Get to know the candidates!
In an effort to encourage our members participation in this race, and in lieu of making an endorsement, we posed the following questions to all of the candidates. All responses have been published exactly as they were received. Candidate responses are presented below in alphabetical order. The special election runoff for Atlanta City Council District 3 will be held on April 16, 2019.
Pro Football Hall of Fame Member, Ron Mix, 
purchased two tickets to the Super Bowl to create an event to benefit the transgender community. Mix said:
“The mistreatment of transgender people is contrary to everything athletics embraces: fair play, equal opportunity and respect and judging people by their character and conduct not by bigoted preconceived perceptions. Family rejection, discrimination and violence cause an estimated 40% of the 1.6 million homeless youth being from the transgender and other LGBQ groups. That horror should be a shock to the conscience of Americans.”
It’s always a challenge to predict what will happen in any 
upcoming legislative session, but the 2019 session is already shaping up to be one of the most unpredictable in decades. While Republicans still have large majorities in both the House and the Senate, Democrats flipped a total of eleven seats in the House and two in the Senate. Perhaps more importantly, there are an additional sixteen seats in the House and six in the Senate that could be competitive in the 2020 election. That fact alone could make for some interesting politics. However, beyond the simple partisan math, due to incumbents who either retired or lost seats in the primary or general elections, there will be some 30 new members of the legislature. While roughly half of them we know to be pro-equality, we don’t know much about the others and how they will vote on issues of concern to Georgia Equality’s members and the LGBTQ community.
Over the last few weeks, you’ve heard Chanel, Eric, 
Shannon, DeMarcus, Amanda, and Michael and Matt talk about Georgia Equality’s work over the past year. I hope you had a chance to read what they had to say. 2018 has indeed been a busy year in the fight for LGBTQ equality in Georgia, and your support is why Georgia Equality has been so successful this year. As we close the final hours of this year, I wanted to ask you to fund Georgia Equality’s fight for 2019.
The purpose of this week is to maximize outreach, engagement, and enrollment of LGBTQ communities ahead of the December 15th enrollment deadline. Our partners at Out2Enroll and organizations across the country will use this week to promote the importance of LGBTQ community engagement and enrollment, educate LGBTQ consumers about their rights under the Affordable Care Act, and help ensure that LGBTQ people are able to access the health coverage and care they need.
You can help us spread the word by liking and sharing our posts from Facebook and Twitter all week long. Recent polling data shows that almost 4 out of 5 people who are uninsured or buy their own insurance don’t know the deadline, think it’s a different day, or refused to answer. The number who simply said they didn’t know the deadline increased from 53 percent last October to 61 percent this month.