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By Jeff, on February 1st, 2011%
Per this AJC article, yesterday Bobby Franklin made his yearly hara kiri. As he has done at least one other time since I have been watching, in addition to at least once between 2004 and 2008, he made one of the most dangerous and least successful parliamentary moves available – he challenged the ruling of the Chair (Speaker Ralston).
GPB doesn’t have video archives yet this Session, but here’s what went down, so best as I have determined so far:
Last year, both the House and the Senate passed SB 1, Senator David Shafer’s Zero Based Budget Act. After the Session was over, Governor Perdue vetoed this bill.
Last week, in a VERY rare move, the Senate voted to override that veto, and did so unanimously, 52-0-6. They only needed a 2/3 majority, or 38 votes (there are currently 36 GOP Senators).
That same day, upon learning of the Senate’s veto override, Speaker Ralston let it be known that the House would not take the measure up, but would instead push its own ZBB measure, Rep Steven Allison’s HB 33.
Yesterday, the House got the veto override, and apparently th Speaker assigned it to the Rules Committee. I don’t know exactly what transpired next, but it ended with Rep Franklin making an EXTREMELY politically boneheaded move – the aforementioned challenging of the ruling of the Chair.
Here’s the problem:
Per Article III Section V Section XIII(d) of the Ga Constitution (emphases mine):
During sessions of the General Assembly, any vetoed bill or resolution may upon receipt be immediately considered by the house wherein it originated for the purpose of overriding the veto. If two-thirds of the members to which such house is entitled vote to override the veto of the Governor, the same shall be immediately transmitted to the other house where it shall be immediately considered. Upon the vote to override the veto by two-thirds of the members to which such other house is entitled, such bill or resolution shall become law. All bills and resolutions vetoed during the last three days of the session and not considered for the purpose of overriding the veto and all bills and resolutions vetoed after the General Assembly has adjourned sine die may be considered at the next session of the General Assembly for the purpose of overriding the veto in the manner herein provided. If either house shall fail to override the Governor’s veto, neither house shall again consider such bill or resolution for the purpose of overriding such veto.
In other words, per the Constitution of the State of Georgia, Rep Franklin was absolutely technically correct in challenging the rule of the Chair, if a political idiot.
And the Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives has apparently violated the Constitution of the State of Georgia.
Like it or not, Bobby Franklin was (technically) absolutely correct.
By Jeff, on April 9th, 2010%
For those that have ever doubted whether State Rep Bobby Franklin (who CONTINUES to support a man known to have “indiscretions” with young girls) is absolutely a Statist Theocrat nutjob, you need look no further than the note below the fold, which he posted on his facebook page about 2 hours ago.
In it, he essentially echoes Jeremiah Wright, President Obama’s former PASTOR (as in, not his former Imam), in saying:
Not “God Bless America”! NO! God DAMN America!
I’m not going to spoil the front page of this site with this guy’s insane ramblings, but I did want to put it here just in case he actually grows a brain cell at some point and decides to take it down.
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By Jeff, on March 10th, 2010%
Lately, some “liberty” (I use the term loosely here) activists have gotten it into their heads that local governments are trying to persecute them.
How?
By saying “no” to roosters in subdivisions.
So they had their go-to boy, State Rep Bobby Franklin, introduce a bill that would preempt local control on this issue and mandate that no local government could prohibit gardening nor the keeping of chickens, goats, or rabbits – and nor could they require a permit for these activities.
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By Jeff, on December 30th, 2009%
During this past session of the General Assembly, a new voting law was passed to allow people who have protective orders issued or are residents of a family violence shelter to shield their residence data on voter rolls. As I mentioned when I first wrote about this in May, this is a VERY good law, and genuinely needed to help protect people who have been abused. News has come out this morning that this law has been approved by the US DOJ under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and can now be implemented.
Prior to this law being passed (by the General Assembly, not the Secretary of State), people who have been abused could be relatively easily tracked every time they registered to vote. After all, as long as you know a person’s first initial, last name, and date of birth, you can go to this site and get their address and all State and Federal districts they are in. You also need to know the county they live in, but so long as you know that they are in Georgia, you can do a brute-force attack and look through every single county if you are not sure about exactly where they are.
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By Jeff, on December 15th, 2009%
State Rep Bobby Franklin is certainly an interesting case study in terms of political philosophy and political pragmatism/practicality.
Looking at just his pre-files for the 2010 session of the General Assembly that starts in about a month, he’s got several bills that are GREAT philosophically, though at least some of them are pure “mental masturbation” (ideas that are fun to debate, but stand little actual chance of happening) pragmatically. Then he’s got Ray McBerry’s “War Bills”. These are bills that, if enacted, would lead directly to a physical shooting war with the US Government – an idea he has said he supports.
Let’s take a brief look at the bills he has pre-filed this session:
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By Jeff, on December 9th, 2009%
Quite a few new developments came out yesterday in the continuing saga of the fallout of Glenn Richardson’s political collapse, and I want to get y’all caught up, for the moment, on where things currently stand – at least as best as possible, given the currently available information.
In the Speaker chase, several new names cropped up. Erick Erickson, in an endgame I knew had to exist, went forward endorsing Tom Graves for the job late last night. Earlier in the day, a Facebook group to get Barry Loudermilk the job was created, and Bill Greene, a recent candidate for Mayor of Braselton, GA, wrote an article on the Campaign For Liberty site about this. The Facebook group was created by Jenny Hodges, Ray McBerry’s campaign manager, and quite a few of its current 22 members are people associated with Ray McBerry’s campaign, including the man who openly called for war against the US Government a month ago, State Rep Bobby Franklin. Quite frankly, while Loudermilk is well regarded, he simply doesn’t have the influence to pull this move off, and it is a VAST over-reach, which we’ll talk about in a moment.
Also placing his name in the Speaker chase was Tommy Smith, whom AJC’s Political Insider Jim Galloway credits as being the first entrant. Smith, an unknown who had many questions of “Who??” and “What????” erupting (even though he has been in the House for 30 years, much of that time as a Democrat) is running for the job on the promise of ending the hawk system I still need to get a chance to write about, but which DuBose Porter has made some great points against.
Others who have been named as possible contenders include Larry O’Neal of Warner Robbins (currently the chairman of the very influential Ways and Means Committee) and David Ralston.
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By Jeff, on November 11th, 2009%
As I was checking Facebook before heading out to work, I came across the status in the screen grab after the jump from State Representative Bobby Franklin (R-Marietta).
In it, he states “As we remember our veterans today, let’s hope that someday soon maybe perhaps some will be willing to pay the ultimate price for freedom here at home.” (emphasis mine)
This is a CLEAR call for Civil War – soon – from a sitting member of the Georgia General Assembly!!!!
Of course, he is also a complete moonbat whackjob that no one in power listens to, and very few not in power listen to.
And he is EXTREMELY closely associated with “States’ Rights” Governor Candidate Ray McBerry – indeed, he is the sponsor for those 10 States’ Rights bills McBerry is so proud of!
I will update this story later tonight with more details and thoughts.
[See the Screen Grab]
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