Introduction

Back on March 17th, 2014 a Political Boxers email was issued that covered an event dealing with the Nancy Jester campaign for State School Superintendent. (See here for the article in case you missed it)

It seems that the Jester Campaign’s antics exposed by that article failed to stop…and they failed to stop to the point where Stan Jester, Nancy Jester’s husband, and Chairperson of her Campaign, found himself in a probable cause hearing for an alleged assault before a DeKalb County State Court Judge last Tuesday on April 22. Before we get to the details of that hearing, let’s cover some events leading-up to this hearing.

Under the guidance of Todd Rehm, Nancy Jester’s “political consultant” (look at the Expenditures, under Sand Mountain Communications…and $250.00 paid for “Consulting services”), there seems to have been a deliberate plan by the Jester Campaign to get Joe Newton and his friend, Tom Owens, arrested by police in any way possible for their insistence on visiting any public event in which there may be voters at to pass-out this flyer.

There was the event in Dunwoody, already described in the March 17th article, where police were called (and, one wonders what the “911” claim was to get police to show-up for someone calmly handing-out fliers…can you say “false police report,” Team Jester?).

There was an event in Oglethorpe County in which it was threatened by the Republican chairman in charge that she “would call the police” to have Newton and Owens arrested if they didn’t leave. (Again, one wonders what the lie would have been to get police to respond to a Constitutionally-protected activity such as passing-out fliers?).

At one time at one of these events, Todd Rehm tried to instigate a fight by referring directly to Tom Owens as being “Beetle Bailey” and hoping Owens would make an aggressive move towards him so he could run to the police then and claim whatever he fantasized he would claim to get Owens arrested and charged with to stop him from handing-out fliers against his candidate.

Now, if you’re a punk-ass, jerk like Todd Rehm is, you might chortle at that comic-strip character’s name. For Tom Owens, however, he doesn’t see the joke.

He doesn’t see the joke because he has served in the U.S. Army in three active theaters: Vietnam, Korea (via fence-line duty), and he was an ammo supervisor in the first war with Iraq. He is retired now, with a disability.

Owens doesn’t see the joke because he’s not a slacker like the cartoon character of Beetle Bailey is. He served his country and offered his life for his country so that stupid jerk, punk-asses like Todd Rehm would be able to exercise his own right to free speech and other rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.

Speaking of the Bill of Rights, for those of you who read Rehm’s daily missive, you will note a cartoon graphic ad for Jester that states, to the effect, “When elected State School Superintendent, I will ensure that the Constitution & The Bill of Rights are taught in Georgia schools.”

Here’s a FUNNY ONE: The Bill of Rights & The U.S. Constitution ARE being taught right now in Georgia public schools. In grades 6th, 8th, and 11th, according to my sources.

So, Nancy Jester (both Jesters, actually, as you’ll soon learn) clearly has no clue as to what is being taught in Georgia public schools now, and she would be a disaster if she got elected. She would be worse than Linda Schrenko and Kathy Cox were, combined.

Stan Jester v Tom Owens

There was an event held in DeKalb County a few weeks ago. The event was a public event, but it was not a “political event.” It was some sort of parent-school community event where there was going to be a couple of talks made and people break-out into groups and discuss things.

Tom Owens attended the event, and, because it was a public event, and there would likely be voters there concerned with schools and elections relating to schools, he was there handing-out fliers before the event started. Joe Newton was there as well.

Stan Jester was there also (to my knowledge, Nancy Jester was not in attendance)…and, when he saw Owens passing out the fliers, he, essentially, flipped his lid…charged over to Owens and confronted him about the flyer he was passing out (the same flier linked above…the flier that does not “attack the Jester family” as you will hear Stan Jester claim to the judge in the hearing).

Owens moved away from Jester, and towards a table where Newton was sitting next to Senator Fran Millar. Jester followed him and, according to Owens, thumped his chest a bit in his anger at Owens.

Jester apparently did this chest thump on Owens in such a way that Newton could not see it (as Newton testified in the audio). All the other “witnesses” were defense witnesses who, of course, essentially, testify that Stan Jester is a “choirboy” and they saw no contact between the two.

If you’re as fascinated (as I am) with court proceedings and such, you’ll likely wish to find a quiet 2 hours to listen to the entire proceeding.

