Vincent Fort

Vincent Dean Fort (April 28, 1956 – December 22, 2024) was an American politician who served as a member of the Georgia State Senate for the 39th district from 1996 to 2017.[7] His legislation to fight predatory lending has been recognized by the national media as a model that could have helped reduce the severity of the 2008 financial crisis, had Georgia Republicans not repealed it and if it had been adopted by more states.[11] In February 2010, Fort opposed a bill that would prevent Georgians from being forced to receive a microchip implant against their will, calling it "a solution in search of a problem.Senator Bernie Sanders, former Democratic Governor of Georgia Roy Barnes, Atlanta Hip-Hop artist and business owner Michael Render, also known as Killer Mike, as well as 28 local labor unions.[18] On September 30, 2017, Bernie Sanders held a rally for Vincent Fort in Saint Philip AME Church in Atlanta's East Lake neighborhood.
Georgia SenateRon SlotinNikema WilliamsNew Britain, ConnecticutDemocraticGeorgia State SenateFulton CountyAtlantaEast Point2017 Atlanta mayoral electionCentral Connecticut State CollegeAtlanta UniversityAtlanta University CenterEmory UniversityMorris Brown CollegeMorehouse Collegepredatory lendingTom Priceprostitutionhate crimesracial profilingcollective bargainingGrady Memorial HospitaljudiciaryeducationappropriationsredistrictingreapportionmentOccupy AtlantaMedicaidNathan Dealshooting of Michael BrownFerguson, MissouriHillary ClintonBernie Sanders2016 Democratic Party presidential primariesClark Atlanta Universitymayor of AtlantaRoy BarnesKiller Mikedemocratic socialistEast LakeGeorgia's 13th congressional districtHuffPostThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionWayback MachineThe New Republic