What Will The Demmies Do?

"We've never been faced with this before...we've always been in charge and the Governor always designated our party chairman..."

Such is the situation now facing the Georgia Dem Party. Last week, Calvin Smyre stepped-down as chairman of the Georgia Dems, leaving a position open that needs to be filled. But, according to our casual chats with Dem insiders, no such rules exist in the Dem party rules for dealing with "electing" a party chief.

Soooo, they have to now write them. From scratch.

Two contenders have been talked about: Bobby Kahn and Steven Leeds (sorry, Steve...we don't know you well enough to think-up a nickname fer ya).

If Kahn is indeed running, then that means he must be willing to give-up his plum seat on the State Elections Board, though, rumors are that Cathy Cox and Thurbert Baker are examining the law to see how many ways they can twist it to allow a state party chairman to also be on the state board of elections.

One need only to have witnessed the gyrations by Cox back in 2000 to rescue party-switching Randy Sauder (who still lost in the end), or the torturing of OCGA election law in 2002 by the AG's office with regards to the [Cynthia and Bill] McKinney Gang, to realize that the law means nothing to the Dems when power is to be wielded.

The Ten Commandments

Rumors are that the GOP is hot on the way to introduce a bill to allow state and municipal government to post copies of The Ten Commandments wherever and whenever they feel like it.

State Rep Warren Massey (R-Barrow & Gwinnett) was interviewed on GPTV's Lawmakers show on Tuesday evening on the matter. Massey's argument was that the bill/resolution would allow municipal governments within Georgia to exercise their 1st and 10th Amendment rights as defined by the U.S. Constitution.

Massey argues that since the 1st Amendment only forbids Congress from passing laws that establish a religion, then that allows the states to pass their own laws on religion.

PV Kindly Points Rep. Massey In The Direction of The Georgia Constitution: We agree with Warren Massey on his argument about the 10th Amendment...that is, "states' rights." Things not covered by the federal constitution should be left-up to the states to work out.

So, why doesn't Warren Massey and any and all other GOP legislators bother to practice what they preach? This is what the Georgia Constitution states with regards to this issue:

Bill of Rights, Paragraph III

"Freedom of conscience. Each person has the natural and inalienable right to worship God, each according to the dictates of that person's own conscience; and no human authority should, in any case, control or interfere with such right of conscience."

The Ten Commandments, whether anyone wishes to admit it or not, does stipulate how to worship God. "Thou shall worship no other gods before Me." (note the capitalization of the "Me", for this is a Commandment, not a sentence, as it is normally depicted on the pseudo-copies of the Commandments seen plastered in Cherokee, Barrow and Habersham counties.)

To put a list of such stipulations of worship on any public building is to use the power of government to interfere and/or control the conscience of whoever breezes by the sign and reads it. That, to us, is in direct violation of our Georgia Constitution.

And, if a bill or resolution passes that allows such postings of religious documents, then perhaps we should start looking at recruiting some of the old Taliban members to come advise our government officials on how we should go about demanding exactly how the residents and visitors to Georgia worship and pray.

Well, we're fairly certain that even if the bill does pass, the legislators will write themselves a special exemption for not having to follow any of the Commandments, regardless of where they are posted...

Bill Clinton Ain't Got Nuthin' On Marilyn Gilhuly & Her Hooligans

We keep a little list in our publication offices of the times we are dead right in what we report. Such as the case with former Cobb GOP Chief, Marilyn "The Terrorist" Gilhuly.

We warned the various members of the Cobb GOP (nay, the whole state) that Gilhuly was not involved because she wanted to push forward the Republican agenda. She was only involved for one thing, and one thing only: the restoration of the 1956 flag to the state flag pole.

Since leaving office in March of 2003, she and her merry band of Southern Heritage groups have set-up organizations that have the specific purpose in mind of destroying the political candidacies of anyone who is not proactively involved in promoting or defending their Southern heritage.

When we say "anyone," we mean that. These groups have bought yard signs stating that "SONNY LIED," "BUSH LIED," "Republican Legislator X, Y, & Z LIED," "Democrat Legislator A, B, & C LIED" and so on, and are planting these all over the state and in the districts. They feel they have been unjustly ignored by the 2001 and 2003 legislative sessions where they sought to have the 1956 St. Andrews Cross-designed flag put on the ballot for a vote.