If you’re a lawyer and easily bored with witnessing other lawyers make themselves out to be fools (as I thought Jester’s defense attorney did as I heard him walk down a path of irrelevant Q&A that dead-ended into a wall of inconsequential gobbley-gook), you may want to listen to the first 5 minutes of Part 1 if, for no other reason than to identify the judge on the case by his voice and demeanor.

The judge did end-up not finding enough evidence to charge Jester…however, the judge lectured Jester for 15 minutes about the concept of “free speech” and “learning to develop a thicker skin” if he was going to remain in politics.

That 15 minutes should be listened to by EVERYONE in politics who thinks no one else should have the right to pass-out fliers in opposition to their candidate, or to put-up signs promoting their candidates.

You know, those of you who are so low-class that you think it’s ‘part of a good political strategy’ to steal your opponent’s signs…you are, truly, no higher in class than dogsh*t.

Stealing other candidate’s signs or destroying them is akin to punching someone you disagree with, or CALLING THE POLICE to have people thrown-out for distributing fliers you disagree with. It is, truly, interfering with someone else’s right to free speech.

If you’re not smart enough to figure that out, one would hope that whoever ever catches you doesn’t bother with calling the police out to waste their time on an “incident report”…let’s hope that whoever catches you stealing or cutting your opponent’s signs takes a 2×4 upside your head and leaves your worthless carcass in the woods.

Anyway, here are the three recordings, diligently cut-down so it is all concentrated on the details of the Jester vs. Owens case:

Part 1: Judge Intro & Partial Testimony

Part 2: Completed Testimony

Part 3: Judge’s Comments towards Stan Jester (BEST speech ever on politics by a judge)

Note to Jester Campaign: By the way, what is the good of “teaching” students the Bill of Rights if you fail to follow them and respect the rights of others to follow them, huh? Are you that stupid, or just obtuse?

Todd Rehm: The Pot Calling The Kettle Black

In the April 28th edition of Todd Rehm’s GaPundit.com morning email, after excerpting the story regarding the verdicts in the Cherokee County case decided late Saturday evening, Todd Rehm had the sheer audacity to write the following:

“We deeply regret that politics has gotten so confrontational in some areas (looking at you, Cherokee County), that police are regularly called to political events.”

After all the engagements of the Jester campaign and Jester campaign supporters calling the police/threatening to call the police on people exercising their right to free speech…for Todd Rehm to say something like this is to demonstrate just how much of a jerk he is. A colossal jerk.

The kind of jerk that explains perfectly why he gets along perfectly well with other jerks like State Rep. Mike Jacobs.

April 16, 2014

Dear Representative Jacobs:

I noted with disappointment your announcement that you planned not to attend the April 23rd primary debate sponsored by the Dekalb Young Republicans at Oglethorpe University (http://brookhavenpost.co/young-republicans-to-host-debate-for-state-house-district-80-primary/15132). Please allow this letter to serve as notice of my willingness and intention to offer the voters of House District 80 the opportunity to observe a debate between their two announced candidates for State Representative. I hope that you will join me in ensuring that such a forum is held.

On January 27th, the Dekalb Young Republicans issued a debate invitation to both of us, as the two announced candidates for the House District 80 Republican primary election. I accepted. On February 3rd, you responded by saying that you would consider the invitation after the legislative session was over. Of course, I understood that you would need to focus your attention on legislative work instead of campaigning. Though it surprised me that you were able to spend so much time making social media posts attacking me during this time, I expected that as the former president of your debate club (http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1995-08-16/news/9508150207_1_college-democrats-school-board-democratic-national-committee) you would have no trouble transferring your energy into a public forum designed to educate voters about their choice on May 20th.

As session drew to a close, I found myself fielding multiple inquiries as to whether or not a debate would happen. I publicly referred interested parties to your statement, expecting that you would keep your promise to consider the invitation after the session was over on March 20th. When no response was forthcoming, I made inquiries to Dekalb Young Republican leadership as to whether they planned to schedule a debate. On April 9th, I received an invitation to a debate set for April 23rd at Oglethorpe University, and accepted immediately.

You have cited various reasons as to why you will not attend the debate: insufficient notice, donations to my campaign from Dekalb Young Republican officers, and the pre-registration requirement for the event. It is true that I have many friends and supporters in the Dekalb YRs — as you know from your support from the Young Democrats in 2004 and 2006, being connected with young party activists is a valuable part of any campaign. However, it is my understanding that there would be a neutral moderator. While I don’t care for pre-registration either, as guests on Oglethorpe’s campus it is a courtesy I am willing to extend to our hosts. As for the issue of notice, I find it hard to believe that an invitation extended on January 27th provided you insufficient time to find dates that you were available, but am willing to re-schedule if April 23rd doesn’t suit you.

