Raphael Warnock.<\/b><\/p>\n
A community leader. A champion for civil rights, affordable health care, and a living wage.<\/p>\n
He’s the senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist, where he preaches from the same progressive pulpit as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did.<\/p>\n
And today, he’s announcing that he’s running for the U.S. Senate in Georgia.<\/b><\/p>\n
This is our chance to strike in a state Donald Trump narrowly won in 2016; to tip Georgia into the blue column.<\/p>\n
Donate $3 right now. Let’s help launch Raphael Warnock’s campaign and mine to victory in 2020.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Mitch McConnell is in full panic mode:<\/b>\u00a0reports say Republicans and their allies are going to spend tens of millions of dollars in an attempt to save this seat.<\/p>\n That’s because we could legitimately\u00a0win<\/i>\u00a0here in 2020.\u00a0If we win in Georgia, we will almost certainly flip control of the Senate.<\/b><\/p>\n Want to sideline Mitch McConnell? Want to rebuild our democracy? Stand with Raphael and me as we take back our country and pave the way to a progressive future.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n We need a change. We need leaders like\u00a0Raphael Warnock\u00a0<\/b>in the Senate.<\/p>\n Jeff<\/i><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Of course I realize not everyone is in a position to donate, and Jeff does too.\u00a0 But Rev. Warnock’s is a name which deserves to be known.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I haven’t put up a “Pithy Progressive” for a while, but then, until now, Jeff Merkley hasn’t inspired me to.\u00a0 So this one’s for Jeff. I have a name I want you to remember, Joanne: Raphael Warnock. A community leader. A champion for civil rights, affordable health care, and a living wage. He’s the senior […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":38833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Warnock-300x158.png\")
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