Keisha Lance Bottoms will be the first Black female governor elected in the country, after she won the Georgia governor’s race, according to a race call by the Associated Press.
Bottoms’ win marks the first time Georgia has elected a Democratic governor in more than 20 years, breaking the Republican hold on state government in Georgia. But she will likely be working with a Republican majority in at least one chamber of the legislature.
Wild that we’ve been a country for 250 years and we’ve never crossed this particular intersection. Makes you think
It’s also wild that it’s Keisha Lance Bottoms, of all people. As an Atlantan, I didn’t like her as a city councilperson or mayor and I can think of several local black women who would’ve been better, such as Felicia Moore or Stacey Abrams. But in this case, she’s still better than the alternative.
Abrams deserves so many flowers for building the apparatus that gave us Ossoff, Warnock, and now klb.
We’re only like 60 years removed from Jim Crow
This is great! I thought it would be Stacey Abrams from the headline. I liked her from what I saw in previous election years and all the work she does.
What a wonderful thing to wake up to! Today is going to be a happy day for so many reasons.
Stacy Abrams fought a very hard battle a few years ago and was instrumental in helping getting disenfranchised voters registered.
Thankyou GA. You’ve been fighting the hardest since the Civil Rights Movement. Bless you and may your state prosper!
