Floyd Griffin

Floyd Griffin was born in Milledgeville, Georgia. He served in the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1990. He earned an associate degree in funeral service from Gupton-Jones College, a bachelor's degree in building construction from the Tuskegee Institute, and a graduate degree in contract procurement and management from the Florida Institute of Technology. His career experience includes running Slater Funeral Home and teaching military science at Wake Forest University and Winston-Salem State University.[1] Griffin previously served as mayor of Milledgeville, Georgia, from 2002 to 2006.[2]

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Floyd L. Griffin Jr. is a former Vietnam helicopter pilot, Army Colonel, professor, businessman, Georgia State Senator, Mayor of Milledgeville, GA, and author. He served on the board of trustees of his alma mater Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama. He currently serves on the board of visitors at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. Griffin was inducted into the Winston-Salem State University Clarence E. “Big House” Gaines Athletic Hall of Fame and Tuskegee University’s ROTC Hall of Fame. His oral history video is included as a permanent record of the HistoryMakers Collection at the Library of Congress. The Floyd L. Griffin Jr. papers are held by the Ina Dillard Russell Library Special Collections at Georgia College and State University. Griffin was the first African American in modern times to be elected in a rural legislative district containing a majority of white voters. In 2000, Griffin continued to do what political experts said was impossible by becoming the first African American mayor of the Old Capitol City of Milledgeville, Georgia.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

I will work to ensure that the voting rights of all of Georgia are respectedI am working to restore the integrity and respect to the office of Secretary of StateMaking voting easy and accessible is not a choice, but a right.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Voting rights

Griffin's campaign website highlighted the following issues:

Economy & Jobs

I am very pro business – however, giant corporations must not be allowed to take advantage of the loopholes in our tax code. If Big business wants to do business in our state, they must be held to the same standards that you and I do as individual taxpayers.

Saving Our Hospitals

Each and every state house race is crucial to ending this nonsensical and stubborn hold out, including and especially the 145th district. One of the first actions I will take as your representative in Atlanta is to tirelessly lobby for Medicaid expansion in Georgia. We cannot continue to allow our elected representatives to ignore the most basic and fundamental duty of their offices, which is to protect the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of each and every citizen of our great state. I will vigorously battle those who ignore our sick, play games with those in pain and try to make political TV commercials on the backs of those who needlessly die every day.

Women & Families

A woman’s right to choose is one of the bedrock principles of the Democratic Party, and I will continue to fight every day of my term in office, to ensure that women in the state of Georgia are afforded their constitutional rights. I will vehemently oppose any right wing legislation that is aimed at intimidating, coercing or denying the women of this state, their ability to make the best possible choices for their families.

Minimum Wage

If elected, I will support a phased plan to gradually increase Georgia’s minimum wage over a five year span, eventually getting to $12 an hour. By gradually increasing this number over a few years, it will allow small businesses to prepare and budget for their payroll adjustments.

Opportunity School Districts

I strongly support our local teachers, administrators and superintendent and I trust our community to elect the Board of Education that we see fit. We know our community far better than a select few powerful politicians in Atlanta. I will continue to work alongside our local officials, so that the important decisions about our children’s education stays local.[9]

—Floyd Griffin[10]