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The latest from the Georgia Capitol & the campaign trail.
Let’s talk about the debate.
If Biden and Trump made a convincing case for anything last night—excepting for the world’s worst hypothetical golf game—it’s this: The most important vote your cast this year might just be for your state and local representatives.
Annotated responses about immigration enforcement.
At the recent candidate forum, John Albers and JD Jordan were each asked how they would you stop the illegal invasion of our state. Watch popup videos of their their responses and read annotated trasnscripts to find out more about their unscripted answers.
Annotated responses about the soaring cost of housing.
At the recent candidate forum, JD Jordan and John Ablers were each asked how they would address the soaring cost of housing and protect home ownership and the American Dream. Watch popup videos of their their responses and read annotated trasnscripts to find out more about their unscripted answers.
Vote Common Good.
Today, we're proud to share, our campaign was endorsed by the Common Good, a national voter-outreach organization that targets white Evangelical and white Catholic voters, urging them to resist the reflexive urge to support Trumpism, Christian Nationalism, and Republicans. Common Good also does candidate engagement, including training, messaging coaching, and support.
Annotated responses about energy costs.
At the recent candidate forum, John Albers and JD Jordan were each asked how they would reel in energy costs for Georgia families. Watch popup videos of their their responses and read annotated trasnscripts to find out more about their unscripted answers.
Annotated responses about Medicaid expansion.
At the recent candidate forum, JD Jordan and John Ablers were each asked if they supported Medicaid expansion in Georgia. Watch popup videos of their their responses and read annotated trasnscripts to find out more about their unscripted answers.
Annotated intros from the Farm Bureau candidate forum.
On April 25, the Farm Bureau & the Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce hosted a candidate forum & meet and greet at Canton’s historic courthouse. Over the course of the next two weeks, I’ll share the exchanges from this forum, including these annotated and fact-checked introductions.
Vote for a fighter. Vote for a Dad. Vote JD Jordan.
So, to celebrate the start of the 2024 general election cycle, we’re unveiling our first official campaign spot, focusing on these core issues that got us in the race. I hope you’ll join us by sharing this video with your friends, family, and networks. Because it’s time to expect better representation for a better Georgia.
To be a good dad, it’s necessary to step into government.
Once my wife and kids and I decided it was the right thing to run for Georgia State Senate District 56, there were a hundred things we needed to do before getting my name on the ballot.
Georgia High School Democrats.
Today, we're proud to share, our campaign was endorsed by the Georgia High School Democrats, the state’s premier youth organization with a proven record of success. The organization—run by students Nate Whipple (a resident of the 56, no less!) and Yohance Badyal—focuses on electing Democrats up and down the ballot.
Roswell family, neighbor of sponsoring lawmaker, responds to transgender legislation.
Before we decided to run for office, and before we even started our TransFam meetup, Appen media covered our family back in May 2023 as we reacted to SB 140’s attack on our children’s healthcare. Looking back now, it’s an emotional reminder not just of what motivated us to ultimately run for State Senate District 56 but also how personally our kids felt the state’s intrusion upon themselves and their siblings.
What a privilege it is to run!
We won the Democratic Primary to run for State Senate District 56 in November!
What a privilege it's been to receive so much support from my amazing wife and kids, to work with such a professional campaign team, to earn of many great people's support, and to point the pavement alongside so many wonderful allies. What a privilege it is to run for the 56! Thank you all!
Other candidates for the 56.
This week I’d like to pivot and talk about some of the other candidates running to bring change and better representation to those of us in the 56. They’ve earned my respect and—if the geography lined up—my vote, too:
Antonio Daza for Congressional District 11
Lyndsey Coates for Fulton County School Board
Tracey Verhoeven for State Senate District 21
Jennifer Phillippi for Fulton County Commission
An update from our April filing.
Georgia’s State Ethics Commission requires candidates and incumbents to report all contributions, expenditures, loans, and investments on a rolling basis. And in election years these filings are required at the ends of January, April, June, and September.
So, let’s take a look at what our April filings can tell us about how the two campaigns compare:
Atlanta-North Georgia Labor Council.
Today, we're proud to share, our campaign was endorsed by The Atlanta-North Georgia Labor Council, an organization on a mission to mprove the lives of working families so as to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our community. To accomplish this mission they’re building and constantly seeking to improve the American labor movement at a time when 71% of Americans support unions—the highest level in nearly 60 years!
Start your election cycle with a hot cup of Early Voting.
Georgia's General Primary may be weeks away on May 21, 2024 but—thank goodness for representative democracy—early voting starts today!
And with the Georgia Presidential Primary behind us, we can turn our attention to local non-partisan elections and state-legislature primaries.
Standing up & voting for the American Dream.
Last weekend, our campaign joined forces with our brother and sister campaigns—Antonio Daza, Micheal Garza, and Tracey Verhoeven—for a joint kickoff event in Woodstock: VOTESTOCK!
Georgia Conservation Voters.
Today, we're proud to share, our campaign was endorsed by the Georgia Conservation Voters, an organization on a mission to transform Georgia's political landscape by electing leaders with conservation values and holding them accountable to implementing policies that ensure clean water and air, abundant wildlife, scenic landscapes and economic opportunities for all Georgians.
Defending our personal freedoms from big-government overreach.
The government doesn’t belong in our families, our bedrooms, our places of worship, our doctor’s offices, our classrooms and libraries, or—perhaps ironically—our polling places. Nor should one objecting citizen have the power to censor anyone else’s free speech or block their access to healthcare.
Georgia Working Families Party.
Today, we're proud to share, our campaign was endorsed by the Georgia Working Families Party, a grassroots independent political organization that works to elect candidates committed to economic, racial, social, gender, and environmental justice!
LET’S KEEP IN TOUCH.
Open communication is a cornerstone of good representation—and something sadly lacking in many Georgia senate districts, including the 56. I pledge to respond to everyone who reaches out. So email, text, or call me anytime at:
jdjordan@forthe56.com
706.804.0456
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