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  • Free of Charge and Open to the Public

    Those eight words warm the hearts of true politicos. The Barnes campaign wants to invite you – yes, all of you- to three events over the next three days, all free of charge and open to the public. I don’t usually post event announcements for candidates, but in an effort to encourage more this openness, […]

  • Balch Responds: No Love for Vouchers

    I promised Graham Balch that I would post his response to my earlier post regarding the support his campaign has received from a pro-voucher group, so, here it is: Amy, Just to follow up about our conversation, here is information about my relationship with American Federation of Children and my stance on education including vouchers. […]

  • Who’s Been Painting Our Roses Red? (Updated)

    National proponents of school vouchers are determined to make their mark in Georgia this year. How do I know? They are playing with big dollars, in our primary. Torrey O. Johnson, Graham Balch, Shawn James, Kenneth Samuel, David Wilkerson, Rep. Tom Weldon, Josh Clark and Sen. John Wiles- all are candidates for the Georgia legislature, […]

  • Reason #1 to not vote early.

    Whoa!  In an unexpected turn of events, former Governor and gubernatorial candidate, Roy Barnes, today expressed support for immigration “reform” similar to what Arizona has recently passed. Barnes, the front-runner in the Democratic primary for governor, made the strongest endorsement among the party’s gubernatorial candidates for adopting an Arizona-type law, but he cautioned he would […]

  • I expected so much more from Sen. Fort

    C’mon Sen. Fort, your media consultants sent out a negative mailer using information from Graham Balch’s personnel records, really, really? The mailer says it retrieved the information from “APS Office of Internal Resolution: Employee Relations Report, 6/30/2009, via public records request”. Is that what negative campaigning is headed towards? On top of it all, it […]

  • Do Georgians Outside Atlanta Really Want Mass Transit?

    That’s the big question posed in the AJC article this morning. Seems like it comes down to basic supply and demand. Where the riders have access to MARTA or a MARTA juncture, they want and need it to get to work, home and school. There are some good percentages here, mainly that 40% of MARTA […]

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