SWGA Politics

HILARIOUS Story![ July 19, 2009 – 8:34 pm]by Jeff Posted in » 2010 Campaigns

Hopefully, I can do this story the justice it deserves so that y’all see how funny it is.

Apparently, Jeff Breedlove, John Oxendine’s Chief Strategist, approached Ray McBerry twice yesterday at two different events and demanded that McBerry fire Jenny Hodges, his campaign manager. From what I’m told, he was basically pressing the issue so hard the first time that McBerry told him to go the hell away, and that if he didn’t, bad things would happen. Breedlove finally walked away, but came back later in the day at another event with the same demands, and got the same reaction. So McBerry just went up a notch in my book for defending his staffers like that.

But what makes this story so hilarious? Well, let’s look at Breedlove’s track record just over the past couple of months.
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Walking With Austin Scott: The Day After[ July 19, 2009 – 10:29 am]by Jeff Posted in » 2010 Campaigns

Yesterday, I walked 10 miles with State Rep Austin Scott for his ‘Walk of Georgia‘ campaign event. Apparently, I am the ONLY person so far to walk an entire day’s journey with him, and thus my challenge to all Georgia media and political bloggers.

The day started out with me running late – I didn’t leave my house in Leesburg until about 6:10a, and I was to meet Rep Scott in Bainbridge at 7:30a. Fortunately, I made it in time and changed shoes once I got there into my old, trusted hiking boots.
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They need to “Read The Bills” now more than ever[ July 19, 2009 – 8:00 am]by Tom Posted in » Editorial, National

First, we got stuck with a $787 billion dollar stimulus plan that no one read because we had to do something immediately or else unemployment would reach 8% (it’s currently at what? 9.5% right now?). Then, we watched the cap and trade bill fly through the house with out a soul in Congress being able to really speak intelligently about the bill. No one could say that they read a bill that was as long as the book Atlas Shrugged, and that’s probably the most honest thing they’ve done. After all, it was dropped mere hours before voting. Now, we’ve got health care reform being forced down our throat.

All of these bills are monstrous in their size, far to large for casual reading by regular taxpayers. We often have to depend on others to read and digest the bill, the dilute it down for us. The problem with this is that those diluting the bill down are almost universally biased, and it doesn’t let the American people really decide for themselves if a bill is bad, and why. We usually have to regurgitate someone else’s talking points on most issues. Read More …