December 21, 2020 8:35 AM
Morning Reads for Monday, December 21, 2020
Happy Christmas Week! These morning reads are coming to you from the mountains of North Carolina, where I am currently snuggled up in my favorite blanket in front of a fire with a cup of coffee. 2020 hasn’t been kind, but it did give us remote work and I ain’t mad about it.
- Pollsters disappear in Georgia with Senate on the line
- Georgia Republicans debate whether to vote in runoff elections
- Could Georgia see a White Christmas?
- More flying for holidays, but Georgia and South Carolina working to help drivers
- Shaquille O’Neal delivers holiday gifts to children in Georgia
- Judge ends suit saying Georgia city writes too many tickets
- Health officials urge Georgia’s to follow guidelines as holidays approach
- Georgia’s personal income decrease lowest in U.S. for third quarter
- Georgia Republican lawmakers say they were right to back Texas lawsuit against state
- ‘It’s nonstop’: Georgia Senate battles rage far from Atlanta
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Theresa Garcia Robertson
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Here is your monday morning reader for the solstice. Pictures are from
Second International Pageant of Pulchritude and Eighth Annual Bathing Girl Revue, May 21, 22, 23, Galveston, Texas, 1927
RE: The Georgia politicians joining the Texas SCOTUS lawsuit AGAINST their own constituents and citizens to me is treasonous. It is even more ridiculous that they were asserting the election they won was somehow illegal. The deity they worship, their knight in tarnished armor lost. This is America and our votes count, even when we lose.
I don’t ascribe to the “T word” myself, and I think we should be ever so thoughtful abt how we use that word. But I get the optics. However, if the legislators had sued the SoS directly, in Georgia, those optics could have been avoided. The legislators can still in fact bring suit– in Georgia, where such challenges belong. The article itself points out that legislators were complaining even in May about the settlement agreement, and if they thought it was against the GA or U.S. Constitution, they could have, and probably should have, brought suit then. Although the settlement agreement is not the entirety of the suit’s claims.
But that suit wouldn’t have reached the remedy they want (overturning the election results), which is what this is truly all about. If there was hard evidence right now that the settlement agreement, were it be deemed unconstitutional by a GA court, would result in the change of exactly 112 votes (or even 9,999 votes). would the legislators still sue? Perhaps now, knowing how close elections can be. But back in May, even knowing the possibilities then, it was not deemed so important. We’ll see how important it is considered for the future. My guess is that it gets quietly accepted as the possibilities of a bona fide lawsuit are comprehended.
Clarke County Republicans have challenged the eligibility of 16,024 Athens voters in the Nov. 3 general election, claiming those registered voters live out of state.
The Cobb County Board of Elections rejected a similar challenge by the GOP in that county Friday in a meeting that lasted less than 20 minutes.
The Cobb County GOP challenged the eligibility of the same number of voters — 16,024 — as are now being challenged in Clarke.
What an odd coincidence.
https://www.onlineathens.com/story/news/2020/12/18/clarke-county-gop-challenges-eligibility-16-024-voters-athens/3964663001/
“Trump Jr. Quips About Running For Governor: ‘I Might As Well, Right?’
Donald Trump Jr. on Friday quipped he is considering moving to Georgia to run for governor in 2022.
“It’s not like I belong in New York, so I might as well, right?” he told a crowd of cheering supporters in Ocilla.
Trump Jr. made the comment at the end of a rally for Sen. David Perdue, who faces a strong challenge from Democrat Jon Ossoff in the Jan. 5 runoff that will determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.
Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump Jr.’s girlfriend and a former Fox News host, had remarked moments before that the two of them “were talking on the way over here about moving to Georgia.”
“They better behave here, your governor,” Guilfoyle said. “I know someone who might run for governor of Georgia.”
The crowd erupted in raucous cheers, before Trump Jr. took the microphone.”
https://www.gpb.org/news/2020/12/20/battleground-blog-harris-campaigns-in-georgia-today