Everton Blair has a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from Harvard, a master's degree in policy, organizations and leadership studies from Stanford, and a doctorate in education leadership from Harvard.

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Everton previously served as the director of program development at an education company for over two years and as a Policy & Advocacy Fellow for the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans during the Obama administration for four months.

2026 Georgia July Special Election

Supports reforming the tax code to ensure that billionaires and corporations pay their fair share, closing loopholes that allow the ultra-wealthy to pay lower effective rates than working families.

Supports reforming the tax code to ensure that billionaires and corporations pay "their fair share" by closing loopholes that allow the ultra-wealthy to pay lower effective rates than working families.

Supports protecting and expanding tax benefits for working families, including the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit.

Opposes tax giveaways that increase the deficit and shift the burden to future generations.

Supports expanding nontraditional financing options, including revenue-based financing, contract financing, evergreen community funds, and employee ownership.

Supports modernizing credit underwriting to include rental, utility, and transaction history.

Wants to increase availability of smaller-dollar loans to align with local business needs.

Supports strengthening the Housing Choice Voucher program to make vouchers more usable in a variety of neighborhoods.

Supports local tax "shock absorber" policies to prevent displacement during redevelopment.

Supports requiring private investment companies to register and report impacts on local communities.

Supports investing in mentorship programs, business incubators, and local entrepreneurial hubs.

Supports outreach to raise awareness of crowdfunding and alternative financing options.

Supports funding outreach to raise awareness of crowdfunding and alternative financing options.

Supports civic infrastructure that connects Black entrepreneurs to networks and resources.

Supports allowing "catch-up" retirement contributions for entrepreneurs who delayed savings to start a business.

Supports the expansion of heavy rail and MARTA service into suburban communities to connect residents to jobs and economic opportunities.

Supports regional transportation planning that prioritizes equity and suburban connectivity to reduce commute times and improve quality of life.

Opposes tax abatements and incentive packages for data centers that provide minimal employment and consume excessive public resources.

Opposes tax abatements and incentive packages for data centers that "provide minimal employment, while consuming [excessive] public resources."

Supports federal legislation to strengthen chemical safety oversight and enforcement, including mandatory shutdown authority for facilities with repeated safety violations.

For Candidate Everton "Ej" Blair on Issue economy:  
Supports ensuring that communities hosting data centers and industrial facilities receive their fair share of tax revenue and infrastructure investment.

Supports ensuring that communities hosting data centers and industrial facilities receive their fair share of tax revenue and infrastructure investment.

Supports expanding federal childcare subsidies so that no working family pays more than seven percent of their income on childcare.

- Supports reforming the tax code to ensure that billionaires and corporations pay "their fair share" by closing loopholes that allow the ultra-wealthy to pay lower effective rates than working families.
- Supports protecting and expanding tax benefits for working families, including the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit.
- Opposes tax giveaways that increase the deficit and shift the burden to future generations.
- Supports expanding nontraditional financing options, including revenue-based financing, contract financing, evergreen community funds, and employee ownership.
- Supports modernizing credit underwriting to include rental, utility, and transaction history.
- Wants to increase availability of smaller-dollar loans to align with local business needs.
- Supports strengthening the Housing Choice Voucher program to make vouchers more usable in a variety of neighborhoods.
- Supports local tax "shock absorber" policies to prevent displacement during redevelopment.
- Supports requiring private investment companies to register and report impacts on local communities.
- Supports investing in mentorship programs, business incubators, and local entrepreneurial hubs.
- Supports funding outreach to raise awareness of crowdfunding and alternative financing options.
- Supports civic infrastructure that connects Black entrepreneurs to networks and resources.
- Supports allowing "catch-up" retirement contributions for entrepreneurs who delayed savings to start a business.
- Supports the expansion of heavy rail and MARTA service into suburban communities to connect residents to jobs and economic opportunities.
- Supports regional transportation planning that prioritizes equity and suburban connectivity to reduce commute times and improve quality of life.
- Opposes tax abatements and incentive packages for data centers that "provide minimal employment, while consuming [excessive] public resources."
- Supports federal legislation to strengthen chemical safety oversight and enforcement, including mandatory shutdown authority for facilities with repeated safety violations.
- Supports ensuring that communities hosting data centers and industrial facilities receive their fair share of tax revenue and infrastructure investment.
- Supports expanding federal childcare subsidies so that no working family pays more than seven percent of their income on childcare.

Economy

Supports criminal justice reform, prioritizing the prosecution of hate crimes and ending mass incarceration practices that harm Black communities.

Supports removing barriers that prevent formerly incarcerated individuals from obtaining or renewing licenses.

- Supports criminal justice reform, prioritizing the prosecution of hate crimes and ending mass incarceration practices that harm Black communities.
- Supports removing barriers that prevent formerly incarcerated individuals from obtaining or renewing licenses.

Public Safety

Supports Medicare for All, asserting that healthcare is a right and no family should face financial ruin due to medical diagnoses.

