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Advance voting period: 04/29/24 to 5/17/24   |   Registration deadline: 4/22/2024​

So it looks like Biden vs Trump (again)

Shocking no one, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump breezed to primary victories in Georgia and three other states on Super Tuesday to clinch the presidential nominations and formally kick off a November rematch. In Georgia, with 99% of the vote counted, Biden had 95.2% of the Democratic primary vote, while Trump won 84.5% of the GOP ballots. Nearly 300,000 more Georgians voted in the GOP primary than the Democratic primary. That’s partly because Republicans had an active race for the White House for part of the three-week early voting period, while Biden faced token opposition as an incumbent. But Republicans seem certain to point to turnout numbers as a sign of enthusiasm. Poll results published less than an hour before the end of voting in the Georgia presidential primary showed former President Donald Trump leading President Joe Biden among state voters.Trump held a three percentage point advantage — within the margin of error — in the survey of 1,144 registered voters by CBS News/YouGov. The polling indicates Trump is finding support among some Georgia voters who cast ballots for Biden in 2020 and those who anticipate Trump’s economic policies would be better than Biden’s. Follow developments in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Two bills that need your help...

The Safe at Home Act (HB 404) needs your help! As we approach the final days of the legislative session, HB 404 is still in the Senate Rules Committee and has not received a vote by the full Senate. Please call Rules Committee members and ask for HB 404 to be brought up for a vote. This bill would strengthen the rights and protections of renters in Georgia. HB 404 would require landlords to ensure rental homes are “fit for human habitation.” The bill also increases protections for tenants facing eviction for falling a few days behind on rent.

Ultimately, the Safe at Home Act would help families stay safely and stably housed (essential for preventing homelessness and its health consequences). Housing is a basic necessity closely tied to a person’s health. To live healthy lives, Georgians need stable, affordable, healthy housing. When people experience housing instability, they can suffer more from health conditions such as asthma, diabetes, and disabilities. Kids and parents may miss school and work because of unstable or unhealthy housing. 

The Senate Health & Human Services committee took a good public health bill—HB 1170—and added new, harmful language. In a surprise move, the committee changed the bill to ban providers from offering medicines that temporarily pause puberty to Georgians under 18. This form of puberty-delaying medicine helps give young people more time to mature and understand their gender so they can make important decisions about their health care. 

As amended, HB 1170 now moves to the Senate Rules Committee, and we need your help to urge committee members to reject this hurtful amendment. 

Every major U.S. medical and mental health organization—including the American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and American Psychological Association—supports access to gender-affirming care (including puberty-delaying medicines) for transgender young people and adults. These kinds of personal health care decisions should be left between families and medical providers without political interference.

Sign up for the Georgia Health Action Network (GHAN) to receive action alerts that let you know when there are opportunities for advocacy and action

Crossover Fallout

Having hurdled one obstacle, Coastal Georgia lawmakers sponsoring major pieces of legislation now face another: how to get the buy-in from counterparts on the other side of the state capitol. Measures that cleared either the House or Senate by Crossover Thursday’s deadline must now be taken up by the other chamber. Only if agreement is secured in both the bodies by the close of session later this month can the bill be passed to Gov. Brian Kemp for his approval or veto. Read about it in The Current.

2024 Election Schedule

Not all dates will be necessary; please check the Chatham County Board of Election website for updates.

ELECTIONELECTION DATEADVANCE VOTING PERIODREGISTRATION DEADLINE
Presidential Preference Primary (PPP)March 12, 202402/19/24 to 3/8/242/12/2024
General Primary / Nonpartisan ElectionMay 21, 202404/29/24 to 5/17/244/22/2024
General Primary / Nonpartisan RunoffJune 18, 2024ASAP, but no later than 06/10 to 06/144/22/2024
General Runoff for Federal OfficesJune 18, 2024ASAP, but no later than 06/10 to 06/145/20/2024
General ElectionNovember 5, 202410/14/24 thru 11/1/2410/7/2024
General RunoffDecember 3, 2024ASAP, but no later than 11/25/24 to 11/27/2410/7/2024
General Runoff for Federal OfficesDecember 3, 2024ASAP, but no later than 11/25/24 to 11/27/2411/4/2024
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Republicans don’t even try to hide their hatred for the “socialist” program. For example, in this election year, each of the Republican candidates for president was unabashed in their commitment to destroying Social Security.

— Nikki Haley came right out and said that the retirement age of 65 is “way too low.” Apparently, nobody told her that Reagan raised it to 67, which went into effect in 2022. But 67 is probably also too low for Haley.

— Vivek Ramaswamy wanted to fire 75% of all the employees in the Social Security Administration, bringing the program to its knees and making it impossible for people turning 67 or with disabilities to even apply for benefits.

— Chris Christie told Americans we need to “deal with” Social Security by cutting benefits, while Ron DeSantis voted, as a Congressman, three times to raise the retirement age to 70 and privatize the system.

— And Senator Rick Scott, who recently met with Trump about the possibility of his bid to replace Mitch McConnell, has called for the Social Security and Medicare programs to both “sunset” at the end of five years if Congress doesn’t write new legislation to keep them alive.

And, of course, Trump proposed to gut the program four times, in each of his budgets, when he was president.
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Reform the Supreme Court now!

Lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court have created an elite class of justices, immune to the consequences of their actions and decisions.

The lack of Supreme Court term limits fosters an environment ripe for corruption, where decisions can be swayed by long-standing political affiliations, personal biases, or worse, the interests of the powerful few who have their ears.

From Justice Clarence Thomas's failure to disclose luxury trips funded by a wealthy donor to Justice Samuel Alito's participation in a case involving a company in which he held stock, it’s clear that as time goes by impartiality and accountability are increasingly compromised.

It’s time for term limits for Supreme Court justices. We must liberate our highest court from the stranglehold of lifetime tenure.
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Crossover Day is this Thursday! Crossover Day marks the point during the legislative session when a bill must be approved by its originating chamber. Once a bill gets this approval, it moves across the Capitol to the other chamber. A House bill that has yet to be passed by the House or a Senate bill that has not been passed by the Senate by this Thursday, February 29, is unlikely to become law this session. (There are occasional exceptions to this rule.) ... See MoreSee Less

Trump signed the 2017 tax cuts into law and frequently cites it on the 2024 campaign trail as one of his signature achievements. He has said that he would extend the expiring tax cuts if elected to a second term. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that extending the tax cuts through 2033 would add $3.5 trillion to the federal deficit. [AJC] ... See MoreSee Less

'Certainly the Alabama supreme court justices seem more concerned with theology than biology. Their ruling seems to have been heavily influenced by the Bible and repeatedly references God and biblical scholars. Chief Justice Thomas Parker, for example, wrote: “Human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God … even before birth, all human beings bear the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory.” (If this is true, by the way, then God must have incurred a lot of wrath towards Alabama: the state has one of the highest execution rates in the US and recently made headlines for executing a prisoner with nitrogen gas, an untested method that the UN has condemned as cruel.)' ... See MoreSee Less

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The UK is in recession.

The US isn't.

Thanks, Biden.
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Meet candidates for US House, Superior Court judge, and county sheriff at Thursday's Skidaway Dems membership meeting - mailchi.mp/7262b47d084d/meet-the-candidates-some-of-them-at-the-next-skidaway-dems-membership-mee... ... See MoreSee Less

Meet candidates for US House, Superior Court judge, and county sheriff at Thursdays Skidaway Dems membership meeting - https://mailchi.mp/7262b47d084d/meet-the-candidates-some-of-them-at-the-next-skidaway-dems-membership-meeting

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