Our opponent
This isn’t about who Chuck Martin is as a person. It’s about whether our district is being represented. And the answer, for too many of us, is no.
Our opponent
This isn’t about who Chuck Martin is as a person. It’s about whether our district is being represented. And the answer, for too many of us, is no.
Meet our opponent: Chuck Martin.
Chuck Martin has represented District 49 since 2003, more than two decades in the State House. He’s a familiar face in Alpharetta, and I’ll give him this much: he’s personable, and he runs his committee competently.
But familiarity isn’t the same as representation. Here’s where I think his record and this district’s needs have pulled apart.
He blocked opportunity for local students.
Martin has repeatedly blocked legislation that would let Dreamer students at Dalton State College pay the same in-state tuition as their neighbors. These are kids who grew up in Georgia, went to Georgia schools, and want to build a future here. I don’t think that’s who we are.
He wrote the playbook on restricting the vote.
Martin was a lead architect of SB 202, the 2021 law that added new barriers to voting in Georgia. He calls it election security. I call it what voting rights groups and federal courts have called it: making it harder for people to vote.
He's made it easier to carry a gun on campus.
Martin voted for campus carry, making it easier to bring guns onto Georgia’s college campuses, and holds an endorsement from the NRA. I don’t think that makes our campuses safer.
He’s gone silent on reproductive rights.
Martin has never taken a public position on reproductive rights, even as access to care in Georgia has narrowed since Roe was overturned. Voters deserve to know where their representative stands. I’m not going to hide from this one.
He’s gone quiet on healthcare.
Georgia is one of the last states in the country that still hasn’t expanded Medicaid. In more than two decades in office, Martin hasn’t sponsored a single healthcare bill. That silence has a cost, and families in this district are the ones paying it.
The bottom line.
District 49 has changed since 2003. It’s more diverse, and it needs a representative who answers to constituents, not party leadership. Chuck Martin has had twenty-three years to represent all of us, and he’s chosen not to. I’m ready to step up where he hasn’t
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Our opponent has a two-decade head start and the name recognition to match.
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