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A Reasoned Response to an Attack on Rick Jackson

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It is open season for political attacks. I normally ignore them and move on.

There is one political attack on Rick Jackson that has generated numerous questions from my friends so I wanted to give a reasoned response to set the record straight.

In a nutshell, Rick Jackson is accused of doing business with Planned Parenthood, doing transgender surgeries, and providing hormone care for transgender care in prisons. These claims are false.

There is a job board specifically for medical providers called LocumTenens. This is an open job board that allows anyone to post jobs for the medical provider community. It functions like zip recruiter.

Jackson’s health care uses this job board. So do numerous other organizations and companies in the medical field.

Rick Jackson has nothing to do with these other companies that post jobs. He does not review resumes, conduct interviews, make job offers, or manage the job posting or the applicants in any way.

These attacks on Rick Jackson make a broad leap from posting of jobs dealing with Planned Parenthood or transgender related medical procedures to Rick Jackson and his company. There is no connection – none.

To say that Rick Jackson had anything to do with these jobs is to fabricate a story out of thin air. It would be like saying that because Walmart sold Styrofoam cups to Planned Parenthood for their coffee room and you also bought Styrofoam cups for your kitchen, that you supported Planned Parenthood.

The matter of transgenderism and Planned Parenthood is a subject that strikes deep. It creates a visceral reaction that does not wait on an answer or explanation.

That is why it is necessary for me to help ratchet down the immediate reaction and provide a reasoned response. There is no basis and there is no truth in these claims that attempt to connect Rick Jackson to Planned Parenthood and transgender procedures and care.

On the contrary, Rick Jackson is firmly pro-life. That is borne out by the fruit of his life, not by political hit pieces.

In 2008,  Rick partnered with an organization called FaithBridge and helped it become one of Georgia’s largest Christ-centered private child-placing agencies.  He also formed the Jackson Family Foundation to help foster children who are transitioning out of foster care.

I fully recognize how sensitive this subject is. You may have said something or posted something on social media when you first heard it. I humbly ask you to take another look at the hit piece through the lens of a reasoned response.

Whether or not you support Rick Jackson for Governor is not the issue here. What is at issue is the character of a good man and how a political hit piece misrepresents his life.

Rick Jackson is not only a good man and a good businessman. He is a great candidate and will make a great governor for Georgia. That is why, without hesitation, I ask you for your vote for Rick Jackson for Governor.

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Powerful Biography in a Campaign Song

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Rick Jackson rolled out a video the other day for his campaign.  Songs and jingles for campaigns are not unusual. Many candidates come up with something to plant the name of the candidate firmly in the listener’s mind.

This song did that and more. It told a powerful story of the struggles of a child. It told how that child overcame those overwhelming odds to make a life that impacts thousands of lives today.

The song walks you through the first time that Rick drove a car. He could barely see over the dashboard to drive his drunk and passed out mother home. He told of nights at home with literally an empty cupboard.

He was labeled and laughed at and bullied. He was told that he was white trash.

At five years old something led him to walk to a downtown church where he found refuge and a sense of peace. When the world knocked him down, he found the strength to get up and get up again and again and again to keep fighting against the labeling, name calling, bullying, and being told he would never amount to anything.

He tracked his job career from shoeshine boy, to a paper route, to vacuum cleaner salesman, to the Chief Executive of a multibillion dollar company today. He determined to learn life’s valuable lessons even in the lowliest jobs.

Through his experience, he honed the value of one-on-one relationships and a servant’s heart. Rather than accepting the label of a white trash loser, he looked to win and win big.

He was shaped along the way by loving foster parents and later in the United Methodist Children’s Home. “From the hard road to the high road,” he learned and applied what it took to win big.

He related in his song servanthood and putting America first. When Covid hit, he made Georgia the priority for finding medical personnel to fight the deadly disease. He could have easily increased his bottom line profits by turning his business toward New York – but he stuck with Georgia. (He was not running for and had no thought of running for Governor back then.)

China, had a monopoly on medicine production. When they tried to squeeze America, Rick Jackson  bought an American medicine manufacturer and turned it around to keep some medicine production on American soil.

With all of his millions, he never forgot where he came from. He built a successful organization to help foster children when they aged out of foster care.

He sees this run for Governor of Georgia as a drive that calls for strength and clarity. He demonstrates both in his support for law enforcement, families, and the working man.

He is running to win and win big. I like the way he puts it when he says he doesn’t want to be governor. He wants to be a good governor.

Listen to the song here on YouTube. It will move you as much as any patriotic song you’ve ever heard.

If you want to meet Rick in person, he will be making a couple of stops in Southwest Georgia on Friday, March 6 in Blakely and Thomasville. Click on the invites below for more information.

Blakely Rally
Thomasville Meet and Greet
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Rick Jackson – He is for Real

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Rick Jackson showed up in the Republican Georgia gubernatorial race like a tornado swooping into Southwest Georgia. I checked him out. He is for real.

You need to spend a little time and take a close look at this candidate. I have included the campaign introduction video (3 1/2 minutes) and Jackson’s first speech as a candidate (25 minutes). Take a few minutes to listen to him.

Let me share with you what I learned from listening to him and checking him out with people who know him. The title of this article sums it up best – he is for real.

It is not only what he says, but how he says it. I watched his speech and listened to him carefully. I saw a firm, resolute, calm strength and character that developed over years of testing and trials that most of us will never experience.

Rick Jackson grew up in the projects and foster homes. His life was influenced by living with a Christian family and later in the United Methodist Children’s Home.

An article in TwoTen Magazine from ten years ago told his story. When this article was written a decade ago, he was not running for anything. He did not need anything. He just had a committment to help those who had no voice, children in foster care.

That article told how, at five years old, he walked to Sunday School at a church in downtown Atlanta. Living in a foster home, he experienced a family praying before a meal. It was so foreign to him that he could not process the love and faith of that family.

In his first speech, he said that his company’s main cultural value is “Others First.” I checked the Best Places to Work website and found that 90% of his nearly 2500 employees said that it is a great place to work compared to 57% at a typical US based company.

At one point in the speech when he spoke of his addressing a senate committee about foster care, you could see the powerful conviction welling up in him. It caused him to pause for a moment to catch his composure. That kind of reaction cannot be manufactured. He summed up his Others First values:

“The system forgets the people who don’t have money, power, privilege or fame, not those who need it. Right then, I committed to do everything I could to help those without a voice, without a lobbyist, without a checkbook to make their voice heard.”

He did not have to say that he felt a calling to run for Governor. It was evident in his whole being as he spoke. He laid out his vision to make Georgia the the most affordable state in the nation.

His commitment is to freeze property taxes and slash the income tax by 50% in four years. In eight years he strives to eliminate the income tax all together.

He wants to freeze tuition, room and board for state higher education. He wants to tackle the cost of home ownership.

He addresses the “woke nonsense and complete insanity. “ He says that if Christianity cannot be taught then neither will this ideology find a place in Georgia’s public schools.

There won’t be any boys playing in girls sports or in the girls bathrooms and locker rooms. “There are two genders and they are God-given.” He went farther to say that anyone pushing this ideology will not be just stopped but will be held accountable.

He says that there will not be a stronger supporter of the 2nd amendment. From his own personal experience growing up, he is a passionate supporter of law enforcement. I like the way he said that he will make Georgia the worst place in the nation for criminals.

I went beyond what I could find in research and checked with some of those who know him. One commented, “I know of his genuine faith.”

Rick Jackson is for real. I will be proud to give him my vote and have him as my governor. Check him out and I believe you will too.

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