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The Bible makes many references to wateroften as symbolic of life. The woman at the well was promised living water. Jeremiah refers to the fountain of living water, and Revelation bids, let him take the water of life freely.

A local church recently saw a need for literal water in another state and acted quickly to meet the need. Heavy rains that flooded the Pearl River near Jackson, Mississippi, and technical problems with what some media outlets described as the capital citys frail water system left more than 150,000 Jackson residents without safe drinking water. Senior Pastor Jamal Bryant of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia in response to the crisis announced on Sept. 8 a partnership created to provide thousands in Mississippi with bottled water.

New Birth has always had a mission to love, lead, and live like Christ and in that same vein we are actively stepping outside of the four walls of the ministry to do just that, Bryant said.

Amid what Bryant described as a lingering water crisis that has impacted families and businesses for weeks, the church partnered with Life Beyond Water and others to send 25 tractor trailers of bottled water on the second weekend in September. The water distribution took place Sept. 10 at New Horizon Church, 1770 Ellis Ave. in Jackson, Mississippi. There was a separate donation to Tougaloo College on the same day.

Its truly unfathomable for many of us to navigate one day without clean running water but for an entire city to be forced to endure unimaginable strife for an unseen amount of time is truly a crisis of monumental proportions, said Bryant, who noted the situation in Jackson was called to his attention when former Falcons football player Deion Sanders and others really started ringing the bell on the issue in a big way. We are blessed to join Deion Sanders and others to rally around a community that still needs us more than ever. The local and national press zeroed in on the reality and challenges happening in Jackson.

Additional partners joining this critical effort include the Congress of National Black Churches; Rev. Al Sharpton, National Action Network; Tamika Mallory of Until Freedom; Dharius Daniels, Change Church; Bishop William Murphy III, The dReam Center Church of Atlanta; Bishop Samuel L. Green Sr.,7th Episcopal District of the A.M.E. Church; Bishop TJ McBride, Tabernacle of Praise Church International; Bishop Kevin Adams, Olivet Baptist Church; Pastor Carlton Lynch, Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church; and Dr. John Faison, Watson Grove Baptist Church.

We are immensely grateful for the initial financial support from our members and partners that have enabled us to advance this most urgent effort, said Bryant. However, we know that the citys infrastructure remains in a dire state and will likely take some time to be fully repaired. Our goal is to remain connected to this community, local faith organizations, and outside partners to provide relief in these urgent days. Prayerfully, the water crisis in Jackson will be resolved as quickly as possible. Until that time, we believe the body of Christ and local leaders have a duty to support this community.

Bryant said he hopes his churchs gesture will prompt others to act. We hope this sparks additional support and that people dont turn a blind eye to this crisis until it is fully resolved. Clean water is not just a need of this community, it is a life-saving necessity.

New Birth Missionary Baptist Church is not a water donation site.

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A host of "The View" praised Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams for not conceding her election in 2018 as she defended her claim that she "won" her race against Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.

"So this is your second run against incumbent Brian Kemp for governor, and polls show a tight race, especially the poll this morning. When you lost in 2018, you didnt traditionally concede which I appreciated because you cited voter suppression. Are you confident that this will be a free and fair election, and not a repeat performance of what happened before?" co-host Sunny Hostin asked.

Abrams said she appreciated the framing of Hostin's question. "I have never denied that I lost. I dont live in the governors mansion. I would have noticed," she said.

"And there is this clip thats going around, and it shows me saying that we won, and what I was referring to was that we won in terms of communities that were long left out of the electoral process finally participating in '18 in outstanding numbers," she said.

GEORGE SOROS THROWS $1M BEHIND STACEY ABRAMS' SECOND GUBERNATORIAL RUN

Stacey Abrams, Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Georgia, speaks during a campaign event in Reynolds, Georgia, US, on Saturday, June 4, 2022. Abrams will face Georgia governor Brian Kemp in the general election on November 8, 2022. (Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"But Im not delusional. Just so thats clear, but what we know was that the issues that we raised in 18, the fact that 214 precincts were shut down, that 53,000 people had their voter registrations held hostage, that 1.4 million people were purged, including half a million who simply had chosen not to vote, that we were able to tackle that because we raised the issues, because I refused to say that that was a good thing, we saw as a response, the state legislature the following year, in response to lawsuits that I filed and others, started to fix those problems," Abrams said, touting high election turnout in 2020 when President Biden won the state.

