C3CBGQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1663000848606,"type":"text","content":"The first $25 million would be an amendment in the current budget to help elementary school students still struggling from pandemic-related school closures, specifically rising fourth graders who read below grade level.","_id":"6NOP5OXD5NCW7ASKREABRAUYHY","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1663000848607,"type":"text","content":"“We’ve targeted it after 44,000 children, not every child in the classroom,” Kemp said at a press conference outside Dove Creek Elementary School in Oconee County, where his daughter taught last year.","_id":"M6DR3D5FRVDAFECBWGA6IT7YKE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662955982254,"type":"text","content":"Eligible schools would compete for the grants, which could pay for tutoring services, more staff or other programs.","_id":"UPZBQYCX3RDZ7OWW6ZAWPUDIZU","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1663000848609,"type":"text","content":"If Kemp wins reelection in November, he said he will propose $25 million in next year’s budget to help schools recruit more counselors. Another $15 million would give thousands of paraprofessionals $3,000 in reimbursable grants to offset the cost of becoming certified teachers.","_id":"QKPF2RAXBFBJXPNPUAQRCLN2HQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662955982251,"type":"text","content":"The Republican also addressed safety, saying he would establish “intruder alert drills” and voluntary anti-gang training.","_id":"QLWJWNVRDBF6FOICOFJHGZ5SGM","additional_properties":"comments":[],"_id":"SMR2S7LB4FAZTEPWTYHCKAV4RE","type":"interstitial_link","content":"Georgia schools: More guns, more shootings, more security measures","url":"https://www.ajc.com/education/georgia-schools-more-guns-more-shootings-more-security-measures/OYWW6A24IFF5FGHTPGSWFZUXDQ/","_id":"CNWR6LIGSVHOTC2VNJALA6EG6M","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662955982252,"type":"text","content":"The proposals are among a handful of new policy initiatives unveiled by Kemp as he campaigns for a second term against Stacey Abrams. The Democrat has called for $50,000 base pay for teachers, and to boost school spending and repeal college “campus carry” firearms laws.","_id":"MBV2OZVGWVB75HTASO267L5HAE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662993020368,"type":"text","content":"“Once again, Brian Kemp’s last minute election year half-measures are too little, too late to address the serious and growing issues facing our students and educators under his watch,” said Abrams spokesman Alex Floyd. He added that Kemp’s “campaign season gimmicks won’t fool Georgia parents.”","_id":"J3XDXM3BIRDPHOP5EMQTKIS3RE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1663000848613,"type":"text","content":"Kemp, meanwhile, called Abrams’ plan too expensive. “Either one of two things is going to happen,” he said. “If she were governor, she’d fulfill those promises by raising your taxes or she’s not going to fulfill them and she’s not going to raise your taxes.”","_id":"3YYBVDRAVFCQRIFLPK5L52YOO4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662955982253,"type":"text","content":"Kemp framed his call for a new “learning loss” grant as a response to school districts that played “pandemic politics” by delaying a return to in-person classwork. 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Julie Mauck, the Oconee chapter president of Moms for Liberty, was the first person allowed to ask a question at Kemp’s event outside the school.","_id":"7VXEBX7NZFGMRFRHB3HZHDURX4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1663000848622,"type":"text","content":"“One of the things that parents have been screaming over the past couple of years is that our schools don’t belong in the mental health or the health clinic business and we’re just seeing that unfold before our very eyes with you as governor,” Mauck said, “and to me, it’s overreach. 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During the 2022 General Assembly session, lawmakers approved refunding about $1.1 billion or so of that to taxpayers. Much of the rest was put into state reserves.","_id":"XJPZAE6FC5DQ3EFVLZBS436HY4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662642643198,"type":"text","content":"Stacey Abrams, the Democratic nominee for governor facing Kemp in November, has said if elected, she will spend some of the fiscal 2022 surplus to give raises to teachers and law enforcement officers and pay for an expansion of Medicaid, the health program for the poor and disabled, to cover more people. 