“Weekly Warnock” - Campaign Updates

Highlights from the Warnock for Georgia Team for April 11- 17

Atlanta, GA - This week, Reverend Raphael Warnock wrote an Op-Ed for The American Independent on Tuesday highlighting the health disparities facing Black and lower-income Americans during the COVID-19 crisis, especially across rural communities. Warnock also joined MSNBC’s Joy Ann Reid on Saturday to talk about the importance of social distancing during Easter and SiriusXM’s Jess McIntosh and Zerlina Maxwell to discuss his candidacy for U.S. Senate on Thursday. He also ended the week as the top candidate for Senate, outraising incumbent Senator Kelly Loeffler and Congressman Doug Collins. Warnock Op-Ed: The American Independent: The coronavirus crisis reveals just how deep inequality in US runs  Key sections, below. Read the full Op-Ed here. This past week I did something I never thought I'd do: conducted a funeral for a member of my congregation on Zoom. Like many people across the country, the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic has reached our doorsteps at Ebenezer Baptist Church here in Georgia. No one is immune to this tragedy, but we are all reminded just how deep inequality runs in our country as we see this virus's outsized impact on historically disadvantaged communities and how ill-prepared we are to address it. Inequality in economics and health care multiplies in the midst of a crisis. These are tragic consequences that people in Black and brown and rural and poor communities experience every day, compounded and exacerbated by problems like COVID-19. Our country is in debt right now to so many working people and health care professionals making incredible sacrifices with few assurances from our government or their employers that their families will be taken care of after this. We need leaders who will be busy doing everything they can to fight not just this global pandemic, but the disparities in our health care system that exacerbated it. I have spent my life fighting in that space. That's why I have been working on the issue of Medicaid expansion from the pulpit and the streets for so many years and will continue to do so. Read the full Op-Ed here.