Brian Kemp

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Brian Kemp

Brian Porter Kemp (born November 2, 1963 in Athens , Georgia ) is an American businessman and politician of the Republican Party . He was a member of the Georgia Senate from 2003 to 2007 . From 2010 to 2018 he was its Secretary of State . He has been the governor of his home state since January 14, 2019 .

Life

Brian Porter Kemp was born in Athens, Georgia. His grandfather, Julian H. Fox Sr., was a member of the Georgia state legislature . Kemp graduated from the Athens Academy in 1983. He later studied agriculture at the University of Georgia . Before his political career, Kemp was a handyman and developer.

Politically, he joined the Republican Party. From 2003 to 2007, Kemp was a member of the Georgia Senate. In 2006 he applied for the office of Agriculture Commissioner of Georgia. He finished second in the primary, but lost the election to Gary Black. In 2010 he won the Georgia Secretary of State election with 56.4% of the vote against Georganna Sinkfield who received 39.4% of the vote. He was re-elected four years later . After beating Casey Cagle in the Republican primary with 69% , he won the Georgia gubernatorial election in November 2018 with just 50.2% to 48.8% (a 55,000-vote lead) against Democrat Stacey Abrams . Before the election, as Interior Minister Giorgias, he severely restricted the right to vote.

After being elected governor, he resigned his previous office and was sworn in a few weeks later, on January 14, 2019, as governor of Georgia. He thus succeeded Nathan Deal , who was not allowed to run again due to a term limit.

Program and controversy

Kemp is seen as a representative of the extreme right wing within the Republican Party and the Christian fundamentalist conservatives in the USA. Kemp is a declared opponent of Obamacare and announced that he will introduce the toughest anti-abortion laws in the USA. A bill co-initiated by Kemp called the "Religious Freedom and Restoration Act", which would have allowed officials, among other things, to refuse services to LGBT people based on religious beliefs, was overturned.

Kemp advocates free gun ownership . A commercial where Kemp points a shotgun at a young man who intends to go out with his daughter has been heavily criticized. Kemp is a hardliner on migration policy . During the governor's election campaign he shot another commercial in which he threatened to kidnap illegal immigrants and bring them back to Mexico in his truck .

Restrictions on the right to vote or obstruction of groups of voters

Kemp has been repeatedly accused of abuse of power and electoral suppression for refusing to step down as a candidate for gubernatorial secretary of state , and six-figure voters of them during his campaign and during the congressional elections that year predominantly minorities who were hindered from exercising their right to vote. Under his leadership, between 2012 and 2018, a total of 1.4 million registered voters were allegedly deleted from the registers as a precaution against electoral fraud after a transition period of 26 months without notice because of the name (e.g. because of hyphens or accents) or other data did not exactly match what is reported by the state driver's license and social security authorities, people moved within the state, or did not regularly vote. 700,000 of them were deleted in 2017, when Kemps was already a candidate for governor, and also with effect from the 2018 congressional elections , 500,000 in a single night in July of that year. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution estimated the latter as possibly the largest mass electoral disfranchisement in US history. Kemp's practice was stopped in 2016 after a lawsuit and an out-of-court settlement, but in response to this, the state's parliament explicitly allowed it again with a law in 2017. In addition, through this practice, by the end of the registration deadline a few weeks before the elections in November 2018, Kemp had a total of 53,000 ongoing registrations with such flaws that existed without notifying the people. Since this could only be changed by re-registering, these registrations were invariably stopped after the deadline. In addition, as Minister of the Interior, he ordered the closure of over 200 polling stations before the election, the majority of them in residential areas of financially weak.

Emory University Professor Carol Anderson described Kemp as an "enemy of democracy" and an "expert on election rigging" in his office as Secretary of State.

COVID-19

During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States , despite the increasing number of cases, he overturned most of the lockdown regulations : "Before you ruin someone's business, deprive them and their employees of their livelihoods (...) you'd better leave them yourself decide what he can answer for! " On 17 July 2020 was known to be opposed by the Mayor of Atlanta , Keisha Lance Bottoms complains arranged for the city mask duty.

On July 6, 2020, after several violent incidents, he declared a state of emergency and called in the National Guard .

Private life

Kemp has been married to Marty Argo since 1994. They have three daughters together.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 11/2/2010 - Federal and Statewide. Retrieved July 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Ines Zöttl, René Pfister, Ralf Neukirch, DER SPIEGEL: Script for the Coup: How Trump Tries to Steal the Election - DER SPIEGEL - Politics. Retrieved August 22, 2020 .
  3. ^ Medicaid expansion question fuels Georgia governor's race , Atlanta Journal-Constitution (September 5, 2018).
  4. ^ Greg Bluestein, Kemp vows to outdo Mississippi and sign nation's 'toughest' abortion law , Atlanta Journal-Constitution (March 20, 2018).
  5. ^ Kemp says he would sign anti-gay legislation . December 5, 2017. Retrieved November 4, 2018. 
  6. ↑ Samantha Schmidt: Georgia governor candidate aims gun at teen in campaign ad. 'Get over it,' he tells critics . May 2, 2018. Retrieved July 26, 2018.
  7. ^ Republicans just nominated a guy who threatened to abduct undocumented immigrants with his truck . In: Mother Jones . July 24, 2018. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  8. ↑ Ga. Election official off base on election interference (en) . In: @politifact . Retrieved October 11, 2018. 
  9. ↑ Georgia secretary of state fighting accusations of disenfranchising minority voters (s) . In: mcclatchydc . Retrieved October 11, 2018. 
  10. ^ A b Voting Rights Become A Flashpoint In Georgia Governor's Race . Associated Press. October 9, 2018. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
  11. ^ A Republican won the Georgia governor's race, but it was tainted by voter suppression . In: Mother Jones . November 16, 2018. Retrieved August 5, 2018: "may represent the largest mass disenfranchisement in US history"
  12. ↑ How SCOTUS Helped Make Voter Registration Discrimination in Georgia OK . In: CityLab . October 15, 2018. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
  13. ↑ Carol Anderson: Brian Kemp, Enemy of Democracy . In: New York Times , August 11, 2018. Retrieved August 12, 2018. 
  14. ↑ Lockdown in the USA: Georgia dares to open - too early? - tagesschau.de
  15. ↑ Governor of Georgia complains about mask requirement
  16. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Georgia's governor activates the National Guard - DER SPIEGEL - Panorama. Retrieved July 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kemp, Brian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kemp, Brian Porter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 2nd, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens , Georgia