Gleaning Facebook: Michelle Nunn

To my fellow progressives:

Please get on board and help elect Michelle Nunn. No she is not progressive in a national sense, but she is a progressive compared to Tea Party darlings Jack Kingston and David Purdue. She will be someone who will work with anyone willing to deal honestly. She won't be a liberal firebrand, but neither will she be wasting our federal funds and national energy on cheap political stunts like baseless impeachment crusades, government shutdowns, political "investigations" of the Benghazi-Dead-Horse-Beatings variety, etc. She seems to be from the stable, common-sense, moderate mold of her father, who, granted, sometimes irritated us with his foot-dragging on progressive legislation, but who did work for compromise and who could actually work across the aisle.

Maybe having a moderate in the Senate could help it to actually function again. We certainly don't need another mindless obstructionist like Kingston or Purdue.

And besides: Although we Georgians were the first in the nation to have a female US Senator, that senator was appointed and served only 24 hours. Rebecca Latimer Felton's brief tenure in the Senate was little consolations for her and other women's suffrage leaders who had watched their home state be the first to vote against the 19th Amendment and one of the minority of states to refuse women the vote in 1920.

I believe Michelle Nunn will fulfill the pledge Felton made to the Senate on her one day in that body:

"When the women of the country come in and sit with you, though there may be but very few in the next few years, I pledge you that you will get ability, you will get integrity of purpose, you will get exalted patriotism, and you will get unstinted usefulness." – Senator Rebecca Latimer Felton, Address to the Senate, November 21, 1922

A sad but very necessary note: one should never quote this eloquent defender of woman's rights, without also noting her evil, violent, and baffling racism. Felton is an example of the ability of humans to compartmentalize their consciences. Her attitude toward black people was no better than that of Nazis toward Jews. In that respect Michelle Nunn is no follower of Felton!

(I got carried away again!)

Howard Smith
If she becomes half the senator her father was she will be well more than twice as good as her soon to be nominated opponent could ever hope to be.

Jamie Fergerson I worked for Michelle (as an AmeriCorps VISTA) at Hands on Atlanta when I first moved here. I have never met a person who was more respectful of differences or more invested in the lives of people she was serving. My personal politics are a bit to the left of her campaign politics, but I absolutely trust her judgement, collaborative process, and heart. Besides, no where to go in GA but up from where we've been . . .
Howard Smith I, too, am to the left of her but I am confident she will be a true and faithful servant of the people of Georgia.