Month: October 2009
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President Obama to sign Hate Crimes Bill today!
The hard work of many LBGTQ Activists will finally come together today with the signature of the President on HR2647. The new measure, attached to an essential military-spending bill, broadens the definition of federal hate crimes to include those committed because of a victim’s gender or gender identity, or sexual orientation. It gives victims the…
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Question for the Mayoral candidates.
As Mayor, would you encourage the sale of the Atlanta pretrial detention center to Fulton County? Mayor Franklin has been dragging her feet since 2005 and in the meantime, inmates are being outsourced to other counties “costing the county $27,000 to $28,000 a day.”
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Why you should vote for Mary Norwood for Atlanta Mayor
Over the past few days, I asked representatives from the 3 top polled campaigns to submit a 1,000 word essay on why Atlanta voters should vote for them for Atlanta Mayor. I will post the essays as I receive them from the campaigns. FROM MARY NORWOOD: To make our city work for you again: that’s…
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It just never gets old
Cheney bashing that is. Rep. Grayson calls Cheney a vampire. Controversial freshman Rep. Alan Grayson, who has become famous for attacking the Republicans’ health care plan, went on the attack again Friday night, calling former Vice President Dick Cheney a vampire for his recent criticism of the Obama administration’s handling of the war in Afghanistan.…
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Bookman gets it right about Kasim Reed
I still haven’t decided who I’m voting for in the Atlanta Mayor’s race, but AJC columnist Jay Bookman gets it right on why he’s voting for Kasim Reed: The record of legislative consensus-building that he [Kasim Reed] describes is very real. Given that some of the metro region’s biggest challenges cannot be solved without the…
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How can you finish what you haven’t even started?
My colleague Aaron Gould Sheinin of the AJC, who’s a good reporter with a very strong tolerance for politically oriented bovine feces, sat through a Thursday morning presentation by Gov. Sonny Perdue to a gathering of department heads and state employees.