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Your daily jolt: Cherokee Co. school board member files complaint with SACS
A Republican rift on the Cherokee County school board just got serious. Kelly Marlowe, a tea party enthusiast elected to the board last year, has filed a formal complaint to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, charging that the system’s school superintendent is insubordinate, and that the newly elected ...
Paul Broun abortion vote could secure Georgia Right to Life backing
WASHINGTON -- Paul Broun just might have secured the Georgia Right to Life endorsement in the U.S. Senate race. He did it with typical Broun flair -- crossing the GOP leadership and national pro-life organizations in favor of an absolutist stance. Broun voted against a “fetal pain” abortion bill backed ...
Your daily jolt: Paul Broun pulls his support for anti-abortion bill
U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, R-Athens, on Monday night withdrew as co-sponsor of a measure that would ban a woman’s right to abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy, highlighting a split between the foremost national anti-abortion group and its Georgia counterpart. In an attempt to avoid a Todd Akin comparison, ...
Nudists to state lawmakers: ‘Don’t worry -- we’ll be well-dressed’
How do you spot the nudist at a convention of state lawmakers? By the lapel pin, of course. Members of the American Association for Nude Recreation – yes, there is a website – are giving fair notice that they’ll be lobbying for their no-clothes cause in August during the Aug. ...
SCOTUS overturns Arizona mandate for proof of citizenship for voter registration
The decision below will negate a Georgia requirement as well as the one passed by the Arizona legislature. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the majority opinion, which can be found here. Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. An assessment from the Associated Press: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that ...
Your daily jolt: Where are the Democrats?
The Saxby Chambliss Retirement Domino Effect -- a bountiful font of business for political consultants and stories for reporters -- is now in full swing, at least for one political party. The AP's Russ Bynum has a look at all of the candidates flooding Georgia's three open Congressional seats, from ...
Saxby Chambliss' chief of staff departs for Emory
Before U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss rides off into the sunset, his chief of staff is taking off for a government relations job at Emory University. Charlie Harman, who has been Chambliss' chief since 2007, will leave in August. Here's what Chambliss had to say, in a statement to the AJC: ...
Rural areas a less populated place as Baby Boomers shy away
This weekend, by coincidence, my wife and I had planned a drive to the site of the modest lakeside cabin that her parents once owned. Nostalgia will be at work on several levels. We remember it as the pretty place where both of us learned to water ski. Where we ...
Nathan Deal hands Tyrone Brooks case to Democrats
It’s a Democratic problem. Let them clean it up, Gov. Nathan Deal decided Friday. From my AJC colleague Aaron Gould Sheinin: The top Democrats in the House and Senate, along with Attorney General Sam Olens, will decide whether state Rep. Tyrone Brooks should remain in office while the Atlanta Democrat ...
Your daily jolt: A poll on how to talk to Georgians about immigration reform
A new poll says a majority of likely Georgia voters support the immigration overhaul bill now pending in Congress, including the provision that would grant millions of illegal immigrants an eventual pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million immigrants living illegally in the U.S. Of 562 surveyed last week, ...
Ralph Reed on immigration reform even Paul Broun could support
WASHINGTON -- Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition is staging a "Road to Majority" conference this week, and today's kickoff lunch included a star-heavy lineup of Republican senators: Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Mike Lee and Ron Johnson. Reed, one of the most prominent conservatives pushing for immigration reform, started the ...
At the Bob Barr auction: A turkey hunt, gun parts, and a skull
The GOP congressional campaign of Bob Barr has sent out word of a barbecue and auction at 7 p.m. June 20. Given that the 11th District candidate is still on the governing board of the National Rifle Association, and that his campaign treasurer is Jay Wallace, owner of Adventure Outdoors, ...
Your daily jolt: This year or next, whites will be in minority among 5-and-unders in U.S.
Unless you live in Cobb County, where math textbooks are Trojan horses bearing tiny loads of sedition, numbers live in a realm beyond politics. And yet numbers can have tremendous political implications, especially in a country where race and voting patterns closely track. Last month, Gov. Nathan Deal warned the ...
NSA leaker creates a rift between 'national security' and 'liberty' Republicans
We do not know much about Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old National Security Agency contractor now hunkered down somewhere in Hong Kong after spilling the beans on U.S. surveillance of the Internet and private cell phone calls. We know Snowden never finished high school and dropped out of the Army, but ...
Saxby Chambliss' edited talking points on a classified Benghazi meeting
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Saxby Chambliss, the top Republican on the Intelligence Committee, today had a classified briefing on the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya. Whistleblowers Greg Hicks, the former deputy chief of mission there, and Mark Thompson, acting deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism, briefed Chambliss ...
Your daily jolt: Federal mandates partly to blame for APS cheating, says Johnny Isakson
Tuesday was a busy day for U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson. Immediately after casting a vote to permit Senate floor debate on an immigration reform bill, Georgia’s junior senator rushed off to a mark-up on a House bill intended to revise the Bush-era “No Child Left Behind” statute – which Isakson ...
Isakson, Chambliss vote to move immigration reform bill to Senate floor
Johnny Isakson joined his Georgia colleague Saxby Chambliss this afternoon in support of moving the bipartisan immigration reform bill to the Senate floor for debate. The final tally on the final immigration motion to proceed: an overwhelming 82-15, but GOP support remains very shaky. Chambliss, who doesn’t face re-election, had ...
Hank Johnson on Jesse Jackson Jr.’s bout with depression – and his own
Former Illinois congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife Sandra are to be sentenced next month after lodging guilty pleas to charges surrounding the misuse of $750,000 in campaign funds. Federal prosecutors have recommended four years for him, 18 months for her. Court files are thick with requests for mercy ...
Your daily jolt: Saxby Chambliss will vote ‘yes’ to start immigration debate
Saxby Chambliss will support a procedural motion to move the U.S. Senate’s “Gang of Eight” immigration reform bill today. Johnny Isakson would not reveal his intention ahead of today’s scheduled 2:15 p.m. vote. The Georgia Republicans have a near-identical voting record but with Chambliss free of re-election politics – and ...
Your daily jolt: ‘Those who vote against gun reform will be judged,’ says Kasim Reed
On MSNBC, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed on Sunday was drawn into a discussion of the nation’s latest shooting rampage, which left five people dead in California -- as well as the suspected gunman, who brought his killing spree to Santa Monica College two days earlier. Click here to see the ...
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