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Gaining Ground: The New Georgia

Tenderfoot TV & Crooked Media

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🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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With record numbers of Georgia voters showing up for the election and an anxious country waiting on the outcome, we meet the candidates who are running for much more than a Senate seat.

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0:00.0	I feel like I have like a little root that I go on. I go see my tennis coach over at
0:05.3	Washington Park. I go, I go to L.T. Wings off a cascade in Fairburd. I go to eat on ponds and one of those places I like to see is my old house.
0:21.6	Rumbritt and I were both raised in Southwest Atlanta, from Ben Hill to Cascade, Adams Park to the West End.
0:29.0	Our histories in Georgia, however, are much deeper.
0:32.0	His maternal side can trace their Georgia lineage back to 1836.
0:36.6	And my maternal side has been here since at least the mid-1800s.
0:41.0	As for that old house he brought up, it's a hundred years old, built in 1920.
0:47.0	I got off 20 to go see my old house and saw that not only was where there are two people outside which typically I
0:57.0	hadn't seen anyone there but the house was like completely renovated on the
1:01.5	outside and it was a completely different color.
1:06.0	I couldn't believe it.
1:07.0	Got out the car, like waved at these two people outside and I think one of the main reasons I wanted to say hi outside of the house was that there was an alsoph in Warnox side in the front hill that leads up to this once screened in porch. I had not been into the house since we left that house when I was a kid.
1:30.4	I started talking to the guy who owned the house. He was like extremely nice. Let me walk through the house.
1:36.5	Was asking questions about how things were when I when I lived there. I was like, oh my goodness, my mom has has to see this place I have to bring her back here
1:46.7	as I was walking out I was like you know you know by the way I saw your signs outside I actually grew up with AASOP and he goes, wait that's really interesting. I work for his
2:01.9	campaign.
2:03.6	And this wasn't just a dedicated volunteer for the campaign.
2:07.0	The house now belonged to Stephen Parker,
2:09.2	Aesoph's political director.
2:11.4	So I was like, wait, wait, what? You work for him? This is such a small town, big city moment that I just, I can't believe and I can completely believe happen.
2:23.0	From Tenderfoot TV and from
2:39.3	Tenderfoot TV and Crooked Media, this is gaining ground, the new Georgia. For three episodes we've been building up to Georgia's January 5th Senate runoffs.
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