My question to you, Representative Jacobs, is simple: when and where would you like to debate? I hope you agree with me that Republican primary voters deserve the opportunity to hear from both of the candidates who will be on their ballots on May 20th — and besides, such forums are excellent opportunities to publicize conservative principles and spark interest in the GOP. Many, many voters have asked me about a debate, and I hope that you can respect their interest and agree to participate.

Cordially,

Catherine S. Bernard

April 15, 2014

CONTACT: Mike Rudin
Shirley & Banister Public Affairs
703-739-5920/800-536-5920
mrudin@sbpublicaffairs.com

Tea Party Patriots to Take Legal Action Against Internal Revenue Service Today

Press Conference Call at 1:30 p.m. ET today Discuss Lawsuit

WOODSTOCK, GA — Today, Tea Party Patriots is filing a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Treasury, asking the court to force the release of documents shedding light on the agency’s proposal for burdensome regulations for 501(c)4 citizens groups, and the roles played by former IRS official Lois Lerner and other Administration officials in developing the regulations.

The suit seeks documents relating to the IRS’ “Guidance for Tax Exempt Social Welfare Organizations on Candidate-Related Political Activities,” announced November 29, 2013. To date, the IRS has refused to provide any documents to Tea Party Patriots, which first requested them on December 10, 2013 under the Freedom of Information Act.

WHO: Jenny Beth Martin, Co-founder of Tea Party Patriots
Cleta Mitchell, Partner at Foley & Lardner, LLP

WHAT: Press conference call to discuss FOIA lawsuit

WHEN: Today, April 15, 2014 at 1:30 p.m. ET (20 minutes)

WHERE: 712-432-1212 Access code: 929-880-519

Tea Party Patriots is a national grassroots coalition with more than 3,400 locally organized chapters and more than 15 million supporters nationwide. Tea Party Patriots is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting the principles of fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets. Visit Tea Party Patriots online at www.TeaPartyPatriots.org.

For more information, please contact Mike Rudin with Shirley & Banister Public Affairs at mrudin@sbpublicaffairs.com or (703) 739-5920.

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April 4, 2014 Atlanta, GA – In light of the second tragedy at Ft. Hood, a broken soldier takes more lives, including his own.

“I was at a Veterans Rally recently. Their biggest complaint was it could take years to get the care they needed. An Army spokesman admitted, “The Armed Forces still transfers paper files back and forth during the review process for any after service medical care request. Those files aren’t even computerized,” Grayson said.

“Even my own doctor goes from exam room to exam room with a WiFi connected tablet, complete with my photo, biographical info, medications, pharmacy contact and my favorite color of underwear.”

The Department of Veterans Affairs claims the average wait for a veteran to receive their disability benefits is 277 days. This is the view of just one claims department in the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The reasons for suicide are often complex and can’t be shoehorned into a simple explanation. But multiple deployments in more than a decade of war have taken a toll on military members and their families. And many are reluctant to ask for help because it could be considered a sign of weakness that could derail their military careers.

Last year the Army reported that more soldiers died by suicide than by enemy attack – 182 by suicide and 176 in combat. 22,10 and 19… Those numbers are the number of suicides of service members at Ft. Hood in 2010, 2011 and 2012… This is unacceptable.

We need to honor our promises to our service members. No service member should come home damaged and fight for treatment, sometimes for years. No service member should be homeless. VA records need to be computerized. Make info inter-departmentally available electronically. Hire civilian doctors to evaluate the urgency of care thus removing the adversarial review board that routinely denies care after service benefits. Give veterans priority in transitional services

If you believe, like me, that we should keep our promises to those that fight and sacrifice for our freedom then I ask you to give me your support. I will fight for our veterans, I will never give up on this fight.

For more information please contact press@graysoncommittee.com or call 404-445-2088

SPECIAL MEMO

TO: State Rep. Mike Jacobs

Re: Just a few…ethics law violations to discuss

Mike,

Did you know that my first major was Psychology? Spent a year taking a bunch of psychology and other liberal art courses until I decided “Screw this, I’m going for something way more fun: Mechanical Engineering at Tech.”

