Heading into Tuesday’s Democratic primary runoff, no one seemed better positioned to navigate its challenges better than Amanda Hollowell, a veteran organizer of, among other things, voting rights campaigns.
On Tuesday, she proved it, coming from behind against rival Joyce Griggs to win the Democratic Party’s nod to face Republican Jim Kingston in this fall’s contest to decide Coastal Georgia’s next representative to the U.S. Congress.
After coming in second by nearly 10 points to Griggs in an eight-person field in last month’s first round of primary voting, Hollowell overcame that deficit, defeating perennial candidate Griggs in the runoff by 1,403 votes — or 5.9% of the vote.
The 47-year-old Hollowell, chief of campaigns for Color of Change, an online racial justice organization, will be a decided underdog in the November election, the first open race for the 1st District Congressional seat since 2014…