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Neither party trusts Doug.
Mike Berlon
Chairman · Georgia Democratic Party
The Democrat who watched him jump ship.
Doug McKillip says he's a Republican.
His voting record says he's not.
Republican primary runoff voters in Senate District 46 have one job: keep a Democrat out of the State Senate.
Every one of those votes is on the public record. Doug McKillip was a Democrat when it counted. Don't reward him with a promotion.
Democrats called him a turncoat. Republicans already beat him once. Senate District 46 doesn't have to make the same mistake twice.
Here is the short version. Democrat Doug McKillip is an Athens attorney who spent more time in elected office as a Democrat than he ever did as a Republican, and he is betting that Republican runoff voters in Georgia State Senate District 46 have forgotten. Doug McKillip was first elected to the Georgia House in 2006 as a Democrat, representing House District 115 in Athens-Clarke County. He cosponsored bills with Stacey Abrams. He voted to raise taxes on your groceries. Then, in December 2010, three weeks after Republicans swept Georgia and won a supermajority, Doug McKillip suddenly discovered he was a Republican.
The timing was not a coincidence. It was opportunism, and it did not even fool his new party. Republican voters rejected Doug McKillip in the 2012 primary, and he spent the next thirteen years out of the legislature. Now he is back, asking the same Republicans who threw him out to hand him a State Senate seat on June 16. To close the deal, public Georgia Secretary of State voter records also show Doug McKillip voted in the 2020 Democratic presidential preference primary, a full ten years after his so-called conversion.
As a Democrat, Doug McKillip put his name on bills alongside Stacey Abrams. He cosponsored a minimum-wage increase (HB 290) and a state earned income tax credit (HB 621). The only substantive bill Doug McKillip ever authored entirely on his own, HB 1278 in 2010, was a Democratic tax-credit expansion. That is the record of a Democrat, written in his own hand, right up until the moment it stopped being convenient.
As a Democrat, Doug McKillip voted to raise taxes on your groceries. He voted against cutting your income tax. He voted against capping your property tax. He cosponsored a minimum-wage hike with Stacey Abrams. He cosponsored an income tax surcharge on Georgia earners. And the only substantive bill he ever authored on his own was a Democratic tax-credit expansion. Now Doug McKillip wants Republicans to believe he is a tax cutter.
Every vote below was cast while Doug McKillip served in the Georgia House of Representatives, almost all of it as a Democrat. Sources: the Georgia General Assembly, Vote Smart, Ballotpedia, and the AJC archive.
A Democrat when it was convenient, a Republican when it wasn't. Now Democrat Doug McKillip wants your Republican vote for the Georgia State Senate on June 16. Don't get fooled again.
Doug McKillip raised taxes on your groceries, voted against cutting your income tax, and cosponsored a minimum-wage hike with Stacey Abrams. He is no Republican. Vote like you remember.