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Saturday, March 24, 2007
Sounds like a darned liberal cabal. Bet they put daisies in rifle barrels.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The NRA unloaded its heavy artillery this weekend, to ensure a Senate floor vote for S.B. 43, a bill to permit employees to keep their heat in cars parked on company parking lots.
“Arrogant big corporate lobbyists are working overtime to defeat this bill,” says one e-mail to membership.
It specifically names the Georgia Chamber of Commerce; United Parcel Service; the Georgia Association of Realtors; CSX, the railway company; AFLAC, the insurance company; and Georgia Traditional Manufacturers Association as those “big corporate associates…spreading lies about S.B.43 and working behind the scenes to attack your right to keep and bear arms.”
Champ Walker: If you’re interested in prosecutors, look at this one
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
If we were bookies, we’d put this at 50-to-1. But Champ Walker called on Friday. He’s the former congressional candidate, and son of former state senator Charles Walker, 59, who’s serving a 10-year prison term for tax evasion, mail fraud and conspiracy.
Walker has been in Washington. He’s trying to persuade members of Congress interested in the firing of U.S. prosecutors to take a look at Rick Thompson, the former federal prosecutor in Savannah canned for “announcing the initiation of a criminal investigation for the purpose of benefiting a personal and political ally.”
It was Thompson who started the investigation of Walker. His replacement finished it.
In case you haven’t seen it, here’s the letter announcing Thompson’s dismissal.
In Gwinnett, Fred Thompson gets a boost in the GOP race for the White House
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Many Georgia counties held their Republican conventions on Saturday. From Gwinnett, state Sen. David Shafer of Duluth posted this on his blog:
”But the most interesting news came from the presidential straw poll, which had been tacked on to the end of the officer ballot, almost as an afterthought. The delegates were given a choice of a dozen or so candidates. None of the Presidential campaigns were represented at the convention.
The national frontrunner, Rudy Giuliani, placed third, right behind Georgia’s own Newt Gingrich, who finished second. But the winner was former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee, who received more votes than all the other candidates combined.
Fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh place went to Romney, McCain, Huckabee and Brownback, in that order.
Westmoreland: We got what we deserved
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Libertarian blogger Jason Pye snagged an interview with U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Sharpsburg) today. Here’s the link.
As usual, Westmoreland - often mentioned as a gubernatorial possibility in 2010 - was chockfull of quotes. To wit:
— “The Republican party in Washington got exactly what they deserved. We had abandoned any type of leadership that we had. We were controlling the money and it was being spent hand over fist. We failed to deal with the immigration issue. We failed to deal with the fair tax. We kind of abandoned our authority. The shame of it is that we got what we deserved, but the American people did not get what they deserved.”
— On Dennis Hastert, the former U.S. Speaker of the House: ”One of the nicest people I’ve ever met, but I think he was the weak link in the leadership.”
On gun control in the nation’s capital: “You got a better chance of being killed in D.C. than you do Iraq.”
— On presidential preferences, Westmoreland said he was a fan of Fred Thompson, the former senator from Tennessee, and that he isn’t fond of Rudy Giuliani, John McCain or Mitt Romney.
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