Georgia Democrat stands alone in state party in supporting school choice, calls her critics hypocritical

A Democrat in the Georgia General Assembly who angered her party by supporting a recent school choice bill says fellow progressives are hypocritically abandoning some of the state's most vulnerable people.

"Why is no one fighting for young Black minds? Why isn't that one of the things that we're fighting for?" state Rep. Mesha Mainor said, adding, "I actually say you're a hypocrite. That's what I tell them directly. You are being a hypocrite. There are state lawmakers right now where their children are in schools that they're not even zoned for… They're lying about their address, state lawmakers, but they won't vote for this bill."

Mainor's deep-blue 56th House District stretches from southwest Atlanta up into the Midtown area and includes schools in dire need of improvement. Asked why she supported the school choice bill that ultimately didn't pass, she responded she prefers the term "parent choice."