Candidate: Lucy McBath
Position: Georgia’s 6th Congressional District Race Status: Seat currently held by Karen Handel (R), and is rated on the cusp between Lean and Likely Republican[1] Georgia’s sixth congressional district drew national media attention in the first half of 2017, when Congressman Tom Price was tapped to become the Secretary of Health and Human Services. His confirmation to that post and resignation from Congress triggered a special election. Karen Handel defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff by fewer than four percentage points in the most expensive congressional race in American history. Handel, a former senior vice president at Susan G. Komen for the Cure, sought to eliminate funding from the organization to Planned Parenthood for political reasons. That decision was quickly reversed, and Handel left Komen to reenter the political arena. According to her biography, Lucy McBath’s “passion for public service was awakened by her family’s tragedy in 2012. She is the mother of Jordan Davis, who was shot and killed at a gas station in Jacksonville, Fla. that year by a man objecting to the music he was playing in his car. The shooter used Florida’s stand-your-ground law as his defense. He was not found guilty of murder in his first trial. In an October 2014 retrial, the shooter was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.” McBath previously served as the national spokesperson for both Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. She was a campaign surrogate for Hillary Clinton in 2016 as part of the “Mothers of the Movement.” She wrote a powerful essay for Vanity Fair earlier this year about her run for Congress. In addition to being a fierce advocate for gun safety, she has progressive plans on a wide range of issues including healthcare, education, immigration and DACA, environmental protections, and LGBTQ rights. She faces a runoff election this Tuesday, July 24, and the winner of that contest will face Handel in November. Click here to view her campaign website and be sure to check her out on social media – LucyWins2018. If you’re able to support her financially with a donation of $20.18 (or another amount) you can contribute by clicking here, or via her website. Her website also has information on how to volunteer with her campaign. [1] From Wikipedia: Several sites and individuals publish predictions of competitive races. These predictions look at factors such as the strength of the incumbent (if the incumbent is running for re-election), the strength of the candidates, and the partisan leanings of the Congressional District (reflected in part by the district's Cook Partisan Voting Index rating). The predictions assign ratings to each seat, with the rating indicating the predicted advantage that a party has in winning that seat. Most election predictors use:
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