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Today I was discriminated against for being a Democratic candidate for statewide office in Georgia.
I have been trying for the last few days to buy ad space on a digital billboard where my opponent and other Republican candidates have been running ads. My online ad submissions to Blip Billboards, who operates the billboard, had been getting rejected for various reasons, which I had been correcting and resubmitting, until this morning when the reason for my rejection came back as OTHER. I contacted Blip Billboards and was told that they approved my ad but that the owner of the billboard rejected it. The reason given was that the owner of that billboard didn't accept political ads, which was strange considering all of the Republican ads on the board.
Blip told me that the billboard was owned by Diamond Outdoor and a Google search found that Diamond Outdoor is operated by Revelation Outdoor Management, whose CEO is Morgan Hudgens, whose father is Ralph T Hudgens, our state's Republican Insurance Commissioner.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a right wing billboard owner whose father is an elected Republican official would refuse the business of a Democratic candidate for office, but that is just not right.