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August 22, 2022 

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ICYMI: The Union-Recorder: “Warnock stumps for votes in Milledgeville”

Milledgeville Mayor Mary Parham-Copelan: “[Reverend Warnock] has really worked hard for our veterans to make sure they are receiving everything they need, health care, affordable housing, and making sure they have pay raises that are conducive to have what they need to live in this world today.”

Atlanta, GA – On Saturday, the Union-Recorder spotlighted Reverend Warnock’s recent visit to Milledgeville and the community’s enthusiasm for his reelection. 

The article highlighted Reverend Warnock’s work for Georgia veterans including fighting for their access to health care, affordable housing, and pay raises. The event was attended by many veterans, who shared their stories with their community. 

Read more about Reverend Warnock’s visit to Milledgeville here and below:

Union-Recorder: Warnock stumps for votes in Milledgeville

Billy Hobbs — August 20, 2022

Key Points

• U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock rolled into Milledgeville on his big bright chartered campaign bus Thursday morning. Dozens of well-wishers welcomed the Democratic candidate to the Floyd L. Griffin Jr. Plaza near Allen’s Market.

• The incumbent lawmaker from Georgia is seeking re-election to the U.S. Senate. He holds the distinction of being the first Black man ever elected to the Senate from Georgia. Warnock, senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta where the late civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached, is being challenged by Republican hopeful Herschel Walker.

• Milledgeville Mayor Mary Parham-Copelan introduced Warnock to an enthusiastic crowd.

• “This is an awesome time to be able to introduce a man who has been in office for only 18 months and has done more than many of us know anything about,” Parham-Copelan said. “He has really worked hard for our veterans to make sure they are receiving everything they need, health care, affordable housing, and making sure they have pay raises that are conducive to have what they need to live in this world today.”

• The mayor touted Warnock as the son of a veteran.

• “He knows what veterans need; he knows the fight for veterans’ families and those actively serving in the military,” Parham-Copelan said. 

• Warnock told the crowd he was excited to be back visiting Milledgeville.

• “Here we go again,” he said. “If it feels like it wasn’t long ago that we were gathered in a place like this, focused on an election unlike any we’ve gone through before with the very future of our children, and our children’s children, and their children on the line. If it feels like we were not here long ago, you’re not suffering from collective deja vu.”

• “I’ve said time and time again that democracy is the political enactment of a spiritual idea, and that all of us have a spark of the divine,” Warnock said. “And that each of us is a child of God. I believe that with all of my heart. And if you’re not given to that kind of language, each of us has value and worth.

• “If we all have a voice and we all have dignity, then we ought to have a say in the direction of our nation, and our place within it,” Warnock said. “That’s what is at stake in a democracy. And so beyond the individual pieces of legislation, and the work that we do, the local work that you all are engaged in at this moment is the maintenance of our democracy, which is the covenant that we have with one another as an American people — nothing more sacred or important than that.”

• He said such was the framework in which there are debates and family conversations about what is next, and about the work to be done together.

• Warnock said prayer is important, too.

• “And our prayers are stronger when we pray together,” he said. “I believe that we have made progress on the work that we began to do in the last cycle, because long before I was a United States senator; long before I worked successfully to cap the cost of prescription drugs for seniors; long before I had the honor of representing you in the United States Senate, I was just a kid growing up in (a housing project) in Savannah, Ga.”

• In closing comments, he urged those there to continue to support him and cast their votes for him in the November election.

• Warnock said he wanted to be re-elected so he could continue to work for all Georgians, even those who won’t support or vote for him.  

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