Former Morehouse College President Robert Franklin is the top fundraiser, with $106,000 raised through Sept. 9, including a $20,000 loan the Democrat made to his campaign. He had spent $60,000 of that as of Sept. 9, with money going toward polling and yard signs and other trappings of a more traditional campaign.
Franklin, who now teaches theology at Emory University, told The Atlanta Journa- Constitution that he was motivated to run by Lewis’ final essay, published posthumously by The New York Times in July, which urged “ordinary people with extraordinary vision” to stand up for the country’s soul.
Democrat Kwanza Hall, a former member of the Atlanta City Council and Board of Education who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2017, raised $54,000 through Sept. 9 and had spent $16,000. He knew Lewis through his father, who was a staff member for Martin Luther King Jr. Hall also worked with Lewis as a city council member.
Both Franklin and Hall have expressed center-left views on a variety of hot-button political issues in their responses to a candidate questionnaire published by the Journal-Constitution, saying they supported protecting and improving the 2010 health care law, a pathway to citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally and government efforts to respond to climate change.
Running to their left, Barrington Martin II, a special needs educator who unsuccessfully challenged Lewis in the June Democratic primary, raised and spent about $16,000.
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