Georgia US Senate race between Walker and Warnock could head to runoff election



Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and GOP challenger Herschel Walker are competing in Georgia's widely-watched U.S. Senate race that will help determine the balance of power in Congress, but if neither candidate secures a majority of the vote, the Peach State contest will head to a December runoff.

Warnock entered office last year after winning a special election runoff. Walker, a former NFL player, had the backing of former President Donald Trump during the U.S. Senate contest.

Walker has been accused of paying for women to get abortions, though the pro-life figure has denied the allegations.

One woman, who alleged that Walker urged her to get an abortion and then reimbursed her for the procedure, is a registered Democrat and the mother of one of Walker's children, according to the Daily Beast. In an interview with ABC News Live anchor Linsey Davis, Walker denied the abortion-related allegations and accused the woman who made the allegations of lying. According to the New York Times, the woman said that Walker had "maybe only seen" the 10-year-old child "three times." Walker told Davis that the claim was "not true" and that it had been made "difficult" for him to see the child.

Walker has also denied the allegations of another woman who accused him of pressuring her to terminate a pregnancy and of paying for an abortion.

But while Walker has run as a pro-life candidate, Warnock, the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, is openly pro-choice. Warnock's campaign website calls him "a pro-choice pastor" with "a profound reverence for life and an abiding respect for choice."

Democrats headed into the 2022 midterms with a precarious grip on power in the Senate, with the chamber divided 50-50 between 50 Republicans, 48 Democrats, and two independent lawmakers who caucus with the Democrats. Vice President Kamala Harris' role as tie-breaker has given Democrats the upper hand in the chamber.

Georgia advances legislation that outlines a 'Parents Bill of Rights' in education



In Georgia, lawmakers advanced legislation that, if signed into law by Republican Governor Brian Kemp, will give parents more direct input over what their children are being taught in the state’s public schools.

Just the News reported that on Friday, the Georgia state senate voted 31-22 in favor of House Bill 1178. The bill outlined a “Parents’ Bill of Rights” that proponents of the legislation say allows parents adequate recourse if they are opposed to the curriculum being taught in their local public schools.

The bill passed the Georgia house of representatives on March 4 with a vote of 98-68.

The reader summary provided for the bill by the Georgia legislature said that bill will provide a “review of removal of students in elementary and secondary education, so as to provide for the protection of the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their minor children from undue infringement by a state or local government entity, local board of education, or any officer, employee, or agent thereof.”

Frontline Policy Action, a group that according to its website, advocates for “God-honoring legislation that protects family values and advances freedom for Georgians,” took to Facebook to declare its support for the bill.

The group said, “Once signed into law by the governor, this bill will codify parental rights as fundamental in Georgia law and strengthen parents’ control over their children’s education.”

It is expected that Kemp will sign the bill, now passed by both chambers of the Georgia legislature, into law.

“Parents have a right to be actively involved in their child’s learning experience,” Kemp said. “This bill will ensure transparency in education by promoting a partnership between parents [and] educators.”

This legislation has worked its way through the Georgia legislature in the midst of similar legislation in its neighboring state of Florida making national headlines.

Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis recently signed the “Parental Rights in Education” bill into law much to the chagrin of liberal legacy media, leftwing institutions, and transnational corporations.

These groups inaccurately characterized the legislation as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill despite the proposed law barring schools from teaching about “sexual orientation or gender identity” to students in kindergarten through third grade or “in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards” and not the utterance of the word “gay.”

In response to DeSantis signing the “Parental Rights in Education” bill into law, the Walt Disney Company — one of Florida’s largest employers —announced that it would work to get the law repealed or overturned by the court system.

Similarly, in 2019 after Kemp signed a bill into law that banned abortions after the detection of a fetal heart beat in Georgia, Hollywood studious and celebrities vowed to boycott the state.

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock caught endorsing blatant lies about Georgia's new voting law



Newly elected Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock is in hot water this week after it was revealed that he signed onto a third-party email that contained blatantly false information about his state's new voting law.

What are the details?

The Washington Post reported on Monday that the progressive lawmaker, who was elected to the Senate in the state's Jan. 5 runoffs, "signed an email sent out by the advocacy group 3.14 Action after the law passed, which claimed it ended no-excuse mail voting and restricted early voting on the weekends" — both of which were early proposals that ultimately didn't make it into the law.

