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...
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.
ATLANTA, July 11, 2011 - Thanks to an enthusiastic "sixth man" nationwide effort from residents who voted online, neighborhood basketball courts soon will be rejuvenated and transformed into sparkling places to play. Today, 2...
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....
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
The General Assembly has been in recess, and we will resume on April 11 for the 38th legislative day. Day 39 will be April 12 and the House will...
Georgia House Democrats today saved 82 percent of Georgia families from a tax increase during one of the worst economies the state has known in many generations.
HB 388, the third iteration of state tax overhaul, is essentially dead for the 2011 legis...