You can tell it’s primary day eve when the inbox overflows with statements from presidental candidates and their surrogates. Earlier, Nathan posted a statement from 14th District congressman Tom Graves about his vote for Marco Rubio. Now comes a statement from the Ted Cruz press shop announcing new support for the Texas Senator. New supporters
During a break in the Crossover Day action, House Speaker David Ralston was asked about Governor Nathan Deals statement today that legislators should be able to come to a resolution on religious liberty that would preserve the rights of people of faith without discrimination. The Speaker responded, I’ve been trying to to do that for
Congressman Tom Graves (R-GA-14) sent out a campaign newsletter voicing his support and vote for Marco Rubio in the Republican Presidential Preference Primary. Graves joins his colleagues Congressmen Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA-03) and Austin Scott (R-GA-08) in supporting Rubio’s bid for president in the great state of Georgia and the #SECPrimary. You can read Congressman Graves’
Bills that would have provided additional funds for the Hope Scholarship via the legalization of casino gambling and parimutuel betting on horse racing are dead for the remainder of this session, and therefore would need to start from scratch in 2017. The Parimutuel betting measures, sponsored by Senator Brandon Beach of Alpharetta, failed to get
Raising an unstated but obvious threat of a veto over certain versions of “Religious Liberty” bills on the table in the legislature, Governor Nathan Deal today said that Georgia will remain a state that protects the freedom of religion but that does not require allowing discrimination. As tweeted by Greg Bluestein of the AJC: “I
All in the name of slightly lower income taxes. On the floor today in your Georgia Senate (which no less an authority than Kirby Smart called the better looking of the two chambers) there will be a vote on Senate Resolution 756. It is a Constitutional Amendment that would cap the state budget at $23.6 billion
In an interview, former First District Congressman Jack Kingston talked about his support for Senator Ted Cruz as a presidential candidate, what he thinks of the outsider candidacy of Donald Trump, and what he expects to happen on Tuesday when people cast their votes in the SEC Primary. Kingston spent the weekend attending rallies for
He is the most conservative Congressman in Georgia and the 16th most conservative in the nation. His rating is 90% by Gunowners of America, 100% by Americans for Prosperity, 85% by Numbers USA, 100% by National Right to Life, 93% by the NRA and 86% by the American Conservative Union. He is my 9th District
To borrow loosely from Sherlock Holmes and his process of deductive reasoning, if you remove all of the other candidate possibilities as either unacceptable or impossible, the individual you are left with, no matter the challenges he or she faces ahead, must be the best choice to vote for on Super Tuesday. This may or may
This week’s Courier Herald column: I will not be voting for Donald Trump Tuesday. I do have a person for which I will be able to cast an enthusiastic vote. This column isn’t about him, nor to try to persuade you to vote for or like him. We have far more pressing issues, and there
