Author: Trevor Southerland

  • “Party-line vote”

    I’m assuming you’ve signed this already.  But if you haven’t, seriously, get on it. Last week, the AJC reported on a budget amendment that Senator Tate proposed to the budget.  It would have redirected $150,000 from Georgia Public Broadcasting into the education budget.  For some strange reason, Georgia Republicans balked at this. The line from…

  • A Good Idea Rises Above Party

    Our friends over at GAPundit.com featured a guest post written by Seth C. Clark, the Chief of Staff for State Representative Stacey Evans. He even got a Twitter shout out from Paul Begala. We are re-posting Mr. Clark’s guest post at GaPundit here, in a bi-partisan move that can only reflect the bi-partisanship behind the…

  • Wilkerson & Alexander Sponsor Tax Accountability Act of 2013

    My inbox this morning tells me that one of our favorite State Representatives and newly minted Democratic House Caucus Treasurer, David Wilkerson, along with freshmen State Rep. Kim Alexander, have introduced the “Tax Accountability Act of 2013.”

  • A Note for Ed

    Saturday, September 7, 2013

  • Deepest Sympathies to Congressman Lewis

    On behalf of everyone at Blog for Democracy, we extend our deepest sympathies to Congressman John Lewis, and the family and friends of his wife, Lillian Miles Lewis, who passed away at the age of 73. You can read more from the AJC: Lillian Miles Lewis, U.S. Rep. John Lewis’ wife, friend and political adviser,…

  • What YOU can do to help elect a Democrat!

    As has been covered on this blog previously, on January 8th there are some special elections.  There are actually 4. SD 30 is over in West Georgia.  You’ll see a Republican vs. a Libertarian there.  This one is interesting in that Democrats actually could not qualify for the special election because no Democrat qualified for…