But, I learned enough, and have read enough in psychology since then, to know that your behavior in this GOP primary for HD 80 has some definite, deep-rooted psychoses that your subconscious apparently wrestles with on a daily basis. We’ll get to those shortly. But, first, a little “look-back” at your political career.

Back in your younger days in the 1995 timeframe, you were so entrenched in Democratic politics, you were elected Legislative Director of the College Democrats of America while you were attending Georgetown University, a position that allowed you direct influence into the goals of the Democratic National Committee. (Hmmm…who was President of the United States back then, Mike?)

In a fascinating sort of time-contrast here, do you know what your current Republican opponent for HD 80, Catherine Bernard, was doing in 1995, while you were pushing the liberal Democratic agenda policies of Bill Clinton? She was 13 years-old, and attending her first debate camp in the summer between middle-school and high school. (No wonder you’re so terrified to show-up for a debate with her…she’s akin to being a 4th degree Black Belt in debating skills and would wipe the floor with you.)
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Rumors have it that over the weekend at an event in which Nancy Jester, candidate for State School Superintendent was appearing, Jester’s paid political consultant (i.e., Todd Rehm) decided he would channel Mark Rountree in an encounter with political activist Joe Newton.

PV ‘Splains Things: In order to understand Saturday’s situation, you have to know about a teeny-tiny, almost obscure, event that happened back during an election primary between Lorraine Greene and Charlie Bannister for Gwinnett County Commission Chair.

Greene was Mark Rountree’s candidate. Joe Newton opposed Lorraine Greene for chair, and did so by creating his own t-shirt that stated something to the effect of “Lorraine Greene is [whatever]”. Whatever it was, it was his right to oppose Lorraine Greene, and to buy a shirt expressing his sentiment.

Well, Newton wore his shirt at some event in which Rountree attended, and when Rountree saw the shirt Joe Newton was wearing, Rountree points his finger at Newton and said “THAT shirt is illegal because you don’t disclose who paid for it.”

Yeah, well, it turns out this was right after the law in Georgia got repealed that required any kind of “Paid for by” statement…and, even if Rountree had gotten his best buddies over at the Gwinnett DA’s or the Solicitor’s offices to charge Newton with violating some disclosure law that Rountree thought applied, the DA and/or Solicitor would have found themselves on the losing end of this silly little part of the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights concerning “free speech.”

SO, now that you know the back story about Rountree, you will understand what we’re referring to about “Todd Rehm giving lessons on how to be Mark Rountree” as it pertains to last Saturday’s event.

Nancy Jester was speaking at some location last Saturday. Joe Newton and a friend of his were outside the venue handing-out copies of this flier.

At some point the police were called by pro-Jester people (who, if they could have, would tear-up the Bill of Rights for anyone except their supporters) to try and stop Newton from exercising his right to express his free speech.

At some point Rehm confronted Newton by sticking his face within inches of Newton’s face and accusing Newton of “stalking female candidates.”

Despite all of Todd Rehm’s best efforts in the matter, the police did not arrest Joe Newton, nor do they charge him with anything, as he broke no law (much to the chagrin, we’re sure, of Todd Rehm, who has a propensity to not give a sh*t about silly things like ‘laws’ and ‘rules’, the U.S. Constitution, and, well…anything that NORMAL people might care about). After all, he’s a *Political Consultant* who thinks he knows everything.

What’s really too bad about this incident is that at NO TIME did Mr. Rehm or Ms. Jester attempt to deny the statements written on Newton’s flyer. Apparently, they must be 100% factual, because, when you cannot argue the facts, it is SOP to try and kill the messenger.

So, since there are 9 candidates running for state school superintendent’s race, we will apply the Georgia Tech Rule of what happens when you have too many choices on a test: You whittle-down the possible choices. So, by process of elimination, we eliminate Nancy Jester. NOT because of the moves of a douchebag of a political consultant, but because apparently she is what Newton claims her to be: A liberal, not any kind of conservative.

Rumors have it that any time you hear that American Jobs Council President Cade Joiner is “not a politician, but just a businessman,” THAT statement will be an unmitigated lie.

Appearing last November on FOX News w/Chris Wallace, Joiner, a longtime Georgia Republican political insider, went on the air to rant about Obamacare under the auspice of simply “being a businessman.”

