GA Runoff: The Clear Case for Herschel Walker
JENNY BETH MARTIN| NOVEMBER 21, 2022 | 10:55AM EST
On December 6, Georgia voters will choose their next U.S. senator in a runoff between incumbent Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker. For Georgians determined to find someone to stand up to Joe Biden and his party’s radical political agenda, the choice is clear – Herschel Walker.
Unlike the Georgia Senate runoffs two years ago, this year’s runoff contest will not decide control of the Senate. It will only decide which man will control one seat for the next six years. But Georgians concerned about the direction of the country know that makes the contest no less important.
Warnock has been a senator for almost two years. He is responsible for the failings of the current government, because he cast the deciding vote for all the bad things that passed the Senate on a tie vote where Vice President Kamala Harris broke the tie – and there were 26 of those votes, more ties in the Senate in the first two years of a president’s term than at any time previously.
For instance, he was the deciding vote on Biden’s $1.9 trillion “COVID relief” bill and Biden’s $740 billion “Build Back Better” bill, both of which helped fuel the worst inflation in 40 years.
Warnock was given multiple opportunities to break with his Democrat colleagues. He never did. On issue after issue, there he was, voting in lockstep for extreme policies.
He cast the deciding vote for: Biden’s demand for $80 billion so the IRS could hire 87,000 new employees to harass middle-class taxpayers; refusing to ensure that all those new IRS agents would not audit taxpayers with taxable incomes below $400,000; price controls to kill the development of lifesaving drugs; hundreds of billions of dollars in tax hikes on individuals and businesses; Obamacare expansion; defunding border security and the enforcement of immigration laws; making energy more expensive; and funding DHS efforts to carry out “sustainability and environmental programs” rather than more Border Patrol agents to deal with the surge of illegal immigrants at the southern border, among others.
Raphael Warnock voted with Joe Biden 96 percent of the time. He voted to break the Senate when he voted to eliminate the filibuster, which protects the rights of the minority, and he voted to pack the Supreme Court with additional radical left-wing justices.
It is fair to say, based on his voting record, that Raphael Warnock is – and, importantly, would be – a reliable vote for the radical left-wing agenda of the modern Democrat Party.
Herschel Walker offers a stark contrast.
Herschel – those of us who grew up in Georgia don’t need to hear his last name to identify him – acknowledges, “I am not a politician, but I am a warrior for God.” He is willing to stand up and fight against the wokeness that’s infecting our culture and poisoning it, whether it’s a military that’s weakening itself by being “worried about ‘pronouns’ instead of defending our interests,” or what’s happening to our kids in our schools.
On his bus tour, just before the election, Herschel said it best when he said simply: “We gotta get people who have the guts to fight for this country … I’m going to Washington to represent my family, because I’m sick and tired of the crime on the streets, I’m sick and tired of them raising our taxes, I’m sick and tired of the border not being secure, I’m sick and tired of them going after my kids, I’m sick and tired of them mistreating my police.”
Herschel is right. He’s sick and tired, and so are we. We’re sick and tired of a government that thinks it knows better than we do how best to raise our children, how best to invest or save or spend our money, how best to live our lives.
Our Constitution is our guarantee that our government will protect the rights that flow to us from our Creator. Herschel knows that. Warnock, based on his voting record, does not. The choice is clear.
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Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Presbyterian minister, author and television host. His books include War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction; Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009); Death of the Liberal Class (2010); Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), written with cartoonist Joe Sacco, which was a New York Times best-seller; Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt (2015); and his most recent, America: The Farewell Tour (2018). Obey, a documentary by British filmmaker Temujin Doran, is based on his book Death of the Liberal Class. Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, West Asia, Africa, the Middle East (he is fluent in Arabic), and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005) serving as the paper's Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief during the war in the former Yugoslavia. In 2001, Hedges contributed to The New York Times staff entry that received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, the University of Toronto and Princeton University. Hedges, who wrote a weekly column for the progressive news website Truthdig for 14 years, was fired along with all of the editorial staff in March 2020. Hedges and the staff had gone on strike earlier in the month to protest the publisher's attempt to fire the Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer, demand an end to a series of unfair labor practices and the right to form a union. He hosts the Emmy-nominated program On Contact for the RT (formerly Russia Today) television network. Hedges has also taught college credit courses for several years in New Jersey prisons as part of the B.A. program offered by Rutgers University. He has described himself as a socialist, specifically an anarchist, identifying with Dorothy Day in particular.
This Vietnam Veteran Paid His Past-Due Rent. He Still Faces Eviction From Ebenezer Baptist Church’s Apartment.
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) claims his church's building does not evict residents
ATLANTA—A Vietnam veteran says he still faces eviction from the low-income apartment building owned by Sen. Raphael Warnock's (D., Ga.) church, even though he paid his past-due rent.
Columbia Residential, which manages Ebenezer Baptist Church’s low-income apartment building in Atlanta, served a dispossessory notice to Phillip White on Sept. 20 for $192 in unpaid rent. White, an African-American Marine veteran who served two combat tours in Vietnam, provided money order receipts to the Free Beacon on Thursday showing he made a $542 rent payment on Nov. 2. But Columbia Residential hasn’t filed a motion to dismiss its case, indicating it still intends to evict White.
It’s not clear why Columbia's dispossessory notice against White remains open following his Nov. 2 rent payment. Warnock said in October that no one had been evicted from his church’s property, a claim undermined by court records showing that authorities have carried out two court-ordered writs of possession against residents since the start of the pandemic.
White said he expects the building to resume evictions after Warnock is clear of his Dec. 6 runoff election against Republican Herschel Walker.
"He said there would be no evictions," White, 69, said. "He knew that was a lie. What he was really saying is there would be no evictions until after the election."
Warnock has repeatedly dodged questions about evictions from his church’s apartment building since the Free Beacon broke the story in October. On Thursday, Warnock refused to tell reporters if he thought the eviction notices were wrongly sent, or if he had even looked into the issue. Earlier, on Sunday, the Democrat railed against the "vicious and venomous" critics of his church, saying they "attack the church of Jesus Christ."
Ebenezer Baptist Church, which pays Warnock a $7,417 monthly housing allowance, owns 99 percent of the dilapidated Columbia Tower at MLK Village. The church tapped Columbia Residential, one of the nation’s leading eviction filers, to manage the property on its behalf.
Walker launched an attack ad on Friday accusing Warnock of preying on the poor while lavishing himself with lucrative benefits from his church. The Republican has also offered to pay the past-due rents of the more than a dozen residents of Columbia Tower who have faced eviction since the start of the pandemic. But White said Thursday he didn’t want the help.
"I help me. I got to tighten my belt and do the things I need to do," the veteran said. "If I do that, I'll feel good. I'll sleep better at night, sleep real good."
Warnock called his opponent’s offer to pay the back rents a cynical ploy to "exploit" the residents facing eviction from his church’s apartment building. He also accused Walker of sullying the name of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. for "short-term political gain."
Thursday was the second time White spoke with the Free Beacon. White, who doesn’t own a phone, told the Free Beacon in early October the building managers at Columbia Tower treat him "like a piece of shit."
The Free Beacon had unfettered access to Columbia Tower and spoke with residents inside the building when this reporter first visited the property in early October. On Thursday, however, a security guard who identified himself as Jones was on site to keep reporters out.
"They don’t want no media in the building," he said.
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