Black Georgia Democrat switches to Republican Party
Mesha Mainor, a black Democrat state legislator representing a largely black district in Georgia announced today that she is leaving the Democratic Party to become a Republican.
“When I decided to stand up on behalf of disadvantaged children in support of school choice, my Democrat colleagues didn’t stand by me,” Mainor told Fox News Digital, asserting that her Democrat colleagues “crucified” her for supporting school choice and standing against efforts to defund police. She said she has always stood as the type of politician who will “work across the aisle to deliver results for my community and the people I was elected to represent.” But her leftist colleagues did not support her.
“They abandoned me,” she said, explaining again that her decision to leave the Democrat Party is not a political decision but a moral one. “For far too long, the Democrat Party has gotten away with using and abusing the black community,” Mainor said. “For decades, the Democrat Party has received the support of more than 90 percent of the black community. And what do we have to show for it? I represent a solidly blue district in the city of Atlanta. This isn’t a political decision for me. It’s a moral one,” she continued.
Such party switches have been going on since 1994, most of which have gone from Democrat to Republican. What makes this switch significant is that it involves a black representative, in a largely black district. When she runs in the next election her presence might cause a lot of blacks to vote Republican for the first time. And all it takes is one such vote for a person to begin to look at Democrats with open eyes.
And if she is defeated by a Democrat, it will tell us that nothing has changed, and the local black population is still on the Democratic Party plantation, afraid to leave.
Thus, the next election in this district could be a significant bellwether on the future trends in politics.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Mesha Mainor, a black Democrat state legislator representing a largely black district in Georgia announced today that she is leaving the Democratic Party to become a Republican.
“When I decided to stand up on behalf of disadvantaged children in support of school choice, my Democrat colleagues didn’t stand by me,” Mainor told Fox News Digital, asserting that her Democrat colleagues “crucified” her for supporting school choice and standing against efforts to defund police. She said she has always stood as the type of politician who will “work across the aisle to deliver results for my community and the people I was elected to represent.” But her leftist colleagues did not support her.
“They abandoned me,” she said, explaining again that her decision to leave the Democrat Party is not a political decision but a moral one. “For far too long, the Democrat Party has gotten away with using and abusing the black community,” Mainor said. “For decades, the Democrat Party has received the support of more than 90 percent of the black community. And what do we have to show for it? I represent a solidly blue district in the city of Atlanta. This isn’t a political decision for me. It’s a moral one,” she continued.
Such party switches have been going on since 1994, most of which have gone from Democrat to Republican. What makes this switch significant is that it involves a black representative, in a largely black district. When she runs in the next election her presence might cause a lot of blacks to vote Republican for the first time. And all it takes is one such vote for a person to begin to look at Democrats with open eyes.
And if she is defeated by a Democrat, it will tell us that nothing has changed, and the local black population is still on the Democratic Party plantation, afraid to leave.
Thus, the next election in this district could be a significant bellwether on the future trends in politics.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Very little known fact of the 2000 presidential election was Pat Buchanan’s running mate. Even Pat did not mention it when asked during the period of the hanging chad why he got so many votes from a particular Dem leaning county
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezola_Foster
” . . . to deliver results for my community and the people I was elected to represent.”
I would suggest Rep. Mainor is different from many of her contemporaries in that she understands that she was elected to represent her constituents, not herself, or others.
For fifty years after the civil war most if not all blacks were republicans.
Then they started to believe their old slave master democrat politicians promising them everything.
And those promises have never come true.
Eventually they will no longer believe them and start to think on their own. The same with the illegals except it will happen far faster.
The republican/conservatives will gain power and popularity again. We just need to keep working towards it.
The GOP wasn’t fans of Civil Rights bills or removal of Confederate flags…the Southern Strategy lost the Black vote for a generation…and the DNC happily used them as pawns. There’s enough guilt here to go around.
I remember the William F. Buckley blue-bloods condemning pro-border Democrats….and some on talk-radio gloating about how phone banks were lifting India out of poverty.
You remember that next time you are on hold with Apu for an hour and a half for customer service.
Jeff Wright wrote: “The GOP wasn’t fans of Civil Rights bills or removal of Confederate flags”
Actually, it was the other way around. The Republican Party championed Civil Rights bills and Democrats opposed them. The Confederacy was a Democrat haven, supporting Democratic Party ideals. It was President Johnson fooling America that brought the black vote to the Democrats.
It was India’s move in the direction of free market capitalism that brought its people out of poverty. There were not enough phone banks alone to do it, but the rest of the nations businesses that were able to compete freely around the world rather than suffer under the socialism of India’s government. China did the same thing, moving toward free market capitalism, and between the two countries, a billion people were lifted out of poverty. Neither country is actually a free market capitalist economy, but they are not as marxist as they once were.
What this shows is that Marxism is difficult to work, even when the right people work it, but free market capitalism works easily, even when the wrong people work it.
I do believe the confederate flag thing was all about free speech.
Even if that free speech insults or angers someone else.
No I was never a fan of that flag and the racism it represented but neither am I a fan of the Pride flag. Remove one and the other can be removed just as easy.