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Rumors have it that the World Famous Toxic Lobbyist Himself Ralph Reed has been making calls on behalf of his pick for Governor, Karen Handel.
PV received confirmation of this via e-mail from one of Ralph’s former top lieutenants in the Christian Coalition. Ralph has been burning-up the phone lines calling his entire list of [...]

Rumors have it that Karen Handel has dispatched Fred Cooper to call Eric Johnson and promise Eric the position of Chief Operating Officer of the State of Georgia under her administration if EJ refrains from endorsing Nathan Deal.
PV Sighs: Geez, Karen, presumptuous much? And, have you heard about this guy named Rod Blagojevich up [...]

Here’s the link to the AJC’s Polifact story on Erick Erickson’s “abortion” claims about Nathan Deal:
Erick Erickson Identified to Be Disingenuous Liar

The Political Vine has a copy of the March 16, 2005 Meeting Minutes of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners Meeting. Look to Page 12, Item 2 for the item listing the Planned Parenthood contract, and on Page 13 is where the motion is proposed and voted unanimously in favor of granting the contract [...]

In case the Handel Campaign was waiting for the other shoe to drop, please allow the PV the privilege of dropping that 5 kilo-ton shoe.
For those of you who haven’t been keeping up with the jousting from Handel’s $10,000 per month Court Jester Dan McLagan over the past week or so, here’s a link [...]

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 [...]

Who Is James C. Gatewood?
According to the State Ethics Commission Website, Mr. Gatewood is the Chairman of the State Ethics Commission. His bio reads as follows (from that same link):
“Mr. Gatewood is an attorney and partner at Gatewood, Skipper & Rambo, PC. He is president of King’s Real Estate, Inc. and owner of Gatewood Farms [...]

You might recall a few weeks ago the FOX 5 TV story by Dale Russell that discussed incidences of 2 corporate entities getting their “identity” stolen and credit cards issued in the corporate name to fraudulent people.
You also might recall that the Doug MacGinnitie campaign, smelling blood in the water, took it upon themselves to [...]

Wow. Shocker tonight. Peach Punditeer Charlie “Icarus” Harper admits publicly he is for Karen Handel for Governor. As if no one could see past any of his posts and false claims up until this point to have not known it.
I’d post a link to the story, but (yawn) why?

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Rumors have it that at a recent fundraiser for Brian Kemp held in Athens, the Doug MacGinnitie campaign hired a photographer to stand across the street from the house where the fundraiser was being held, and just take pictures one-by-one as fundraiser attendees (some of them with their children in tow) drove-up and got out [...]

There have been impeachment articles filed against soon-to-be-Judge Shawn LaGrua. The articles that lay-out her violations of state law can be found here.
Word in the halls of the Georgia Gold Dome is that Speaker Ralston is “good friends” with LaGrua and won’t let an investigation occur. If true, that is a pity. [...]

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