Brian Kemp Archives

When Trump speaks, Republicans listen. And Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp thought he was falling in line, you know, doing what Trump wanted. Today, however, Trump threw Kemp under the bus.

Trump has not minced words on his desire to get the economy going again. He has been fixated on ending the Coronavirus quarantine and getting Americans back to work, back to school, and back to their normal life. The only problem is, Trump’s desire flies in the face of logic. Asking governors to end their quarantine and reopen their state can, and most likely will, have an adverse effect and can lead to more coronavirus cases and possibly more deaths.

Trump wants states to reopen by May 1st.

Brian Kemp took heed. He heard Trump’s call to governors to reopen their state by May 1st and obeyed. Asked about Kemp’s blind allegiance to his nonsense, Trump pulled himself out of the equation, stated that he “strongly” disagrees with Kemp’s decision and threw Kemp squarely under the bus.

“I told the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, that I disagree strongly with his decision to open certain facilities which are in violation of the Phase 1 guidelines for the incredible people of Georgia,” Trump said, referring to preliminary guidelines the White House issued on beginning to reopen the country following statewide lockdowns to curb the spread of the virus.

“He must do what he thinks is right,” Trump said. “I want him to do what he thinks is right. But I disagree with him on what he’s doing, but I want to let the governors do — now if I see something totally egregious, totally out of line, I’ll do — but I think spas and beauty salons and tattoo parlors and barbershops in Phase 1 — we’re going to have Phase 2 very soon — is just too soon.”

Republicans Stealing Georgia’s Elections – 40,000 Votes Disappear

Welcome to ‘Republican Democracy,’ where the right to vote is only awarded to the chosen few and ‘winning’ an election means suppressing the most votes possible.

In Georgia, Republican Democracy is in full view for all to see. Over 40,000 votes have vanished from the voters rolls and surprisingly, the overwhelming majority of these names are people who historically vote for Democrats.

The mastermind behind this mysterious disappearance of 40,000 registered voters’ names is the Secretary of State, Brian Kemp. Kemp is singlehandedly selecting the people he wants to vote and ones from certain democratic areas, those voters disappear.

Trying to bring the spotlight to the issue, demonstrators from the Moral Mondays movement marched and held protests inside Kemp’s office, refusing to leave until Kemp met with them to discuss the missing 40,000. Kemp stayed away from his office and 8 protesters were arrested.

“Nobody here wants to go to jail,” said Tim Franzen, from the American Friends Service Committee. “We’d rather just go home. But we have to do something to answer this egregious act of voter suppression. When 40,000 Georgians show up to vote, they’re going to find their names missing from their polling places. It’s unacceptable.”

“What the Secretary of State is doing is nothing new for Georgia,” said Dr. Francys Johnson, the president of the Georgia NAACP. “It goes back through a long line of efforts to deny some people access to the ballot. Today, the people have had enough. We have caught the Secretary of State with his hands in the cookie jar. Georgia deserves better.”

Meanwhile, with just days to go before the midterm elections, tens of thousands of Americans trying to exercise their constitutional right to vote in Georgia, will not even be allowed to, because Republican Democracy says their votes have no meaning.