Augusta mayor speaks out against Senate candidate Walker
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Almost a week after Election Night, the campaign for a Georgia Senate seat is hot in Augusta.
Augusta Mayor Hardie Davis started off the morning by holding “No Way Walker: Mayor Hardie Davis, Augusta Voters Stand Against Herschel Walker.”
“We’ve got a Senate race that’s been thrust into a runoff … a runoff that is the decision between competence and character, versus incompetence and lack of character,” Davis said Monday.
Just down the road later in the morning, GOP Senate candidate Walker himself made a campaign stop in Augusta as part of his “Evict Warnock” bus tour.
While Davis wasn’t speaking with or necessarily on behalf of Sen. Raphael Warnock, Davis was a speaker at Warnock’s watch party last week in Atlanta.
After last week’s election was indecisive, Walker and Warnock will battle in a Dec. 6 runoff for the Senate seat Warnock now holds .
The mayor said Walker has told untruths.
“You know, this is the same man who holds up a badge and says that he’s part of law enforcement. … We’ve got somebody walking around with a fake badge. We don’t need that,” Davis said.
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“The choice is clear. Georgia, we’ve got to re-elect Reverend Warnock, who has a record of actually supporting workers and doers – bringing down costs, addressing supply chain issues, creating good-paying jobs that sustain Georgia families – instead of just pretending, like Herschel Walker.”
Also at the event was Democratic state Rep. Gloria Frazier.
“Georgia deserves a senator who remains committed to the values that we stand for. And luckily, that’s who Senator Reverend Warnock is,” she said, pointing out that Warnock “has brought the voices and concerns of our veterans and service members to the forefront and work in the Senate.”
Augusta Commission member Jordan Johnson also spoke.
“Herschel Walker is someone who has lied over and over again about every aspect of his record. It would take us all day to sit here and go through every lie that Herschel Walker has told. Not to mention his disturbing conduct that he’s admitted to, that his family has exposed,” Johnson said.
“Anyone who wants to represent the people of Georgia should possess the highest amount of character, the highest amount of decency, integrity, and respect for what it means to serve this great state and its people — but unfortunately, Herschel Walker has none of these characteristics.”
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