Former Georgia House Democratic Leader Stacey Abrams to deliver speech on voter suppression at National Press Club Headliners Luncheon Nov. 15

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Georgia House Democratic Leader Stacey Abrams will deliver a major speech on voter suppression one year after her narrow defeat in Georgia's gubernatorial race, at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon on Friday, November 15.

In the immediate aftermath of her hotly contested defeat to Republican (and Georgia's then-secretary of state) Brian Kemp, Abrams launched Fair Fight Action, and together with another advocacy group, filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overhaul Georgia's election system on the grounds that the current system impaired citizens' ability to vote in the 2018 gubernatorial election, and thus deprived them of their constitutional rights guaranteed under the First, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.

Lunch will be served in the Club's Holeman Lounge at 12:30 p.m., with remarks beginning at 1 p.m., followed by a question-and-answer session ending at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $25 for National Press Club members (members may purchase two tickets at this rate) and $39 for all other non-member tickets. Please click here to purchase tickets.

For all ticketing-related questions, please email [email protected]. Tickets must be paid for at the time of purchase. To submit a question for the speaker in advance, put ABRAMS in the subject line and email to [email protected]. The deadline for submitting questions in advance is 10 a.m. on the day of the luncheon.

The National Press Club is located on the 13th Floor of the National Press Building at 529 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

CONTACT:
Lindsay Underwood for the National Press Club; [email protected]; (202) 662-7561