Greg Bluestein
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Greg Bluestein
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Husband, father, aspiring mensch. @AJC chief politics 🗞 @MSNOWNews 📺 @politicallyga pod 🎧 daily 📻 Author of FLIPPED📕 PG Newsletter 💻
- Just in: Stacey Abrams proposes raising the minimum salary for Georgia public school teachers to $50,000 a year if she’s elected governor, part of a four-year plan that would hike the pay of k-12 educators by $11,000. #gapol
- This is Joel from Woodstock, a former Republican who came to the Fulton County Jail this morning to deliver a message: “I want to see the sociopath who tried to steal my vote in 2020 go to prison.”
- As former President Jimmy Carter nears his 100th birthday, his milestone celebration isn’t on his mind. Defeating Donald Trump is. “I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” Carter told his son Chip this week.
- Joe Biden has surpassed President Donald Trump in Georgia, a state where no Democratic presidential hopeful has won since 1992. The race is still too close to call, but it’s a major moment as Biden has now erased Trump’s edge. #gapol
00:00- Yes, that was Stacey Abrams with a cameo on Star Trek Discovery as president of United Earth. A proud Star Trek nerd, Abrams has appeared as a guest on fan shows and has talked extensively about how the show shaped her perspective. #gapol
- Just in: Rock legend Bruce Springsteen will headline Vice President Kamala Harris’ first joint rally with former President Barack Obama in Atlanta on Thursday, kicking off a series of concerts in battleground states. #gapol
- Republican state Sen. Colton Moore was just arrested by state Troopers after he tried to defy a House order that banned him from the chambers. He was knocked to the floor after a scuffle, and was led away after telling authorities they were denying his rights. #gapol
- The Biden administration just announced the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in downtown Atlanta will serve as a federally-run vaccine site capable of administering 6K shots each day. #gapol
- Just in: Democratic @SenatorWarnock has set another fundraising record, ending the quarter with $25.6M in the bank #gapol #gasen
- I’m here at the Kamala Harris rally in DeKalb County. I wandered the crowd of thousands asked voters the same question: What’s going to decide this election in Georgia? I got some intriguing answers. Here’s a thread. #gapol
