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“Stan Gunter Is Hereby Charged With Gross Dereliction of Fiduciary Duty”

PV, Thursday, October 28th, 2010

Rumors have it that current Enotah Circuit District Attorney Stanley Gunter cannot be bothered with doing his job in enforcing the law against former Union County Tax Commission office employee Joy Griggs, who was terminated in June 2010 for (according to current Tax Commissioner JW Payne) borrowing money from the Union County coffers, admitting to [...]

Stan Gunter: Showing Political Favoritism BEFORE He Gets On The Bench

politicalvine, Monday, October 25th, 2010

Rumors have it that Court of Appeals Candidate N. Stanley Gunter has quite the record of turning a blind eye to prosecuting felony lawbreakers when the person in question is a member of his own political party. PV Provides A Little Background: In 2002, Gunter was elected as a Democrat to be District Attorney of [...]

“Cattle Partnerships, My Boy…THAT’S The Future…”

PV, Friday, October 15th, 2010

Rumors have it that all those tax returns that gubernatorial candidate Roy Barnes posted on his Website may not be entirely accurate as to the TRUE nature of Barnes’ tax liability to the federal and state governments. According to a blog post by Gary Scott Holt (published on 10/14/2010), for the years 1981 thru 1998, [...]

Roy Barnes: Federal & State Income Tax Evasion?

PV, Thursday, October 14th, 2010

In today’s Savannah Morning News, they reported that on Roy Barnes’ 2009 income tax return, he claimed to have owned a rental home in order to help himself to a depreciation allowance on that rental property. Not so, according to Cobb County Property Tax Records. The county’s records show that his daughter and son-in-law have [...]

Karen Handel’s Hometown Newspaper Endorses Nathan Deal

politicalvine, Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Excerpted from the August 9, 2010 edition of The Beacon: “We know this woman. Her ambition appears, at times, blind. Her thirst for power often approaches the throws of narcissism. Apparently, she’ll do anything to win, as evidenced by her nasty and appalling direct mail piece trashing Nathan Deal, a veteran who served his country [...]

Preston Smith: With Personal Judgment Like This, How Can We Trust Him For AG?

PV, Saturday, July 31st, 2010

Trial transcripts show that Senator Preston Smith wasn’t just a cheating bast**d who slept around with multiple women while being married to the Christian mother of his 4 children, but that he treated Michelle Smith with the cold, callous nature of being someone who does not possess one ounce of compassion, or concern, for ANYONE [...]

Insurance Commissioner Run-Off Race: Ralph Hudgens vs. Maria Sheffield

PV, Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

FOREWORD “Guilt by association” and “Honor by association” are probably the two worst fallacies used in political races this season. And, we at PV are just fed-up with observing self-proclaimed “conservative thinking Republicans” partake in no more rational thinking other than velcro-ing (H/T to T.P. for that phrase) their thinking processes to one or both [...]

Karen Handel Voted To Give Planned Parenthood $1.3 Million

PV, Friday, July 16th, 2010

Rumors have it that the Karen Handel Campaign is defending Karen Handel’s vote in favor of awarding Planned Parenthood a 3-year renewable contract with Fulton County in 2005 because they say the contract went to paying for “women’s health services,” and not directly to pay for abortions. One interesting fact that has come to light [...]

Karen Handel’s Own Ethics Problems…

PV, Monday, July 12th, 2010

Rumors have it that Karen Handel has been caught breaking the law by taking higher contributions than the Ethics Law allows. FOX 5 News has the scoop here! PV’s Commentary: Karen Handel claims “Oh, it was just an accounting error.” Yeah. Funny…that’s what some other candidates claim and she just rips them apart as being [...]

JoAnn Birrell & Cobb County: The Proof Is In The Pudding

Bill Simon, Sunday, July 11th, 2010

A few weeks ago, I opined on this blog that I thought JoAnn Birrell would not be a very good choice for our Cobb County District 3 commission seat. I detailed all that here. Since then, The Marietta Daily Journal ran a little piece regarding the PV issue/post that addressed my issue of District 3 [...]

JoAnn Birrell: Lobbyist To Represent Waste Management Interests, Not Yours

Bill Simon, Friday, June 11th, 2010

Waste Management Lobbyist vies to takeover Cobb County Commission for her employer’s best interest at the expense of residents.

SB 1: Only A True Democrat Would Veto It

PV, Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

Rumors have it that Governor Sonny Perdue is contemplating a veto of SB 1, known as either the “Waste Reduction Act of 2009” or, by its more well-known name, the Zero-Base Budgeting Act. Zero-based budgeting is the act of starting a budget from scratch…with nothing like the typical guvment rule of thumb of looking back [...]







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