GA leaders scramble to reassure hollywood after kemp win. - Polidicks

https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/georgia-leaders-try-stem-hollywood-revolt-after-kemp-win/G4AaMZAmdTKrSvqglSQdIM/ Some of the Hollywood critics voiced concern about Kemp’s support for a controversial “religious liberty” measure that Abrams staunchly opposed, as well as claims that Kemp abused his role as secretary of state to suppress votes and boost his campaign for governor. Several actors used a #BoycottGeorgia hashtag on Twitter, including actress Alyssa Milano — who shot Netflix’s “Insatiable” in Atlanta, “West Wing” actor Bradley Whitford, actor Steven Pasquale and Ron Perlman. “To all my friends who are studio and network executives,” wrote Perlman, a producer and actor, “if you choose to shoot movies and tv in Georgia, don’t bother to call me.” One of the biggest flashpoints is a perennial battle over “religious liberty” legislation that supporters say is needed to provide extra legal protections to the faith-based, but critics call state-sanctioned discrimination. The governor vetoed the legislation in 2016 amid a swirl of threats from filmmakers and other business titans to leave Georgia, and lawmakers haven’t passed the measure since. But Kemp has promised to sign a version of the proposal that mirrors a federal law passed with bipartisan support in 1993.

Kemp proved that Trumpian candidates win (with a little cheating), we're going to see Trumpian candidates long after Trump is gone.

i honestly don't think the method is at all sustainable. even with the most flagrant of cheating the state only went Republican by 2%, down from 5% in the presidential and 8% in the 2014 gubernatorial. even without a Democrat win it just furthers the narrative that the whole state has been steadily turning purple since 2002. and from a larger perspective, i don't think it's viable to rely so completely on insurgent outsider politics. Trump totally ruined the actually reliable, intelligible insiders for Republican voters, so in their absence the R candidate is basically down to dumb luck. so after he's gone, what the fuck is the plan from the RNC's perspective?

voters by and large are starting to enact measures that are going to make the next decade much harder to cheat so flagrantly. Gerrymandering is going to be broken at the ballot box even if the SCOTUS rules its perfectly legal. Voter suppression I think will have its day in court soon, a lot of these measures are enacted with no evidence and have measurable effects on elections just like gerrymandering, it just takes time to figure out how to bring that to court, especially since the SCOTUS is severely allergic to math and statistics.

Cheat harder and more flagrantly. Hopefully it won't be too little too late. Such flagrant subversions of our democracy should never have been allowed to stand in the first place.

it doesn't even matter if every state is fixed per say. If you lock up the swing states like florida, pennsylvania ect ect, then federally you have bigger shot of getting something like a new VRA that covers every state and money for states to improve their systems. Remember, last year the GOP said that our election system was perfectly fine and no more money was needed, yet 2018 made it evident that our system cannot function properly on even an off year election.

If I were the mayor of say Atlanta I'd refuse to acknowledge Kemp as legitimate, and refuse to follow any orders out of his stolen office.