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Bill Simon, Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
What…if…? Introduction WHAT IF it could be proven to President Donald Trump, with documented facts, events, and evidence.…what if it could be proven that the person in Georgia who is primarily responsible for the March 2020 Settlement Agreement was not, actually, the SOS, but Ga GOP Chairman David Shafer himself? What do you think Trump would do if he found out he was actually screwed over by Ga GOP Chairman Shafer? Do […]
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Bill Simon, Tuesday, May 18th, 2021
How much do you like being lied to? It’s a serious question. It’s one thing to lie to yourself, as that is a voluntary act that you take on yourself. It’s quite another when someone you know, who is running for office and wants your vote…it should be a rather serious issue when someone chooses […]
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Bill Simon, Thursday, April 15th, 2021
Preamble There is a term in psychology called “projection.” There are various applications of it, but, in the context of this discussion, it has to do with someone spending a LOT of their time blaming others for their own faults and reckless negligence, in a deliberate attempt to duck responsibility for the FUBAR they, themselves, actually caused. In a previous PV I […]
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Bill Simon, Thursday, March 4th, 2021
[If you landed on this article, and haven’t yet read Part 1, Part 2 will make far more sense if you read Part 1 first, link available here: https://politicalvine.com/how-to-guarantee-the-georgia-gop-loses-in-2022-beyond-part-1/] INTRODUCTION Turning our attention, now, to Shafer’s actual leadership of the Georgia GOP for the past 1.5 years, let’s take a gander at Shafer’s glossy 12-page […]
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PV, Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
Rumors have it that the prime mover of the effort to incorporate a new “City of East Cobb” (“CEC”), a man named G Owen Brown, appears to be claiming Homestead Exemption Privilege in at least two states, rather than one, as allowed by law. By “prime mover,” we mean the person who appears to have engaged in […]
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Bill Simon, Monday, March 25th, 2019
From: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/21/trump_didnt_call_neo-nazis_fine_people_heres_proof_139815.html?fbclid=IwAR05izUx2eeGsa7JYddM4fwBfRKV–ZMxNqvtyKJXVxNyF_liB8eYNDS22E “Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures you did. You had people in […]
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PV, Wednesday, February 27th, 2019
Rumors have it that along with being a POS of a human being that Speaker of the Georgia House David Ralston is, he may actually be demonstrably incompetent in how he conducts his law practice. PV Provides a Brief Background: In case you have not seen the stories published by the Atlanta Journal & Constitution & broadcasts on WSB-TV about how Ralston has used his […]
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PV, Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
Rumors have it that Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle, by promising/threatening Delta Airlines that their desired tax-exemption bill would not pass the Georgia Senate unless Delta reverses course on their snub of the NRA, may have opened himself up to be personally indicted for committing an act of “Theft by extortion” under Georgia law by a […]
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PV, Wednesday, November 1st, 2017
Rumors have it that the Georgia State Attorney General’s Office is too incompetent to act as State Defense Counsel for Secretary of State Brian Kemp and Kennesaw State University in the civil lawsuit that challenged the results of the 6th District Congressional Race earlier in 2017. Within four days of that lawsuit being filed, the […]
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Bill Simon, Sunday, May 21st, 2017
Beware of the Scorpion That Cannot Change Its Natural Instinct Are you familiar with the fable known as The Frog and The Scorpion? Here is a short version of the story: “A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its […]
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Bill Simon, Tuesday, April 4th, 2017
PRELUDE Did you know that when someone in Georgia refers to the process of “registering to vote,” what you are really doing is applying to the State of Georgia for them to grant you a Voter ID Card? I conclude that by examining the explicit wording of this law, OCGA 21-2-417.1. Voter identification card. Because […]
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PV, Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016
Rumors have it that the precious little snowflakes who inhabit the campus of Emory University are no longer feeling the idyllic beatitude they signed-up to experience…nay, apparently, a cloud of pallor has wafted over the campus and invaded their safe spaces. Here, forthwith, is a copy of the emailed letter sent out on November 21 […]
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