June 9, 2020 11:40 AM
Morning Reads for Primary Day, June 9, 2020
Primary Day is here! If you plan on voting today, don’t forget your face mask, water, sunscreen, hand sanitizer – and your patience. It’s… a bit of a mess out there. Here are ongoing updates from the AJC.
- Is this the year Georgia flips? Not to purple, mind you, but true blue? Cyan, cerulean, navy – pick your shade. Is 2020 the year?
- Many longtime GAGOP operatives think this may be the year, so.
- More absentee ballots than ever will be cast in this primary. And in many counties, like Gwinnett, requests for Dem ballots waaaaaaay outpace those for GOP ballots.
- The National GOP is considering Savannah for their 2020 convention.
- Savannah Mayor Van Johnson is not convinced this is a super great idea in the middle of the ongoing pandemic.
- Georgia Power has not cut off power for unpaid bills since March – but shutoffs will resume in July.
- Many citizens in Macon want to see a Confederate statue removed from the city’s downtown.
- What does it mean to “defund the police” – and what happened to the crime rate in Camden, NJ after they did what many activists today would like to see in cities across the United States?
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Teri
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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So… Historic Savannah for the RNC… One of a kind architecture, and small business just wanting to attract business. So we invite the RNC, which will attract lots of people who hate masks and social distancing.
When the press was here for the G-7, almost every business downtown that didn’t serve food or drinks closed up shop, boarded their windows and sent workers home without pay for a week. Driving into the district was like entering a military zone. FBI took over whole buildings. More police were here then on a St Patrick’s Day on a Saturday. Are they going to close down the river during the day and during the speeches? Lock down the bridge?
Plus lets not over look the protesters. There will be Lots and Lots of protestors. And most of them not the peaceful kind, but the far extremes of the right and left. Where buildings older then the Republic stand. Where you can’t go more then 500 feet and find a Historical landmark of some kind, Where some of the few examples of American Regency architecture still exist. Where the largest slave auction in the country was held. Where a cotton exchange still stands. Where Sherman slept. And one of the few examples of a pre 1880’s pre-Klan, pre-lost cause Confederate monuments is located.
What could go wrong?