Tag: Gov. Brian Kemp

3 Activists Against Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ Hit With Money Laundering, Charity Fraud Charges

Three members of a left-wing activist organization protesting the building of a police complex in Atlanta, Georgia, were granted bond on Friday after their arrest for money laundering and charity fraud. A spokesperson for Attorney General Chris Carr’s office told The Epoch Times that the state discussed evidence in a hearing on Friday alleging that…


DeSantis Hawks His Book Outside Atlanta

SMYRNA, Ga.—Hundreds of people lined up outside Georgia’s largest gun store hours in advance to hear Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speak on tour for his book “The Courage To Be Free.” DeSantis spoke at Adventure Outdoors in the Atlanta suburb of Smyrna on March 30. The crowd, estimated conservatively by DeSantis’s book tour team at…


DeSantis Promotes His Book Outside Atlanta

SMYRNA, Ga.—Hundreds of people lined up outside Georgia’s largest gun store hours in advance to hear Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speak on tour for his book “The Courage To Be Free.” DeSantis spoke at Adventure Outdoors in the Atlanta suburb of Smyrna on March 30. The crowd, estimated conservatively by DeSantis’s book tour team at…


Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Beats Stacey Abrams

Republican Gov. Brian Kemp beat Democrat Stacey Abrams on Nov. 8 for the second time, as Abrams conceded before the clock struck midnight. “Let me begin by offering congratulations to Gov. Brian Kemp,” Abrams told supporters in Atlanta. “I am suspending my campaign for governor,” she added later. Kemp had approximately 53.7 percent of the…


Abrams Exhorts Followers to Get Out the Vote

Nearing the end of her uphill battle to win the Georgia governor race, Stacey Abrams rallied supporters in Atlanta Saturday afternoon, urging them to call everyone they know to get out and vote on Election Day. The gathering at The Eastern, a theater in the city’s hip Reynoldstown neighborhood, felt like a party. Hip-hop music…


Kemp Leads Abrams as Georgia Governor’s Race Nears Finish

Less than a week before the election, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp appears poised to win a second term. His opponent, former state House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, has not been able to gain traction despite strong financial support from out of state and a national following so enthusiastic she was talked up as Joe Biden’s…


Kemp and Abrams Go At It Again

Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams’s second debate on Sunday night sounded a lot like their first one on Oct. 17. The two veteran candidates were on their games. Neither committed a notable gaffe or game-changing miscue. They sparred about things they’ve fought about before, bringing to bear the facts supporting their respective sides. They each…


Georgia Candidates Switch Sides in Interpreting the Economy

News Analysis Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams debated Monday for the only time in their campaign for Georgia governor. They presented starkly contrasting visions not only for the state but of what the state’s situation is now, and each represents a deviation from their party’s general take on things. The two, who ran against each…


Virginia’s Youngkin Campaigns to Reelect Kemp in Georgia

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, joining his Georgia counterpart and fellow Republican Brian Kemp at a campaign rally outside Atlanta on Sept. 26, reminded the crowd that the Georgia election revolves around the same issues that drove his own upset victory last year. But the two states’ respective experiences going into last year were very different,…


Abrams Stumps Outside Atlanta in Area Considered Critical

Campaigning for governor outside Atlanta on Sunday, Stacey Abrams lambasted her opponent, incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp. She charged he sits on huge surpluses and federal grants rather than spending it to ease problems like low teacher pay and ailing hospitals. She accused him of doing it while giving sweetheart deals to his friends. She railed…