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Greg Bluestein
Political Reporter
Greg Bluestein is a political reporter who covers the governor's office and state politics for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He joined the newspaper in June 2012 after spending seven years with the Atlanta bureau of The Associated Press, where he covered a range of beats that included politics and legal affairs. He also contributes to the AJC's Political Insider blog. He's a graduate of the University of Georgia with degrees in journalism and political science and lives with his wife and daughter in Atlanta.
Latest from Greg Bluestein
Your daily jolt: Jimmy Carter's grandson tests waters for a '14 run for governor
Gov. Nathan Deal may have more than a GOP primary challenge on his hands next year. We’re told that state Sen. Jason Carter, a Decatur Democrat and grandson of the former president, has commissioned a poll to "test the political environment, given recent events," for a 2014 run for governor. ...
Your daily jolt: Blue Cross/Blue Shield chief ‘not anticipating’ a defunding of Obamacare
Over at WABE (90.1FM) on Thursday, Denis O’Hayer offered up an interview with Morgan Kendrick, president of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Georgia, the only health insurance carrier offering policies in all 16 areas of the state under the new, federally mandated exchanges. “We understand the business is shifting, and we ...
Your (giant) daily jolt: Tom Graves named a post-shutdown negotiator
As the government shutdown arrived, House Speaker John Boehner appointed eight members of a conference committee to work out a short-term spending bill with the Senate. Among them is Rep. Tom Graves, the Republican from Ranger who has led the “defund Obamacare” fight. Boehner’s move is a sign that the ...
Your daily jolt: Justice Department to sue over N.C. voter ID law
One wonders whether the White House decided this needed to be done before midnight. From the Associated Press: The Justice Department will sue the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over tough new voting rules, the latest effort by the Obama administration to fight back against a Supreme ...
Georgia eyes bigger Hyundai presence
New cars spill off the Kia Motors assembly line in every 60 seconds. The automaker’s nearly four-year-old plant near the Georgia-Alabama line is close to maximum capacity, humming 24 hours a day, often six days a week. That crunch – plus labor issues at Kia and Hyundai factories at home ...
What’s in a name? Now, a gay rights controversy.
A married gay couple’s visit to a driver’s licensing office highlights Georgia’s struggles with same-sex marriage after a landmark Supreme Court decision and creates an unlikely flash point in the gay rights debate. It happened this month when newlywed Danielle McCollum visited the state Department of Driver Services office in ...
Your Daily Jolt: Tune in for the shutdown countdown
This week is turning CSPAN-2 into must-see TV. In honor of today's binge-watching culture, we had a 21-hour Ted Cruz marathon on the Senate floor the other day, with a side of Green Eggs and Ham. And Thursday afternoon, in honor of the proliferation of debate shows, Cruz battled Tennessee ...
Georgia’s port push starts in Panama
Colón, Panama - In a soggy abyss carved into Panama’s craggy rockbed, a convoy of Georgia’s top leaders snaked a path through a construction project that could transform international trade. In about a year, the course they followed on Monday will likely be under water, at the bottom of a ...
The floodgates opening on Savannah port dredging?
The push to deepen the Savannah harbor has been in limbo for years. Now it must feel like the floodgates have finally opened. Days after Vice President Joe Biden said the dredging would happen “come hell or high water,” the chair of the House committee handling a bill that would ...
Deal says he has firmer resolve to back Savannah River dredging
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA — Gov. Nathan Deal came away from an inspection of the Panama Canal expansion Monday vowing to exploit the full powers of his office to make sure that the dredging of Savannah’s port starts next year, even without Washington’s financial backing. Deal said the trip has given ...
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