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin thanked Abrams for "admitting" she outright did not win. "Thats such a rare thing," she said.

"I did it on the day I didnt win," Abrams said. "Im not the governor, said that. The other is the election wasnt fair to voters. Also said that. In this country, we have the responsibility to challenge broken systems I dont say things without evidence, and that I think is the distinction that is being lost in this attempt to conflate who I am and what I have done for the last four years with others."

In 2019, Abrams addressed a crowd at the annual convention of the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network and said, "despite the final tally and the inauguration [of Gov. Brian Kemp] and the situation we find ourselves in, I do have a very affirmative statement to make: We won."

Stacey Abrams sat down with the hosts of "The View" on Wednesday. (Screenshot/ABC/TheView)

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"Concession needs to say something is right and true and proper," Abrams said at the time. "You can't trick me into saying it was right."

She told the New York Times in 2019 she stood by her claim of having "won" despite not being governor.

New York Times story from 2019 about Stacey Abrams. (Fox News Graphic)

"Now, I cannot say that everybody who tried to cast a ballot wouldve voted for me, but if you look at the totality of the information, it is sufficient to demonstrate that so many people were disenfranchised and disengaged by the very act of the person who won the election that I feel comfortable now saying, I won," she said. "My larger point is, look, I won because we transformed the electorate, we turned out people who had never voted, we outmatched every Democrat in Georgia history."

Abrams told Axios in February that she would "acknowledge the victor" in the 2022 gubernatorial election.

"I will always acknowledge the legal outcome of an election. I have never failed to do that," Abrams told Axios. She added that she doesn't want the American people to be in a place "where we cannot legitimately question" and criticize systems in order to improve them.

Stacey Abrams, Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Georgia, speaks during a campaign event in Reynolds, Georgia, US, on Saturday, June 4, 2022. Abrams will face Georgia governor Brian Kemp in the general election on November 8, 2022. Photographer: Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Photographer: Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Republicans want to ban abortion nationwide, and they have the nerve to claim that this is a compromise. This week, Senator Lindsay Graham, of South Carolina, introduced a bill to ban all abortions everywhere in the United States at 15 weeks. Abortion is already banned before 15 weeks in 15 states.

It is banned outright in Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. Indianas ban on abortion went into effect just this Wednesday. It is banned at six weeks in practice a total ban in Georgia and Ohio. West Virginia passed an abortion ban, too. It wont be the last.

The Republican national 15-week ban that Graham has introduced will do nothing to help the women in these states, who will not have their rights restored. Its not a floor for abortion legality: it is a ceiling. The goal is to ban abortion in blue states. Currently, 58% of American women of childbearing age live in states that are hostile or extremely hostile to abortion rights, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Republicans want to raise that to 100%.

One way that we know that the Republicans will ban abortion nationally as soon as they get the chance is because they keep saying that they want to. This is the sixth time Graham has introduced a national abortion ban bill. The previous five were, by his standards, less extreme: they all banned abortion at 20 weeks. That Graham has pushed his ban back earlier in pregnancy is a sign of the rapidly lowering standards for American women.

Were now told that 15 weeks is a compromise. But 15 weeks is not a compromise. It is the very beginning of the second trimester before fetal abnormalities and other health risks are detected, before many women in red states, burdened by poverty and travel and the medically needless burdens imposed by their states, can get an abortion at all. And there is no stage of pregnancy where a woman deserves the indignity of a ban. There is no point at which she becomes unworthy of controlling her own life and health; there is no point at which a legislator knows more about whats best for her than she does. Any ban is unacceptable; a national ban, like the kind that the Republicans are now pursuing, is abhorrent.

This was always their plan. The anti-choice movement, and their servants in the Republican party, have long understood the overturning of Roe v Wade the long-desired goal that they achieved this summer, on 24 June, when the US supreme court issued its decision in Dobbs v Jackson as just the opening salvo in their assault on womens rights.