Advocates for reversing Medicaid cuts in the Big Beautiful Bill and protecting coverage for eight million Americans at risk of losing their insurance.

Advocates for reversing Medicaid cuts in the Big Beautiful Bill and protecting coverage for "eight million Americans at risk of losing their insurance."

Wants to lower prescription drug costs for seniors by ending price-gouging and monopoly practices by pharmaceutical companies.

Supports expanding access to mental health care, maternal health services, and community health centers across the district.

Supports protecting, strengthening, and expanding Social Security and Medicare, and ensuring that wealthy individuals pay the same percentage of their income into Social Security as middle-class and working families.

For Candidate Everton "Ej" Blair on Issue healthcare:  
Supports investing in community-based senior services, including nutrition programs, transportation access, adult day programs, and caregiver support.

Supports investing in community-based senior services, including nutrition programs, transportation access, adult day programs, and caregiver support.

Supports strengthening oversight and accountability for nursing homes and long-term care facilities to address neglect and unsafe conditions affecting disproportionately Black and low-income residents.

Supports raising wages for child care workers to reflect the essential nature of their work.

Supports raising wages for child care workers to "reflect the essential nature of [their] work."

Supports expanding paid family and medical leave to allow parents to care for family members without losing their job or income.

Supports full health monitoring and compensation for communities affected by industrial chemical disasters.

Supports nationwide protections for access to abortion, fertility care, and contraception.

- Supports Medicare for All, asserting that healthcare is a right and no family should face financial ruin due to medical diagnoses.
- Advocates for reversing Medicaid cuts in the Big Beautiful Bill and protecting coverage for "eight million Americans at risk of losing their insurance."
- Wants to lower prescription drug costs for seniors by ending price-gouging and monopoly practices by pharmaceutical companies.
- Supports expanding access to mental health care, maternal health services, and community health centers across the district.
- Supports protecting, strengthening, and expanding Social Security and Medicare, and ensuring that wealthy individuals pay the same percentage of their income into Social Security as middle-class and working families.
- Supports investing in community-based senior services, including nutrition programs, transportation access, adult day programs, and caregiver support.
- Supports strengthening oversight and accountability for nursing homes and long-term care facilities to address neglect and unsafe conditions affecting disproportionately Black and low-income residents.
- Supports raising wages for child care workers to "reflect the essential nature of [their] work."
- Supports expanding paid family and medical leave to allow parents to care for family members without losing their job or income.
- Supports full health monitoring and compensation for communities affected by industrial chemical disasters.
- Supports nationwide protections for access to abortion, fertility care, and contraception.

Healthcare

Supports investing in digital infrastructure and broadband access to ensure every community can participate in the AI economy.

Supports growing career and technical education, apprenticeships, and job training programs for high-wage careers, with or without a four-year degree.

Supports raising teacher pay and investing in educators and school staff.

Advocates for expanding universal Pre-K and early childhood education.

Believes in fighting for comprehensive student loan forgiveness and supporting free tuition at public colleges and universities.

- Supports investing in digital infrastructure and broadband access to ensure every community can participate in the AI economy.
- Supports growing career and technical education, apprenticeships, and job training programs for high-wage careers, with or without a four-year degree.
- Supports raising teacher pay and investing in educators and school staff.
- Advocates for expanding universal Pre-K and early childhood education.
- Believes in fighting for comprehensive student loan forgiveness and supporting free tuition at public colleges and universities.

Education

Supports investing in electric vehicle infrastructure and sustainable transportation options for suburban neighborhoods.

Supports clean water infrastructure investment, including the replacement of aging water lines and monitoring for harmful chemicals.

For Candidate Everton "Ej" Blair on Issue economy: Supports requiring environmental impact assessments for warehouse and logistics developments in residential areas, focusing on truck traffic and diesel emissions.

Supports requiring environmental impact assessments for warehouse and logistics developments in residential areas, focusing on truck traffic and diesel emissions.

- Supports investing in electric vehicle infrastructure and sustainable transportation options for suburban neighborhoods.
- Supports clean water infrastructure investment, including the replacement of aging water lines and monitoring for harmful chemicals.
- Supports requiring environmental impact assessments for warehouse and logistics developments in residential areas, focusing on truck traffic and diesel emissions.

Energy & the Environment

Supports abolishing ICE and moving immigration enforcement to the Department of Justice instead of the Department of Homeland Security.

Supporting reforming the visa system to "keep families together and [speed up] the immigration court process."

Supports a clear pathway to citizenship and permanent protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.

- Supports abolishing ICE and moving immigration enforcement to the Department of Justice instead of the Department of Homeland Security.
- Supporting reforming the visa system to "keep families together and [speed up] the immigration court process."
- Supports a clear pathway to citizenship and permanent protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

Supports overturning Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission by banning unlimited contributions to political candidates by corporations and unions.

Supports banning members of congress and their families from trading stocks.

Supports banning partisan gerrymandering.

Supports expanded early voting, absentee ballot access, and making Election Day a national holiday.

