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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Well, I know you

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Speaker 1: all have heard for sure about what's going on in

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Speaker 1: who's going to put this person back into office? But

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Speaker 1: turns out they had their primary this past week, and

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Speaker 1: what do you know, she overwhelmingly wins the Democrat primary.

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Speaker 1: But the funny thing about it is no one really

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Speaker 1: expects a Republican to run in this race. So historically,

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Speaker 1: when you win the primary for this position in Fulton County,

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Speaker 1: you just automatically become the district attorney. However, in this case,

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Speaker 1: a Republican did run and she did win. So now

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Speaker 1: Fannie has a little bit of competition and I want

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Speaker 1: to bring her in. Her name is Courtney Kramer. She

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Speaker 1: is the Republican District attorney nominee in Fulton County, Georgia,

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Speaker 1: and she will be taking on Fannie Willis this fall.

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Speaker 1: So exciting. Courtney, thanks for.

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Speaker 2: Joining me, Thanks so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely so. I think it's funny because I read

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Speaker 1: this USA Today article, which of course was not going

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Speaker 1: to be like incredibly friendly, but it's like she has

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Speaker 1: to run, she has no chance. But she has to run.

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Speaker 1: But then the fascinating part to me is like, in

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Speaker 1: more than half a century, a Republican hasn't even run,

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Speaker 1: So why are they saying that there's no chance when

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Speaker 1: Georgia seems to be getting a little sick of this

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Speaker 3: I completely agree, and that's one of the reasons I

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Speaker 3: decided to step up and put my name on the ballot,

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Speaker 3: and you know, on this past primary, but especially in November.

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Speaker 3: It's also astounding to me that we haven't had a

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Speaker 3: Republican qualify in decades. And I'm going to venture to

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Speaker 3: say I'm probably one of the younger.

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Speaker 2: People to qualify for DA.

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Speaker 3: I'm thirty years old, and I'm a female, but I'm

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Speaker 3: born and raised in Fulton County.

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Speaker 2: And over the.

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Speaker 3: Last couple of years, especially you know, just the given

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Speaker 3: the just the climate, the crime rate, just Fulton County

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Speaker 3: in general, well, I started to pay more and more

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Speaker 3: attention about what was going on in the DA's office,

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Speaker 3: and so I it was kind of the perfect race

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Speaker 3: at the perfect time. And I'm so sick of being

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Speaker 3: told who our next DA is going to be. As

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Speaker 3: many other citizens and voters in Fulton County also are

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Speaker 3: you know, like you said, we've just kind of been

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Speaker 3: told come November, it's just one name on the ballot

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Speaker 3: and you can write whoever else and that you want to,

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Speaker 3: But that's not really how our electoral process is supposed

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Speaker 3: to ever work. We have to have discourse, we have

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Speaker 3: to have diversity of thought. And I think that this is,

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Speaker 3: like I said, the perfect race of the perfect time,

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Speaker 3: and I think Pulton County really needed a voice, especially

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Speaker 3: given just the mishappenings that are going on in the

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, this stuff that we've heard about Fannie

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Speaker 1: Willis is just crazy. And then that then her lover

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Speaker 1: How can like it's just right in front of your face.

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Speaker 1: I mean, and this is the woman who ran saying

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Speaker 1: never have an affair with someone in my office, and

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Speaker 1: then she does, and that whole thing is just banana's

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Speaker 1: But you brought up something you said, the crime rate

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Speaker 1: is out of control. Tell us what's going on in

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Speaker 1: all you know, the little girl that was shot a

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Speaker 1: going on there? And why do they keep putting people

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Speaker 1: in these positions who clearly don't care about rule of law.

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Speaker 1: This is law fair. They're going after someone instead of

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Speaker 3: Well correct toitor, And you know to go with that

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Speaker 3: she kept promising, you know, the people of Fulton County.

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Speaker 2: She was going to get Trump.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's even becoming a conflict now she you know,

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Speaker 1: But how do people feel about that when they hear that, Like,

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Speaker 1: How do people how are people interpreting that now a

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, I try to stay not not away

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Speaker 3: from it, just because and I've said it before on

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Speaker 3: many other news stations in USA.

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Speaker 2: Today reported on it.

