Stacey Abrams Runs to Make History in Georgia
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🗓️ 7 May 2018
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A groundswell of women are seeking congressional seats this year, as Margaret Talbot recently reported, and an all-time high of seventy-eight women are expected to run for governor. Among them is Stacey Abrams, a lawyer, businesswoman, author, and former state representative. If elected governor of Georgia, Abrams would be the first black woman to lead a state, as well as one of the first fiction writers to hold that office; under the name Selena Montgomery, Abrams is the author of a number of romantic novels. Under her own name, Abrams wrote “Minority Leader,” a nonfiction account of her time as a lawmaker. “For me,” she told The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin, “there’s no clear roadmap for this.”
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| 1:16.9 | Tubin talks to Georgia gubernatorial candidates Stacey Abrams. If she's elected, Abrams, |
| 1:23.1 | who is a novelist and former member of the Georgia House of Representatives would be the first black female governor in American history. |
| 1:33.0 | You've heard, I'm sure, about the many women seeking congressional seats this year. |
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| 1:43.2 | And some 78 women are expected to run for governor, |
| 1:46.3 | another all-time high. Among those gubernatorial candidates is a Georgia lawyer, a businesswoman, |
| 1:52.7 | an author, and a former state representative named Stacey Abrams. If Abrams becomes the governor |
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