Calvin Palmer

Miriam Paris re-elected to Georgia House District 142 seat — highlight: Palmer's election-night reaction

41NBC / WMGT-DT · 2024-11-06 · 0:38 Transcript of the highlight: [00:00] 41NBC reporter: For Georgia House District 142, Miriam Paris, the incumbent defeats challenger Calvin Palmer with 60% of the vote. Palmer telling us how much he enjoyed the process, even though he didn't win. [00:12] Calvin Palmer: I just appreciate all the help. Appreciate everybody that worked so hard for me. I thank God he gave us all strength and not having any problems with anything, nobody got injured or sick or anything. And and I just, uh, I'm amazed at how what the turnout was to help me and the encouragement I got. People, I mean, they were great to me and I I I think I got a bigger blessing from it than they did. So, I I really enjoyed it. This was a lot of fun.

Decision 2024: Meet Calvin Dennis Palmer, candidate for Georgia House District 142 — highlight: Record turnout and the cost of living

41NBC / WMGT-DT · 2024-10-30 · 1:29 Transcript of the highlight: [00:00] Calvin Palmer: If the figures are right that I heard and and I like I said all these enabling is. The first day of voting in 2020 was 136,000 statewide. We've heard that the first day of voting in 2024 was over 300,000 people. It tells me that people are excited about this election. [00:23] Calvin Palmer: People are maybe a little apprehensive about what's been going on. I think they're apprehensive about the cost of living, cost of insurance, the cost of rents, the cost of all these things that people don't seem to be able to afford anymore. People are moving back in. I've heard two instances where people have had to combine households because they're a little bit apprehensive about public schools, so they want to send their child to private school. [00:50] Calvin Palmer: That may be an issue we might have to look at. But it's not that is it real or not real. That's not the key issue. They are so apprehensive about it that they've actually combined households, got grandparents to help them pay tuition for private schools. I've heard two personal instances that I can tell you about. And they say, well, fine, well, because we used to could do this, formally we could do this because we could afford food and gas and things like that, but we can no longer do that and send the child to private school. So, that's one thing. Medical costs, uh, health care costs, um, drug costs for people to get those that have gone up there. They're after, no, that's why people are coming out to vote. Exactly. I I think there's an apprehe.

Decision 2024: Meet Calvin Dennis Palmer, candidate for Georgia House District 142 — highlight: Why him: a lifetime in politics and 'reasonable discussion'

41NBC / WMGT-DT · 2024-10-30 · 1:30 Transcript of the highlight: [00:00] Calvin Palmer: I've been involved in politics all my life. Just my dad was and he got me involved in politics and seeing the political climate and the political landscape, uh it's it's interesting to me that in doing interviews like this and I appreciate y'all doing this for us that it lets us air some of the things that that are probably uh systemic in our county that we need to look at. [00:29] Calvin Palmer: I think by being involved in politics, knowing the candidates before, during and after they get elected, being able to be friends with those uh uh politicians, those elected officials, for knowing who they are, for knowing how they believe, for being able to have a reasoned discussion and many times I've had politicians come back and tell me, thank you for your reasonable discussion about things. [00:54] Calvin Palmer: Then you aren't calling me names, you're not, you're not throwing the stones at me. I said, well, we're trying to get something done for big county. I'm not trying to pad my own nest, I'm not trying to get them, and many times just by talking to politicians set let me tell you what this group of people need. [01:10] Calvin Palmer: You may be so involved in so many things so let's talk about this specific thing. Makes sense and sometimes we're successful. Sometimes we do get things move in the direction the people want. That's what you do. You're a servant of the people. I want to serve the people more than I want to serve me or the political system or party or anything I want

Decision 2024: Meet Calvin Dennis Palmer, candidate for Georgia House District 142 — highlight: Platform: lower taxes, less regulation, education

41NBC / WMGT-DT · 2024-10-30 · 1:21 Transcript of the highlight: [00:00] Monica Diaz-Meek (41NBC): and how do you plan on doing so? [00:03] Calvin Palmer: My platform, and I think this covers almost everything you want to talk about. It's lower taxes, less regulation, and educate our children. Those things alone probably just cover a multitude of things that would grow the economy that would grow Bibb County. My whole district is in Bibb County. I'm going to be more interested invested in this county than probably any other state representative ever has. It's because the density of population in North Macon and those areas that makes this really vital to me. I live here, and so I'm going to be intimately involved in everything that goes on. Um, people ask me so many times, they say, do you think you can beat your opponent? Who do you are you think you can run against this person? I'm not running against anybody. I'm sure everybody within their own purview thinks that this is what we need to do. I think that I'm running for the people of Bibb County. I'm not running against anything. I want to do positive things and move forward with what I'm doing. Uh and I think there's some uh tweaks we we can do. Maybe we can work together on some things between the state and in the county that will make um get things better. We got three interstates running through us. Let's capitalize on.

Decision 2024: Meet Calvin Dennis Palmer, candidate for Georgia House District 142

TV segment · 41NBC / WMGT-DT

Candidates for Georgia House District 142 address voter questions — highlight: Palmer on crime, homelessness and inflation

13WMAZ (Macon) · 2024-10-23 · 1:09 Transcript of the highlight: [00:00] Kamilah Williams (13WMAZ): How do you work with local law enforcement to address violent crime in the county? [00:04] Calvin Palmer: I think the common concept for everybody is when somebody does an egregious crime to put them in jail and keep them in jail until they are, you know, have paid their debts to society and so we are not trying to come up with some magic formula, but if they do a crime, they need to go to jail. [00:26] Kamilah Williams (13WMAZ): What policy changes are needed to reduce homelessness in the county? [00:29] Calvin Palmer: Government should be involved I think in trying to help homeless people, but you got to figure out what level this homeless person is at and you can't just put everybody under one category, find out why you're homeless and then work with that. [00:45] Kamilah Williams (13WMAZ): And what would you like to do to address inflation? [00:48] Calvin Palmer: We're going to have to do some regime regime changing because of the thought processes. Uh, the cost of living is obviously too high, uh, people can't afford gas, groceries and things of this nature. We have to put a regime in there that will lower taxes, will allow businesses to thrive.

Candidates for Georgia House District 142 address voter questions

TV segment · 13WMAZ (Macon)