The outlet added that a spokesperson for the senator claimed Warnock signed off on the email days before the law was passed when the aforementioned provisions were still under consideration. But that claim is obfuscated by the fact that the email was sent several days after the bill became law.

According to Fox News, the email was sent on March 30, five days after Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed the bill into law.

Either way, the imaging is bad, Hot Air noted in its coverage of the news.

"Which possibility is worse?" the outlet asked. "That Warnock knew an activist group's email which he endorsed was full of lies and endorsed it anyway because it was effective propaganda for his cause? Or that the substance of Georgia's law is so irrelevant to prefab Democratic demagoguery about 'Jim Crow 2.0' that Warnock just didn't care if the email was accurate or not?"'

What's the background?

The law — which aims to further secure state elections by requiring a photo ID for mail-in ballots and actually expands early voting hours — has been the subject of fierce scrutiny and numerous false attacks by Democratic politicians and media organizations since its introduction in the state legislature.

Last month, President Joe Biden earned "Four Pinocchios" from Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler for twice repeating a lie that the law "ends voting hours early so working people can't cast their vote." The president's statement was a complete reversal of the truth, which is that the law expands voting hours and days for early voting.

Biden has also on several occasions chosen to characterize the law as the "new Jim Crow" and earlier this month backed calls demanding that Major League Baseball move its All-Star Game out of the state.

Warnock would later frame the MLB's decision as an "unfortunate" consequence of Republicans' decision to move forward on the voting law.

"It is my hope that businesses, athletes, and entertainers can protest this law not by leaving Georgia but by coming here and fighting voter suppression head on, and hand-in-hand with the community," he said in a statement.

Several major businesses, such as Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines, have openly criticized the law following Democrats' smear campaign against it. Biden last week warned Republicans in Georgia and elsewhere to "smarten up" or else lose more business over similar legislation.

Georgia election board launches investigation into Raphael Warnock over voter registration misconduct



Georgia's state election board has voted to move forward with an investigation into newly elected Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock (Ga.) over potential voter registration misconduct, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

What are the details?

Warnock, who defeated Republican incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler on Jan. 5 in the state's runoff election, is listed as a respondent in the case because of his past role as board chairman of the New Georgia Project, a third-party voter registration group founded by former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.

According to an investigator with the secretary of state's office, the organization is accused of failing to meet deadlines by hand-delivering 1,268 voter registration applications to the Gwinnett County elections office after the mandatory 10-day period had elapsed. State election rules require completed applications to be submitted by voter registration organizations within 10 days after they are received from the voter.

Warnock was serving as board chairman in 2019 when the misconduct reportedly took place. Neither he nor the New Georgia Project responded to AJC's requests for comment.

On Wednesday, the election board voted 3-0 to continue on with the probe after the board's only Democratic member recused himself and Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who is the board's chairman and normally doesn't vote unless to break a tie, abstained.

What else?

It's the latest point of contention between the organization and the state's Republican officials. Raffensperger, though dismissive of former President Trump's claims of widespread fraud during the 2020 presidential election, launched investigations into several third-party voter registrations groups, including the New Georgia Project, over the last few months.

In December, Raffensperger announced that his office was investigating the groups for "repeatedly and aggressively" seeking to register "ineligible, out-of-state, or deceased voters" ahead of the runoff election.

Raffensperger claimed that despite repeated warnings, his office had "received specific evidence that these groups have solicited voter registrations from ineligible individuals who have passed away or live out of state" — including three mailers that arrived on the secretary of state's own doorstep urging his deceased son to register to vote.

Anything else?

In a statement to Forbes, New Georgia Project CEO Nse Ufot said, "Today's State Election Board meeting was the first time we heard about the allegations regarding NGP's important voter registration work from 2019. We have not received any information on this matter from the Secretary or any other Georgia official."

Warnock resigned from his post on the New Georgia Project's board on Jan. 28, 2020. Since Loeffler was an appointed senator, Warnock's victory was in a special election. His term ends in 2022.

The announcement for the investigation comes only days after Fulton County prosecutors launched an investigation of their own into Trump's January phone call with Raffensperger.

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