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Warnock wins Senate runoff election against Walker
Brynn Anderson Associated Press
Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock speaks during an election day canvass
launch onTuesday, Dec. 6, 2022, in Norcross, Ga. Sen. Warnock ran against
Republican candidate Herschel Walker in a runoff election.
By Julia Hansen
jhansen@dawsonnews.com
Incumbent Democratic
Sen. Raphael Warnock
won re-election to the U.S.
Senate after beating
Republican and former
football star Herschel
Walker in Georgia’s Dec.
6 runoff.
Warnock has gotten a
projected 51.4% of the
vote, while Walker has
thus far gotten 48.6%,
according to updated state
wide results as of 1 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 12.
The Democratic incum
bent’s victory gives his
political party a 51-49
edge in the Senate.
More than 3.5 million
Georgians cast ballots in
the race, with a projected
1.8 million-plus voting for
Warnock and over 1.7 mil
lion voting for Walker.
Warnock was first elect
ed to the U.S. Senate dur
ing a January 2021 runoff.
This 2022 runoff will
mark his election to his
first full six-year term.
In Dawson County, an
unofficial Board of
Elections and Registration
summary report shows
Walker received a project
ed 82.88% of the local
vote over Warnock’s
17.12%. Of the 12,250
total projected votes, that’s
an estimated 10,153 cast
for Walker compared to
2,097 cast for Warnock.
Locally, 4,577 people
voted for their candidate of
choice in person on
Election Day, while 7,122
others cast ballots early in
person.
Five hundred and fifty-
one people voted via
absentee ballots. There are
15 provisional ballots,
BOER Director Glenda
Ferguson said on Dec. 7.
Dawson County’s turn
out for early and absentee
voting combined in the
runoff dipped to 34.43%
from the 44.2% seen in
November. There were
also other factors like the
shorter timeline to request
an absentee ballot and
only one week, not includ
ing Saturday, to vote early
in person.
However, almost twice
as many Dawson County
people voted each day of
the senatorial runoff
as compared to daily
averages during the
November election’s
advance voting.
Shortly after 11 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 6, Warnock
addressed supporters, say
ing voting was “faith put
into action” and mention
ing his mother, who
attended his victory
speech.
“She grew up in the
1950s in Waycross, Ga.,
picking somebody else’s
cotton and somebody
else’s tobacco,” Warnock
said. “But tonight she
helped pick her youngest
son to be a United States
senator.”
During his concession
speech, Walker thanked
his supporters and
acknowledged the voting
numbers “didn’t add up”
to a Republican win.
“One of the things I
want to tell all of you is
you never stop dreaming. I
don’t want any of you to
stop dreaming. I don’t
want any of you to stop
believing in America,”
Walker said. “I want you
to believe in America and
continue to believe in the
Constitution and our elect
ed officials most of all.”
Georgia Musicale Group hosts concert at Bowen Center
Julia Hansen Dawson County News
Dawsonville pianist Julie Woodall smiles as she
plays Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona's
upbeat piece "Malaguena."
By Julia Hansen
jhansen@dawsonnews.com
As members of one
statewide music group
performed for a recent
concert in Dawsonville,
audience members had
the chance to learn about
the performers and their
songs, all while reveling
in holiday cheer.
Georgia Musicale
Group, a statewide non
profit organization, host
ed a concert at the city’s
Bowen Center for the
Arts the evening of Dec.
6.
The nonprofit, which
was incorporated in
2016, provides members
from the beginner to the
professional levels with a
way to perform music
and learn among peers.
Over 100 pianists, instru
mentalists and vocalists
from several U.S. states
and nine countries now
belong to the musicians’
group.
Founder Utako
Tanigawa explained that
she helped start the group
after working in technol
ogy-related jobs for over
three decades and over
coming a serious illness.
After she recovered,
Tanigawa said that she
wanted to return to play
ing piano, which she had
taken up as a child.
“I found some of the
people who’ve retired or
are close to retiring, they
want to go back to music
too,” Tanigawa said.
“Many of the members
played music as a child,
but then they pursued a
different career path.”
The nonprofit partici
pants’ passion for music
has taken them to perfor
mances not only around
Georgia, but also to
online video concerts
with each other during
the height of the COVID-
19 pandemic, Tanigawa
added.
This past Tuesday’s
music ranged from
hymns and instrumental
studies to opera and of
course, Christmastime
favorites.
Georgia Musicale
member Annette Russo
sang a heartwarming ren
dition of “Have Yourself
a Merry Little
Christmas,” which Hugh
Martin and Ralph Blane
wrote for the 1943 film
“Meet Me in St. Louis”
featuring well-known
actress Judy Garland.
“The song first
appeared in a scene in
which the family is dis
traught by the father’s
plans to move to New
York City for a job pro
motion, leaving behind
their beloved home and
family in Missouri just
before the 1904 World
Fair begins,” Russo said.
In a scene just before
Christmas Eve,
Garland’s character,
Esther, sings the song to
cheer up her younger sis
ter, Too tie.
As Russo sang about
troubles soon to be “out
of sight” and faithful
friends who “will be near
to us once more,” the ser
enade served as one more
reminder of what and
who matters most during
the holiday season.
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