Political Vine: The Inside Dope on Georgia Politics

There’s a whole lot of finger pointing going on with regard to the demise of Georgia House Speaker Glenn Richardson.
But, just like every episode of Columbo I used to watch growing-up…there’s some other place and/or some other people we (the audience) should be focusing our attention on that we are not. We are too [...]

At a recent Arizona town hall meeting with President Obama, there was one person carrying a rifle. It happened to have been a black gun-owner with an AR-15 on his shoulder standing with other gun owners outside the town hall building.
In the story, MSNBC shows only a carefully cropped video of that black gun-owner [...]

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Though more and more people have dipped from the middle and working classes in poverty, the rich have been victimized most by the recession – at least they have in terms of dollars lost.
A study by Merrill Lynch reveals that the world’s rich lost 20 percent of their total wealth, mainly because volatile trading markets [...]

Picture this situation: The person you love most in your life (spouse, significant other, child, etc.) is a target of some violence-oriented group of individuals who intend to murder your loved one. It doesn’t matter why your loved one is targeted for extinction, they just are.
The police have arrested one of the members [...]

Are you lonely? Do you feel isolated? Have you been unemployed for a long time and have children? Have you recently returned from a war zone? Are you anti-abortion? Do you think Americans should have the right to keep a gun in their own home to protect them in case [...]

Based on the information printed in Monday’s AJC article about the true nature of SB 31, I am going to allow for the possibility that the following key leaders in the State Senate were lied to by Georgia Power interests to garner their support:
Lt. Governor Casey Cagle
Senator Don Balfour
Senator Chip Rogers (Majority Leader)
Senator Tommie Williams [...]

To: Michael D. Garrett
President and CEO of Georgia Power
From: Steve Allen & Scott Draper
Lead Lobbyists
Re: A good investment
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Just wanted to let you know, Chief, that the investments we’ve made in getting in front of the state senate Republicans has “paid off” (inside joke there, Mikey) well. That senator named Don Balfour is the dumbest [...]

To: Voters of Georgia
From: Georgia State Senate Republican Caucus
Re: We Gonna Get You Good, You Suckas!
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Just wanted to send you a note to tell you how much we appreciate your votes of support and confidence in our abilities to propose and pass legislation designed to help out the people who TRULY matter to us: The [...]

Jason Winders (whom I’ve never read before now) wrote an excellent piece in yesterday’s Athens Banner-Herald regarding the abysmal lack of leadership demonstrated by Georgia state government over the past 25 some-odd years, but mostly focusing on the lack of leadership from our brilliant (sic) (but prayerful) Republican governor over Georgia’s water problem in the [...]

SPECIAL NOTE: The following was written entirely by Bill Simon with NO coordination with, consultation with, or even “warning of” to the Georgia Secretary of State’s office.
The following is only how Bill Simon, an independent thinker, feels Jane Kidd, Chairman of the Democratic Party of Georgia, SHOULD be responded to in regards to her [...]

Here’s a funny fact about FactCheck.org: Barack Obama was Chairman of The Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995 until 2000. The Challenge had to do with reforming Chicago public schools.
But, it was funded by the same source that funds FactCheck.org: The Annenberg Foundation. If you go to FactCheck.org and look [...]