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Books by and about 2024 presidential candidates |
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Hillbilly Elegy,
by JD Vance (2017) |
Crippled America,
by Donald J. Trump (2015) |
Fire and Fury,
by Michael Wolff (2018) |
Trump Revealed,
by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher (2016) |
The Making of Donald Trump,
by David Cay Johnston (2016) |
Promise Me, Dad ,
by Joe Biden (2017) |
The Book of Joe ,
by Jeff Wilser (2019; biography of Joe Biden) |
The Truths We Hold,
by Kamala Harris (2019) |
Smart on Crime,
by Kamala Harris (2010) |
Becoming,
by Michelle Obama (2018) |
Higher Loyalty,
by James Comey (2018) |
The Making of Donald Trump,
by David Cay Johnston (2017) |
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Book Reviews |
(from Amazon.com) |
(click a book cover for a review or other books by or about the presidency from Amazon.com)
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| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details)
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Abortion
Brian Kemp: Supports "Heartbeat Bill" and tough abortion laws.
Brian Kemp: Signed fetal heartbeat bill, tax deductions for fetuses.
Casey Cagle: Every child is a gift from God; 100% pro-life.
Casey Cagle: Conservative values: pro-life & pro-second Amendment.
Jason Carter: Voted against restrictions on abortion rights.
Stacey Abrams: Expand reproductive freedom to under-served areas.
Stacey Abrams: Don't jeopardize access to birth control.
Vernon Jones: Opposed anti-abortion "heartbeat" bill enacted in Georgia.
Shane Hazel: Supports bodily autonomy & right to health privacy.
Stacey Abrams: Georgia law would investigate women for miscarriage.
Stacey Abrams: Rights should be sacrosanct regardless of state lines.
Stacey Abrams: Politicians are not scientists, don't set arbitrary limits.
Keisha Lance Bottoms: Support Atlanta business in face of heartbill bill bans.
Brad Raffensperger: Opposed abortion while in the state legislature.
Chris Carr: Secured victory that returned abortion back to the states.
Keisha Lance Bottoms: Take us back to Roe v. Wade which served this country well.
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Budget & Economy
Casey Cagle: Expect state government to balance budget & reduce waste.
Casey Cagle: JOBS: hire unemployed Georgians & incentivizes new business.
Stacey Abrams: Invest in community businesses.
Brad Raffensperger: Bring back manufacturing jobs; recruit promising start-ups.
Chris Carr: Implement Zero Based Budgeting, eliminate wasteful spending.
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Civil Rights
Brian Kemp: Against bigotry, but monuments are history.
Brian Kemp: Allow rejecting gay customers on religious grounds.
Casey Cagle: Confederate monuments are a great cultural attraction.
Hunter Hill: Supports Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Hunter Hill: Removing Confederate monuments is not the solution.
Jason Carter: Civil marriage equality, but don't tell churches what to do.
Stacey Abrams: No discrimination, including against LGBTQ.
Stacey Abrams: Reflect on terrible Confederacy in museums, not monuments.
Stacey Abrams: No discrimination, including against LGBTQ.
Stacey Abrams: Basic fairness: we must ensure that every vote is counted.
Stacey Abrams: Voter suppression is an existential crisis in the US.
Stacey Abrams: Those who paid debt to society should be re-enfranchised.
Stacey Abrams: Upholding military transgender ban is an abomination.
Vernon Jones: Lawsuit: he wanted a "darker administration" as county CEO.
Chris Carr: Challenged anti-discrimination rule on sexual orientation.
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Corporations
Andrew Hunt: Eliminate employment penalty taxes.
Brian Kemp: Invest Georgia Exemption: first business $1M in exempt IPO.
Brian Kemp: Cut government regulations to help small business owners.
Casey Cagle: Keep taxes on business that create jobs low.
Stacey Abrams: Invest in community businesses.
Keisha Lance Bottoms: Crack down on corporate landlords that are buying up houses.
