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Bill Simon, Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024
Just trying to catch-up on some news I’m way behind on, and I came across an AJC story published on June 4, 2024, titled “Onetime ally sues Fulton sheriff over unpaid contract for inmate tracking” Clicking into it, I start reading all about how Talitrix is now suing Fulton County Sheriff Patrick LaBlatt over his failure to pay them over […]
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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, 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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Bill Simon, Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
INTRODUCTION Though the following quote has been attributed to Albert Einstein being the author, he may not have ever said it or written it (as I dug into the subject on the Web and came upon this guy’s research); nonetheless, the concept still means the same: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over […]
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PV, Thursday, September 4th, 2014
Rumors have it that at a specially-called teleconference meeting scheduled to be held tomorrow afternoon (Friday, September 5 at 4:30 PM) by The Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission (f/k/a as the State Ethics Commission), the Commission will be entertaining a motion to axe Executive Secretary Holly LaBerge in order to clear the “political […]
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PV, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014
Rumors have it that Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville has issued a 9-page ruling against the “Ethics Commission” (sic) Executive Secretary Holly LaBerge and Attorney General Sam Olens, fining each of them $10,000. In the story available on the AJC.com Website, they lay it out. One quote will be pulled for the throng […]
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PV, Friday, December 9th, 2011
Rumors have it that a multi-agent special investigative squad assembled by the FBI in August 2011 is here in Georgia because of a certain straw that was laid on the camel’s back in June 2011 at the Georgia State Ethics Commission, and broke it. First published by Jim Walls over at Atlanta Unfiltered tonight, Walls […]
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