Georgia’s DUI Man Josh McKay Misplaced His State Senate Race

Final month, we reported {that a} candidate for Georgia’s State Senate was on the board of a corporation that advocates for weaker drunk driving legal guidelines. Quick ahead to now: The election is over, the votes have been counted, and Josh McKay has formally misplaced. Georgia’s 11 Alive reviews that his opponent, Nabilah Islam, received with 53 p.c of the vote.

To his credit score, McKay didn’t contest the outcomes, saying in a statement, “I woke as much as some bittersweet information this morning: I’m blissful that I can now return my full focus to my college students and my household however unhappy for the folks of SD7, who won’t have a seat on the desk for the subsequent two years. Many due to all of you who supported me on this journey!”

Islam, who controversially believes drunk driving is dangerous, can also be the primary Muslim girl and the youngest girl ever to be elected to Georgia’s State Senate. She additionally doesn’t sit on the board of the NMA.

It’s unlikely that Georgia would have really handed weaker drunk driving legal guidelines had McKay been elected. However it’s nonetheless a nasty search for a district to elect somebody who sits on the board of a corporation that releases statements equivalent to, “You possibly can nanny folks all you need. However many individuals should determine for themselves how a lot they will take once they drive, like distracted driving.”

The truth that the NMA, as we wrote in our earlier publish, “can also be in opposition to legal guidelines banning drivers from utilizing cell telephones whereas driving, having pace bumps in neighborhoods, and including bike lanes to streets,” was additionally most likely greater than somewhat regarding to voters in Georgia’s seventh district. It’s actually regarding to us.

At a time when street deaths on this nation proceed to extend whereas different international locations get safer, and pedestrian deaths are at a 40-year excessive, the concept of deciding to only belief drivers to not get too drunk earlier than they drive, not pace in residential areas, and never use their cell telephones an excessive amount of whereas driving is completely absurd.

Congratulations, Nabilah, and nice job Georgia SD-7 voters.