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Gaining Ground: The New Georgia

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Gaining Ground: The New Georgia

Tenderfoot TV & Crooked Media

Government, Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.4901 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

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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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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