Their real goal is a national ban on abortion, beginning with the kind of legislation introduced this week by Graham. They have made no secret of this: anti-choice groups announced their plan for a national ban even before the Dobbs decision was officially released. They dont have the votes for it now, but they could get the votes in the future. And when they do, a combination of factors, including pressure from fundraisers and their base and what seems to be a genuine hatred for abortion and the freedom that it provides to women, combine to make a political certainty: the next time Republicans hold both houses of US Congress and the White House, they will ban abortion nationwide.

It is time for liberal Americans, and all American women, to face this reality: there will soon be no safe states, no place in America where abortion is legal. In the future, we will come to see this horrible era the time after Roe fell, but before abortion was banned nationally as an interregnum, when the suffering and loss enforced on women by abortion bans was only confined to red states.

As horrible as this state of affairs is, one day we will look back on it fondly. As women bleed for days, and little girls are pushed out of school, and thousands of dreams are abandoned to forced birth even these, eventually, might come to seem like the good old days.

Because though the Republicans will certainly ban abortion nationally at their first opportunity, they may not even need to wait for an electoral victory to do so. A group calling itself Catholics for Life has already asked the supreme court to declare fetuses and embryos to be persons under the 14th amendment, a move that would grant them constitutional rights. From there, its a short step to saying that laws allowing abortion are unconstitutional because they deny equal protection to those persons that are unborn human beings, the Berkeley Law School dean, Erwin Chemerinsky, told Ms magazine. I believe that there may be a majority on the Court to take that position. The unelected, lifetime-appointed judges on the court could extend their assertion in Dobbs that its legal to ban abortion, and instead say that its actually illegal to allow it. To get that outcome, the Republicans dont need to win even one more vote.

These are the stakes of every election now, for the rest of our lives. A national abortion ban will be on the ballot every time Americans vote for congressmen and senators; it will be on the ballot every time they vote for president. In previous years, while Roe was still in place, voting for a governor or state legislatures could affect practical abortion access within a state quite substantially. Red states were able to cut funding, impose labyrinthine requirements, up the cost for patients and impose uniquely onerous burdens on providers. But Roe preserved a bare-bones floor for abortion rights: no state could ban abortion before viability.

Now, any state or the United States at the federal level can ban abortion as early as they want. There is no bottom, and Republicans are determined to keep pushing further and further back, dragging the rights and dignity of American women further and further down into the dirt. This is the possibility that we have to resist every time we vote. Its also the possibility that Democrats accept every day that they do not expand the court.

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Joel Benenson, Democratic Strategist:

Well, I will take the last point, you will meet about the generic ballot being dead-even. If you look back historically, that's not a good number for Democrats.

Republicans have done much better at the state levels. They have been able to gerrymander districts to their benefit, just as Democrats do to ours when we're in power. But it gives Republicans an upper hand. And so I think that the House is going to be very, very difficult to hold at this point.

And I think the Senate, we have no margin for error as Democrats. We are 50/50, with the vice president comprising the deciding vote there. And there are tough races all over the country. Now, I think both of them, both parties right now have about 40 safe seats up. So there are going to be a handful of competitive districts that are going to determine the outcomes there.

In some of them, Republicans look good. Some are very close. States like Georgia, the incumbent, Reverend Warnock, is in a tight battle with Herschel Walker. I think he will pull it out. I think Colorado, Senator Bennet will hold his seat. I think Maggie Hassan will hold her seat in New Hampshire. Then you got tossups in North Carolina. I think we're in for a wild night on election night.

And there could be some surprises either way here. But I think Neil is right in his assessment. And I but I also think Democrats holding here is going to be a tough thing in both houses.

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NEW BRITAIN Republican candidates and supporters clapped and whooped in a standing-room-only rally with Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee, who flew in Wednesday afternoon for the event at the storefront Republican National Committee center on West Main St.

If youre not sure, the red wave is coming to Connecticut, Ben Proto, chair of the Connecticut Republican Party, told the energized crowd, as he introduced the speakers.

Candidate George Logan, who is running against Democrat Johanna Hayes for the 5th district Congressional seat, read the beginning of his speech in Spanish, followed by its English translation.

