Today is voting day for Cherokee County (and others). If you want some new voices and new faces not to mention new perspectives under the Gold Dome, I suggest voting for Natalie Bergeron in State House District 21. Not even just for the fact that she’s the lone Democrat running in that race, but it’s high time that the suburbs stopped sending idiots (not all, but most) to the Gold Dome and instead sent somone competent, responsive, energetic, and thoughtful.
Also on this day, Andrew Jackson defeated the British at the Battle for New Orleans, discuss.
If you’re not following the Ethics rundown in the AJC, you’re missing out. Finally someone from a major publication is tracking the contributions-freebies-legislation-kickback ball in a larger construct.
And then there’s this. Enjoy.
That ethics article is madding, enlightening and long over due.
I hope that this means the AJC will be back on beat reporting all the Gold Dome fun/sport/nitwittery for the public. It’s high time they got back in this game. Maybe I’ll resubscribe.
I think Andrew Jackson was the first politician I loved to hate. Used to have a rant involving the supreme court and native Americans. The Hermitage is beautiful though.
Ditto on the AJC ethics piece. I think they had some similar article before the primary. I know the editorial page has been filled with it for months.
A word of caution in this Ethics debate, if something does come out of the House on this it’s probably just window dressing. The Speaker has been dragged kicking and screaming into this. Neither the speaker nor the governor wants to restore the formerly Ethics Commission power. Can’t sweep things under the rug that way. The Senate will be the ones to watch.
Thanks to a friend on FB I heard that the Re-Elect Charles Gregory (GOP-Cobb) is advocating GA start printing it’s own currency.
http://www.mdjonline.com/view/full_story/21329722/article-Lawmakers–We-need-to-end-reliance-on-federal-dollars?instance=home_top_bullets
I think that’s called forgery and the Treasury Department might frown upon it you idjit.
So there you have it two run-offs and newly minted GOP Senator Brandon Beach.
lesigh
State Senator, District 11
CONTEST DETAIL VOTE TYPE SUMMARY
8 of 8 Counties Reporting
Percent Votes
MARSHALL BERMAN(R) 1.06% 132
JEFFREY G. BIVINS(L) 6.47% 803
DEAN BURKE (R) 42.59% 5,283
BRAD HUGHES (R) 7.81% 969
MIKE KEOWN (R) 37.37% 4,635
EUGENE MCNEASE (R) 4.69% 582
12,404
State Senator, District 21
CONTEST DETAIL VOTE TYPE SUMMARY
2 of 2 Counties Reporting
Percent Votes
BRANDON BEACH (R) 57.57% 5,470
SEAN JERGUSON (R) 42.43% 4,031
9,501
State Senator, District 30
CONTEST DETAIL VOTE TYPE SUMMARY
3 of 3 Counties Reporting
Percent Votes
MIKE DUGAN (R) 87.60% 3,299
JAMES M. CAMP (L) 12.40% 467
3,766
State Representative, District 21
CONTEST DETAIL VOTE TYPE SUMMARY
1 of 1 Counties Reporting
Percent Votes
NATALIE BERGERON (D) 21.43% 691
BRIAN LAURENS (R) 30.11% 971
KENNETH A. MIMBS (R) 2.08% 67
SCOT TURNER (R) 46.39% 1,496
3,225
In still unhappier news, in honor of Natalie, we present a New series; How We become Russia/China: Here’s the real economics of getting to the USSC:
“Even The Tragicomical Newly-Released Supreme Court ‘Cert. Grant’ Statistics Don’t Reveal The Worst Of It”
Posted by Beverly Mann, Angry Bear
http://www.angrybearblog.com/2013/01/even-tragicomical-newly-released.html
Via: “Likelihood of a Petition Being Granted”
http://dailywrit.com/2013/01/likelihood-of-a-petition-being-granted/
Read it and weep once more for our country. JMP
Things for which there are no election, and ought not to be:
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/dec/15/our-moloch/
‘Our Moloch’, NYRB, by Garry Wills
I’ve said this many, many times, Guns have now become our god-head. We have suffered much for this hubristic blasphemy. Finally we have a great conservative and historian who recognizes this in it’s full and awful majesty of idiocy and harm. JMP
Lying as an art, the public policy advantages for the GOP, Part 999.51, here: http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/111900/georgia-obamacare-medicaid-expansion-uninsured-sharon-cooper-malpractice
JMP