It’s All About Georgia Now

Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue's Senate runoff elections in Georgia are the RJC’s top priority at this time. As the JTA reports: 

With the stakes so high in the two runoff races in Georgia on Jan. 5 — control of the Senate is in the balance — the candidates on each side have teamed up to share resources.

That’s reflected in the campaign for the Jewish vote and Jewish donors. The Republican Jewish Coalition is hosting a Zoom conference on Dec. 2 for the two Republican nominees, incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, and running weekly canvassing sessions for the senators.

Matt Brooks, the RJC director, told me he has tapped the four-person team he had in Florida to help keep that state in the GOP column on Nov. 3.

“We have deployed our Florida field team to GA,” he said in an email, “activated our national volunteer base to start phone banks into GA and have raised over $200,000 via our PAC portal in a few hours after dropping the email appeal. These races are a top priority for RJC.”

HOW YOU CAN HELP

We’re raising money, making phone calls, and preparing for a week of in-person canvassing. How will you help us keep the Senate majority in Republican hands?

• Donate to the GOP candidates

• Volunteer for Virtual Days of Action (phone & text from home)

• Volunteer for the In-Person Week of Action

There are other ways to help. RJC Leader Jeffrey Kunkes of Atlanta made the case for Senators Perdue and Loeffler in a letter to the editor of the Atlanta Jewish Times. You can also use social media to amplify the RJC’s messages on Facebook and Twitter and help us reach a larger audience.  

Aside from the crucial question of the Senate majority, Senators Perdue and Loeffler deserve our best efforts on their behalf on the merits, because each of them is a strong pro-Israel voice in the Senate and a good friend to our community. Their opponents in these runoff elections, however, would not be friends of Israel or the American Jewish community. Here are some notable facts about Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff:  

• The Rev. Raphael Warnock... said in 2017 that the nation’s “pre-existing condition” is “racism,” according to a report. 
  
  
• Warnock… notably praised [Jeremiah] Wright, a former pastor to Barack Obama, after his "God Damn America" sermon surfaced during the 2008 election cycle… Warnock was, in his own words, "dispatched" to defend Wright after a tape of the 2003 sermon emerged. 
  
  In a 2008 appearance on Fox News, Warnock was asked about that speech and other remarks. “We celebrate Rev. Wright in the same way that we celebrate the truth-telling tradition of the Black church, which when preachers tell the truth, very often it makes people uncomfortable," he said.
  
  
• During the same Wednesday event, [Jon] Ossoff told reporters that he and Warnock are running as a "team," calling the pastor an "inspirational leader." The Democrat also called Warnock a "moral leader for our state and our country" at a Sunday campaign stop in Cobb County.