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Viola has a bachelor's degree in nursing from the Medical College of Georgia.

Viola is the founder of Unhappy Taxpayer & Voter, a government watchdog organization. She was a nurse, administrator, and nursing instructor. She was also a licensed realtor and operated a hair salon called Express Cuts on Memorial Drive. She was an officer in the U.S. Army.

Viola Davis is currently the state representative for district 83. She was first elected in 2018 and has been in office for two terms.

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As a state representative, voted against establishing a flat income tax rate of 5.25%.

As a state representative, voted against banning state and local governments from restricting fossil fuel use.

As a strategist in 2012, she worked for two years to stop the Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (TSPLOST).

Helped expose overbilling in DeKalb County's Water/Sewer department and push for a moratorium on water cut offs until the overbillings were fixed.

- As a state representative, voted against establishing a flat income tax rate of 5.25%. 
- As a state representative, voted against banning state and local governments from restricting fossil fuel use. 
- As a strategist in 2012, she worked for two years to stop the Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (TSPLOST). 
- Helped expose overbilling in DeKalb County's Water/Sewer department and push for a moratorium on water cut offs until the overbillings were fixed.

Economy

As a state representative, voted against authorizing the Georgia Bureau of Investigations to investigate claims of election fraud.

As a state representative, voted against requiring board of education member elections to be nonpartisan.

As a state representative, voted against limiting absentee and early voting.

- As a state representative, voted against authorizing the Georgia Bureau of Investigations to investigate claims of election fraud. 
- As a state representative, voted against requiring board of education member elections to be nonpartisan. 
- As a state representative, voted against limiting absentee and early voting.

Voting & Elections

As a state representative, voted against banning people and employees from suing businesses that exposed them to COVID-19.

- As a state representative, voted against banning people and employees from suing businesses that exposed them to COVID-19.

Healthcare

As a state representative, voted against limiting discussion of "divisive concepts" related to race in schools.

Worked to help bring North and South DeKalb together to return the DeKalb County School System to full accreditation.

- As a state representative, voted against limiting discussion of "divisive concepts" related to race in schools. 
- Worked to help bring North and South DeKalb together to return the DeKalb County School System to full accreditation.

Education

As a state representative, voted against letting people carry guns without a permit, and against getting rid of bans on guns in parks, historic sites, and recreational areas.

As a state representative, voted against banning local police department from decreasing police budgets.

- As a state representative, voted against letting people carry guns without a permit, and against getting rid of bans on guns in parks, historic sites, and recreational areas.
- As a state representative, voted against banning local police department from decreasing police budgets.

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Viola Davis

- Your state representative represents the interests of your local district in the Georgia State House of Representatives.
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- The State House of Representatives, along with the State Senate, makes up our state lawmaking body: the Georgia General Assembly.
- There are 180 members of the Georgia House of Representatives, each representing a single district.
- State Representatives are elected to two-year terms. They are paid a yearly salary of $17,342. They only serve in the role part-time.

Your representative and state lawmaker in the Georgia House of Representatives

Georgia State Representative, District 87

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