TO: Interested Parties
FROM: Quentin Fulks, Warnock for Georgia Campaign Manager
DATE: Thursday, October 13, 2022
RE: WHAT TO EXPECT: Debate Will Demonstrate Clear Choice Between Reverend Warnock & Herschel Walker, Who Isn’t Ready To Represent Georgia
Friday’s U.S. Senate debate takes place in Reverend Raphael Warnock’s hometown of Savannah, just blocks from Kayton Homes public housing, where he grew up and learned the value of hard work and faith as the eleventh of twelve kids. Throughout the debate, Reverend Warnock will share how that experience and his service through his ministry and as Senior Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church have informed the work he’s been able to do on behalf of all Georgians.
The debate will put on full display the clear choice between Reverend Warnock and Herschel Walker, whose pattern of lies, disturbing behavior, and positions prove he is not ready to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate.
HERE’S WHAT TO EXPECT IN TOMORROW’S DEBATE:
Reverend Warnock will show again that he’s fighting for all Georgians and will work with anyone to help the people of our state.
- To address rising costs, Reverend Warnock has taken concrete steps on behalf of the people of Georgia. He helped secure $8 million to support jobs at the Port of Savannah and help ease a shipping backlog to help ensure that Georgians could get the items they need. He has fought to hold corporations from gas companies to shipping companies accountable for price gouging consumers. And he successfully led the fight to both cap the cost of insulin and prescription drug costs for seniors on Medicare. In sharp contrast, Herschel Walker opposed that law to benefit Georgia seniors, while offering no solutions to bring down costs.
- Reverend Warnock will show how he’s worked with anyone to help Georgians – a record he’ll continue to build on. He partnered with Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) on legislation to strengthen rail safety; with Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) to address international trade barriers that have impacted Georgia peanut farmers; and with Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) to designate I-14 as a high-priority corridor, helping grow economic opportunities from Columbus to Augusta. Reverend Warnock has stood up to the Biden Administration to protect jobs at the Savannah Combat Readiness Training Center. That’s why the non-partisan Lugar Center ranks Reverend Warnock as the 18th most bipartisan Senator.
Herschel Walker will be forced to defend his out-of-step positions and lies to the people of Georgia.
- Walker would vote for a nationwide ban on abortion in the U.S. Senate and supports making abortion illegal with no exceptions — even in cases of rape, incest, or even to save the life of the mother — saying, there’s “no exception in [his] mind.”
- Walker opposes expanding Medicaid, which would provide more than 640,000 Georgians with access to affordable care and create more than 60,000 Georgia jobs.
- Walker opposes the law championed by Warnock to lower prescription drug costs for Georgians by allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices for patients, capping the cost of insulin for Medicare patients at $35 a month, or capping their out-of-pocket prescription drug costs at $2,000 a year.
- According to Walker’s own staff, he lies “like he is breathing.” Walker has repeatedly lied about working in law enforcement and being an FBI agent; repeatedly lied about founding a charity for veterans; and lied about donating “millions of dollars to charities,” after an investigation found that “there is scant evidence that Mr. Walker’s giving matched those promises.” Those lies will be on full display in the debate, showing Georgians they can’t trust him.
While Herschel Walker will almost certainly be asked about a pattern of disturbing behavior, he is likely to refuse to answer for.
- In Friday’s debate, Walker will lie to the people of Georgia once again, falsely claiming he’s been “transparent” about his history of violence, while he “often dodges questions about his abusive relationship with Cindy Grossman by saying he addressed his behavior in his 2008 memoir, ‘Breaking Free.’”
- Here is the truth: “the 264-page book never mentions violence directed at Grossman. In fact, it seems to suggest there were no altercations as it describes his struggle with mental illness.” And “Walker’s failure to address the violence undermines his repeated claims of transparency.”
At the end of the night, Georgia voters will see the clear difference between two candidates who couldn’t be more different: Reverend Warnock, who has dedicated his life to serving the people of Georgia and successfully gotten things done on their behalf as their U.S. Senator, and Herschel Walker, who has proven again and again that he is not ready to serve them in the U.S. Senate.
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