Happy Monday, everyone! Today’s Morning Reads are on Hawaii time…so they’re late and somewhat wet. Jawja Losing Atlanta’s history, brick by brick. Donald Trump says Newt is on his VEEP shortlist. This is why we chop (up our hopes and dreams) President Carter and Willie Nelson sang together. PLAN, PEOPLE. Murica Obama to sell arms
Dr. Mary Kay Bacallao is one of the two Republican challengers for Johnny Isakson’s Senate seat. You may remember her name. She also ran for State School Superintendent during the 2014 election cycle. Bacallao is running a low-budget campaign, having raised under $10,000 through April 15th. To make up for the lack of funds, she
The Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission, otherwise known as the Ethics Commission, has a new member. Governor Deal announced today the appointment of Rick Thompson of Roswell. Thompson is the former executive secretary for the Georgia Ethics Commission. Rick Thompson, Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission Thompson is the founding partner of
The AJC’s Aaron Sheinin, working on his birthday (happy birthday old man), brings us an update in the primary turned potential potential civil suit between Congressman/defendant Barry Loudermilk and challenger/plaintiff Daniel Cowan. Follow this link to the AJC for visual representation of the mailers and responses discussed below. Long and short of this: Team Loudermilk
Joe Dendy, who led the Cobb County Republican Party for four years from 2011-2015, was arrested Friday morning on child molestation charges stemming from incidents in 2007 and 2011. The Marietta Daily Journal has the details: Dendy, 71, is charged with child molestation and aggravated child molestation, both felonies, and is being held without bond
Last session the Georgia legislature passed a measure that allows people and corporations to laser-focus their state income tax dollars directly on Georgia’s struggling rural hospitals. Contributions will flow directly to the rural hospital of their choice, skipping the bureaucratic red tape, to maximize the reach of every dollar contributed. Today Geoff Duncan (HD-26), in
Catherine Bernard, Alan Cole, and Meagan Hanson are vying to become the Republican opponent against Democratic incumbent Taylor Bennett in HD-80. The Brookhaven Post and Joe Earle @ Reporter Newspapers have compiled voter guides for this election based upon the candidate’s answers to several questions. GeorgiaPOL also published two dueling posts in support of and in
Aaron Barlow, candidate for State Senate in North Fulton and Cherokee Counties, has made most of his campaign feeding off negatives for those that have actively tried to solve Georgia’s and North Metro Atlanta’s congestion problems. He even had a mailer/flyer that was criticizing Brandon Beach’s sponsorship of TSPLOST on Facebook (despite the fact that
When people speak of the GOP Kingmakers of Northwest GeorgiaTM, they are really only speaking of one person. And that is our own Nathan Smith! Nathan turns 30 today, but he’s well versed in being old, having been a certified Ham Radio operator (who even went so far as to get a customized call sign)
Thank the heavens above, this agonizing primary will be over Tuesday. 130? You don’t look a day over 99! That $13 wasn’t worth it. Any of it. Atlanta loses a HQ to … New Jersey? As usual, will we ever know all of the story. Too cool for just… everything. Sen. John McCain polling badly
