Georgia state Rep. Mesha Mainor, a Republican who left the Democratic Party earlier this month, had some harsh words for her former party.

Speaking with Fox News this week, Mainor criticized Democratic leadership for not doing enough to help minorities and the poor in low-income communities. The Georgia congresswoman ran her campaign on school choice, and her stance on the matter led former colleagues to "ostracize" her, she said.

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“It was not until I became a policymaker in reading every single line of the legislation that I realized we are doing so many things that are not benefiting people of color, people from low socioeconomic backgrounds, although we're promoting that we are,” she said. “There's a lot of propaganda.”

Mainor announced she left the Democrats for the Republican Party on July 11, saying the political switch was a “moral” decision. She had been a Democrat her “entire life.

“Everyone was told if you don't vote with the party on this caucus line, you will be ostracized. You will be on the island by yourself. I did not agree with that,” Mainor said. “And so the other people, in my opinion, I don't know, but I feel like they were pressured into voting a caucus decision instead of voting for their communities.”

The Democratic Party’s stance on defunding police also proved to be a major factor in her decision, Mainor told Fox News. However, school choice was the personal conviction she could not compromise on “because I am that child that it supports.”

School choice gives parents alternative education options for their children besides public schools. These programs, such as school vouchers and tax-credit scholarships, can be expanded by state legislatures. Other examples include charter schools, magnet schools, and homeschooling.

Mainor said, “The people that are running the schools have the capacity to change the curriculum” but are choosing not to do so.

“Leadership is not doing that. That leadership is Democrat leadership, and education is just too important of a value for us to let it go on without being focused on a moment longer,” she added.

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In March, Mainor was the only Democrat to vote "yes" on Georgia's Senate Bill 233, legislation that would have expanded the state's voucher program to give $6,500 to the families of public school students in the bottom 25% academically. The bill failed.

Her departure from the Democrats to the Republicans comes two years after former Rep. Vernon Jones (R-GA) made a similar decision.