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Crime
Andrew Hunt: Community rehab programs instead of incarceration.
Brian Kemp: Collaborate with cities and sheriff's departments.
Jason Carter: No ban on the death penalty.
Kandiss Taylor: Understand frustration of black men with racial stereotyping.
Stacey Abrams: Justice should not be determined by your paycheck.
Vernon Jones: I cannot stand for the defunding of the police.
Vernon Jones: Make attacks for party affiliation or ideology a hate crime.
Stacey Abrams: $25 million in state grants for police salary raises.
Stacey Abrams: We cannot punish our way into public safety.
Brad Raffensperger: Double down on recruiting for the Georgia State Patrol.
Chris Carr: Dismantle gang networks that are terrorizing our communities.
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Drugs
Andrew Hunt: Fines instead of imprisonment for non-violent drug offenses.
Brian Kemp: Unequivocally opposes recreational use of marijuana.
Brian Kemp: Signed Hope Act: allows for medicinal oils with up to 5% THC.
Stacey Abrams: Expand list of conditions for medical marijuana.
Stacey Abrams: Add fentanyl to list of criminalized opioids.
Stacey Abrams: For medical marijuana; open to legalizing recreational use.
Chris Carr: People selling fentanyl should be charged with murder.
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Education
Andrew Hunt: Increase both public and private school choices.
Brian Kemp: Fully fund public school education.
Brian Kemp: Supports vouchers to attend private schools.
Brian Kemp: Asked Georgia Board of Ed. to denounce critical race theory.
Casey Cagle: Options for public charter, private school or home schooling.
Casey Cagle: Declare war on high school dropout rates in Georgia.
Casey Cagle: Education savings accounts including private schools.
Hunter Hill: Advocate for education accounts including private schools.
Hunter Hill: I believe the money should follow the child.
Nathan Deal: Criticizing Common Core diverts from advancing education.
Stacey Abrams: Help students from early learning thru post-secondary school.
Stacey Abrams: Chief Turnaround Officers for low-performing schools.
Stacey Abrams: Voted NO on $42M more tax credits for private schools.
Stacey Abrams: No money for school vouchers.
Stacey Abrams: Must offer many paths for higher education.
Stacey Abrams: Needs-based college tuition for low-income students.
Vernon Jones: School choice: why can't the money follow the child?
Brad Raffensperger: Expand tax credits for parental school choice.
Brad Raffensperger: End radical curriculums; root out pornography in libraries.
Chris Carr: Empower parents by providing more choice in education.
Keisha Lance Bottoms: Support by eliminating state income taxes for teachers.
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Energy & Oil
Brian Kemp: Radical Democrats push things like "the new green deal".
Brian Kemp: State invested in South Korean electric car battery company.
Stacey Abrams: Clean energy key to jobs & innovation.
Terry Branstad: Expand and protect American energy resources.
Chris Carr: Challenged moratorium on drilling on federal land.
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Environment
Stacey Abrams: Stay on top of environmental waste & clean-up.
Stacey Abrams: Hurricane recovery is a 10-month process, not 10 days.
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Families & Children
Brian Kemp: Religious freedom: allow withholding contraceptive coverage.
Hunter Hill: Let each adoption agency decide on allowing same-sex parents.
Stacey Abrams: Learning begins at birth.
Stacey Abrams: Learning begins at birth.
Stacey Abrams: We must help our most vulnerable citizens.
Vernon Jones: 1998: outlaw selling music with explicit lyrics to minors.
Stacey Abrams: Supports Plan B and emergency contraceptives.
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Foreign Policy
Jason Carter: Declares his powerful connection to Israel.
Stacey Abrams: We've returned to isolationism, driven by fear-mongering.
Stacey Abrams: Our moral credibility in the world has been diminished.
Stacey Abrams: Representation matters in our foreign service.
Stacey Abrams: Concerned China building infrastructure, relationships.
