Ted Terry in State of Georgia Archives
On Jobs:
Raised city minimum wages to $15 an hour
Georgia Mayor Ted Terry has a hell of a track record. He has doubled the size of the small town just outside of Atlanta, made Election Day a holiday,
raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, helped to democratize the city council with millenials and minorities, and decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana.
Source: Under the Radar Mag on 2020 Georgia Senate race
Dec 19, 2019
On Civil Rights:
Made Election Day a city holiday
Georgia Mayor Ted Terry has a hell of a track record. He has doubled the size of the small town just outside of Atlanta, made Election Day a holiday,
raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, helped to democratize the city council with millenials and minorities, and decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana.
Source: Under the Radar Mag on 2020 Georgia Senate race
Dec 19, 2019
On Civil Rights:
Registered 8000 new Americans as voters over six years
Since I've been mayor we've registered more than 8,000 new Americans over the span of six years in the Clarkston area.
Basically people who were refugees, who got to that 5-year mark, where they've been lawful residents and now can apply for citizenship.
Source: Under the Radar Mag on 2020 Georgia Senate race
Dec 19, 2019
On Civil Rights:
Prioritize Equality Act; overturn transgender military ban
Terry would make passing the Equality Act one of his first priorities. The bill would amend the Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, public accommodations and
public education. The mayor helped pass similar legislation, making it the third of now five Georgia cities to have such protections. Terry also supports overturning the ban on transgender troops in the military.
Source: ProjectQ.us blog on 2020 Georgia Senate race
Jul 24, 2019
On Crime:
Supports "civilian-led policing" board hiring, firing police
There is this model called civilian-led policing. I know it's still controversial, but I want to work toward it. The concept of any civilian-led board being in charge of hiring and firing of the police, to me, makes all the sense in the world, because
the police are the part of our government that interacts the most with ordinary civilians. I truly believe it creates a standard where the officers are even more accountable to the civilians that they're protecting.
Source: Under the Radar Mag on 2020 Georgia Senate race
Dec 19, 2019
On Drugs:
Decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana
Georgia Mayor Ted Terry has a hell of a track record. He has doubled the size of the small town just outside of Atlanta, made Election Day a holiday,
raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, helped to democratize the city council with millenials and minorities, and decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana.
Source: Under the Radar Mag on 2020 Georgia Senate race
Dec 19, 2019
On Energy & Oil:
Commitment to 100% clean energy transition
We made a commitment to 100% clean energy transition. Our goal is to do over several hundred energy-efficient retrofits for low income and fixed income units that are aging. Basically, upgrade the buildings to be as energy efficient as possible.
I love the Green New Deal for its energy and public housing plan. If you just improve the housing stock by making utility bills more affordable, you make housing more affordable and we reduce our carbon emissions.
Source: Under the Radar Mag on 2020 Georgia Senate race
Dec 19, 2019
On Energy & Oil:
Climate change is personal because I'm 36, will be around
Terry said that addressing environmental issues is one of the reasons he got involved in politics.
"I'm 36 years old, the threat of climate change and global warming over the next 50 years is a real threat to me," Terry said. "Because I'll be alive, I'll be around these next 50 years and have to deal with it..."
Source: Georgia Public Broadcasting on 2020 Georgia Senate race
Jul 24, 2019
On Gun Control:
2nd Amendment doesn't mean unfettered access to guns
There are some issues out there that 90% of Americans want to see, like universal background checks, gun licensing, and red flag laws. It's weird there are things we think are traditions but they're not. For a hundred fucking years the
Second Amendment was interpreted as: we should have a militia and people can have rifles and shit, but it doesn't mean unfettered access to guns, like George Washington himself would lay his life down to keep his AR-15.
Source: Under the Radar Mag on 2020 Georgia Senate race
Dec 19, 2019
On Immigration:
Refugees exemplify the best of what America offers
Clarkston had become an international community and just like us, white and black Americans, would never get a chance to meet someone from Burma or the Congo or Syria. Those same people would never get to meet people from other parts of the world.
The reality is over 40 years every refugee resettlement in Clarkston and America you have these amazing first, second, third generation refugees who really exemplify the best of what America has to offer.
Source: Under the Radar Mag on 2020 Georgia Senate race
Dec 19, 2019
On Principles & Values:
Prefers evidence-based policy making
One of the things that bothers me a lot about our political system is that it's very ideological. When we look at evidence-based policy making, then you actually can find ways to compromise, because you're not basing it just on how you feel, you're
basing it on what actually works. As a mayor, I actually have to solve problems. We actually have to deal with it at the ground level. Rhetoric and ideology will never solve these problems, it's actually trying something new and being innovative.
Source: CityLab blog on 2020 Georgia Senate race
Aug 3, 2018
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