Prayers For Speaker Ralston and Family
I’ve just learned that Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives David Ralston’s father passed away today. Please join me in praying for his family.
Of Brett Bittner And Erick Erickson
Last night, elected Republican City Councilman Erick Erickson took issue with appointed LP-Georgia Operations Director Brett Bittner’s Facebook post saying that Republican Governor candidate Nathan Deal was “in good company” with Neo-Nazis.
This is the same Erick Erickson who once tied another group of Neo-Nazis, StormFront, around Ron Paul’s neck. (This is also the same Erick Erickson who, as GriftDrift likes to point out, once called a sitting Supreme Court Justice a “goat f*cking child molester“.)
Clearly, Brett needs to be more careful in what he puts up on Facebook. Of course, saying what Erick said about a sitting Supreme Court Justice also falls into the “be more careful about what you post” category as well.
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Veto Tuesday
Governor Perdue, on the very last day he was able to, took the ax of his veto pen to roughly 25 bills yesterday – a FAR cry from the number of bills he signed. You can see the full list of every bill he vetoed in both 2009 and 2010 here.
Among the bills he axed that have already received much attention were Zero Based Budgeting, SB 291 (State Senator David Shafer’s gun bill), the JOBS bill, and a bill that would have enticed the construction of a $1 Billion indoor ski park – at Red Top Mountain/Allatoona Lake.
What is particularly interesting about the ski park bill is that the veto of it is being DECRIED by some fiscal conservatives. Yep. The same people that got all riled up about the “Bridge to Nowhere” in Alaska are now saying that Red Top Mountain – an area nearly as hot as it is down here in SWGA – needed a ski park that givernment needed to help fund. (And no, that was not a typo moments ago..)
Now for a brief discussion on some vetoed bills I haven’t seen as much discussion on…
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Early Voting Starts In ONE WEEK for July 20 Primary!
Early voting starts one week from today, so for those who already know who you’re voting for in every race, PLEASE spare yourself some time and go vote early! You can find your voting times/district information on the Secretary of State’s “My Voter Page“.
In Lee County, we don’t have any special questions placed on our primary ballots, but others in the State do.
For Lee County, you can see sample ballots here and here for the Democratic and Republican parties, respectively.
Meanwhile, to give you an example of the questions at least one County Party will be asking its voters:
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[UPDATED] State School Board Allows More Local Control
In a very expected (yet still controversial) move yesterday, the State School Board voted 9-2 to remove State class size mandates in favor of letting the local school systems decide class sizes on their own.
Watching my news (including blogs), facebook, and twitter streams, it became readily apparent that this wasn’t exactly a popular move.
Apparently, people are so caught up in the “Government is my Savior” way of thinking that the idea of the 5-7 people they live within a few miles of deciding how big their school system’s class sizes will be is FAR scarier than the former reality of several people who may live hundreds of miles away making that same decision.
[UPDATED] KSU Student Should Stay, by a KSU Graduate
By now, I’m sure many of you have heard of Jessica Colotl, the 21 year old student at Kennesaw State University who was recently found to be an illegal immigrant during a routine traffic stop in Cobb County.
James Touchton, a staffer (maybe volunteer?) for Tom Graves’ 9th District US House of Representatives campaign, is a guy I vaguely knew when we were both students at Kennesaw State in the first half of this decade. He worked with Student Government, I was an officer of various levels with a service based honors society known as the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. We now find ourselves on opposite sides of this particular debate, given his comment in the link.
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Republicans distancing themselves from McBerry
Ray McBerry, and is past escapades with teen aged girls, has so far just netted him some bad press. However that seems to be changing. To start with, Karen Handel, another candidate for governor going on record as not being a McBerry fan. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Jim Galloway reports that Mrs. Handel’s spokesman said: Read More …
State Agriculture Commisioner Refuses to Investigate
I called the Commissioner’s office about 9:30AM today to report a potential health risk, caused by a company that services the food production industry. At 2PM today I received a call from Commissioner Tommy Irvin telling me I needed to apologize to his administrative assistant. Only in Georgia government can one get a call back from a State Constitutional Officer about bad manners rather than an issue that is putting the residents of GA, FL and AL at risk.
Mr Irvin refused to send an investigation team to a plant that supplies unsanitary linens to peanut mills, pecan processors, bars and restaurants across the Southeast, clearly something under the arm of agriculture.
Mr, Irvin I gave you an ultimatum on the phone either protect the citizens of Georgia or turn your back and you sir chose to turn your back!
Welcome to the new world
I’m a cynical cuss sometimes, and I know it. Anything less than real freedom isn’t close to enough for me, and I’m vocal about it. For me though, the touchstone of a free society is how the treat firearms. Ultimately, more gun freedom will ultimately equal other freedom, come hell or high water. Yesterday, Georgia became a lot more free. Read More …
BREAKING: House Majority Leader Jerry Keen Announces Resignation
I was just told about this, and I’m away from my computer. Apparently this was announced first today at a Rotary meeting in Keen’s district, then to the House of Representatives moments ago. I’ll have more details soon.
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