Suzanna Karatassos launches campaign for state house

Suzanna Karatassos launched her campaign for State House, District 120 yesterday at Oglethorpe Garage in Athens.

“Right now the biggest issues in Georgia is health care and affordability. They kind of go hand in hand. And the Republicans have shown us, state and federal, that they do not care at all whether or not we can afford to live. Next year in November, we’re going to take back the entire Georgia government. Brian Kemp only won his last race by plus four, you know?”

“And once we do get back that majority, we can write bill after bill to save our state. We can fully expand Medicaid. We can fully fund SNAP. We can raise the minimum wage. And we can fully fund all the rural hospitals instead of just letting them close like what the Republicans have done. We can expand the Georgia Department of Education to make sure that every single child, especially ones with special needs, is taken care of. We can pass common sense gun laws. We can also pass free school lunches. Other states do that. There’s no reason we can’t do that here. No decent state is going to let children go hungry and just let the billionaires keep getting richer. The two should not exist at the same time.”

“And as far as reproductive rights go, 13 states have put reproductive freedom on the ballot since Roe was overturned. 13 states, including deep red states. And here in Georgia, the Republicans put a six week ban on us. They didn’t put it up for a vote. So next year when we take back the majority, we can remove that ban and we can put it up for a vote and enshrine it into the constitution, reproductive freedom.”

“The Republicans have controlled Georgia for 20 straight years and the results speak for themselves. Increasingly, life is completely unaffordable. And the Republicans aren’t doing anything about it. I haven’t heard a single Georgia Republican come out and even make a statement about the healthcare crisis. And what they have been doing is handing out tax breaks and power bill breaks to all the big corporations in the data centers. And meanwhile, all the individual households and small businesses have to pick up the bill for these billion dollar data centers. They just use up all of our land and water and they’re not paying their proper taxes. The whole deal they’ve got going is diabolical. And people are fed up. And you can see it in elections all over the country. People have had it. And I think people are ready for change.”

Suzanna is running unopposed in the Democratic primary, so she’ll face off against her Republican opponent in November.