Posted on 08/28/2019 8:00:41 AM PDT by robowombat
GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson to resign at end of year BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 08/28/19 10:41 AM EDT
GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson to resign at end of year
GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson (Ga.) announced Wednesday that he will step down from the Senate at the end of the year, citing health issues.
"After much prayer and consultation with my family and my doctors, I have made the very tough decision to leave the U.S. Senate at the end of this year. I have informed Georgia Governor Brian Kemp today that I will resign my Senate seat effective December 31, 2019," Isakson said in a statement.
“I am leaving a job I love because my health challenges are taking their toll on me, my family and my staff. My Parkinson’s has been progressing, and I am continuing physical therapy to recover from a fall in July. In addition, this week I had surgery to remove a growth on my kidney."
Isakson, 74, was reelected to the Senate in 2016, meaning his seat would have next been up for grabs in 2022.
Sadly it has pretty much come to that point. The left/liberals in the US have been infected by a sort of political hydrophobia akin to what happened the the right in Germany after World War One. The question is , for America, what happened that caused this? The reasons that pushed the right into madness in Germany where pretty clear as it happened. Swartzschild's ‘World in Trance’ is still a brilliant contemporary analysis of what happened. I cannot figure out how the liberals Dem's turned into the moonbat left after 1968, I only know it happened and the consequences are frightening.
That is highly unlikely
Georgia is 55-59% white depending who’s counting
30% black and 10% other depending who’s counting
It’ll require a shift of nearly one million out of ten million to make the state majority minority
Not likely in 6 years
Could it happen in 20.years ...yes indeed
There was no non black minority approaching ten percent in 1990 in Georgia
The issue there now is northern liberals streaming into Atlanta area and the coast
Because of that whites in Georgia are less conservative than Mississippi or Louisiana or even South Carolina
It’s what turned Virginia blue and North Carolina purple
That and Mexicans but their voting rate in the south is quite low
Couldn’t acre less. He voted for Obama care. I asked him at a private event if he had even read it before the rush vote.
this says Georgia gov makes an appointment until the next scheduled state-wide election:
I stand corrected. But Kemp will still get to name a replacement and that should give whoever it is a leg up for 2020. Not much of a leg up...but some.
So sorry to hear about your husband and my sympathies for both of you. You both have it rough.
At about two fiddie.......
Not so fast there skippy -- Doug jones was elected in a special election to fill the remainder of jeff Sessions term.
Georgia has the same law. A replacement will be appointed immediately and then a special election will be held in Nov. 2020 and will fill the seat until it is up for normal re-election in 2022.
40 years is WAY too long
Term limits
Is Herman from Georgia?? If he is I say YES!!! Herman is a HUGE Trump supporter!!!
Newt.
The Dems have no one in Georgia that could win a statewide race.
A legal race? A moral race without the Atlanta-Urinal Constipation and the Atlanta and Macon and Savannah and Albany newspapers and TV promoters propagandizing for 18 months against any republicans, whilst repeating endless lies and promotions for their chosen democrat-social-communist racists?
Both GA Senate races are winnable, but only with difficulty against the democrat-socialist national and local press corpse and their ABCNNBCBS media monopolies.
No dem in GA holds an office that requires a statewide election.
We hold them all.
Just joking...
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I really like Collins, he would be a very good pick.
Wrong. And Nathan Deal will not get that seat.
A LOT of Yankee carpetbaggers have invaded Georgia and they team up with the blacks and mexicans.
Not concerned about this seat.
I was most impressed with Mr. Collins’ performance during the recent Mueller testimony. He would certainly be missed in the House, but I do believe he would be a great addition to the Senate.
He loves his “job”???
Therein lies the swamp/DC problem.
Being an elected representative was NEVER meant to be a job/career.
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