I want this woman to win.

by chase

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Friday, Sep. 11, 2020 Friday, Sep. 11, 2020 at 12:15:51am PDT

So there’s a progressive woman running for office in Georgia for the first time. Her name is Angela Mayfield and she’s running for HD 67, which is just west of Atlanta. This is the Georgia state house, not the US House of Representatives, so if she wins it won’t help the Democratic congressional representation. But part of the reason the GOP has the power it does is that it has spent decades fighting for seats on school boards and state legislatures and local offices. If she wins it will help in other ways. For one thing, her opponent is the sponsor of Georgia’s draconian abortion ban bill (GA House Bill 481). I want Mayfield to win and I’m going to show you why.

Here’s how she describes herself:

West Georgia sass machine, Southern as all-get-out. Y’all means ALL. I was born to bake biscuits and build a better Georgia, and I’m all out of flour.

Here’s the link to donate to her campaign: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/angelaga

And here’s the Twitter thread that introduced me to her (I apologize for all the images):

Less than two months to go before Election Day, and my local paper (support local journalism, no joke, it’s important) has run a hit piece on me and my trashy mouth. Y’all wanna see screenshots?

[GIF: I HAVE THE RECEIPTS]

First, let me say that for all of you gentle possums who have raised your hands to volunteer, virtual phone banking is ready to go! Drop me a DM (even if you already did, I get a LOT), and we’ll get you started. I love you. You’re amazing. This is going to be so much fun.

First of all, let’s look at what’s got these jimmies so rustled. Neither my opponent nor I had a primary challenger, so the June primary was almost like a pre-season game, giving a snapshot of each candidate’s support and turnout. The results were CLOSE. 751 votes close.

[Gravley: 5,981 Mayfield: 5,230]

My opponent (MG for twitter brevity) is a 4x incumbent- who has been unopposed. As his constituent, that bothered me. He wouldn’t return my calls about HB 481. I watched him talk over a woman concerned about her elderly mother’s nursing home care. Unopposed, and unbothered.

I realized, if I don’t have good representation, and my neighbors don’t either, then maybe MG should have to earn his spot under the Dome. Heck, arm wrassle me for it, I don’t care, but you don’t get to just make legislation because Nathan Deal picked you 4 terms ago.

So, here we are, two months out. I get a DM from the editor of the local paper asking about... Well, not policy, much to my disappointment. My pottymouth.

what do you say to people shocked by your language?

This was my response. I’m sorry it’s so long and in the form of an image; for those who use text readers, I’ll be recording a dramatic reading.(Nota bene: There is no cussing in this official statement to the media about my cussing.)

So Mr. Daniel, followed up and asked for clarification on a point. He asked about “the p-word”. (This is the part in the Greek tragedy where the masked chorus sings “BLESSSS HISSSS HEARRRRT”)

But there are a lot of words that start with p, including “politics” which is why I’m here. So I asked him to be more specific. Which p-word?

So he sends me a screenshot of my tweet from Jan 2019– way before I accidentally got twitter famous! This is impressive investigative journalism, because he either scrolled through a year of possum content to find it, or searched “from:pinkrocktopus pussy”. I bet it’s that.

Now, it’s important to note that in the screenshot (last tweet) I redacted the name of the other person, because they don’t care about this mess right here. I also deleted that tweet to prevent brigading. I still say pussy, though. Here’s a classic:

I’d also like to note that the file data for the screenshot Ron Daniel sent me of my own tweet was dated five days before he asked me about it, which is five days of thinking about me typing pussy. The Twitter analytics on that tweet prove nobody but him gave a solitary shit:

No sir. I will not take the bait on a word you can’t even type. My response was that there are far more important things to discuss, like rural healthcare, maternal mortality in Georgia, etc, ad infinitum, ad nauseam. But Ron wanted to talk about pussy. never heard back.

And this, theydies and gentlethems, is why I’m running. Because men like Ron and Micah feel entitled to control the bodies of people with, yes, pussies and ovaries and wombs, but they find them too vulgar to discuss. Because when I tried to talk issues, I was scolded publicly.

He wrote a hack bag, and now more people are talking about little ol’ me than Friday night football. In Georgia.

Anyway. I’m Angela Mayfield. I’m tired of tater tot legislators who care more about the health and welfare of Confederate statues, than Black mothers and babies.

My mother, @BrendaForCocoa, follows me here, so everything I say, I say in front of my Mama.

Underestimate me again.

FRONT PAGE ABOVE THE FOLD A LADY SAID NAUGHTY WORDS

Here’s my fundraising link, if you’d like to help me take out a full page ad in the Douglas County Sentinel.

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/angelaga

Here’s a mention of the story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

The 'sassiest' state House race in west Georgia

According to the AJC, she got $50K in campaign contributions within hours of the Twitter thread last weekend, and had $125,000 by this past Tuesday. Let’s send her some more.

You should read the link though, to find out what Mayfield says is the whitest thing about her.

I want her to win and I want you to help her win and someday I want to see her in Congress or as governor, if Stacey Abrams is busy somewhere else.

Some other mentions of Mayfield:

Extreme Abortion Bans Inspire Progressive Women To Run For Office

Why I’m Choosing to Stay in Georgia Despite Its Extreme Abortion Ban