Abrams Stumps Outside Atlanta in Area Considered Critical

Campaigning for governor outside Atlanta on Sunday, Stacey Abrams lambasted her opponent, incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp.

She charged he sits on huge surpluses and federal grants rather than spending it to ease problems like low teacher pay and ailing hospitals. She accused him of doing it while giving sweetheart deals to his friends. She railed against him running ads in which he pointed a shotgun “at a child” and said “he was going to round up people in trucks.”

“We live in a house where the roof has been leaking for 20 years, and every time it floods, they put a patch on the roof and put out a bucket,” she said, alluding to Georgia’s 20 years of Republican governors. “We’re here to replace the roof and fix the plumbing.”

Abrams hit on familiar Democratic campaign themes this fall—abortion, gun control, voting rights, Jan. 6, “far-right extremist Republicans,” and more money for health care and education. So did most of the local candidates who joined her for nearly three hours of campaign speeches to around 300 people in the main theater of a brand new public school arts center in Cumming.

Bob Christian, Democratic candidate for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, campaigned with Stacey Abrams in Cumming, Georgia, on Sept. 18, 2022. (Courtesy of Bob Christian campaign)

She targeted Kemp’s liberalized gun carry laws, six-week abortion ban, and election reforms tightening the permissive absentee ballot measures passed in a rush in 2020 during the pandemic. “It’s cost us jobs, it’s cost us opportunity, and it’s the precursor to how we lose our rights in the state of Georgia.”

Abrams, though, was prominent among those who seemed to encourage Major League Baseball to move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta last year to protest Kemp’s election reforms, which Democrats claim amount to voter suppression. She

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