- Supports overturning Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission by banning unlimited contributions to political candidates by corporations and unions.
- Supports banning members of congress and their families from trading stocks.
- Supports banning partisan gerrymandering.
- Supports expanded early voting, absentee ballot access, and making Election Day a national holiday.

Voting & Elections

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Everton "Ej" Blair

Supports encouraging Special Purpose Credit Programs (SPCPs) for banks serving GA-13.

Supports expanding programs that link housing investments with education, health, safety, and economic opportunity.

Supports streamlining licensing and permitting processes, reducing fees, and simplifying procedures.

Supports regional and interstate licensing compacts for Metro Atlanta workers.

Advocates for federal investment in suburban transit infrastructure to ensure economic development reaches communities where Black families live.

Supports investing in education as a means of upward mobility, emphasizing the importance of public schools, community colleges, and career programs.

Aims to restore and strengthen the Department of Education to fully support students, teachers, and schools.

Supports defending and restoring diversity, equity, and inclusion programs across federal government, contracting, and higher education.

For Candidate Everton "Ej" Blair on Issue public-safety: Advocates for comprehensive gun reform and recognizes gun violence as a public health crisis.

Advocates for comprehensive gun reform and recognizes gun violence as a public health crisis.

- Advocates for comprehensive gun reform and recognizes gun violence as a public health crisis.
- Supports criminal justice reform, prioritizing the prosecution of hate crimes and ending mass incarceration practices that harm Black communities.
- Supports removing barriers that prevent formerly incarcerated individuals from obtaining or renewing licenses.

For Candidate Everton "Ej" Blair on Issue energy-and-environment: Advocates for an economic agenda that prioritizes people over profit, addressing greed and corruption that affect affordability.

For Candidate Everton "Ej" Blair on Issue energy-and-environment: No relevant stance provided on energy and the environment.

- Wants to codify a Green New Deal.
- Supports investing in electric vehicle infrastructure and sustainable transportation options for suburban neighborhoods.
- Supports clean water infrastructure investment, including the replacement of aging water lines and monitoring for harmful chemicals.
- Supports requiring environmental impact assessments for warehouse and logistics developments in residential areas, focusing on truck traffic and diesel emissions.

Supports a well-resourced, transparent, and efficient immigration system that prioritizes due process and human dignity.

- Supports a well-resourced, transparent, and efficient immigration system that prioritizes due process and human dignity.
- Supports abolishing ICE and moving immigration enforcement to the Department of Justice instead of the Department of Homeland Security.
- Supporting reforming the visa system to "keep families together and [speed up] the immigration court process."
- Supports a clear pathway to citizenship and permanent protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.

- Supports Medicare for All, asserting that healthcare is a right and no family should face financial ruin due to medical diagnoses.
- Advocates for reversing Medicaid cuts in the Big Beautiful Bill and protecting coverage for "eight million Americans at risk of losing their insurance."
- Wants to lower prescription drug costs for seniors by ending price-gouging and monopoly practices by pharmaceutical companies.
- Supports expanding access to mental health care, maternal health services, and community health centers across the district.
- Supports protecting, strengthening, and expanding Social Security and Medicare, and ensuring that wealthy individuals pay the same percentage of their income into Social Security as middle-class and working families.
- Supports investing in community-based senior services, including nutrition programs, transportation access, adult day programs, and caregiver support.
- Supports strengthening oversight and accountability for nursing homes and long-term care facilities to address neglect and unsafe conditions affecting disproportionately Black and low-income residents.
- Supports raising wages for child care workers to "reflect the essential nature of [their] work."
- Supports expanding paid family and medical leave to allow parents to care for family members without losing their job or income.
- Supports full health monitoring and compensation for communities affected by industrial chemical disasters.

- Supports a well-resourced, transparent, and efficient immigration system that prioritizes due process and human dignity.

Supports expanded early voting, absentee ballot access, and making election day a national holiday.

- Supports overturning Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission by banning unlimited contributions to political candidates by corporations and unions.
- Supports banning members of congress and their families from trading stocks.
- Supports banning partisan gerrymandering.
- Supports expanded early voting, absentee ballot access, and making election day a national holiday.

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Everton "EJ" Blair previously served as a member of the Gwinnett County Board of Education from 2019 to 2022. He was first elected in 2018, flipping a partisan school board seat by 31 points.

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Opposes big money in politics and advocates for protecting the right to vote.

Supports cracking down on predatory lending, supporting renter protections, and easing homebuying for first-time buyers.

Supports an economic agenda that prioritizes people over profit.

Plans to fight for expanded paid family leave, living wages, job training, workplace safety, and the right to organize.

Supports codifying reproductive rights and defending reproductive freedom.

For Candidate Everton "Ej" Blair on Issue healthcare: Supports Medicare for All and believes no one should have to choose between medical care and financial stability.

Believes every child should have access to quality education and career pathways, regardless of their zip code.

For Candidate Everton "Ej" Blair on Issue energy-and-environment: Supports transitioning to a green economy that prioritizes the health and financial well-being of working families over corporate profits.

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