The hilarious part of his appearance was what MediaIte.com discovered afterwards: That Joiner, far from being “just a businessman,” had been quite the political activist in Georgia, from his days of introducing Ralph Reed while President of the Georgia College Republicans, to being the Bibb County leader of the grassroots team of Kemp for Secretary of State, and then a co-chair of Kemp’s finance committee.

Now, Obamacare sucks, that’s a fact.  BUT…you don’t argue against a piece of crap legislation by pretending to be someone you really are not.

You don’t say “I’m just a small businessman” when, in fact, your ply of trade is that of being deeply embedded in political business.  It does no one any good on your side in terms of convincing people that you have an honest, objective point of view when you are, in fact, found to not be all you say you are.  In short, you cannot fight dishonesty with dishonesty, and win.

What does all this have to do with anything in current-day politics in Georgia?  Plenty, actually.

Because it was Cade Joiner, with the “American Jobs Council” who called the Martha Zoller Radio Show a couple of weeks back to rant about State Rep. Sam Moore’s HB 1033.

And, it was Cade Joiner who states ON AIR that he is “not a politician, just a small business owner.”

Really, Cade?  What is your “small business?”  Is it doing something besides managing thousands of dollars of political PAC money that will be swapped in-and-out of all the following entities registered by Legal Counsel Bryan Tyson like American Jobs Council PAC, American Jobs Council Education Fund, Inc., American Jobs Council, and American Jobs Council Federal PAC?

As MediaIte.com states at the bottom of that article, “There’s also no good reason to conceal Mr. Joiner’s political activism, unless the point is to make him seem dishonest upon its revelation.”

Cade Joiner’s comment on the Zoller show reminds us of a line from Beverly Hills Cop when Axel Foley, while operating undercover, remarks to the cigarette hustler “I’m just a businessman, I don’t know anything.”

At minimum, Cade Joiner was disingenuous about who he really was when on the Martha Zoller Show, and, at most (especially when combined with the FOX News piece from November 2013), nothing other than a political fraud.

So, Mr. Joiner…in your organization’s mailers that will be sent out against Sam Moore (of which we can predict there will be thousands of dollars of slush funds coming from somewhere, maybe even David Ralston’s government office’s budget, paying for all those mailers), if there is one untrue statement on those mailers about anything, it will just build on this case here that your organizations are, like you, nothing more than political frauds.

Rumors have it that were this not an “election year,” HD 80 State Representative Mike Jacobs would be ALL in favor of increasing taxes in Brookhaven and DeKalb County.

How could we determine if this rumor is true? Why…one could look at Page 21 of 22 pages of this multi-meeting minutes package of the City of Brookhaven City Council Minutes…near the bottom of the page, we will excerpt this sentence:

“Council Member [Rebecca] Williams reported that she spoke with Representative Mike Jacobs, and he expressed strong opposition to an increase in the hotel/motel taxes during an election year.”

PV Asks: Golly, Mike…soooo, if it wasn’t an election year, you would be ALL in favor of raising taxes, right? You know, it’s just a tax on hotels/motels…who cares about those businesses? Just because raising taxes on them may make them less competitive to hotels and motels in other counties, you know, who CARES?

After all, Mayor J. Max Davis needs more tax dollars to pay for the $500,000-some-odd legal contract to help his fellow lawyers continue to waste city taxpayer dollars fighting the Pink Pony, a business located FAR AWAY from any residential property.

Well, we guess little Brookhaven didn’t become all that Jacobs promised it would become, did it? You know, a Mecca of sorts for lower taxes (this flyer chumming for business in the city limits of Brookhaven explains it all to anyone who listened to Jacobs talk about how Brookhaven would lower people’s property taxes).

And, then, of course there’s Mike Jacobs’ Burrell Ellis endorsements…those cannot be doing you any good right now for your reelection campaign, can they, Mike?

Maybe you should think more about your own transgressions against the better interests of people in your district before you decide to tote water on behalf of the Speaker and attack someone in another district, far, far away from HD80, eh?

Folks, if you ever wondered how it could be that some legislators tell you one thing at a GOP meeting, and then you learn later how they voted for something that completely contradicted what they said…well, all you got to do is take a read of Representative Sam Moore‘s description of “Corruption as far as the eye can see” in his constituent newsletter he sent out over the weekend, where he describes in great detail of all the crap he observes going on in the Georgia State House.