Brad Raffensperger: "Thanked" Russia for putting him on list banning him.
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Free Trade
Brian Kemp: Supports tariffs on China as part of trade negotiations.
Brian Kemp: Travelled to South Korea to expand trade with Georgia.
Sonny Perdue: Rework NAFTA for dairy and poultry tariffs in Canada.
Stacey Abrams: Tariffs on Chinese steel are a terrible idea.
Stacey Abrams: Trade policy should not be based on brinksmanship.
Keisha Lance Bottoms: Our trade economy has suffered from Trump's chaotic tariffs.
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Government Reform
Andrew Hunt: Erase laws instead of creating new ones.
Andrew Hunt: Ensure easy access to voting, including electronic.
Brian Kemp: Protect our elections from fraud with Voter ID.
Brian Kemp: Stricter voter ID laws against threat of illegal voters.
Brian Kemp: 53,000 voter registrations put "on hold".
Brian Kemp: OpEd: Precise name-match disenfranchises voters of color.
Brian Kemp: 1.5 million voters removed from the voting rolls.
Jason Carter: Verifiable paper trail important for credibility in voting.
Kandiss Taylor: Demands "audit" of 2020 Georgia election results.
Kandiss Taylor: It's time for politicians to be term limited, then come home.
Stacey Abrams: Head of a voter registration group; focus on minorities.
Stacey Abrams: Protect voter's rights against voter suppression tactics.
Stacey Abrams: Founded voter registration project.
Stacey Abrams: Deliberate interference & disenfranchisement in `18 election.
Stacey Abrams: Disenfranchisement was death by 1,000 cuts.
Stacey Abrams: Sued in 2016 to stop "exact match" on voter registration.
Stacey Abrams: Fair Fight Georgia helped Biden and Democratic Senate.
Stacey Abrams: Ensure everyone trusts the system, and it's worthy of that.
Stacey Abrams: Only obligation we have is make sure every vote is counted.
Stacey Abrams: You don't win county by county; you win person by person.
Stacey Abrams: The electoral college is racist and classist.
Stacey Abrams: Lawsuit of 80,000 complaints against 2018 Governor election.
Stacey Abrams: 2020 election integrity law is the "new Jim Crow".
Chris Carr: Chris will eliminate red tape and burdensome regulations.
Chris Carr: Push back on false claims that our law prevents voting.
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Gun Control
Brian Kemp: Respect the 2nd Amendment if you want to date my daughter.
Brian Kemp: Constitutional carry without permit.
Casey Cagle: Expand citizens' ability to protect themselves & families.
Hunter Hill: State should enact reasonable restrictions on guns.
Jason Carter: Rated 92% by National Rifle Association.
Stacey Abrams: State should enact reasonable restrictions on guns.
Vernon Jones: Supports the NRA; received campaign donation in 2016.
Stacey Abrams: Opposes constitutional carry; supports background checks.
Keisha Lance Bottoms: Congress should enact gun safety legislation immediately.
Chris Carr: A staunch supporter of Georgians' right to bear arms.
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Health Care
Andrew Hunt: Georgia can do better than ObamaCare.
Brian Kemp: Free market replacement for ObamaCare.
Brian Kemp: Require people to work to receive Medicaid.
Hunter Hill: Healthcare should be done by states.
Jason Carter: Expanding Medicaid brings tax dollars back to Georgia.
Nathan Deal: Guaranteed ER room treatment means excessive ER visits.
Nathan Deal: Refuses to expand Medicaid rolls under ObamaCare.
Stacey Abrams: Expand Medicaid; explore universal coverage.
Stacey Abrams: Medicaid expansion for reduced cost & preexisting conditions.
Stacey Abrams: Paying for uncompensated care brings money back.
Stacey Abrams: His personal debt was from caring for father with cancer.
Keisha Lance Bottoms: Expand Medicaid so that 300,000 Georgians can get coverage.
