Political Vine: The Insider's Source on Georgia Politics

Rumors have it that the organization formed to promote the upcoming Cobb County SPLOST vote on March 15th is going to engage in communicating messages that are deliberately misleading as to the truth about what this SPLOST contains. For those of you sitting at home in your comfy chair in any other county, you can […]

Lt. Governor Cagle, Speaker Ralston, Governor Perdue, Members of the General Assembly, Members of our Congressional Delegation, Members of the Judiciary, Members of the Consular Corps, my fellow Georgians: On this second week of the second decade of the 21st Century, my wife Sandra and I enter the service of our native state with excited […]

The special council on studying Georgia’s state tax revenue system issued its final report today. You can view it here: 2010 Special Council on Tax Reform and Fairness for Georgians When I read of Rep Larry O’ Neal’s involvement in the creation of this council, and the fact that Governor Sonny Perdue made darned sure […]

Rumors have it that the nifty little “compromise tax package” that came out of the U.S. Senate earlier this week failed to include the repeal of the onerous Form-1099 Time Bomb initiated by Obamacare. PV confirmed with Senator Isakson’s office late today that the Senate Republicans did attempt to insert it into this package, but […]

AMENDMENT 1 – Non-Compete Clauses in Contracts This is how the amendment will read on your ballot: “Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended so as to make Georgia more economically competitive by authorizing legislation to uphold reasonable competitive agreements?” Doesn’t that just sound so warm & fuzzy? After all, “more economically competitive” kinda says […]

As of 8/16/2010, the Georgia Gubernatorial Run-off Results are as follows: 290,734 = Nathan Deal 288,297 = Karen Handel Deal wins by 2,437 votes. This total may change as military absentee votes come in and some provisional ballot votes. BUT…parallel to this race was another race waged between two blogs in Georgia, this one and […]

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Hot off the press from The Hill, the straw poll at the annual meeting of “CPAC” (Conservative Political Action Committee) voted on candidates they’d like to see on a conservative ticket in 2012: #1: Ron Paul (31% of the vote) #2: Mitt Romney (22%) #3: Sarah Palin (Erick’s fav at 7%) #4: Tim Pawlenty (6%) […]

Stuart Rothenberg nails it: “If you are looking for an analogy for a Republican victory in Massachusetts, the best one for Democrats may well be the stock market crash of 1929. Come Tuesday night, you could have Democrats jumping out windows and off roofs …”

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 […]

Regardless of which Republican candidate you think you will vote for in next July’s Primary, which campaign appears to be the MOST organized now? Nathan Deal Karen Handel Eric Johnson Ray McBerry John Oxendine Austin Scott    pollcode.com free polls

Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al: We have stuck together since the late 1950’s, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, […]