Stacey Abrams: “I helped stop the largest tax increase on working families…”

“But when I got that job, I leveraged it to protect pre k from Republican erasure, to block water pollution legislation, working with the Tea Party and championing criminal justice reform. We worked together to stop terrible bills. But I helped stop the largest tax increase on working families in Georgia history. Against the Republicans in power, I did it with a spreadsheet and a map. But more often than not, my job was to stop stupid, or at least slow it down.” (02:16–02:22)

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