Reaction to Stacy Abrams’s speech

[KeithE]

I’ll start out by saying I got interrupted twice in listening to her speech.

I did not like how she started out - all about her life. Appropriate for a stump speech, but not as a response to the SOTU.

Heard a later segment and that was quite good when she went though legislation that could help people.

Then I was interrupted again (important matter this time that overtook the rest of the night). Did she end with how these things would be funded? I always appraised that about Bernie Sanders, he had good ideas to raise revenues like a financial transaction tax, and repatriation taxes.

[William Thornton]

Another fairly meaningless exercise. Dems want to boost her stock after she came close to winning the guv race here. She's pretty sharp. If she avoids the angry resister dem socialist mode, she might go somewhere.

[KeithE]

[Sandy]

[William Thornton]

She almost won against a very weak candidate. Tough to expect her to do better against an incumbent. No one knows.