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The document cites the GBI’s recently launched probe into the Coffee County breach.","_id":"6BUB3QLGAFFZFDJMMTW3YYWYGM","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919236,"type":"text","content":"Days later, the grand jury signed off on a subpoena seeking documents from the Atlanta IT services firm SullivanStrickler. Jurors are requesting evidence of any communications or contracts with Powell, who hired the company to work in Coffee County, and L. Lin Wood, an attorney who challenged election results in Georgia and elsewhere.","_id":"HJRZYBTCH5FP5CR5MWKXR6BGVA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919237,"type":"text","content":"On Jan. 7, 2021, a day after Trump supporters ransacked the U.S. Capitol, four SullivanStrickler technicians traveled to Coffee County and copied confidential data from voting equipment. Recently released security camera footage shows the group being let into the local elections office by Cathy Latham, then the chairwoman of the Coffee County GOP. (Latham was recently named a target of the Fulton investigation because of her role as a fake Republican elector.) The elections data copied by the SullivanStrickler was eventually shared with Trump allies and conspiracy theorists.","_id":"KYTZDHJQGVCDHIURMAXLWW4I5E","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919238,"type":"text","content":"Revelations about the breach have been made public as part of litigation in a separate, ongoing election security lawsuit.","_id":"C6LYEXAMINHA3MGYSLKVMRHUKU","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919239,"type":"text","content":"To veteran Atlanta defense attorney Steve Sadow, the reason why the Fulton County grand jury, which is tasked with examining potential criminal interference in Georgia’s 2020 presidential elections, would be interested in an incident as far away as Coffee County is obvious.","_id":"BHVLJHOOUVDG7PVL5CGWR6SCXM","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919240,"type":"text","content":"“RICO, RICO, RICO,” he said, using the acronym for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.","level":2,"_id":"MAGXLNGGQVAC3EIDT4EYL7VBFA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919241,"type":"header","content":"Mobsters and school teachers","_id":"YV2AZBOTOVFFPCSV32MGZWBM2Y","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919242,"type":"text","content":"The anti-racketeering law allows prosecutors to seek charges against people who participate in repeated misconduct in the name of protecting an enterprise, which could be a gang, an organization or interest.","_id":"IDIA6VASXNA6LDWTK2PI4J2WXM","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919243,"type":"text","content":"Passed by Georgia lawmakers in the early 1980s to address “the increasing sophistication of various criminal elements,” the statute mirrors federal legislation that was created to pursue the mafia. Locally, it’s been used successfully against street gangs, an assisted suicide network, a former DeKalb County sheriff who assassinated his political rival and, most famously, Atlanta Public School teachers.","_id":"TR6TO4PRAFBXPBKL5QTMHT2UPM","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919244,"type":"text","content":"Under Georgia’s RICO law, which legal experts say is broader than the federal statute, prosecutors must prove a pattern of racketeering activity conducted in the interest of an enterprise. District attorneys must show at least two crimes that were committed to benefit the enterprise, known as predicate acts.","_id":"KWABA47EVFGCVDOKFQW6ZSKMQY","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662595384057,"type":"text","content":"Should they decide to pursue RICO charges here, prosecutors could deem the Trump campaign — or the presidency itself — the enterprise, experts say.","_id":"54JYQ6RLMFGSPKZ45V3QSKOJBE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919245,"type":"text","content":"Sadow said that not all predicate acts have to have been committed in Fulton County — or even in Georgia. As long as Willis can prove that at least some occurred on her home turf, she can make a RICO charge as broad as she’d like, he said.","_id":"NJ2HQ2WANNBU5DSBQNZCMLVDFA","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662595384059,"type":"text","content":"Sadow, who is representing the rapper Gunna in another RICO case being pursued by the Fulton DA’s office, is among the law’s critics who argue that prosecutors have overused it far beyond its intended scope.","_id":"AROHOWLLXRB5DK42QKP7EE3CPI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662595384060,"type":"text","content":"“I think (Willis) believes that RICO is the all-embracing, universal means by which to put an end to crime, which with all due respect is just nonsense,” said Sadow.","_id":"LY3NCPT5L5D7NI65Y5W4YJZZL4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662595384061,"type":"text","content":"Defense lawyer Emily C. Ward said even though a political campaign is a far cry from the Vito Corleones and Luca Brasis that RICO was designed for, racketeering could potentially apply in this case.","_id":"PEW6NXWVQZHN3AK23PEKCDOYSQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919247,"type":"text","content":"“It’s not too much of a stretch to say that it appears that overturning Georgia’s election