Controversy puts spotlight on Georgia congressional runoff
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Source: Associated Press
Ben Nadler, Associated Press
Updated 8:35 am CDT, Sunday, August 9, 2020
DALLAS, Ga. (AP) — Marjorie Taylor Greene is running for Congress - and is unrepentant about her racist rhetoric and support for the QAnon conspiracy theory.
With the runoff for the Republican nomination in the conservative district approaching, some voters seem unaware of Greene's controversial views, or shrug it off.
Greene received the most votes in the June 9 Republican primary for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District but failed to win outright. She now faces fellow Republican John Cowan, a neurosurgeon, in a runoff election Tuesday for the open seat.
Shortly after the initial primary, Politico revealed a series of videos where Greene, who is white, expresses racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim views. In one of the videos she claims there's an “Islamic invasion” into government offices. In another, she says Black and Hispanic men are being held back by “gangs and dealing drugs,” later adding, “it’s not white people.” She also has touted an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros, who is Jewish, collaborated with the Nazis.
The district, which stretches from the outskirts of metro Atlanta to the largely rural northwest corner of the state, is heavily conservative, and the winner of the runoff will likely earn a ticket to Washington.
Greene often communicates with supporters through stream-of-consciousness style videos posted to social media.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Controversy-puts-spotlight-on-Georgia-15470207.php
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Here's a campaign photo at home:
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Identical to the areas in east TN and western NC I lived in off and on for 20 plus years. Appalachia. Ultra religious, racist beyond belief, low paying jobs, a drug epidemic and terrible schools that are hopelessly underfunded. Prime ground for Rethuglican propaganda to take root and dominate. Thus 70% + for Donnie in 2016 from north Alabama all the way to the western half of PA. A real hell on earth.
A modest proposal.....depopulate the region and start over. It's hopeless. 
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** Hyperbole, yes, but you can't help but wonder if it wouldn't be better if we could.
