Our connection to John Albers.
Find out more about John Albers at: www.senatorjohnalbers.com
Many people don’t realize that my opponent John Albers and I have a history together.
Albers and I first met and worked together at Slalom Consulting, where I worked as an experience designer and he worked as an account manager—both on the AT&T account. Our parallel careers even sent us on work trip together, to Las Vegas where our custom design/dev team came in second out of hundreds of participants in AT&T’s annual hackathon. It also resulted in this curious photo, where Albers is mansplaining to Ellie—already an experienced screenwriter—how to write my speech for a teleprompter.
Working in the same office also led to an awkward exchange the morning after journalists first reported Chick-fil-A’s anti-marriage-equality agenda. Albers came in carrying platters of Chick-fil-A to celebrate the fast-food company’s political position. I recall my project manager saying, “Well, he didn’t really read the room, did he?” before we all toasted our chicken biscuits to gay marriage.
Albers and I no longer work together but we’ve since become neighbors, just north of Canton Street in Roswell. Albers lives by the lake on the HOA side of the ‘hood while Ellie and the kids and I live 40 houses away, happily HOA-free. But we’re not so far apart we don’t sometimes see each other out for a walk or coming and coming in our cars (though he prefers to take the right out of the neighborhood while we prefer the left … hmmm).
So, if it sometimes feels like there’s a personal undercurrent in our campaigns, there might be. When I talk about how I reached out to my Senator when my childrens’ healthcare access was taken away, I mean that I called Albers’ personal cell as well as his office. It’s that he knows my wife and has met Lily at least once. And if he treats a colleague and neighbor the way he’s treated me and my family, what hope do any of his constituents have of being represented well by this man?
JD JORDAN FOR GEORGIA STATE SENATE DISTRICT 56
For anyone in East Cobb, Roswell, or Woodstock alarmed by the state’s escalating attacks on our bodies, our families, our doctors’ offices, our classrooms and libraries, even our polling places, I’m running for State Senate district 56 to fight for our freedoms and to deliver a better future for everyone in Georgia.
And unlike my opponent who’s spent 14 years rolling back our freedoms, failing to safeguard our kids, and gerrymandered his district to stay in office, I promise to bring everyone in the 56—regardless of ideology—the best possible constituent experience so you feel heard, valued, and supported. As we all deserve to be.
I’m running for the 56. Let’s make a better Georgia for all of us.
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