Peach Cobbler With Stacey Abrams And Brian Kemp!

Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp square off in the Georgia governor debate.

Tonight was the Georgia gubernatorial debate. The three candidates running for governor square off.

Republican secretary of state Brian Kemp, former Democratic state lawmaker Stacey Abrams and Libertarian nominee Ted Metz have an opportunity to address the folks in the Peach State.

Abrams who is an African American female who is hoping to become the first woman of color to become governor of a Southern state.

Kemp will not resign from his position. That sparked controversy. He overseas the election board.

The election board purged 80,000 voters off the ballot. Many of the voters purged off the ballot are Black and young voters.

The Rolling Stone reported that Kemp spoke  at a ticketed campaign event that his Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams' voter turnout operation "continues to concern us, especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote," according to audio obtained by Rolling Stone.

An attendee of the "Georgia Professionals for Kemp" event says they recorded 21 minutes and 12 seconds of the evening, held last Friday at the Blind Pig Parlour Bar near Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood. As proof of their attendance, the source shared with Rolling Stone a receipt of their donation, which granted access to the gathering.

Not long after Kemp began his remarks, the candidate expressed worry about early voting and "the literally tens of millions of dollars that they [the Abrams camp] are putting behind the get-out-the-vote effort to their base."

Kemp then asserted that much of that Abrams effort is focused on absentee ballot requests. "They have just an unprecedented number of that," he said, "which is something that continues to concern us, especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote — which they absolutely can — and mail those ballots in, we gotta have heavy turnout to offset that."

On Tuesday morning, a member of the Kemp campaign confirmed that the event took place, but the campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment about the specific remarks. On Monday evening, a Facebook page for the event was removed from public view. Candice Broce, the press secretary for the Georgia Secretary of State, told Rolling Stone that she does not respond to campaign-related inquiries because she represents the office.

Ted Metz is the Libertarian candidate. He was missing an ear in the debate.

It is fairly typical for a political candidate expressing confidence in his campaign to lament his opponent’s efforts to increase turnout. But Kemp’s position as Georgia’s Secretary of State clouds his statements. While it is not uncommon for someone in such a position to be on a ballot during an election that he or she oversees — they do have to run for re-election, after all — the state’s top elections official speaking of “concern” about increased early and absentee voting raises further questions about a conflict of interest.

Kemp, a staunch Trump supporter who has echoed the president’s language concerning Russia’s election interference, was also the only Secretary of State in the nation to refuse Homeland Security’s help prior to the 2016 election.

One other reason that Kemp’s “right to vote” line is potentially alarming is that he is facing another lawsuit after reports that an abnormal number of absentee ballots — 595, more than a third of the state’s total and 300 of which reportedly belong to black and Asian American voters — have been rejected in the state’s most racially diverse county, Gwinnett. The Georgia Muslim Voter Project and Asian-American Advancing Justice-Atlanta filed suit last Monday to request that three days be provided after the election for rejected voters to resolve the matter so that their ballots count.

All of these reports have led to charges that Kemp is suppressing votes; in his Friday remarks, he alleged that Abrams is doing the same. Urging attendees to reach out to people to help him gain support, Kemp said, "If they email back and say, 'I"m a conservative, Republican female, and I've gotten 15 mailers talking about how bad Brian Kemp is,' that's somebody we need to talk to. [Be]cause they are doing that for a reason. They are doing that to suppress your vote."

It's time to get out of the bubble. The trolls are looking to find October Surprises. Don't be distracted.

Are you going to vote?

Yes. I'm voting Democrat.

Yes. I'm voting Republican.

No. I'm not voting.

VOTE.

VOTE EARLY.

VOTE ABSENTEE BALLOT.

VOTE NOVEMBER 6, 2018.

Restore sanity to the country. Under Trump, people of color are suffering. With white people calling the law on Black people minding their business, it becomes infuriating that we allow our lawmakers to continue to justify this.

The Republicans are using the same old tired playbook given to them by Rush Limbaugh, Sean "Softball" Hannity, The Drudge Report, Fox News and Breitbart. They are fully engaged in the culture war.

Two weeks to go. If one candidate can't make it over 51%, then they'll have a rematch. Abrams is hoping she can get enough support from enthusiastic Democrats. 

Republicans refuse to talk about the economy, the demise of Sears/Kmart, gun violence, the continuous Brett Kavanaugh hearing or the agenda to fix immigration. They rather get you upset over comments made by entertainers and opinion agitators. The Republican Party is accepting white extremism within its ranks.

The Republican Party has control of the White House, Congress, state governorships and the junk food media. Why are they complaining about the obstruction from the Democrats? You keep complaining about the junk food media. They are holding you accountable for the racism, anti-Semitic, anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant and climate change denial rhetoric.

C'mon folks, the Republican Party isn't doing anything to help Americans. They've been in favor of the "status quo" and "white male privilege."

They control almost everything.

They won't if we don't get our asses out to vote this Midterm. The price is too great to allow Trump continue the course he's going.

The Republicans are going to win on the culture war. We can stop them if we get off our asses and vote this Midterm election.