PRELUDE The following story will, at some point, use some or all of the abbreviations below, and I’m not up for repeating their longer titles. These are all State of Georgia-related abbreviations: AG = Attorney General AAG = Assistant Attorney General DOI = Declaration of Intent (to run for office) GAA = Georgia Aviation Authority […]

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 […]

*** STORY UPDATE 11/22/2017 **** Due to a tweet that is out there in the Twitter-sphere, and that fact that on an intermittent basis, PV receives calls from people who encounter the slimy…crooked…moron named Cecil Staton in their random life, we are updating this article because the GrassrootsFrenzy.com website referenced originally on this post from […]

SPECIAL NOTE: The following story was originally part of an emailed edition of the Political Vine sent out on April 27, 2012 (so, any reference you might read where I refer to “today” or similar, those time references are relative to the 4/27/2012 date, not the date in 2014 in which this story is published). […]

Who is John Wilkinson? Now that the Lt. Governor has endorsed him, this is a fair question. Sometime in the past few days, a mail piece hit the district that accuses Wilkinson of voting Democrat in ‘4 out of the last 7 primaries.’ The Wilkinson campaign has spent the last 24 hours vociferously protesting what […]

According to his Website, Duke Blackburn worked for 20 years in “Georgia government” and retired in 2009. On his Website, he states that he “knows how government works.” In 2006, he threw his support behind Mark Taylor (D) for Governor by not only contributing $250.00 to Taylor’s campaign, but also adorning his front lawn with […]

Rumors have it that the skirmish that made headlines all over the state between Lt. Governor Casey Cagle and the senate GOP caucus leadership in the waning days of this year’s General Assembly is now being fought in hand-to-hand combat in two battle theaters: The State Senate District 50 and State Senate District 28 run-offs […]

MEMORANDUM TO: State Senator Cecil Staton CC: “Beth Merkleson” From: Bill Simon, Political Vine RE: Nice, sleazy hit on Casey… Dear Senator Staton, Wanted to let you know that the moment I received this e-mail from a Republican operative on Friday, April 1 at 11:30 AM, and the operative had your name on it as […]

Should Lt. Governor Casey Cagle run for re-election in 2010? Yes, as long as he is healthy enough to serve No    pollcode.com free polls

Based on the information printed in Monday’s AJC article about the true nature of SB 31, I am going to allow for the possibility that the following key leaders in the State Senate were lied to by Georgia Power interests to garner their support: Lt. Governor Casey Cagle Senator Don Balfour Senator Chip Rogers (Majority […]