results was the goal,” said Ward. “So disparate acts that were done in concert by the same group of folks to further that goal could potentially get you to racketeering.”","_id":"6TKXOOMUGBAY3BDYRDWM44MGAE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919249,"type":"text","content":"Willis has publicly acknowledged that she’s considering RICO since the very beginning of her elections investigation. It was included in a February 2021 list of a half-dozen state laws she said might have been violated in the aftermath of the 2020 elections.","level":2,"_id":"CGHRS7OFVRFIBNHDLTOGI7XXSE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919248,"type":"header","content":"‘I’m a fan’","_id":"N335VK4O25ASZOXIP2YOAEITRM","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662595384065,"type":"text","content":"The veteran prosecutor is well-versed in the statute.","_id":"J2FIPAD4FFFFJFXPMU7SZK7Y7M","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919250,"type":"text","content":"Willis became famous in 2015 for successfully using the law to secure 11 convictions and 21 guilty pleas from teachers and administrators implicated in the Atlanta Public Schools test-cheating scandal.","_id":"NKSOLLUTUVDHPL7J7K7MALH4JI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919251,"type":"text","content":"Since being sworn in as DA in January 2021, she’s used RICO multiple times, most recently to pursue the gang Young Slime Life that allegedly includes several well-known rappers, and a separate group named Drug Rich, which is accused of burglarizing the homes of celebrities and athletes.","_id":"AF4P7I2DWFBW7F2ZDOUFLLNBKQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919252,"type":"text","content":"“I’m a fan of RICO,” Willis said at a recent press conference. “And the reason that I am a fan of RICO is I think jurors are very, very intelligent … They want to make an accurate decision about someone’s life. And so RICO is a tool that allows a prosecutor’s office and law enforcement to tell the whole story... so that (jurors) can have all the information they need to make a wise decision.”","_id":"DWU5TM46ONCMVOJZX42BX4OYYY","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662595384069,"type":"text","content":"Indeed, RICO allows prosecutors to introduce evidence that, without racketeering charges, would not be admissible in court.","_id":"H33VWTFZ2FD5LOAFQAXS4G3BTY","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919253,"type":"text","content":"A spokesman for the Fulton DA’s office declined to comment for this story.","_id":"GGIYQQZGVJBFLA2UQI2W57ZUM4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919254,"type":"text","content":"Recent court filings seeking the testimony of out-of-state witnesses for Willis’ elections investigation have cited “multi-state, coordinated efforts to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere.”","_id":"S3KXGCYTS5CTLFXHSPNH2RS7X4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662585345762,"type":"text","content":"Some legal experts see that as evidence that prosecutors are serious about potential RICO charges. They also point to the March 2021 hiring of John Floyd as an adviser to the DA’s office. The Atlanta civil litigator is widely considered to be one of the nation’s leading authorities on racketeering and conspiracy law.","_id":"YNDPNNZIJJHQ3MBAH5NTBASX6I","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919255,"type":"text","content":"Beyond RICO, Willis has indicated she’s also examining a similar state law for the elections investigation: conspiracy to commit election fraud. 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(The GBI has stated that it’s conducting a criminal investigation of computer trespass, a felony with a maximum sentence of 15 years.)","_id":"2TGT4VOM4JCL3DDUNLSDE5FUY4","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919261,"type":"text","content":"To prove computer trespass or invasion of privacy, Eisen said prosecutors would need to gather enough additional evidence to establish that access to the voting machines was obtained without proper authority and that copying elections data constitutes a prohibited removal of information as laid out by state law.","_id":"DD6IY24K7NGNJB76DVWJTFAJAY","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919262,"type":"text","content":"“I don’t think that we have enough public information yet to make the determination whether this works as part of a larger RICO or conspiracy case, or whether it could be a freestanding, separate count,” said Eisen, an ethics expert who served as general counsel to House Democrats during Trump’s first impeachment trial. “My educated guess is that owing to the apparent role of an Atlanta firm and Atlanta individuals there’s likely sufficient jurisdictional basis.”","_id":"U74HVFWAOZC5LBTJ2XHPPTURCE","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662573919263,"type":"text","content":"Ward said that details will matter here, such as which public officials signed off on bringing in the SullivanStrickler employees. 