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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, ...
Your daily jolt: Sheldon Adelson’s super PAC operation comes to Georgia
In the 2012 presidential campaign, casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson pumped millions of dollars into Republican causes – funding Super PACs and propping up Newt Gingrich’s campaign. Roll Call has picked up signs that he’s moving his spending operations to Georgia: During 2011-2012, Adelson and his wife and companies contributed more ...
Karen Handel announces for U.S. Senate
Former secretary of state Karen Handel, who lost the 2010 GOP runoff for governor, just announced her candidacy in the 2014 race for Senate. She made the announcement hours before the first day of a two-day state Republican convention. She becomes the fourth formal GOP candidate for the spot, with ...
A postscript on Tyrone Brooks
In the first years that I worked here, it was the practice to assign the newcomer to the Ku Klux Klan rallies. Cross-burnings were generally on weekends, and we didn’t actually write about those events, in any case. A reporter merely needed to be on hand in case things blew ...
DeKalb County used tax funds to question strippers about a smoking ban
Tip of the hat to Georgia Tipsheet on this one: The website Cause of Action, which calls itself a “nonprofit, nonpartisan government accountability organization that fights to protect economic opportunity” recently posted its investigation of money handed out by a Centers for Disease Control program called Communities Putting Prevention to ...
Your daily jolt: Marco Rubio weighs into water wars – on the side of the oysters
U.S. Sens. Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss were delighted by Wednesday’s 83-14 passage of the $12 billion Water Resources Development Act of 2013. For two reasons. First, the bill contains a provision that allows the federal cost estimate for dredging the Port of Savannah to be adjusted for inflation. Atlanta ...
Barrow Co. man allegedly threatens to shoot down a hovering Sonny Perdue
Crazy stuff happening up I-85. From Susan Norman and the Barrow Journal: The father of a Barrow County commissioner is under investigation for allegedly threatening to shoot down a helicopter last Friday that reportedly was carrying former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue. The incident happened around noon Friday, May 10, when ...
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 ...
Nathan Deal: Bibles to be 'quickly' returned to state parks
Gov. Nathan Deal said Wednesday that Bibles removed under threat of litigation will be “rather quickly” returned to cabins and lodge rooms at Georgia state parks. From Paul Yates and the Fox5 website: A spokeswoman for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources said, "Recently, due to a citizen concern, Georgia ...
Your daily jolt: Sean Hannity to weigh in on immigration and his pal Marco Rubio
WASHINGTON – Sean Hannity of Fox News presents his 1,000th solo television show tonight, but will delay gratification – somewhat – until Friday. That’s when, despite the target-rich opportunity presented by Benghazi and the Internal Revenue Service, Hannity will devote his full hour to immigration reform – with U.S. Sen. ...
Pundits, unwind that underwear. Or not.
Alan Abramowitz, the Emory University political scientist, has sent this note, urging the Washington pundit class to calm down: "The current triple play of Benghazi, the IRS and now the Justice Department's seizure of journalists' phone records has the potential to be a political game changer for 2014. It's hard ...
Your daily jolt: David Perdue forms Senate exploratory committee
David Perdue, the former CEO of Dollar General and first cousin of former Gov. Sonny Perdue, this morning announced the formation of an exploratory committee for a U.S. Senate campaign. David Perdue, a first-time Republican office-seeker, said he’ll spend the next few weeks meeting with voters. An interesting starting point, ...
Better Georgia poll: Michelle Nunn would be ‘competitive’
The effort to welcome Michelle Nunn into a Democratic race for the U.S. Senate continues apace. Better Georgia, the progressive group associated with Democratic causes, has just released an automated May 8-10 poll of 1,662 registered voters that indicates Nunn could best Republican Karen Handel, who has not entered the ...
Homeland Security ups number of illegal immigrants ‘re-detained’
There are times when Washington resembles nothing so much as a bad, but unfinished divorce. The combatants will talk to anyone but each other. On March 7, five Republican members of Congress from Georgia – Doug Collins of Gainesville, Lynn Westmoreland of Coweta County, Tom Graves of Ranger, Phil Gingrey ...
Ralph Reed acting as ‘peacemaker’ between Boy Scouts and conservative Christians
Ralph Reed, the longtime GOP strategist and founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, confirmed this afternoon that he's serving as go-between 'twixt the Boy Scouts of America and conservative Christians who take exception to an upcoming BSA policy change that would permit gay youths as members, but continue the ...
Newt Gingrich: ‘If it’s not a cell phone, what is it?’
Over the weekend, former House speaker Newt Gingrich went to YouTube in an attempt to crowd-source a new name for what has quickly become the most important gizmo in your personal arsenal: “We’re really puzzled here at Gingrich productions. We’ve spent weeks trying to figure out what do you call ...
Your daily jolt: Karen Handel, Michelle Nunn won't announce U.S. Senate decisions this week
The two women at the edge of Georgia’s U.S. Senate race aren’t abiding by prescribed timetables. A spokesman for former secretary of state Karen Handel told Roll Call that, if she’s spotted at this weekend’s state GOP convention in Athens, it won’t be as a formally announced candidate. There will ...
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 ...
Another shoe drops: Tom Price declares himself out of Senate race
The field of candidates for next year’s U.S. Senate race continued to take shape today -- this time on the GOP side. With a state party convention in Athens looming next week, U.S. Rep. Tom Price of Roswell, once considered the most likely and strongest Republican considering the contest, told ...
Your daily jolt: First black woman to be appointed to Georgia Civil War Commission
We’re told that House Speaker David Ralston today will appoint the first black woman to the 20-year-old Georgia Civil War Commission, a volunteer board that coordinates the preservation and promotion of structures, battlefields, and other sites associated with the conflict. Inger Eberhart of Acworth currently serves as a staffer for ...
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