The special election in June 2017 for Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District made national headlines. The Democratic establishment poured over $23 million into Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff’s campaign to try to flip the traditionally Republican district. Despite making it the most expensive congressional election in history, Ossoff lost by over 3 percent. The huge sum of money and national media attention only provided...
Read MoreSouth Bryan County resident Lisa Ring, 49, has declared her candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives, 1st Congressional District of Georgia seat. As always with political candidates we asked Ring some questions. Here are her responses.
Prior public offices held.
“I’m not certain of the definition of “public office” … I was elected as a 1st CD Delegate for (Bernie) Sanders to the DNC, and as Co-chair (with Sen. Vincent Fort) of the Georgia Sanders Delegation. I am the Chair of the Bryan County Democratic Committee (as a committee, we qualify local candidates) and...
Richmond Hill resident Lisa Ring has officially announced that she is seeking the Democratic nomination for the First Congressional District of Georgia.
Ring, chairwoman of the Bryan County Democratic Party, said she decided to run for public office about four months ago.
“I had to decide if I wanted to run for the state Legislature or for Congress,” she said. “It was agonizing, but I wanted to run for the seat that I thought could make the biggest ...
GEORGIA’s District 1 has been a Republican stronghold since the mid-1990s, when Jack Kingston was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Rep. Earl “Buddy” Carter took the helm in 2015, touting the party line and sticking fast to a platform of seeking to make abortion illegal, put prayer back in schools and deny the science of...
Lisa Ring of Richmond Hill said Monday from the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia that leaked Democratic National Committee emails showing favoritism to Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders are both vindicating and troubling.
“It’s vindication for what Bernie Sanders supporters have been saying all along,” Ring said. “The cards were stacked...<
Lisa Ring's comments, a delegate for Bernie Sanders from Bryan County at the Democratic National Convention, from night one in Philadelphia.
Read MoreSAVANNAH, Ga (WSAV) – Local delegates are reacting to all the drama this week at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
The point of conventions are to unite the party and establish a unified campaign platform. News 3 asked local delegates if that sense of unity is at all in jeopardy given the events over the weekend involving the DNC chairwoman.
“I was not expecting, I knew that there would be a lot of rallies and I knew that there would be some protests. I was not expecting that at the beginning...
Democratic delegate candidate for Georgia's 1st Congressional District, Lisa Ring, stops by the Down South and Dirty porch to discuss her race to represent Bernie Sanders at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July 2016.
Listen HereSAVANNAH, Ga (WSAV) – Local delegates are reacting to all the drama this week at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
The point of conventions are to unite the party and establish a unified campaign platform. News 3 asked local delegates if that sense of unity is at all in jeopardy given the events over the weekend involving the DNC chairwoman.
“I was not expecting, I knew that there would be a lot of rallies and I knew that there would be some protests. I was not expecting that at the beginning...