District 2 residents hope runoff candidates fix streets, infrastructure
District 2 City Council candidates Mark Scott and Sylvia Campos said they plan to help neighborhoods, streets and parks among other important issues.
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District 2 City Council candidates Mark Scott and Sylvia Campos said they plan to help neighborhoods, streets and parks among other important issues.
Have to fit the documents, you hit the documents, elated at the documents, you refused to return the documents and they were in your desk with your passport. that case is easier to make and so the sooner we get it done the better. the january six case is more difficult because, just because of the nature of the charges in the nature's of proving conspiracy. but with a living presidential campaign, every prosecutor is trained at the department of justice to do everything you cannot to affect the politics of the situation. and i think it is just sort of hanging as a cloud, a pressure point hangi...
Process but those were the rules of the game. >> in 1990, years before burgess's election, the department of justice sued to overturn georgia's runoffs system. jonathan, the assistant attorney general for civil rights said the system had a quote, demonstrably chilling effect on the ability of flex to become candidates for public office. calling the majority vote rule a quote, electoral steroid for white candidates. but the court didn't see it that way. >> what the federal courts that is at the justice department failed to offer sufficient proof and so they allowed runoffs to continue. >> not a...
Race, one of elections in general have deeply racist origins and were designed to keep black candidates out of office. nbc news correspondent priscilla thompson takes into that fraud history. >> if you have heard mentioned georgia lately, chances are the next word in that sentence was runoff. >> one final senate contest remains in georgia. >> democrats of the potential to win one more seat. >> raphael warnock and herschel walker will be meeting in a runoff on december six. >> for more than 50 years, georgia has used runoff elections to decide races for members of the state legislature to who s...
Response? fox pressed him asking if he would welcome biden should the president decide to make the trip south and he responded that he welcomes the people of georgia to show up and we'll see over the course of the next few weeks who shows up. not much of an invitation for president biden. >> i don't know what happens behind the scenes but he is excited about president obama coming. president obama is energizing and exciting and came and campaigned for warnock prior to the runoff. runoff elections are really hard. president obama's approval rating is very high amongst the people in georgia. i t...