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‘Political Rewind’ replay: Democrats in Georgia take a tea-party turn

AJC file

Credit: Jim Galloway

Credit: Jim Galloway

AJC file
By Jim Galloway
Feb 10, 2017

Today's edition of GPB's "Political Rewind" began with a "town hall" meeting that wasn't in Greensboro, Ga. – and the parallels between current anti-Trump sentiment among Democrats and the tea party movement of 2009.

Oh, yeah. And about those 1 million-plus sheets of paper released by Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed this week.

If you missed it live this afternoon, you can listen to it here now:

Today’s line-up: Host Bradley George, filling in for Bill Nigut; yours truly; fellow AJCer Bill Torpy; Republican activist Julianne Thompson; and Senate Democratic Leader Steve Henson of Tucker.

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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