黒人／ボイコット 民主党員 flips to become a REPUBLICAN: Furious Georgia 明言する／公表する Rep. defects and 涙／ほころびs into former party for 'embracing left-wing radicalism and lawlessness' and putting '利益／興味s' of migrants 'over Americans'

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A Democratic Georgia 明言する／公表する 立法議員 from Atlanta has defected to the 共和国の／共和党の Party in astonishing move after her party turned on her for 支援 school 保証人／証拠物件s wanting to get tougher on 検察官，検事s.

Rep. Mesha Mainor, 48, switched 味方するs to become the only 黒人／ボイコット member of the 明言する／公表する GOP after ripping into her former 同僚s for trying to '破壊行為' everything she did and embracing 'left-wing radicalism'.?

Mainor said 法律を制定する 民主党員s drove her out of the party for breaking what they think are party norms 含むing 存在 soft on 罪，犯罪.

At a Tuesday news 会議／協議会 outside the Georgia?（ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂, she said?they had 'relentlessly tried to 破壊行為 every 選び出す／独身 thing that I have done for 地区 56' and '公然と 名誉き損，中傷d me in every way imaginable.'

'I thought it was 承認する to not agree with those things as a 民主党員. But they told me, You know what, those are values we just don´t have,´' Mainor said, 側面に位置するd by 明言する／公表する 共和国の／共和党の Party Chairman Josh McKoon.

'I didn’t leave the Democr at Party. The 民主党員 Party left ME when it embraced left-wing radicalism, lawlessness, and put the 利益／興味s of 違法な 外国人s over the 利益／興味 of Americans. I have nothing to わびる for.'

Rep. Mesha Mainor, 48, becomes the only 黒人／ボイコット member of the GOP の中で Georgia's 236 明言する／公表する 国会議員s, and the first 黒人／ボイコット 共和国の／共和党の woman to ever serve in the Georgia General 議会?

'As a lifelong 民主党員...I blindly followed a 見通し that is far from reality, " she 追加するd. "It is time to put people and sound 政策 above politics and 誤った narratives?

But she had long been on the outs as part of a 少数，小数派 派閥 of Atlanta-area 民主党員s and for 深く，強烈に personal 推論する／理由s 回転するing around a stalking 出来事/事件 where Mainor felt her stalker got off too 平易な.?

The 緊張 between Mainor and other 民主党員s burst into the open earlier this year after Mainor became the only 民主党員 to?投票（する） for a school 保証人／証拠物件 法案?that failed after a number of House 共和国の／共和党のs broke 階級s to …に反対する it.?

School choice has always had some support の中で 都市の 黒人／ボイコット 民主党員s, but Mainor's fellow party members 反応するd with 軽蔑（する） even as 共和国の／共和党のs 決起大会／結集させるd to Mainor's support. 明言する／公表する Sen. Josh McLaurin, an Atlanta 民主党員,?地位，任命するd a picture of a $1,000 check online for a 最初の／主要な 挑戦者, 令状ing 'All I need is a 指名する.'

Mainor, first elected in 2020, 代表するs House 地区 56, an ultra-Democratic 列 of Atlanta 含むing its Midtown 近隣 and の近くに-in parts of the city's west 味方する. She had said earlier that she wouldn't switch parties. Tuesday, though, she 勧めるd other lifelong 民主党員s to reexamine the party's values.

'I am encouraging more 黒人／ボイコット Americans and 黒人／ボイコット 民主党員s in particular - you might have this coat on, but I 示唆する you look at the lining. See what's on the inside,' she said.

McKoon welcomed Mainor, 説 her move shows that the 共和国の／共和党の Party is 'where 多様制 of opinion is welcome, where different ideas, talking abo ut different 政策 ideas and 解答s together is a strength, not a 証拠不十分.'

'We can 同意しない but still come together on things that 事柄 the most to us,' McKoon said, 誓約（する）ing to support Mainor's reelection 企て，努力，提案.

U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams, 議長，司会を務める of the Democratic Party of Georgia, lambasted Mainor's switch as a 'stinging betrayal' of her Democratic 選挙権を持つ／選挙人s.

'House 地区 56 deserves a 代表者／国会議員 who will do the 職業 they were elected to do, 含むing fight for high-質 public education,' Williams said in a 声明.

House （衆議院の）議長 Jon 燃やすs, a 共和国の／共和党の from Newington, said in a 声明 that Mainor is 'joining the party of 適切な時期.'

Mainor's 決定／判定勝ち（する） and some of her 法律を制定する 活動／戦闘s are also driven by a much more personal 論争. She 告訴するd Fulton 郡 Commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr., Fulton 郡 地区 弁護士／代理人／検事 Fani Willis and the 郡 in 連邦の 法廷，裁判所 in 2022, 主張するing that they had 侵害する／違反するd her civil 権利s in a 事例／患者 where a former （選挙などの）運動をする 労働者 had stalked her.

Mainor said the 明言する／公表する 民主党員s had 'relentlessly tried to 破壊行為 every 選び出す／独身 thing that I have done for 地区 56' and '公然と 名誉き損，中傷d me in every way imaginable.'

Willis （人命などを）奪う，主張するd Arrington, who was the man's 弁護 弁護士／代理人／検事, impro perly used his position as a commissioner to get a 都合のよい 嘆願 取引，協定 for the stalker. Mainor also 申し立てられた／疑わしい Willis didn't adequately 調査／捜査する the 罪，犯罪 before 申し込む／申し出ing the 嘆願 取引，協定. U.S. 地区 裁判官 Sarah Geraghty 解任するd the 事例／患者 in March, 判決，裁定 that the 申し立てられた／疑わしい 活動／戦闘s couldn't 構成する a civil 権利s 違反 even if she 受託するd all of Mainor's （人命などを）奪う，主張するs.

The last 法律を制定する 民主党員 in Georgia to switch to the 共和国の／共和党の Party was DeKalb 郡's Vernon Jones, who 急落（する），激減（する）d into the GOP in January 2021 as a 支持者 of then-大統領 Donald Trump, at the end of Jones' last 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 in the 明言する／公表する House.?

Jones abandoned a 共和国の／共和党の 最初の／主要な challenge to Gov. Brian Kemp at Trump's 命令 and then lost a 共和国の／共和党の congressional 最初の／主要な runoff in Georgia's 10th 地区 to 現在の U.S. Rep. マイク Collins にもかかわらず Trump's 支援.