Vernon Jones speaks about the Republican National Convention
Election, Election 2020, News September 2, 2020
“I’m a man of color and I’m a lifelong democrat, too. You may be wondering, “Why is a lifelong democrat speaking at the Republican National Convention?” And that’s a fair question,” Georgia State House representative Vernon Jones said at the 2020 Republican National Convention.
Jones’ answer was simple: “the democrat party does not want people to leave their mental plantation.”
‘Mental plantation’ meaning to vote for anyone with a “D” beside their name, according to Jones. Jones was honored to be one of the several to speak during the convention and was able to see a range of American citizens come together for it.
Jones spoke on behalf of the democratic party and their intentions at the convention.
“Democrats have turned their backs on our brave police officers. They call it ‘defunding’ and it’s dangerous to our cities, neighborhoods and our children,” Jones said. “The democratic party has become infected with a pandemic of intolerance, bigotry, socialism, anti-law enforcement bias and a dangerous tolerance for people who attack others, destroy their property, and terrorize our own communities.”
In a recent interview with Fetch Your News, Jones said President Trump is about results; Biden being “nothing but a groundhog.” At the convention, Jones was just one of the many speakers to advocate for Trump in office for another four years.
“He really picked people from all walks of life; real-life experiences and real Americans,” Jones said. “[The] whole convention was about the American people, unlike the democratic party…this was about how great America is and how great American’s are and that the best is yet to come.”
At the convention, Jones said he and Senator Rand Paul felt “fear for their life.” But Jones is more convicted to make a difference as well as advocate for Trump due to the encounter at the convention.
“I’m even more determined now…if I walk off the battlefield, they win,” Jones said. “I cannot sit idly by and have been a personal victim to this type of hate and not do anything about it.”
In recent months, crimes in major cities – such as Atlanta, Ga., New Orleans, La., and Brooklyn, NY – have risen since the major BLM protests and riots within larger cities.
Read Rep. Jones’s opinion piece on Joe Biden, here.
Georgia recently enacted an “Enhanced Penalties for Hate Crimes Act.” The bill is intended to “provide for sentencing of defendants who commit certain crimes which target a victim because of the victim’s race, color, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, or ethnicity.”
Madison Cawthorn and the ‘true conversation’ for 2020 election
Election, Election 2020, News September 2, 2020
Madison Cawthorn, Republican nominee for North Carolina’s 11 congressional district, was on a recent call on a morning political show with Fetch Your News to discuss his attendance at the Republican National convention and the value of speaking to the younger generation of voters.
“The republican party has really had poor messaging for the last few decades that it’s really alienated significant amount of the portion of the population that is 40 years and below,” Cawthorn said.
Cawthorn is focused on what affects the young families that are sitting around dinner tables; “dining room politics,” he said. Cawthorn, if elected, would be the youngest member elected for Congress in over 200 years.
Cawthorn’s said the best ideals prevail with a ‘true conversation,’ which is something he said is missing in the liberal party and what he expressed at the Republican National Convention.
“I had the opportunity to really speak to this disenfranchised left,” Cawthorn said. “We’re experiencing cancel culture…it’s an age of information without wisdom. We may have more information than any generation has ever had but we don’t have the wisdom to sit down and actually talk about the ideas that might be uncomfortable for us, that might offend us.”
Additionally, Cawthorn said American citizens should not vote for people but for the best ideas. During Cawthorn’s speech at the convention, he said to be a “radical for freedom, be a radical for liberty and be a radical for our republic, for which I stand.”
Cawthorn is said in America, we lift each other up. Radical is something us American’s need to “take back,” according to Cawthorn. It is important to Cawthorn to let citizens know that it is time to take a stand and fight for the same values the Founding Fathers fought for 244 years ago.
“What’s revolutionary – what’s radical – is to be someone that stands for Judeo-Christian values, to be somebody that stands for our constitution and our human rights that precede any form of government,” Cawthorn said. “It’s time for us to be radical, it’s time for us to get loud, it’s time for us to fight back because our country’s at risk.”
Painful budget cuts ahead for state agencies as legislators try to balance Georgia’s budget
News June 5, 2020
ELLIJAY, Ga. – Appearing on FYNTV.COM’s “Good Morning from the Office” program Thursday (June 4) State Rep. Kevin Tanner (R-Dawsonville) said legislators will tackle the difficult task of balancing the fiscal year 2021 budget when the Georgia’s General Assembly is back in session on June 15.
The full legislature has not met since Gov. Brian Kemp declared a Public Health State of Emergency to address the COVID-19 crisis on March 14. When they return, legislators will have to pass a supplemental 2020 budget as well as a FY 2021 budget.
“There are going to be some painful cuts,” Tanner said, “The appropriations committees have already been working. We’ve drafted cuts for the governor for 14 percent across the board, no exceptions for every agency.”
Agency directors have testified before the joint appropriations committee. So the appropriations committees are well underway with the budget process.
“Fortunately in Georgia, we are required to balance the budget unlike in Washington which I think is one of the biggest issues in D.C. now,” said Tanner. “In addition to that, one of the things leadership in the House has done is they have taken a look at our important bills that are outstanding and I think you will see several other bills come before the House and Senate.”
Tanner is one of nine Republican candidates campaigning for the 9th District Congressional seat vacated by Congressman Doug Collins who is seeking to win a seat in the U.S. Senate.
Two of other’s – Georgia State Senator John Wilkinson (R-Toccoa) and Ethan Underwood appeared on Thursday’s program. Fetch Your News will also have separate articles on those candidates.
Regarding issues he wants to address if elected, Tanner said the biggest issue is spending.
“The special interest groups that are driving the conversation in Washington are part of the problem,” he said. “They are driving the insanity in D.C. that is geared around spending. Spending is completely out of control and it has been for several decades. It’s not just one party. All parties are to blame for the spending problem we have and I’m not sure that ever gets under control until we force a balanced budget amendment into the Constitution. I fully support a balanced budget amendment.”
Asked about the bitter divisiveness going on in Washington, Tanner said, “There’s people out there who would like to divide us. There’s people who want to create turmoil. A lot of those people are funding candidates on both sides, Republican and Democrat. They want to create anarchy in this country so they can destroy an institution we have built and our forefathers have built. I’m not willing to sit by while my country is being destroyed without jumping into the fight. We have got to bring some common sense back to Washington.”