Raphael Warnock v. Herschel Walker
Raphael Warnock
Raphael Warnock is the incumbent Senator from Georgia, having been elected by Georgia voters to serve the final two years of Johnny Isakson’s term. He grew up in Savannah, went to Morehouse College, graduated cum laude, then went to the Union Theological Seminary where her received two Master’s Degrees and a PhD in Theology. After graduation, he served as assistant pastor at Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City, as senior pastor at the Douglas Memorial Church in Baltimore, and since 2005 as senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, a position he still holds.
As a pastor in Georgia, he sought to persuade the state’s legislature to expand Medicaid for Georgia’s uninsured citizens and to protect voting rights for every Georgia citizen. As a Senator, he successfully worked with Senator Cruz from Texas to authorize funding for 1-14 from Georgia to Texas, and with Senator Hyde-Smith to establish Gold Star Families week for the families of American soldiers who have died in combat. He has been a leader in the Senate on the bills to protect voting rights for all American citizens and to expand Medicaid for the nation’s uninsured working poor.
He wants to keep the government out of the decision-making between a pregnant woman and her doctor on her reproductive choices. He is opposed to the death penalty and supports gun controls. He favors lowering trade barriers for peanut farmers’ exports, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, and prohibiting discrimination against LGBT individuals.
Herschel Walker
Herschel Walker was a phenomenal football and track star in high school and college. He dropped out of college to sign a huge contract and join the New Jersey Generals, a team owned by Donald Trump. He led the USFL in rushing, and when the league folded, he signed with the Dallas Cowboys where he excelled as a running back, receiver, and kick return specialist. After football, he competed in activities such as martial arts, taekwondo, Dancing with the Stars and Celebrity Apprentice.
He founded a food company, Renaissance Man Food Services, which he said had many employees, lots of assets and was highly profitable. This was not true. For example, he said in 2018, it had over 600 employees, while in 2020 he told the federal government under pain of perjury, it only hadv 8. Likewise, he said the company owned multiple chicken processing plants; in fact they owned none; instead they contracted with chicken processing plants to supply chicken parts for his business. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_Walker
He married his high school sweetheart who divorced him in 2001 after multiple threats on her life with guns, knives, and a straight razor. Slodysko, Brian (February 12, 2022). "Police records complicate Herschel Walker's recovery story". Associated Press. He wrote a book about his lifelong mental health struggles with his multiple personality disorders. Walker, Herschel; Gary Brozek; Charlene Maxfield (2008). Breaking free (1st Touchstone and Howard books hardcover ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. His ex-wife described some of these personalities as very sweet and loving and others as very evil and violent. Falco, Miriam. "Herschel Walker reveals many sides of himself". CNN. Archived from the original on August 28, 2021. His son, a conservative Christian pastor descried his father’s lifelong history of extreme bad behavior, violence, abuse, and threats towards his wife, his children and his many girlfriends. https://www.axios.com/2022/10/04/herschel-walker-son-abortion
His political positions are standard for a very conservative GOP candidate: no abortions, no gun control, build the wall, lower taxes, less regulation of businesses, “Trump won the 2020 Presidential election”, and states should decide the issues of same sex marriage.
I hope you will support Raphael Warnock in any way you are able.