“I know how to work across the aisle when we need to,” she said. Senator David Perdue recently called her “the most radical liberal.”Supporters like Gerald Griggs, a vice president of the state N.A.A.C.P. chapter, reject such descriptions as inaccurate — and also hear in them a coded effort to scare off white voters. Ms. Abrams was elected to the General Assembly in 2006, two years after Republicans had taken control of the Georgia House for the first time in more than a century. She was a careful, prepared speaker with a bookish quality, a wry sense of humor and a tendency toward efficiency.

Source: New York Times August 19, 2018 17:26 UTC