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1.01K viewsHarold Wren, 14:31

Forwarded from Miz Donna thoughts (Donna Willett)

For those of you new to this channel, especially GA peeps, I want to tell you a story.

I moved to Cobb in January of 1993.
At that time, Newt was my Representative, and GA was just beginning to turn red at the state wide level. Paul Coverdell won his Senate seat in 1992, remember?

At that time, we had a Democrat Governor and Sam Nunn as our other Senator.

During those years, like many of you, I was busy raising my family and working. But, there were people on the ground here at that time who worked hard to turn our state red.

I loved the fact that I lived in a dark red area of the state. For years, when I went to vote, most of the races were not even contested. I took that for granted.

But, over the past 10 years, things began to change here. I saw it coming, but I didn't have the time to become engaged to do anything about it.

Last year, I became more engaged than just being a voter. I went to a couple of GOP meetings, volunteered, knocked on doors, waved signs, registered people to vote, etc.

But it wasn't enough. I woke up on November 4th and realized I now live in a Blue County. We had been so focused on the national, we had lost sight of the local.

I went to the Cobb GOP meeting in January.

People were furious about what had happened, and were demanding answers.

I want to recount two things that were said at that meeting.

First, by another Donna. Her name is Donna Rowe. She has been in the trenches in GA for decades. She was one of the people who worked to turn Cobb and the state red in the 80s and 90s. In her own inimitable way she said. We lost. We lost in part because we didn't do what we needed to do to turn out our voters. I am an 'old dog', and the 'old dogs' are ready to get off the porch and show you what we did to win this state back then.

I also spoke up that night. Nobody really knew who I was (that's a different story for another day)

What I said was that yes, what happened in our state was wrong, but there is something good that can come out of it. People are engaged more than they have ever been. They know they no longer have the luxury of just voting. They know they have to get involved in order to take back our county and state.

And look what has happened in Cobb and other counties since then.

New people involved that are highly energized.

People are engaged like never before.

They are going to School Board meetings, BOC meetings, zoning meetings, BOE meetings and letting their voices be heard.

We just had a special election here. There were door knockers and phone bankers out everywhere. In West Cobb and Kennesaw.
I have lived in West Cobb since 1993, I have had my door knocked on 3 times in all of those years.

There were signs everywhere for Devan. There were people on street corners everyday during rush hour holding vote for Devan signs.
We worked together to GOTV, and he won by a HUGE margin.

Getting involved.
Having new people and new energy out there can and will make a difference.

Do not lose hope.

Do your part.

1.13K viewsHarold Wren, 14:32