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Reed: Port expansion money will come
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed on Thursday told more than 600 business leaders here not to worry that President Barack Obama’s most recent budget proposal contained no significant funding for the dredging of the Port of Savannah. The federal cash is a matter of when, not if, he said.“Don’t be concerned ...
How to take the sting and expense out of GOP races? Nominating conventions
Sandra Deal, wife of the governor, has asked them to play nice. Don’t “destroy” each other, she has begged. But her plea for sandbox rules is unlikely to have any effect. Next year, four or five prominent Republicans will conduct scorched-earth campaigns for the nomination to replace Saxby Chambliss in ...
Atheists promise a book for every state park cabin in Georgia
The group American Atheists says it will send the state Department of Natural Resources enough “popular atheist books” to place in every cabin in every state park in Georgia. Last week, Gov. Nathan Deal confirmed that in order to avoid a lawsuit, Bibles had been removed from cabins and lodges ...
Your GOP convention jolt: Nathan Deal says feds 'dumping' refugees on Georgia
ATHENS -- Gov. Nathan Deal told a gathering of the state GOP convention –whose delegates are overwhelmingly white – that the Republican party must attract more newcomers if it is to maintain its control of state politics. To a point. Ultimately, the governor’s message was mixed. In his opening remarks ...
Your GOP convention blog: IRS 'must be brought to its knees,' says Johnny Isakson
ATHENS -- When it came to the burgeoning Internal Revenue Service scandal, U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson on Friday managed to squeeze 10 minutes of outrage into the four minutes allotted him before a sparsely populated state Republican convention. Isakson told the crowd, in the first hour of its two-day meeting, ...
Like father, like daughter: Decoding Michelle Nunn’s Senate deliberations
Like father, like daughter. A great deal of stealth has accompanied Michelle Nunn’s deliberations over whether she intends to try and follow her dad’s footsteps into the U.S. Senate next year. Her public calendar has been a desert. Badgering from journalists no doubt has increased exponentially since last week, when ...
IRS targeted 2 Georgia tea party groups
The FBI has launched a criminal investigation into how the Internal Revenue Service unduly scrutinized and excessively delayed applications for nonprofit status from tea party groups, including at least two based in Georgia.An inspector general’s report leaked Tuesday provided new details to the unfolding scandal, finding that the IRS used ...
GOP leaders play defense on Common Core school standards
Only the most elastic imagination could conceive of state Sen. Fran Millar of Dunwoody, a man of direct and sometimes caustic temperament, as a wide-eyed little Dutch boy. Yet this coming weekend, Millar will head to Athens and try to hold back the educational revolt that threatens to wash over ...
Atlanta’s Reed has sights on city hall, not D.C.
Another Democratic shoe just dropped. On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. John Barrow announced that he would pass on a 2014 race for U.S. Senate. Thursday, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed did likewise – ruling himself out as a candidate in the 2016 Senate contest. Reed was on the WGAU (1340AM) morning talk ...
After shunning a Senate race, John Barrow declines to look back
When at the wheel of a car, it is entirely possible that John Barrow doesn’t bother to use the rear-view mirror. The 57-year-old Augusta congressman certainly tried his best not to look backwards on Wednesday. Twenty-four hours earlier, he’d shocked Georgia Democrats with his announcement that he would pass on ...
Behind the fight that GRTL has picked with Speaker Ralston
Georgia Right to Life, the state’s most aggressive anti-abortion organization, has settled on a single, unlikely villain. He is House Speaker David Ralston, a bona fide Republican and arguably the second most powerful man in the state Capitol. Ralston and GRTL have clashed before, and there are those who might ...
Universities, campus carry and the ‘active shooter’ scenario
Now that the Washington version is over, it’s time to dip back into a gun debate in which you might have more invested — the one in Georgia. Before state lawmakers left Atlanta last month, they preserved a bill in a vat of amber — ready to be taken out ...
Ralph Reed becomes Marco Rubio’s wingman on immigration
Ralph Reed was in Iowa on Monday to address certain members of his Faith and Freedom Coalition — and to help begin the process of selecting the Republican nominee for the 2016 presidential contest. Reed had a blunt message for a national GOP eager to make itself more marketable for ...
Insiders: John Barrow and Michelle Nunn arranging Senate chat
The two prominent Democrats eyeing a run for U.S. Senate next year, John Barrow and Michelle Nunn, are planning to meet soon to discuss which one will run, Democratic insiders tell the AJC. Barrow's camp played down the talk, saying there is no such meeting on Barrow's schedule. This weekend ...
The potential, and beneficial, side-effects of Nelson’s new gun law
There is no reason to doubt the motives behind the city of Nelson’s new requirement that the head of every household in the tiny community must own a gun. Unless that head of household doesn’t want to. Even as city officials admitted that theirs was no more than a “paper” ...
Why campus carry could become law in Georgia next year
If you are a mom or dad with a firm Republican voting history and the thought of concealed weaponry on the same university campus with your offspring gives you the heebie-jeebies, then you have perhaps eight months to make your case. Maybe less. If by Thanksgiving you can’t convince the ...
A U.S. Senate race may wake slumbering Democrats in Georgia
Spring is when hibernating beasts stumble out of the dark grottoes that have sheltered them, groggily scan the horizon and wonder — between yawns — whether the time is right to reclaim their place in the food chain. And so we come to Georgia Democrats. U.S. Rep. John Barrow, D-Augusta, ...
Smudging the line between state and local control
It is often thought that beneath the skin of every state legislator lurks a member of Congress. This is not so in Georgia. At least, not entirely. If you take away the fights over how many drinks a lobbyist can buy a lawmaker on a single tab, or whether an ...
A union member’s assessment of the legislative session
On the day after the General Assembly goes home, it becomes the task of people left behind to pick through the wreckage, and determine what actually passed, and what didn't. It can be a tedious process. For instance, Eric Robertson, political director for the Teamsters in Georgia, this morning offers ...
Nathan Deal offers work-around on abortion coverage ban
Gov. Nathan Deal began this session of the Legislature by avoiding a nasty fight over extension of the hospital bed tax. He may end the session by helping lawmakers avoid another unpleasant confrontation. Hours ago, we reported Speaker David Ralston as saying that a measure to ban abortion coverage in ...
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