Things like:

“We also touched on the corruption that’s down there. It’s way worse than I ever imagined. Folks are goofing off rather than paying attention to the vote. Folks vote based on how other people voted, and change their vote to match that of their friends without even reading the bill. One guy ran to his desk, pushed the ‘YES’ button, and then asked me what we were voting on.

“Every day, there are trinkets and syrups and food and goodies placed on our legislative desks. Not mine. I told the House Staff that all of it was junk, and I didn’t want any of it. The same goes for the crap they put into our offices. I told my assistants that I didn’t even want to see it. I’m the only one like that, but eventually, there will be others who follow. Eventually, the culture down there will shift. Eventually, I won’t sit at my desk and hear the Rep next to me say, “I hope we get some goodies from X tomorrow, I heard they were in town.” Disgusting.

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“No matter what they say it’s about, it’s always about money.” — Bill O’Neil, American Businessman

Two movies come to mind to set the mood here to describe all the nonsense from the House GOP folks, the state GOP chairman, and the various and sundry useful idiots acting out their roles: Mr. Smith Goes To Washington and Charade. Two great movies from yesteryear.

Within a few days, this incident may be referred to in Sam Moore’s circles as “Mr. Moore Goes to Atlanta.”

Outside of Moore’s world, it will be recognized by the smarter people for the absolute charade that was developed by Speaker David Ralston, his political consultants, and the various other entities.  (Wow!  Jerry Keen?  You folks couldn’t have dug-up a better person to act indignant on air?   Say, Jerry, have you been a good little faithful boy to your latest wife?)

The other people will continue to wring their hands and fret about bullshit like “What impact will this have on the future of the GOP in Georgia?  OMG!  Is the Senate in jeopardy?  Do we have to circle the wagons for the Governor?   Are we all doomed?”  (Yeah, the kvetching on Facebook has been utterly amazing and demonstrates a gullibility of epic proportions.  And, YOU people cannot fathom the hysteria that you witness when Democrats lose their sh*t, and here you are acting the same way.)

The Reason for The Charade
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[PV Note: The below letter was emailed from Bill Evelyn to the Georgia GOP State Committee over the weekend. It is being published here with his permission because it seems as though everyone else in the GOP world decided to air their dirty laundry to the public last Friday, and this is a message in rebuttal to what State GOP Chairman John Padgett thinks is his role as chair of the state party]

To the Georgia Republican State Committee:

Happy 2014!

Now that Chairman Padgett has interjected the state Republican Party into advocating against or in favor of specific pieces of legislation, we should take this opportunity to assess all the legislation going through the House. (See this email from Chairman Padgett)

HB 744 sponsored by Speaker Ralston, Jan Jones, Larry O’Neal, and Terry England fully funds Obamacare in Georgia.

If one searches the budget bill for Patient Protection ACA (the link to the .pdf is below) you will find 12 line items funding Obamacare.

http://www.house.ga.gov/budget/Documents/2015_FiscalYear/FY_2015_Tracking_House.pdf

17.1.5 – Increase funds for Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) contractual services for new members enrolled due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 (PPACA).

17.8.10 – Increase funds for the increased percentage of Medicaid-eligible children enrolling due to the PPACA (also known as the “Woodwork Effect”)

17.8.11 – Increase funds for additional state insurance premium tax liability of the care management organizations (CMOs) caused by the PPACA’s primary care reimbursement rate increase.

17.8.12 – Increase funds to account for transition to 12-month eligibility reviews as required by the PPACA.

17.8.13 – Provide funds for new federal premium tax imposed on the care management organizations (CMOs) by the PPACA

17.9.6 – Provide funds for the increased percentage of PeachCare-eligible children enrolling due to the PPACA (also known as the “Woodwork Effect”).

17.9.7 – Provide funds for new federal premium tax imposed on the CMOs by the PPACA.

17.10.5 – Increase funds due to the Comparative Effectiveness Research fee required by the PPACA.

17.10.6 – Increase funds for additional preventive health benefits required by the PPACA.

17.10.7 – Increase funds to account for limits imposed on cost sharing by the PPACA beginning in Calendar Year 2015.

17.10.8 – Increase funds to account for the projected increased enrollment due to the individual mandate and auto-enrollment of new employees as required by the PPACA.

17.10.9 – Increase funds due to the Transitional Reinsurance Fee imposed by the PPACA

This is a very egregious piece of legislation that our Republican Party Chairman needs to condemn. It goes against everything we stand for in our party. Why aren’t we sending Emails to the entire party Email list condemning the Republican funding of Obamacare?

