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Athens Banner-Herald - Online Athens

Party leader accuses GOP of targeting white Democrats

Friday, August 26, 2011
Georgia Democrats are challenging Republican-drawn legislative districts on the novel grounds that the Voting Rights Act protects white voters as well as blacks, House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams said today. Abrams, the keynote speaker at a Universit...
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Democratic leader accuses GOP of ‘purging' white Democrats

Tuesday, August 9, 2011
House Minority Leader Abrams fights redistricting proposal that violates the Voting Rights Act by targeting white elected officials. Argues that plan will re-segregate Georgia.
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The Sun News

House minority leader addresses local Democrats

Wednesday, June 22, 2011
WARNER ROBINS -- Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, D-Atlanta, told Houston County Democrats on Saturday the party can win majority status over Republicans in Georgia. Speaking bef...
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Governing magazine names Abrams ‘one to watch'

Friday, June 3, 2011
Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, D-Atlanta, was named one of about a dozen Democratic lawmakers across the country with a bright future by Governing magazine. The publication, which last week put House Speaker David Ralston, ...
PBA-Public Broadcasting Atlanta

New Leaders, New Battles: A Look at 2011 in the State Legislature with the AJC's Jim Galloway

Thursday, April 14, 2011
ATLANTA, GA (WABE) - WABE's Denis O'Hayer looks at the major lessons from the 2011 session of the Georgia Legislatur...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Latest plan cuts taxes, revenue: Democratic leader wary; governor says state can cover any shortfall.

Saturday, April 9, 2011
Top Republican lawmakers on Friday announced their support of a revised tax plan that would lower the individual income tax rate by nearly 25 percent. House Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge, and Senate President Pro Tem Tommie Williams, R-Lyons, ...
WABE - 90.1 FM

Unemployment Benefits Could End Soon for 22,000 Georgians: A Conversation with House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams (D-Atlanta)

Thursday, April 7, 2011
ATLANTA, GA (WABE) - On Tuesday, April 5th, WABE's Denis O'Hayer aired a conversation with State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler, who explained why state officials are hesitant to qualify for $175 million in Federal money. That money would pay for extended...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Unlikely allies stall tax reform bill vote : Claim that plan hikes taxes for middle class gives legislators pause.

Thursday, March 31, 2011
A clunky but effective coalition of Democrats, tea partyers and Baptists forced state Republican lawmakers into a desperate attempt to save their troubled tax reform bill Wednesday. Though the GOP majority in the Joint Committee on Georgia Revenue S...
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Abrams ensures Dems get heard: Georgia Legislature's House minority leader seen as a rising star. GOP colleagues call her brilliant, formidable.

Sunday, March 27, 2011
Colleagues and strangers tend to walk away from talks with Stacey Abrams feeling good about the encounter with the Georgia House minority leader. They even use many of the same words to describe the Atlanta Democrat: Brilliant. Thoughtful. Open-minded....
WAOK 1380 News and Talk - The Voice of the Community

Representative Stacey Abrams Interviews with WAOK 1380 AM

Friday, March 18, 2011
Please click here to listen to  Representative Abrams'  interveiw with WAOK 1380, Power Talk with Lorraine Jacques-White. ...
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