Political Vine: The Insider's Source on Georgia Politics

During the convention season, the party elects its leadership. It’s a time to reflect on the past and learn from it to make informed decisions regarding leadership and future direction. Currently, the party has it wrong. It focuses on increasing membership during the convention season resulting in poorly informed decisions. This questionable strategy amounts to […]

Plug-in here what’s going on in your county or districts this year. Who’s running for what seats in what county or districts.

Some acolyte of Cobb GOP Chairman Anthony-Scott Hobbs thought it would be funny if they started writing entries into the online Wikipedia enclyclopedia…and, they covered me in it. Most of the stuff written is accurate…however, the following should be corrected by the author, or, someone else who has Wikipedia writing privileges: 1) The defeat of […]

(MARIETTA, GA) — Sue P. Everhart, current First Vice-Chair of the Georgia Republican Party, and a long-time Republican Party leader and grassroots activist, has announced that she will run for Chairman of the Georgia State Republican Party. The election will be held at the state convention at the Gwinnett Convention Center May 19, 2007. Georgia […]

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I don’t think I can stand to watch President Bush’s speech tonight, so, please, comment here on your impressions, and I will become educated vicariously on it. 😉 Technorati Tags: President Bush, speech

Well, this is just dandy. Georgia Governor Perdue is proposing that the State Ethics Commission’s budget get slashed by 37.5%, or, from $1,600,000 last year to $1,000,000 for Fiscal 2007. This will cause Commission to slash and layoff personnel…AND, create an even larger (and, lengthier) backlog of complaints to weed through. But, fear not, the […]

It’s about danged time there was a good challenger race going on around here. Currently, the Fulton County GOP’s position is held by Mike Dvorscak, and he is running for re-election this March. However, there is a newcomer to the Fulton County GOP who has rather remarkable credentials. Shawn Hanley worked in Iraq for awhile, […]

The 4 years of Anthony-Scott Hobbs’ “leadership” (sic) of the Cobb County Republican Party has served no one well except for the ego of Hobbs himself. But, looking toward the future, a new, fresh-smelling breeze is about to blow across the plains and clear the air in Cobb County…which has had an atmosphere of acidic, […]

Rumors have it that Chairman Bobby Kahn’s designated “hatchet-man”, Emil Runge had quite the problem two weeks ago when he was directed by Kahn to deliver the complaint against Speaker Richardson. Runge reportedly delivered a copy to the House Ethics Committee Chairman, Rep. Joe Wilkinson. Wilkinson patiently informed Runge that his committee wasn’t the “Joint-Legislative […]