Blog for Democracy

Tag: Legislators

  • A Ponzi scheme to balance the budget?

    Here’s how desperate Georgia’s financial situation has become: Legislative leaders have introduced a bill that would enable the state’s pension systems to buy what is known as “dead peasants insurance” to shore up the funding of the their plans. It sounds suspiciously like a Ponzi scheme could be in the works here.

  • Awkward questions

    The General Assembly kicked off a new session on Monday with much of the legislative leadership reeling from media exposes of scandals and ethics controversies, some of them involving female lobbyists