Blog for Democracy

  • The Cream of the Crop

    Dammit Mike. Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond… hasn’t disclosed anything whatsoever since 2007. Thurmond, who’s running for the U.S. Senate, filed no financial disclosure forms with the State Ethics Commission in 2008 or 2009, a check of the commission’s online look-up shows. Elected officials in Georgia are required to report on basic details of their personal […]

  • Write-On Carol Porter!

    Twitter was aflutter yesterday with 140 character responses to Carol Porter’s written submission to the AJC regarding abortion. The real question we as Georgians need to ask is, “Do we want to truly decrease abortions or just turn out the vote on it?” To run under the banner “pro-life” and to legislate in a way […]

  • Weird, sad or teachable moment?

    More likely… a “only in politics moment” Tim Crawford, running as a Tea-Party Democrat in the Indiana 5th, is a 28-year-old first-time candidate who, not to put too fine a point on it, cough, hates the Democratic Party. From Facebook comes this missive… Changing the democratic party starts here. The more socialist this nation becomes, […]

  • Poll for your Morning

    I bring you a good poll for your morning. Rasmussen (I know I know) says our one candidate for Governor, Roy Barnes, trails the top three Republicans, with a MOE of +/- 4.5% (!). Matchups: Oxendine 43 Roy 39 Deal 47 Roy 40 Karen 42 Roy 39 Roy 42 Eric 38 First, there is no […]

  • How Are they to Know?

    Another day another dollar. You think? The APD, Atlanta’s finest. Apparently the DPG Convention will be in Athens. This is a dumb idea but not for the reason others are citing. A topic for later. Eric Massa is a really weird dude. Mike Brown should also be considered. “What’s happened to the political center? Without […]

  • Summer Reading

    My suggestions and those of friends… On the Borders bargain table I picked up Cokie Roberts latest book Ladies of Liberty, but I only care about the Dolley Madison chapter. My friend Martin recommends Trust Agents as he says “really good if that’s your kind of thing”, hum don’t know but will check it out. […]

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