July 23, 2019 10:25 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, July 23
Good morning! Summertime, and the living’s easy. Or something.
- Georgia’s film production industry remains active, with 46 productions currently on the roster.
- The Atlanta Rotary and other city leaders hope that Atlanta will be the choice to host the 2020 Nobel Peace Summit.
- Chatham County’s District Attorney was named Georgia’s DA of the year.
- More than 440 acres of forest have burned in a wildfire on Cumberland Island, but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
- Here’s a sneak peek at the Almanac of American Politics’ 2020 guide to Georgia.
- Following a tragic drowning in Columbus, and concerned area mother installed a life jacket station. Here’s why it was removed by the city.
- It’s hot, and now there’s an app that’s like Airbnb, but for backyard swimming pools.
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Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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“Sadly, civil rights groups who crush the rights of unborn children remind me of 18th century plantation owners who, after winning their freedom from Britain, enslaved people of color to achieve their own economic goals,” Rep Ed Setzler, sponsor of HB481.
Rep Setzler doesn’t know American or Civil Rights history. Slavery was in the colonies well over 100 years before Independence. If we’d waited a little longer to seek independence, it could perhaps be said some sought independence to maintain slavery.
Does this mean we can count on Ed to support the removal of monuments honoring plantation owners whose parents or grandparents brought the scourge to the country, and didn’t do anything about it but perhaps profit?
Just fyi, highly unlikely that Guatemala is “sending’ bad people here. Those people are fleeing, and here is why:
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2019/country-chapters/guatemala
Progress in prosecuting corruption and abuse made in recent years is at risk due to serious obstruction from the government…
…prosecuting more than a dozen current and former Congress members, as well as former President Otto Pérez Molina and former Vice-President Roxana Baldetti, who were arrested on corruption charges in 2015.
Violence and extortion by powerful criminal organizations remain serious problems in Guatemala.
In February 2018, the bodies of journalist Laurent Castillo and radio worker Luis de León were found bound with gunshot wounds to the head…
…June 2017, TV journalist Carlos Rodríguez survived a gunshot to the head.
In June 2016, radio journalist Álvaro Aceituno was killed, and in March 2015, journalists Danilo López and Federico Salazar were assassinated… implicated Congressman Julio Juárez from government party FCN-Nación in the latter crime.
Here’s a pretty good video of that Rep. acting racist to the Cuban when he called her out for lying about what he said. https://youtu.be/6TOsTHfKJHM
Any of you past/current DOJ lawyer types want to explain to us non lawyers why Rep. Collins is annoyed over adding Zebley to Mueller’s witness table?
Serious: Collins is annoyed because “being loudly annoyed” is Doug Collins’ job description for the next 4 hours. Seriously. That’s why.
Sarcastic: Collins is so convinced that Robert Mueller’s testimony will fully and completely exonerate the President of the United States he doesn’t want anything that would distract the Special Counsel from conveying the truth to the committee.
Also, personal opinion, Doug Collins should hire a better staff counsel.