SWGA Politics

Come Have a Beer with SWGAPolitics.com and LP-SWGA![ July 31, 2009 – 6:15 pm]by Jeff Posted in » General, Local

Harvest Moon
Aug 28, 2009 (exactly 4 weeks from tonight)
7pm

We’ll keep you posted here if anything changes, but the current plan is just to hang out and drink beer/other assorted beverages, hopefully hear some good live music. Haven’t checked with Bo Henry, so I don’t know what he’s got planned that night, if anything.

Everyone of all political stripes, please feel free to join us!

As transparent as mud[ July 31, 2009 – 3:00 pm]by Bill Waller Posted in » Albany Dougherty County

With everything that’s happened recently, it’s easy to get lost in the details of what everyone has done. Names like Don Buie, Al Lott, LaJuanna Woods, James Taylor, Roger Marietta, and just about anyone else who’s name has crossed the TV screen make easy scapegoats on those grounds enough. However, the root of the problem is much more sinister and much more easily solved.

To start with, let me clarify that I get annoyed by “buzz words”. They tick me off in ways that only a Paris Hilton marathon on every network could possibly tick me off. And yet, I’m about to use one. Read More …

John Monds Needs To Get His Tail in Gear[ July 31, 2009 – 1:30 pm]by Jeff Posted in » 2010 Campaigns

John Monds IS the best candidate for Governor of Georgia in 2010.

I wholeheartedly believe that statement, and I’ve already publicly and privately pledged to do everything I can to help John become the next occupant of a certain mansion on West Paces Ferry Road in Atlanta. I am FIRMLY committed to doing just that.

I personally met John at this year’s Libertarian Party of Georgia Convention, and he really is a GREAT guy and solid Libertarian. He is extremely gracious as well, giving up his South GA Rep position on the LP-Georgia Executive Committee to let me have it. I remember that scene QUITE well, and he could have kept that position if he had wanted to. Honestly, that scene and his actions in it proved to me what a classy guy he is, and admittedly, it plays a significant role in how I think of him. I’ve also talked to him on a few occasions about things both political and not, and I can honestly say I would trust him as much as a close friend.

That said, you don’t hear too much about him on this site. Why not?
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Scandal continues to rock downtown[ July 31, 2009 – 8:00 am]by Tom Posted in » Albany Dougherty County

Even with Buie gone, the scandal that just won’t go away continues to rock downtown. In addition to what has already been written here, we find out that Buie only charged a whopping $1 in rent to the Dollar Square. Now that is a deal. Doesn’t it just make one wonder how a business can get a deal like that?

What’s more, Lajunna Woods part in this story just keeps getting deeper. I’m wondering just how far the rabbit hole goes, especially with more missing downtown money. Read More …

Supreme Court Decisions Filter Down Fast[ July 31, 2009 – 6:41 am]by Jeff Posted in » State

Last month, I wrote about the Georgia Supreme Court handing down a decision that basically said that if a teacher has a consensual sexual relationship with a person of legal age, the fact that the relationship was consensual must be allowed as a defense during the trial.

According to my own reading of the decision – and I am NOT a lawyer, you should definitely consult with an official member of the State Bar of Georgia before making any decisions involving matters of law – the Court was not saying that the sex itself was legal, but that consent of the victim was a valid defense, assuming the victim was of legal age to give such consent.

A month and a half later, we already have a case popping up citing this case as precedent. In the new case, reported in today’s AJC, an English teacher in Marietta had sex multiple times with a 17 year old student in April, and both he and the victim claim it was consensual. His lawyer is citing this Supreme Court decision and claiming that “his client’s case should be dropped”.
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