Political Vine: The Inside Dope on Georgia Politics

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 [...]

Introduction
Rumors have it that when Governor Perdue’s recently appointed Atlanta Circuit Superior Court Judge Shawn LaGrua takes her oath of office in a few months, the life, liberty, and property of every single man, woman, and child that comes before her court will be put in serious jeopardy in her courtroom.
How can this be? [...]

February 4, 2010
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SAVANNAH, GA – Former Republican Chatham County Commissioner, Jeff Rayno, announced today that he is filing a letter of complaint with the U.S. Justice Dept. The complaint cites potential Constitutional violations committed by former Secretary of State (SOS) Karen Handel and her Inspector General (IG) Shawn Lagrua during the December [...]

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 [...]

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Ladies and Gentlemen, goose bumps are going to rise to the surface of your skin after you finish reading what has been done to a fellow citizen of these United States.
Over the last 3 days, I have see-sawed from having a knot in my stomach to being so outraged that I could not form [...]

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

Just to let you know, Rush Limbaugh was the very reason I became a Republican in the early 1990s.
I had voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984, and, I think I recall voting for Bush, Sr. in 1988. But, despite my votes, I felt like a liberal. And then, someone introduced me [...]

Let me get this straight: The freakin’ CHAIRMAN of the House Caucus On Missing and Exploited Children sent e-mails to underage male pages that talked about how much in (fitness) shape they were and if they would e-mail him a picture of them…even when the page didn’t work for the congressman directly?
Nahhh, there’s nothing bizarre-o [...]

Okay…now the tit-for-tat letter battle this week between the Casey Cagle and Ralph Reed campaigns has gotten EXTREMELY interesting.
To recap, first there was a letter authored by Casey Cagle printed last week in the Savannah Morning News.
Then the Reed campaign fired-back with a letter of their own last Monday.

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Mark Burkhalter and Jeff Lewis are the two reps who carried this legislation and supported it through it’s passage in the House. I have several questions:

1) What exactly have they been promised from AGL’s lobbyist Craig Dowdy? I know Burkhalter is involved in real estate development and managment, and I looked-up Lewis’ background as well and, sure ‘nough, it turns out he’s also involved in the real estate game.

In case you have no idea of who Nancy Shaefer is, she is a politician who, after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and New Orleans last fall, was rumored to have written a letter to her constituents stating that the hurricane hit because of all the homosexuality that took place in New Orleans.

Michelle Malkin has a better understanding of our present and future than President Dubious and his claque:
The UAE is our “friend,” we are told, and to question that assertion, we are scolded, is to engage in reckless prejudice and life-threatening insult. Yes, well, some friends are more equal than others. To instinctively trust a longtime, [...]