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And it’s a clear effort by the Walker campaign to create an equivalency, to tell voters not to be bothered by Walker’s past abuse of his wife because Warnock has been accused of the same. But from what we know today, that’s just not the case.","_id":"Z7VGICZIZNDK3LXLXXTLNYIRWI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662145371272,"type":"text","content":"Hours of the full video footage reviewed by the AJC in 2020 includes three Atlanta investigators saying they found no evidence that Warnock did anything wrong in the incident. Warnock denied his ex-wife’s accusations and told the AJC at the time, “It didn’t happen.”","_id":"RJNBECHCOFBEFGZLMT5B22AFAI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662063289775,"type":"text","content":"Since then, he and his wife have finalized their divorce, but his custody battle may be ongoing. Court filings about it showed his ex-wife requesting additional custody and saying Warnock had left her “financially strapped.”","_id":"IWUZK2KT7NEXLIU3UZECBVOOPU","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662063289776,"type":"text","content":"Later filings have been sealed after a request from Warnock and his ex-wife, which they said would protect their two young children from the kind of negative campaign publicity that’s happening at this moment.","_id":"DTURZHDBUVB33E34ZK2ADDQR2U","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662063289777,"type":"text","content":"The great irony is that while the Walker campaign and Schumer’s PAC are exchanging accusations about who did or did not abuse their wives, the issues that matter the most to Georgia women — and all Georgians really — are going completely undebated between the two.","_id":"2N4VXY4C3VCLFK4NMHTOXW4WHQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":["pos":145,"comment":"to be "],"comments":[],"_id":1662063289778,"type":"text","content":"At the top of the list of issues is abortion. This is the first election in nearly 50 years when women will go to the polls with abortion rights decided by lawmakers, instead of established and protected by Roe v. Wade.","_id":"I4EAAL53FJCVJEE3D63WYAL4NQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662063289779,"type":"text","content":"Warnock did not mention abortion at two campaign events Wednesday, but told me later, “I’ve long been an advocate for a woman’s right to choose. And there is a stark contrast between me and my opponent on this issue and we ought to have a conversation about that.”","_id":"FLA3EB5LNZDQ5KJMCK7LZ2OFMQ","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662063289780,"type":"text","content":"The contrast is real. After a “Women for Herschel” event two weeks ago, where Walker also did not raise the abortion issue, he told me, “I’m for life and I will always be for life.” Specifically, Walker has said he opposes all abortions, with no exceptions for rape or incest.","_id":"Q6SHIDP7Z5BSXDYCGGMYVB2UFI","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662063289781,"type":"text","content":"In an exchange with a British journalist after Walker was pressed on possible exceptions, he repeatedly demanded that the reporter ask Warnock about his position instead.","_id":"U2JFAKDJ7ZF3HD5OQORMLOERUU","additional_properties":"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1662063289782,"type":"text","content":"“One of my opponents believe in a woman should kill her baby and he’s a pastor. Have y’all asked him about that?” he said, raising his voice. “Have you asked him about, there’s a commandment that says you shalt not kill. Have you asked him that question? Have you asked him about that? 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Absolutely stunned to hear about the passing of @pagepate. Kind and generous-- a real gem of a lawyer. I will miss our conversations about all things Georgia law. A huge and tragic loss for the Georgia legal community. #gapol
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Devastated to hear that my friend @pagepate died this weekend. We were friends for almost 30 years & came from same part of GA. He was brilliant, kind, professional - and could cross examine the hell out of a witness. Such a loss to his family & everyone who loved him.