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Speaker 3: I accuse myself, so my campaign is not about getting

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Speaker 2: And dismissing the case. I wouldn't even touch the case.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: That's because you interned for the Trump White House just

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Speaker 1: I did.

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Speaker 3: Clear I didn't, and I was a litigation consultant on

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Speaker 3: the twenty twenty election case two as well. And that's

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Speaker 3: not you know, people try to act like it's some

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Speaker 3: big surprise that I've done that. That's very public, it's

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Speaker 3: what I did. I zealously advocated for my client, and

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Speaker 3: honor to do that going forward, I think though, you've

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Speaker 2: That's not happening right now.

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Speaker 3: You have during the during the course of the special

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Speaker 3: seven hundred thousand dollars that Fannie will Is spent for

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Speaker 3: you know, her special prosecutor, her lover, Nathan Wade. And

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Speaker 3: that seven hundred thousand dollars could have easily been spent

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Speaker 2: And those people are out on the streets. So those

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Speaker 3: Going into other counties committing crimes, many rapes on you know,

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Speaker 3: you know, your friends, your loved ones, people, people are

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Speaker 3: her statement, she's saying she's prosecuting crimes. But you can

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Speaker 3: you know, evading the law. She's consistently said she's not

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Speaker 2: You have whistleblowers. You had one today. I think the

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Speaker 3: In Georgia, there was a whistleblower and they had a

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Speaker 3: was federal grant money, but some grant money that they

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Speaker 3: spend it. Someone higher up in this whistleblower was going

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Speaker 3: which is which is not allowed. And she decided to

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Speaker 2: A couple months later or so, she was fired from

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Speaker 3: She worked in Paul Howard's office and continued through Fannie

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Speaker 3: they weren't going to do anything illegal. How is that,

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Speaker 3: you know, doing your job as a DA, it's not

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Speaker 2: You're not protecting your citizens. They're not protecting your staff either.

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Speaker 1: the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Well, what is happening with protecting citizens?

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Speaker 1: Because right now we're seeing some crazy things coming out

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Speaker 1: name of offenders to justice impacted individuals. And we see

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Speaker 1: Victims have got to be fed up with this is

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Speaker 1: are you seeing similar soft on crime policies out of

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Speaker 3: One hundred percent? And you can also just turn to

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Speaker 3: We have you know, potential defendant defendants in there that

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Speaker 2: You know, they essentially are victims too.

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Speaker 3: At the end of the day, you know, everybody all

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Speaker 3: She's not focused on making sure our streets are safe,

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Speaker 3: not making sure you know that the money in her

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Speaker 2: That's a problem. And the people she's hiring. You have

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Speaker 1: Yes, she won this election, which blows my mind that

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Speaker 1: she won in big numbers. She won this Democrat election

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Speaker 1: where they they she did have a primary challenge. It

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Speaker 1: She openly admitted to taking campaign funds and using them

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Speaker 1: And even though that's that in and of itself is

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Speaker 1: I mean, it makes no sense to me.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think that what we've seen to and what

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Speaker 3: you're saying that you know, she's never been told no.

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Speaker 3: You know, people in these positions have never been told no,

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Speaker 1: the Tutor Dixon podcast. Do a lot of people say, though, oh,

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Speaker 3: So Courtney Kramer dot com is my donation link, Courtneykramer

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Speaker 3: dot org. We're still getting them the two connected. Courtneykramer

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Speaker 3: dot org is my actual website, right now you can

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Speaker 3: go there. You can uh see my platform, see what

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Speaker 3: I'm running on. You can go sign up for our emails.

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Speaker 3: You can go sign up to be a doorknocker, get

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Speaker 3: a yard sign, uh send me a suggestion.

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Speaker 2: You can go on.

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Speaker 3: There also and see a bunch of the news articles

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Speaker 3: you know, if people go to that, that they would

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Speaker 1: Well good, Thank you so much. Hey, we appreci the

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Speaker 1: fact that you're willing to go out there and do this.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, I think this has to be the

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Speaker 1: next stage for Republicans stepping into races that are uncomfortable.

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Speaker 1: We cannot allow race to go more than half a

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Speaker 1: century without a Republican even entering in. So if you

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Speaker 1: can help Courtney Kramer, go out there and go to

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Speaker 1: our website and help her. If you are in Fulton County,

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Speaker 1: you know who to vote for. Courtney. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for being on, Thank you so much for having

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