Chris Mora Takes on Incumbent Loudermilk in GA-11 Primary – ‘We’re Tired of Being Ignored’

In this ener­getic episode of The Geor­gia Hour on Voice of Rur­al Amer­i­ca, host BKP sits down with Chris Mora, a Pick­ens Coun­ty tele­com pro­fes­sion­al, for­mer Pick­ens Coun­ty GOP chair­man, and for­mer 11th Dis­trict GOP vice chair, who is mount­ing a bold Repub­li­can pri­ma­ry chal­lenge against incum­bent Con­gress­man Bar­ry Lou­d­er­milk in Georgia’s 11th Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict.

Mora, whose dis­trict was redrawn to include the strong­ly con­ser­v­a­tive coun­ties of Pick­ens, Gor­don, Bar­tow, Chero­kee, and part of Cobb, explains why he’s run­ning: res­i­dents in the new­er, more rur­al north­ern parts of the dis­trict feel com­plete­ly neglect­ed by their cur­rent rep­re­sen­ta­tion. Coun­ty com­mis­sion­ers told Mora, they haven’t seen or heard from Lou­d­er­milk in years out­side of parades, con­stituent ser­vices are nonex­is­tent, and fed­er­al resources that could help local projects are nev­er dis­cussed.

The con­ver­sa­tion quick­ly turns to kitchen-table issues that Mora says Wash­ing­ton Repub­li­cans are ignor­ing:

• Sky­rock­et­ing gro­cery prices and shrink­ing fam­i­ly bud­gets
• Explod­ing prop­er­ty-tax and home­own­ers-insur­ance bills that will force mort­gage pay­ments up $500–$700 a month for many fam­i­lies in 2026
• A bro­ken health­care sys­tem dom­i­nat­ed by hos­pi­tal con­glom­er­ates and Big Phar­ma price-fix­ing, with the cur­rent fed­er­al sub­sidy exten­sion set to expire again in Jan­u­ary
• Unsus­tain­able fed­er­al spend­ing that fuels infla­tion
• The com­ing hous­ing-afford­abil­i­ty cri­sis dri­ven by insur­ance and tax increas­es

Mora stress­es that these are not par­ti­san issues — Democ­rats, Repub­li­cans, and inde­pen­dents are all feel­ing the same pain at the check­out line and in their bank accounts — yet Con­gress keeps debat­ing every­thing except the prob­lems peo­ple talk about at Pub­lix.

Unlike tra­di­tion­al cam­paigns, Mora is run­ning a grass­roots, lis­ten­er-first oper­a­tion. He speaks for only five min­utes at events, then opens the floor so vot­ers in each coun­ty can tell him their spe­cif­ic con­cerns. He insists the race is winnable not with big donor mon­ey, but with small con­tri­bu­tions and neigh­bors telling neigh­bors that the pri­ma­ry elec­tion is just as impor­tant as the gen­er­al.

The inter­view wraps with Mora’s direct plea: “The pri­ma­ry is where we pick our fight­er. You can’t com­plain about who’s in office if you don’t show up in May.” He asks lis­ten­ers to spread the word and donate what­ev­er they can for Chris Mora for con­gress, web­site com­ing soon.

A refresh­ing, no-non­sense chal­lenge from a can­di­date who sounds like he’s talk­ing to vot­ers in the gro­cery aisle rather than read­ing talk­ing points from Wash­ing­ton.