The truth about the HB 1033 circus was that is was an enormous failure in Republican House leadership.

Contrast this to Feb 2009 when State Reps. Wendell Willard and Edward Lindsey filed a Bill that was said to unintentionally legalize child-prostitution. HB 582 qualified that “prostitution” could only have occurred if someone exchanged money for sex with someone aged 18 years old or older. Republican House leadership, in 2010, sent this Bill to Committee where it was scuttled quietly in order to protect the Republican Brand.

In 2014 HB 1033 never went to committee to be quietly scuttled. In fact, Republican House leadership requested media involvement to create the circus thereby damaging our Brand across the State of Georgia.

The entire event was a failure in Republican House leadership. Our Brand was intentionally soiled by Republican House leadership and it didn’t help that Chairman Padgett sent this Email to our entire GOP mailing list. Chairman Padgett did not have your consent to insert the state party into this circus and he should not have sent this Email to the entire GOP mailing list without State Committee approval.

As a member of the Republican State Committee you should discuss this at your next meeting and all of us should chastise our Republican House leadership for failing “OUR” Republican Party. Those elected to represent us are stewards of our Brand.

They failed all of us.

Bill Evelyn
Member
Executive Committee
7th District Republican Party
(770) 744-0162

[Source for below post: https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/alt.law-enforcement/dYyFpuVBGcQ]

GIVE US BACK OUR CHILDREN, & NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR FAMILY COURT JUSTICE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Vicki Pierce
August 5, 1998
KLEIN ENDORSED BY CHILDREN’S ADVOCACY GROUPS FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL

After reviewing past records of Republican Attorney General candidates, mothers interested in protecting children from child abuse and sexual exploitation, have found that State Senator David Ralston has a career record of legally protecting child molesters and abusers, and has argued in the courts against legislation which protects Georgia’s children. Ralston promises to defend our values and improve our juvenile courts, yet his past actions have made him an adversary to children’s advocates trying to change child abuse judiciary laws during the 1998 Legislative session.

In Dayton v. State of Georgia, Ralston argued that a 63-year-old man convicted of 2 counts of aggravated child molestation, oral sodomy and 1 count of regular child molestation of a 13-year-old girl, his step-grandchild, should be found innocent. Ralston argued against the use of the Child Hearsay Statute and claimed that the child initiated the sex and wanted it. In Hyatt v. State, Ralston represented a father convicted of sodomizing his 7-year-old son, saying that the 7-year-old was not competent to testify. This is the precisely the reason that the Child Hearsay Statute is so necessary for the protection of children against Father’s Rights’ litigators such as Ralston — that children are not considered credible witnesses, that youngest of our society virtually have no protection from child predators due to their youth and inability to successfully verbalize under cross-examination.

In Chastain v. State, Ralston again advocated to overturn an aggravated sodomy and child molestation case against a father of an 11-year-old girl. Ralston wanted to interview the child as to what she believed to be molestation, trying to say that the child consented to it. The child had previously been caught in bed with an uncle and Ralston tried to show that she was sexual and initiated the acts.

In Schuler v. State, Ralston represented a teacher in a cruelty to children charge with 21 counts of simple battery. Schuler had told a child “to go the bathroom and beat off.” Luckily, Ralston lost this case. Then there’s Weaver v. Chester where Ralston tried to help a dead-beat dad from paying child support. He lost that one, as well. There are so many others so onerous and numerous to list in a short release.

Last fall, when Sen. Joe Burton was conducting Senate hearings on Sen. Bills 71-75 before the Senate Special Judiciary Committee, Sen. David Ralston was a virtual ghost, even though his name was on the Bills. We, the mothers testifying before this committee, got no support from him. When trying to get community leaders to testify before this committee, I was asked by many why these bills weren’t being heard by the Senate Judiciary Committee, that the Special Judiciary Committee wasn’t as strong, that there was something wrong with this situation, especially since Ralston was on the Judiciary Committee.

I never got an answer to the question or why Ralston balked at helping us; but, after looking up his legal record, I now have the answers.

Georgia’s children deserve better than this, than just another Republican hypocrite in the AG’s office, who will not protect them in the courts.

Integrity in the Attorney General’s office is essential in upholding laws designed to prosecute child abusers, and that is why the mothers of Give Us Back Our Children and the National Alliance for Family Court Justice are endorsing and voting for Kip Klein.