In any case, on Monday (January 12), in the Capitol rotunda, a little protest was put on by Gilhuly and her cohorts like Tim Pilgrim, William Lathem,...and, Martin O'Toole.

The fascinating part of this for us is that William Lathem was elected to be Assistant Secretary of the Cobb GOP, and, to the best of our knowledge, still serves in that capacity. Martin O'Toole, who has been serving as legal counsel to the Cobb GOP, was recently appointed by the Cobb GOP Committee to be Rules Committee Chair. Tim Pilgrim is still hanging around, attending Cobb GOP meetings as well.

When we read about the danger of Al-Quaida burrowing into the United States, we see a strange parallel to our little county of Cobb. We have people who despise Republicans and publicly declare they will work against Republicans, both in the primary and in the general, who SIT ON REPUBLICAN COMMITTEES. Wow...too bad the State GOP Rules Committee cannot come up with some rules for dealing with these types of problems in the county party...hmm?

And, Chairman Anthony-Scott Hobbs doesn't appear to give a damn about these folks and where they sit and what they believe. Why? Because, quite frankly, we don't believe that he is a committed Republican.

Sure, he voted Republican in 2002, but, so far, we have yet to see any evidence of him possessing any kind of moral-value system, other than his great desire to raise money. He will continue to allow these people to sit on his board without a peep of protest from him because he's already sold his soul. He promised them whatever they wanted if they would vote for him.

We suspect that the reason why the flaggers hang around the Cobb GOP is that they are patiently waiting for the moment they can acquire electronic copies of the voter files. Once they do that, they will use it for themselves and their own agenda, not the Republican agenda.

SO, allow us to make yet another warning to the GOP members around the state of Georgia and in Cobb: Stay away from the Cobb County Republican Party. Do not give any money to them for it will be used by unscrupulous people for unscrupulous reasons. As long as the party allows people to sit on their board who might as well be Democrats in their anti-Republican agenda, there is no reason to support the county party.

Oh...back to Gilhuly now. Politics sure makes strange bedfellows, doesn't it? Several months ago, the flaggers were flagging a Chuck Clay fundraiser. Well, actually, the flaggers pretty much flag Clay any chance they can get.

Anyway, Marilyn is a member of the flaggers as well, having participated in many a flaggings. So, anyway, Chuck Clay is having a fundraiser on...well, we won't name the date or place beause that will give the flaggers too much info. BUT, guess who is on his list of sponsors???

Why, Dr. and Mrs. Michael Gilhuly. Actually, we believe that, based on the snake-like behavior she has displayed for the past 3 years, she is only involved to collect info to use against Chuck down the road. She has no problems playing and promising all sides of an issue that she is on their side. That's why we say that Bill Clinton has nothing on her in the suck-them-in-with-promises-and-screw-them-over-in-private game. She is a master player.

The BDOC (aka "Big Doofus On Campus")

For several weeks now, the AJC has been processing a comics contest whereby readers have been reading new comics and voting on which ones to add and which ones to drop.

If people want to be continually amused, they need to drop the reading of the comics during the Session and turn to whatever Lt. Governor Mark Taylor is talking about in his "proposal-of-the-moment."

Last week, he was proposing a constitutional amendment that limited classroom sizes. At the Tuesday morning Georgia Chamber of Commerce breakfast of Eggs and Issues, Taylor proposed a cap on college tuition for three years in an effort to tamp down on the cost of HOPE scholarships. Oh, but, of course, he didn't want to tie SAT scores to the requirements for obtaining a scholarship.

We don't know what new things Taylor (i.e., the Big Doofus) will be proposing in the next 37 days of the Session, but, we did take a gander at one of his rough copies for proposed constitutional amendments:

An amendment that would permanently ban Calculus and other advanced mathematics courses from the UGA curriculum.

An amendment that requires all passenger cars to stay out of the left-lane on Georgia highways and freeways so as to allow 6-wheeled delivery trucks to travel faster and less impeded to their destination.

An amendment that would make Uga the state dog.

Well...the rest of this is scribblings...and, we can't read past the ketchup stain from the Varsity dog...