Posted on 10/18/2024 12:48:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Ashwin Ramaswami, a Democrat running for a Georgia State Senate seat, grew up in a wealthy stretch of Atlanta suburbs transformed by the tech industry and waves of Indian American immigrants, like his parents, who have settled there.
It is a part of the American South where the percentage of adults with a bachelor’s degree is significantly higher than the national average. Mr. Ramaswami, 25, fits right in, with a computer science degree from Stanford and a law degree from Georgetown.
He was still in law school when he realized that the state senator for his hometown, Johns Creek, was among the 18 people indicted last year with former President Donald J. Trump on charges that they had illegally interfered with the 2020 election results in Georgia.
That is when Mr. Ramaswami decided to run for office.
Today, his audacious Gen-Z challenge to the Republican incumbent, Shawn Still, a 52-year-old swimming pool contractor, may prove to be a long shot in Senate District 48, which was drawn to tilt Republican. But it will serve as a test of Democrats’ argument that anyone who helped try to change the 2020 election result is unfit for office.
The race will also test the strength, and political proclivities, of the growing Indian American community in the populous suburbs north of Atlanta.
In recent weeks, Mr. Ramaswami has been traveling from subdivision to subdivision, knocking on doors and making his case that Mr. Still should not remain in government. Mr. Still was among a group of Georgia Republicans who signed documents falsely stating that Mr. Trump had won the state and asserting that they were “duly elected and qualified” electors on his behalf.
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As usual, the Old Gray Whore buried the lead.
The little pipsqueak is an Assistant Democrat in RINO clothing.
lede, not lead.
Trump did win Georgia. He was cheated. No biggie. Not this time though.
Another fake Injun. 25 years old. The retards are quickly running the insane asylum. I wonder why this guy didn’t run for office in his home country.
I dont know how to hate them more than I do.
But as Michael Corleone said..”Don’t hate your enemies. It affects your judgemeent”
” Indian American immigrants”
How can you be an immigrant American?
Is Tamil Nadu a state of the United States?
Rd later.
“Fake Trump Elector” = alternate elector.
Indian American Immigrants? Who are they? Indians that settled in Georgia but are also Americans.
Oh, those folks. Those folks that came here in droves, moved an entire family into a big house. Them what did they do? They put the house is their elderly parents name and then used a Georgia law that says old folks don’t have to pay school taxes anymore.
In the process, they ushered in another form of ‘white flight’ as they ran whitey out of the subdivisions.
Interestingly, most of their kids tend not to follow the traditional Indian life. They party. Although the guys still cling to traditions because they can pick a girl and arrange a marriage. The ladies aren’t about that as much as they used to be.
Vivek’s geeky looking nephew?
I would have been interested in this story if the candidate were a girl.
I get so confused. Following the 2016 election a bevy of celebrities and rat political figures called upon Trump electors not to vote for him, notwithstanding state laws mandating that they vote for the candidate who won their state. “Faithless electors.” So faithless electors are ok, but fake (as you say, “alternate”) electors are not? It really is confusing
In India, Ashwin Ramaswami is considered an “Untouchable”. The lowest of the low, the filthiest of the dirtiest filth.
India has been sending millions of these undesirables to the USA and now these untouchables are reproducing and destroying America.
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