March 3, 2020 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, March 3
Good morning! It’s Day 2 of Qualifying.
- Late last night, Governor Kemp confirmed that there are two cases of the COVID-19 virus in Georgia.
- It’s Super Tuesday! (What is Super Tuesday?)
- Amy Klobuchar dropped out of the race, and along with Butiegege, she endorsed Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination.
- Basil Eleby, the Atlanta man charged with the I-85 fire three years ago, is sober and recently graduated from a Fulton County accountability court.
- Funding for five outdoor projects in metro Atlanta.
- In coastal Georgia, rising tides combined with septic outflow is cause for concern.
- This is a captivating longer read about Miranda, a white suburban woman in Augusta.
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Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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I am thinking many of the people who voted early are wishing we used Ranked Choice Voting right about now.
More than 4M have voted early in California, according to reports, and 800K or so for Buttigieg, Klobuchar and Steyer.
I’m not opposed to RCV but first I’d look at restricting early voting. EV is necessary in many cases but in too many others the effect is to diminish the idea of voting. Election day should mean something.
Not opposed to that, but in return election day should be a holiday.
California Gov. Jerry Brown Jr., former mayor in Oakland, vetoed a bill to expand ranked-choice voting.
“In a time when we want to encourage voter participation, we need to keep voting simple. Ranked choice voting is overly complicated and confusing,” Brown said in his veto message. “I believe it deprives voters of genuinely informed choice.”
It’s too complicated to list your candidates in order of preference?
i’m not sure how a woman who didn’t vote for trump in 16, is a key to his being reelected in 20…her very nature seems very different than the rest of the folks in columbia county that gave trump like 70% of the vote last time…
That is a ridiculous article but not unexpected from the Wapo ,or to be posted here by this particular diarist.
Trump will probably not only win 70% in Columbia County, but I bet he wins over 70% of the white female vote in Columbia County.
I was looking at the AJC’s photos of election qualifiers, and imo the first one of Kemp ‘introducing’ Loeffler is not a good look for the Senator. It reminded me of a parent taking his kid to school. Even disregarding that impression it still seems like overkill for the Gov to make an appearance. If I were a Collins supporter, I might even be wondering if Kemp had to show Loeffler where to sign.
https://www.ajc.com/news/state–regional-govt–politics/photos-candidates-qualify-for-georgia-2020-elections/1qtM6h73tbotNCEIwIHiRO/