It's urgently time to look ahead: over the next 6 weeks, there are at least 3 big runoffs (other than U.S. Senate races we all know about!).

—the DA race in New Orleans
—the DA race in Athens
—a race for the Public Service Commission in GA

A brief thread on why you should care.

Outgoing New Orleans DA has been exceedingly punitive, vowed to put more children in jail, & more.

The race to replace him has fueled big grassroots energy, & (very varying) reform promises from candidates. See below (Landrum & Williams in runoff). https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/new-orleans-district-attorney-election/

DA race in Athens almost didn't take place: Gov. Kemp tried cancelling it & leave an acting DA in place till 2022. ( https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/brian-kemp-georgia-supreme-court-district-attorney-elections/)

But a reform candidate (Deborah Gonzalez) won in court, & race back on. She & a reform-skeptic candidate made runoff (over acting DA).

Georgia votes for a seat on the Public Service Commission (GOP incumbent McDonald versus Dem Blackman). Sounds obscure?

It's a role that crucial to climate & utility policies, incl. thousands of utility shuttoffs enabled by the PSC during pandemic. https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/electricity-shutoffs-pandemic-elections/

A candidate had to go to court to get around Gov. Kemp's attempt to cancel one of these races. Take that as a signal there are reasons to care!

Dates?
—NoLa's runoff: Dec. 5th
—Georgia PSC runoff: Jan. 5th [same day as Senate]
—Athens, GA's DA runoff: Dec. 1 [*not* on same day]