Afternoon all. Just finished an interview with Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia, and holy moly was this an uplifting conversation! A recording and transcript of our discussion is above. Get to it as soon as you can.
Senator Ossoff is the youngest member of the Senate at 38, and holds the toughest seat we have to defend this cycle. Making the Senate competitive - or even flipping it - starts by winning this race. It is, in Hopium terms “an all in” race, and I hope everyone will consider supporting or volunteering for Senator Ossoff today. You can donate via our Hopium page, volunteer and learn more about the Senator by visiting his campaign website.
I want to thank everyone who has already stepped up for the Senator either through Hopium or directly to his campaign.
Our discussion covered a wide range of topics but my favorite part comes at the end when the Senator closes with this powerful and very Hopium challenge to all of us:
"Allow yourselves to feel hope. Allow yourselves to believe in victory. The only way that we don't win these elections is if we lose faith in ourselves and our ability to shape the country's future as citizens. We still have that power as bleak as it seems. And we still have the power to build a country that we believe in and to present an agenda that can unite the country again. But if we lose faith, that's what worries me. So keep the faith, help me in Georgia, keep fighting."
Watch this wonderful interview, get to know this impressive emerging leader, share it with others and let’s do everything we can to help him win next November. I am proud we are supporting him and promise you will be too after watching our inspiring conversation.
Keep working hard all - Simon
Senator Jon Ossoff, Official Biography
Born and raised in Georgia, Senator Jon Ossoff serves as our Senior United States Senator.
Since his election, Sen. Ossoff has built bipartisanship in the Senate to achieve meaningful legislative results for Georgia — even in a divided Congress. In his first two years in office, Sen. Ossoff passed into law more standalone bills than any other freshman Senator.
Sen. Ossoff’s legislative achievements include laws to protect children online; to strengthen public safety; to tackle the opioid epidemic and prevent fentanyl trafficking across the Southern Border; to investigate unsolved lynchings and Civil Rights murders; to strengthen mental health care services for veterans; and to fight corruption and improve security in U.S. prisons.
Sen. Ossoff has led bipartisan investigations that exposed the mistreatment of military families living in privatized housing; corruption in Federal prisons; the sexual assault of female inmates; the medical mistreatment of women in Federal detention; and the abuse of children in foster care.
Sen. Ossoff has upgraded and strengthened health care facilities across Georgia, helped pass legislation that capped the cost of insulin for seniors at $35/month, and passed bipartisan legislation to protect our kids from online exploitation.
Sen. Ossoff has relentlessly championed Georgia’s economic development, passing legislation into law that has attracted thousands of advanced manufacturing jobs and billions of dollars of investment to Georgia.
Through the historic bipartisan infrastructure law, Sen. Ossoff is delivering an unprecedented expansion of broadband internet access; upgrading ports, airports, roads, bridges, and water infrastructure statewide; and investing in the resilience of Georgia’s coast to help local communities prepare for storm surge, coastal flooding, and tropical storms.
Focused on improving the lives of Georgia’s veterans, servicemembers, and military families, Sen. Ossoff has passed into law bipartisan legislation to expand veterans’ access to mental health care and to upgrade child development centers for military families and barracks for enlisted personnel. He also championed passage of historic legislation to strengthen VA health care for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.
Mentored by civil rights legend Congressman John Lewis, Sen. Ossoff previously led a small business that produced investigative journalism exposing war crimes, public corruption, human trafficking, and organized crime.
Sen. Ossoff lives with his wife, Dr. Alisha Kramer, and two daughters in Atlanta.
