GA Dems stare down GOP tax shell game | Ceretta Smith runs “for the people” in GA-12

Ceretta Smith, Democratic nominee for the GA 12th Congressional district, joined The Ron Show recently.

During the entire special session of the Georgia General Assembly, Democrats managed – time and time again – to withstand GOP efforts to offer property tax cuts while putting the burden on local electeds to find ways to make up the funding gap such cuts would put on county and municipal budgts. One such locally elected official – Jimmy Furst, Chamblee city councilman – ⁠provided his thoughts in an op/ed for the Atlanta Journal Constitution⁠ – and of course, so did I.

Meanwhile the chief (we’re told) reason for the special session was a looming July 1st deadline to eliminate QR codes from Georgia ballots. ⁠A half-measure with no Democratic party input sought to put the task off until 2028 but also mandating hand recounts for the top two races on any ballot⁠. Oy!

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My hometown (Grovetown, Georgia) has changed a lot since I was a kid in the 1980s. When I was a kid, we had a former Klansman as our fire department chief. Today, Grovetown’s a racially diverse thriving bedroom community of 10,000-plus with Black city council members. A former city councilperson and mayoral candidate – Ceretta Smith – is now the ⁠Democratic party nominee for Georgia’s 12th Congressional district⁠.

I got to know more about the former US Army medic and national union leader about what drives her to continue to want to serve her country.