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You’re Right About One Thing, Ox

We do see it coming – which is why you continue to fall in polls. 90% of the people of this state know who you are, and yet the latest polling indicates that only 25% of them would vote for you – and last summer, you were bragging about 35%!

For those that don’t know, Austin Scott dropped a nuclear bomb on The Ox yesterday during a hearing on his bill that would make some of Ox’s known actions a felony – specifically his taking donations from insurance executives while Commissioner of Insurance. (That $120K in allegedly illegal donations he accepted last year would be included here.)

Galloway has the details here and here, but here are Ox’s direct words:

“Because [elected insurance commissioners] are different. We are a pain in the butt. We are very high maintenance. We’re politicians. I am not a professional regulator, I am a politician.”
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New Republican Candidate for State School Superintendent

There is a new Republican challenger to State School Superintendent Kathy Cox in her bid for the GOP nomination for reelection.

Dr. John Barge started out as an English teacher at Cass High School in Bartow County nearly 20 years ago. Since then, he has been an assistant principal, a Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education program director, a principal, the State Director for Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education at the State Board of Education, and now serves as the Director of Secondary Education in Bartow County. He is also an adjunct professor at Berry College.

According to his website, his main issues appear to be with the new math curriculum that Georgia started about 5 years ago and the change to single-track education that occurred a couple of years later.
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In Committee Today: Thursday, February 18, 2010

Senate Education and Youth Committee (link)

Senate Judiciary Committee (pdf)
SB 364, SB 333, SB 300

Senate Regulated Industries and Utilities Committee (pdf)
HB 579

Senate Economic Development Committee (pdf)
SB 368

Senate Health and Human Services Committee (pdf)
SB 412

Senate Rules Committee (link)
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