Checkout this story in the AJC a few weeks ago. It pretty much explains it all:
http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/stories/2008/05/18/barr.html

Rumors have it that current Gwinnett County Commissioner/Candidate for Gwinnett County Chairman Lorraine Green has explicitly informed any business or legal entity that is trying to get a rezoning passed by the Commission WILL either write a check to her campaign for commission chair or get an immediate no-go vote from her for their requested […]

First, a resounding THANK-YOU to the House for demolishing Senator Joseph “Stalin” Carter’s (R-Gulag, Georgia) Senate Bill 506 by a resounding vote of 103 to 61.
Frankly, I cannot believe THIS bill actually made it out of the senate. Those folks are always pompously declaring themselves to be “the deliberative body” of this state. […]

Think what you want about Georgia Speaker of The House Glenn Richardson, but on the issue of tax reduction this past session, his point of view trumps Lt. Governor Casey Cagle’s by 10 horse lengths.
At issue was what kind of tax-reduction should take place? The main component of the House side was to give […]

Due to discussions with the folks who are for this amendment, I have now changed my mind: I believe the Human Life Amendment should be put to a vote in both the House and Senate, and those legislators should pass it out by the required 2/3 majorities, and it should be placed on the ballot […]

Harry Shearer’s Website scoops-up the entrails of TV news broadcasts and finds a new use for them:

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As I was debating someone earlier today, it struck me that the record over the past 32 years of having Southern governors graduate to be President of the United States just hasn’t worked-out too well for the USA, has it?
Point by example:
Jimmy Carter: 1976-1980
Bill Clinton: 1992-2000
George W. Bush: 2000-2008
Can anyone point out to me that […]

…if you can get someone to believe it.
When it comes to the “evangelical Christian community,” they pretty much (with perhaps a 20% exception rate) believe ANYTHING a preacher or a pastor tells them.
Don’t take that as a personal insult if you are a member of the 80%. It’s just what I have observed after […]