As I stand here the day before the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, its an exciting time here in the fifth district when we celebrate all cultures, all folks, all different ways of thinking, different backgrounds, said Logan.

I am proud to stand here in New Britain, Connecticut, U.S.A., as the son of Guatemalan immigrants who came to this country to live the American dream he said, as the audience clapped and cheered. And today I stand here as your nominee for Congress, the U.S. House of Representatives. Isnt America great? This is what its all about.

Logan said that 40 years of Democratic rule in Connecticut and one-party rule in Washington had resulted in all-time high inflation and gas prices, increased crime and declining student test scores.

I will advocate for school choice and ensure that the money follows the child, he said.

He said he would support American energy independence to help lower energy costs and that he would support police funding.

Next up was Leora Levy, who is running to unseat Sen. Richard Blumenthal. Like Logan, she read parts of her speech first in Spanish and then in English. Levy, who is originally from Cuba, said that if elected, she will be the first female senator and the first Hispanic senator to represent Connecticut.

Levy said that the Biden Administration had allowed an invasion at our border that had let in fentanyl, gangs, terrorists and human traffickers, flooding the U.S.

Theyre flying them to Connecticut, she said.

She said she would say no to indoctrination of our children and no to those who want to teach Critical Race Theory and gender fluidity, rather than teaching them real history, real math, science, reading, civics, and most importantly, American exceptionalism.

Levy said she would stand up for parental rights and medical freedom and for the next generation, as members of the crowd clapped and shouted, Thank you.

She urged the audience to end the Blumenthal Blight and make Connecticut affordable for all families.

Next at the lectern was McDaniel, who pinned the current challenges facing the country on the Democrats, the party in power.

We dont like playing the blame game but they have put us in the situation to where families are hurting the average Connecticut family right now is paying $700 more a month. Thirty-five percent of children in Connecticut did not go back to school last year. Hartford just had the most overdoses since 2003, she said. Thats what the Democrats are doing they dont care.

She said it was time to flip Connecticut and send a message.

This is the American-people-first election, she said. Republicans are going to go in and fight for families and our kids and our neighbors. It isnt about Democrat versus Republican, its about common sense versus greed, communism and crazy.

Proto, Logan, Levy and McDaniel urged the crowd to participate in the campaigns by knocking on doors, making phone calls, delivering yard signs and raising funds,

The opportunity is there, its about our children, our grandchildren, said Proto.

Maureen Zollo of Naugatuck said she came to the event to meet local candidates and support the Republican party.

Locally, its the schools. My granddaughter is in first grade and there are unacceptable things being taught, she told CT Examiner.

She said the economy and inflation are high on her list of concerns. She said she wanted to see policies enacted that will show up as savings for consumers, especially in the cost of gas and food.

Tracy Sparmer, of Berlin, said he came to catch up with the candidates and to keep the momentum going for election day. He said he was concerned about clean voter rolls at the state level. He said the diesel fuel tax is affecting the prices of groceries and building materials.

Everything has to get there and that takes diesel fuel, he said.

He said that by closing drilling fields and pipelines, Washington, D.C. is spurring higher energy prices and speculation driving the price of fuel.

Theyre going to kill carbon fuels so nobody will invest and that adds to the pricing. Work doesnt get done, the price goes up, theyre creating a shortage, he said.

Christine Rebstock of Middletown said she is a conservative transgender woman and serves as on the LGBTQIA+ Commission in Middletown. She said she is an unaffiliated voter.

Rebstock said she opposes SEL social emotional learning which includes gender issues.

She said she agreed with Bob Stefanowskis Parental Bill of Rights. Rebstock also said she opposes teenagers, ages 14 to 17, receiving medicated hormone replacement without parental consent.

Thats child abuse, she said. This belongs in the home and with parents, doctors and therapists. Help is available at the LGBTQIA+ Center, the Pride Center and with PFLAG.

She said the centers can help trans teenagers with social transition until they are 18 and then they can decide whether to use hormone therapies.

She said she wanted to see the money from the SEL redirected to the support centers that support trans children.

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