Brian Kemp: Sued over COVID vaccine mandate for health care workers.
Chris Carr: Sued over COVID vaccine mandate for health care workers.
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Homeland Security
Kandiss Taylor: Determine if military bases are vital before closing them.
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Immigration
Brian Kemp: Crack down on illegal immigration.
Brian Kemp: Georgia interests over immigrants.
Brian Kemp: End DACA; round up criminal illegals.
Casey Cagle: Double headline - Already Done.
Hunter Hill: No sanctuary cities in Georgia.
Jason Carter: Voted to keep public benefits for undocumented immigrants.
Stacey Abrams: Advocates a clean DREAM Act.
Vernon Jones: Co-sponsored bill to crack down on illegal immigrants.
Brad Raffensperger: Halt deportation of Afghan Christian refugees.
Chris Carr: Deport criminal illegals who commit crimes in our state.
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Jobs
Andrew Hunt: Job Powerhouse plan instead of crony capitalism.
Andrew Hunt: Reduce payroll tax when paying over $11/hour.
Brian Kemp: 4-Point Plan to put hardworking Georgians to work.
Casey Cagle: Create 500,000 jobs in first term, to beat Deal's 319,000.
Jason Carter: Employers need skilled workers: more technical schools.
Nathan Deal: Economists don't pay attention to unemployment rates.
Stacey Abrams: For living wage and right to form unions.
Stacey Abrams: For living wage and right to form unions.
Vernon Jones: Opportunity for all rather than increase the minimum wage.
Stacey Abrams: Constitutional amendment to bring casinos & online betting.
Chris Carr: Boost our capabilities, spur more investment in new jobs.
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Principles & Values
Brian Kemp: State Senator and Secretary of State.
Brian Kemp: We're in a real fight right now to make America great again.
Casey Cagle: Protect student athletes' religious expression.
Jason Carter: Grandfather Jimmy Carter participates in grandson's campaign.
Jason Carter: I've passed 21 bipartisan bills in the legislature.
Stacey Abrams: Prefers organizing systems for change to legislating.
Stacey Abrams: Election loss: Something being legal does not make it right.
Stacey Abrams: Run for the job you want; I'm best on executive side.
Vernon Jones: Black voters would vote for David Duke if a Democrat.
Brad Raffensperger: Refused to change 2020 vote totals when Trump demanded.
Brad Raffensperger: His "Christian faith guides everything he does".
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Social Security
Stacey Abrams: We must help our most vulnerable citizens.
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Tax Reform
Casey Cagle: Businesses and families flourish when tax burden is low.
Casey Cagle: Slash $100 million in taxes, without cutting core services.
Hunter Hill: Eliminate state income tax.
Stacey Abrams: Ask everyone to do their fair share.
Stacey Abrams: Keep graduated income tax instead of 5.4% flat tax.
Vernon Jones: 2007: Backed a flat tax proposal as "fair tax".
Brian Kemp: $1 billion tax cut from the state's budget surplus.
Brad Raffensperger: Cap property taxes for seniors, eliminate state income tax.
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Technology
Andrew Hunt: Apply lessons of nanotech to colleges; stop importing talent.
Brian Kemp: Webpage & app for voter registration & sample ballot.
Casey Cagle: Double--if not triple--our investment in transportation.
Casey Cagle: Invest in good roads and a deepened harbor.
Casey Cagle: 10-year transportation plan for roads & bridges improvements.
Hunter Hill: Create driverless car corridors & double-deck 285.
Stacey Abrams: We must invest in public infrastructure.
Stacey Abrams: Creates commission on Transit Governance and Funding.
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War & Peace
Hunter Hill: I fought to defend our values in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Stacey Abrams: US should be judicious & careful with our use of military.
Chris Carr: Supported Trump's bombing of Iran: stand with Israel.
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Welfare & Poverty
Stacey Abrams: Help working poor get a leg up.
Stacey Abrams: Reducing the top not enough on income inequality.
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