Teresa Tomlinson
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Teresa Tomlinson (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Georgia. She lost in the Democratic primary on June 9, 2020.
Tomlinson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2020
See also: United States Senate election in Georgia, 2020 (Perdue vs. Ossoff runoff)
United States Senate election in Georgia, 2020 (June 9 Democratic primary)
United States Senate election in Georgia, 2020 (June 9 Republican primary)
General runoff election
General runoff election for U.S. Senate Georgia
Jon Ossoff defeated incumbent David Perdue in the general runoff election for U.S. Senate Georgia on January 5, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jon Ossoff (D)  | 50.6 | 2,269,923 |
 | David Perdue (R) | 49.4 | 2,214,979 | |
| Total votes: 4,484,902 | |||
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General election
General election for U.S. Senate Georgia
Incumbent David Perdue and Jon Ossoff advanced to a runoff. They defeated Shane Hazel in the general election for U.S. Senate Georgia on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | David Perdue (R) | 49.7 | 2,462,617 |
| ✔ | | Jon Ossoff (D) | 47.9 | 2,374,519 |
 | Shane Hazel (L) | 2.3 | 115,039 | |
| Total votes: 4,952,175 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Darrell McGuire (Independent)
- Clifton Kilby (Independent)
- Elbert Bartell (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Georgia
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Georgia on June 9, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jon Ossoff | 52.8 | 626,819 |
 | Teresa Tomlinson | 15.8 | 187,416 | |
 | Sarah Riggs Amico | 11.8 | 139,574 | |
 | Maya Dillard Smith | 8.8 | 105,000 | |
 | James Knox | 4.2 | 49,452 | |
 | Marckeith DeJesus | 3.9 | 45,936 | |
 | Tricia Carpenter McCracken | 2.7 | 32,463 | |
| Total votes: 1,186,660 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Akhenaten Amun (D)
- Harold Shouse (D)
- Elaine Whigham Williams (D)
- Ted Terry (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Georgia
Incumbent David Perdue advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Georgia on June 9, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | David Perdue | 100.0 | 992,555 |
| Total votes: 992,555 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- James Jackson (R)
- Michael Jowers (R)
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Teresa Tomlinson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Tomlinson's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Teresa Tomlinson is an 8th generation Georgian with roots all over the state. She spent the first half of her life in Atlanta, where she graduated from Chamblee High School, and the second half in Columbus, Georgia with her husband Trip.
In January 2019, Teresa finished her second highly successful term as the first woman Mayor and Public Safety Director of Columbus, Georgia. As mayor, Tomlinson was the chief elected official of Georgia's second-largest city. She led Columbus through a time of innovative transformation, shaking up the status quo to deliver results for its citizens. She revitalized blighted and under-utilized neighborhoods, improved city services, reformed its budget in the face of declining revenues, dramatically reduced crime, increased citizen engagement and set a vision for unprecedented vibrancy. Thanks to her leadership, Columbus earned a spot as one of the top 25 Best Run Cities in America.
I will move to protect and strengthen the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
I support efforts to ensure the integrity of the voting process and improve our election security, including hand-marked paper ballots as the superior alternative for every election, given that they can be audited after disputed election outcomes.
- I believe that politicians should stay out of the private and highly individualized medical considerations of a woman's reproductive health.
While we overcame many 20th century challenges including the Great Depression, two World Wars, Watergate, and the Gulf War; today we face new systemic challenges both nationally and globally. Teresa knows that if we are to seize our future and the prosperity our nation is capable of, we will need a New Civic Infrastructure. We must work to guarantee voter rights in all 50 states, correct a justice system that results in mass incarceration, stop the crisis and inhumanity at our border, reform our immigration system, ensure that we live free from the onslaught of gun violence, support basic bodily autonomy for women, and recognize the equality of all citizens (including LGBTQ+ citizens) to pursue and enjoy our unalienable rights.
Similarly, Teresa knows our economic infrastructure is also a relic of the 20th century. We need to build a New Economic Infrastructure: provide universal healthcare by expanding Medicare and Medicaid while allowing people to keep their private health insurance; establish a fair wage and a mechanism to have that wage keep pace with inflation; rethink our tax system to grow the middle class and strengthen pathways for those climbing out of poverty; end the racial and gender wealth gaps and find a way that all of our people have access to capital, power, and prosperity; help students afford college and recent graduates restructure their staggering student loan debt.
Visit www.TeresaTomlison.com for more details.
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Campaign website
Tomlinson’s campaign website stated the following:
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Teresa sees a 21st century world where our future is better than today and she knows how to get us there. She understands government is a tool to resolve our challenges and create a road map to our improved prosperity. As Mayor of Georgia’s second largest city, Teresa shook up the old way of doing things and made government work for the people. She will bring that strong progressive leadership to the U.S. Senate. Washington is filled with dysfunction. These days, the US Senate looks more like the World Wrestling Federation than the world’s most deliberative legislative body. If we keep electing the same people that will not change. Teresa knows how to resolve dysfunction. She rethinks systemic failure and makes it work again. That’s what she did as a lawyer and as a mayor: She makes government work. POLICY PAPERS Agriculture 1. A New Civic Infrastructure–Justice For All While we overcame many 20th century challenges including the Great Depression, two World Wars, Watergate, and the Gulf War; today we face new systemic challenges both nationally and globally. Teresa knows that if we are to seize our future and the prosperity our nation is capable of, we will need a New Civic Infrastructure. We must work to guarantee voter rights in all 50 states, correct a justice system that results in mass incarceration, stop the crisis and inhumanity at our border, reform our immigration system, ensure that we live free from the onslaught of gun violence, support basic bodily autonomy for women, and recognize the equality of all citizens (including LGBTQ+ citizens) to pursue and enjoy our unalienable rights. 2. A New Financial Infrastructure for a Strong Economy Similarly, Teresa knows our economic infrastructure is also a relic of the 20th century. We need to build a New Economic Infrastructure: provide universal healthcare by expanding Medicare and Medicaid while allowing people to keep their private health insurance; establish a fair wage and a mechanism to have that wage keep pace with inflation; rethink our tax system to grow the middle class and strengthen pathways for those climbing out of poverty; end the racial and gender wealth gaps and find a way that all of our people have access to capital, power, and prosperity; help students afford college and recent graduates restructure their staggering student loan debt; develop a comprehensive child care and paid family leave system so women can be full participants in our economy; address the trillion dollar impact of the climate crisis and begin to mitigate and resolve the indisputable emergency so long ignored by our nation’s leaders; and recognize that we now live in a digital age economy, not an industrial age economy. 3. A Future-Forward Roadmap The world is changing. Climate change is altering our environment on an epic scale. Artificial intelligence will soon change the nature of our workforce. The digital economy impacts every aspect of our lives, from how we relate to each other, to how we buy goods and services, to how our elections are conducted, and to how we receive and track medical care and how we perform our jobs. All of these factors affect our national security and the type of military we need to defend against entirely new threats. Change can be unsettling and politicians often prey on fears and anxieties in a cynical bid to get elected. Not Teresa. Teresa believes that approaching these challenges as unprecedented new opportunities is the American way. In the Senate, Teresa will work to help America harness these opportunities; that requires leadership, vision and a willingness to throw away outdated playbooks and write new ones.[1] |
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| —Teresa Tomlinson's campaign website (2020)[2] | ||
See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Teresa Tomlinson’s campaign website, “On the Issues,” accessed May 27, 2020
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