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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Because Washington is such a warm and fuzzy place
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
U.S. Rep. Charlie Norwood is barely 24 hours gone, hasn’t been buried yet, and the Republican National Campaign Committee already has a flyer advertising the vacancy.
It’s a colorful thing, graphically very complicated, which means some advance work was necessary. And that’s a bit creepy.
But it might also be an indication of how anxious Republicans in Washington are to deliver a victory after their losses last November.
A last word from Charlie Norwood
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Talk show host Tim Bryant with WGAU in Athens sends us this sound from his last interview with the late U.S. Rep. Charlie Norwood. It’s about five minutes long. Says Bryant: “I was struck by how much he talked about the future.”
Business gets uptight about new gun legislation
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
For the first time, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce has called out its troops to oppose the NRA-backed legislation to permit employees to keep firearms in the vehicles they park on company property.
The legislation looks to be headed for a Senate floor vote. In an “urgent employer alert” e-mailed to 4,000 or so members, the chamber urged a flood of calls to lawmakers.
Here’s a snippet:
S.B.43 takes away the right of employers and property owners to adopt preventive policies for their own business and property to prevent the introduction of weapons in the workplace but at the same time, holds employers subject to massive and costly litigation if an attorney can prove the company “should have known” weapons in the workplace might be used in the commission of a crime. “It just defies common-sense,” George M. Israel III, president of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, says.
Many gun enthusiasts disagree, of course.
