The article that U.S. Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., submitted to the Daily Signal speaks of chaos to come: "Why Washington's Political Class Is Losing Control."
The piece also includes a paragraph that, without naming him, could be interpreted as a timely defense of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, just when ranking GOP leaders are trying to stop the New York billionaire in Florida and Ohio. Writes Perdue:
Mark your calendar for December. If Trump doesn’t make it to the White House, let’s see how David Perdue might expand on this thought.
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When is a judicial challenge more than what it seems? Cobb County Judge Stephen Schuster says two attorney-challengers he'll have to face in a nonpartisan May contest are doing it in retaliation for his role in a criminal inquest into the county's juvenile court system. From the Daily Report:
They acknowledged they have been friends for 30 years but said they didn't coordinate their challenges. "It really was independent," said Elsey. "It's just coincidental that we'd both come to the same decision at the same point in our lives. We're about the same age so maybe that had something to do with it."
They are the first challengers Schuster is facing since he was first elected to the Superior Court in 2004.
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This seems like the makings of a DeKalb County mailer. The fine people at GeorgiaPol.com revealed two questionable disclosures in DeKalb. The first involves District Attorney Robert James, who faces a challenge from solicitor Sherry Boston. From the post:
Bowers/Hyde report was issued on September 30, 2015, which is two months after this contribution was made.
So while the District Attorney (among others) was being investigated by Hyde, he solicited (presumably), was given, and accepted, a contribution from the investigator. That's odd at best.
GeorgiaPol.com also reported a timely disclosure from attorney Chris Chesnut, who represented the family of a veteran killed in a police shooting.
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Microsoft, which has 300 employees in Georgia, has become the latest company to weigh in on H.B. 757, a "religious liberty" bill that has gone dormant in the last few weeks. From the letter sent over the signature of Frederick S. Humphries, Jr., Microsoft's VP for government affairs:
Unfortunately, HB 757 would do the opposite. It would replace Georgia's reputation of openness and innovation with one of discrimination and intolerance. It would threaten Georgia's efforts to attract entrepreneurs and grow its economy. In short, it would undermine Georgia's standing as a great place to do business.
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On the same topic, Republican strategist Eric Tanenblatt hasa forceful appeal to lawmakers within his party to abandon the "nonsense" arguments for religious liberty legislation. From the Saporta Report:
This debate has been a toxic one for some time, but it reached an appalling crescendo when the lobbyist for the Georgia Baptist Mission Board last week likened state lawmakers to Adolf Hitler.
How might such a comparison foster healthy dialogue on faith in the public square by comparing legislators to, in the words of one lawmaker, "the most despicable person ever to walk this Earth?" What example does that set for the children of Georgia?
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