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His arrival is part of an influx of migrants seeking asylum that is overwhelming local assistance agencies — and a sign that an unprecedented level of unauthorized migration to the U.S. is making itself felt in communities far from the border.","_id":"TVE3J5KFWNGEVBOUKQ6BF5GUQ4","type":"text","additional_properties":"_id":1663012972289,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[],"content":"It’s not clear how many migrants have come to Georgia in recent months, because no one agency tracks all arrivals. But charities here say the surge in numbers and lack of coordination to ensure the newcomers have somewhere to go has stretched them to their limits.","_id":"4VUWWH6XBNHJTKHF74FV56CZ3M","type":"text","additional_properties":"_id":1663012972290,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[],"content":"During the first 10 months of fiscal year 2022, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported more than 1.8 million apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border, a record high. Under a Trump-era public health rule enacted during the pandemic, hundreds of thousands of migrants continue to be quickly turned away without a chance to apply for asylum, a right protected by U.S. law. But the authorities are allowing others to temporarily stay in the country, including those whose home countries would be reluctant to take them back. That includes Torres’ homeland: Venezuela.","_id":"D4NTMXXYOFED5JIOBHEIL2CGEA","type":"text","additional_properties":"_id":1662738546964,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[],"content":"In July, Venezuelans accounted for roughly 17,600 border crossers, up from about 6,000 in July 2021. Only 51 of the Venezuelans who arrived in July were expelled under the public health rule. 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The group had arrived the night before, and headed to the LAA because they had heard migrants like them could find assistance there.","_id":"5H54R254S5FJPNNZKXX25ULTKE","type":"text","additional_properties":"_id":1662738546977,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[],"content":"“I never imagined that once I got here, I would have to sleep on the street again. It’s something we had to do more than once during our journey,” Jineth Ramírez, a mother of three, told Telemundo.","_id":"MST6ZRM3ONAJBHUXUDQJL2NOL4","type":"text","additional_properties":"_id":1662738546978,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[],"content":"Cynthia Román-Hernández, a managing director at the LAA, says the nonprofit has come in contact with up to 130 Venezuelan asylum seekers in recent months. It’s a population she describes as extremely vulnerable, without the means to secure shelter or even food. 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And there’s also the fact that Atlanta’s immigration court judges tend to turn down the overwhelming majority of asylum cases they handle.","_id":"5A2E4IYGLBCVXCWT3PNEXQUBJ4","type":"text","additional_properties":"_id":1662995969398,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[],"content":"Analyzing six years’ worth of data, from 2016 to 2021, Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), found that over 90{af0afab2a7197b4b77fcd3bf971aba285b2cb7aa14e17a071e3a1bf5ccadd6db} of the 2,588 cases reviewed in Atlanta ended in rejection.","_id":"PGA3M5NTLVAQPDYMEFJQT3EPGI","type":"text","additional_properties":"_id":1662738546987,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[],"content":"“It’s no secret that the Atlanta immigration court has traditionally been among the lowest granting immigration courts in the nation,” said Carolina Antonini, a local immigration attorney. “The numbers don’t lie.”","_id":"I6OHN3U6JFAI3FIJIWAWO6STCI","type":"text","additional_properties":"_id":1662738546988,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[],"content":"Advocates such as Román-Hernández and Flores-Maisonet are telling migrants about those factors, to let them know that it might be more advantageous for them to move on to other, more immigrant-friendly jurisdictions, where the years-long wait for a decision on their case is more likely to end in permission to permanently stay in the country.","_id":"E3RF7JL7EZDBPJPJUDR7EWDZSY","type":"text","additional_properties":"_id":1662738546989,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[],"content":"“Here it’s more of an uphill climb,” said Román-Hernández. “That’s the reality of Georgia.”","_id":"6VXNTL6SSVCBZER74QD37LIEPY","type":"divider","additional_properties":"_id":"VTKB5JO4TVAP7KTZ3E3PXLW6E4","comments":[],"_id":"AHHXYQD6KFCVLL52YU7WHZE5CE","type":"text","additional_properties":"_id":1663020438331,"comments":[],"inline_comments":[],"content":"How asylum works","_id":"NQSNZSGJJNF4LLZEGFQTINCIPY","type":"list","list_type":"unordered","additional_properties":"comments":[],"inline_comments":[],"items":["_id":"3P2OEFB7UJB4LN7E2GXMNJBTDE","additional_properties":"comments":[],"inline_comments":[],"block_properties":,"content":"Asylum is a protected immigration status for migrants who are able to prove a well-founded fear of persecution in their home countries based on their race, religion, nationality, politics, or membership in a particular social group.","type":"text","_id":"B7OJ4KSVB5EGXDAFBTOHXQ3KLA","additional_properties":"comments":[],"inline_comments":[],"block_properties":,"content":"For migrants entering the U.S. illegally, their odds of being granted asylum vary depending on the location of the immigration court that will ultimately handle their case. 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