April 20, 2021 9:27 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, April 20
Good morning! Apparently, today’s date is one with some significance to a certain population.
- Walter Mondale, the Vice President who forged a true partnership with President Jimmy Carter, died yesterday at age 93.
- EPA scientist knew that ethylene oxide was a health threat, and that the air in communities across the US — including four in Georgia — had unsafe concentrations of the gas. A new report reveals that Trump administration appointees prevented them from letting these communities know about the hazard.
- You’re not depressed, but you’re certainly not performing at your peak. According to one Emory professor, you’re languishing.
- The unemployment statistics don’t tell the whole story — there are a lot of folks in Georgia who suffer from the economic consequences of the pandemic.
- A national look at those county GOP resolutions.
- It’s shrimp season, which means that Darien celebrated the annual blessing of the fleet.
- If you missed out on Girl Scout cookies this year — there probably wasn’t a squadron of girls in front of the supermarket this year — you’re in luck, because there are a lot of leftovers. Buy yours here. (If you buy more than 8 boxes — and why wouldn’t you? — the shipping is free!)
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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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From that NYT article:
“The Republican grass roots are angry,” said Debbie Dooley, a conservative activist, who helped distribute drafts of the resolutions and encouraged Trump supporters to attend the local meetings. “These resolutions will let Gov. Kemp, Lt. Gov. Duncan and Secretary of State Raffensperger know we’re going to work against them in the Republican primary next year.”
Who nominated Debbie Dooley as a spokesperson for the “grass roots” Republicans?
Has she ever held office?
Has she ever been nominated for anything by anybody besides herself?
Is she still part of the Tea Party Patriots scam?
With Republicans like Debbie Dooley, who needs Democrats?
The sb2o2 story just gets weirder and weirder. Maybe the lesterslature meant to call it sb42o.
“A major coalition of Black faith leaders in Georgia, representing more than 1,000 churches in the state, will call on Tuesday for a boycott of Home Depot, arguing that the company has abdicated its responsibility as a good corporate citizen by not pushing back on the state’s new voting law.” The NYT does not link to a list of the 1000+ churches. Nor does it detail what the problems are with the legislation.
An AP story, about the always visible Stacey Abrams, is more helpful. “The Georgia law imposes a new voter identification requirement for mail-in ballots rather than the signature match used in 2020, a change Abrams says is burdensome for older, poorer voters …” The new requirement is writing the voters drivers license/photo ID number on the absentee ballot application.
Sen. Chuck Grassley says MLB moving the all star game will cost GA 100 million jobs. Not to be outdone, Georgia’s own @EWErickson notes: “So they picked Home Depot, the company founded by Jews, to boycott. Of course, they did.”
Thanks for the Erickson tweet link.
I will gladly use this page to excoriate and say good riddance.
Although a couple of responses to his tweet, from Jews, said much:
E.g., “Don’t use me as your prop..”
I feel more directly: Keep the J word out of your mouth. You have now demonstrated anti-Semitism by falsely invoking it. Don’t pretend you can be an arbiter of anti-Semitism. Especially now that you have shown yourself as either incompetent to do so, or willing to manipulate it for your own ends, i.e. enable those who deny the existence of anti-Semitism.
Fwiw, many in the Twitter thread pointed out the religious and partisan activities of the Home Depot’s founders- and many were not thorough or necessarily accurate. Probably a persistent problem for Twitterverse…
But Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus, both Jews, have fairly polar opposite political preferences, with substantial political giving by each (although Marcus had special political projects like an initiative to get conservatives – and conservative policies- into the judiciary and judicial elections). Two other founders- Ken Langone and Pat Farrah, I believe, are not Jewish. Some put Ron Brill as a founder, too, and he is also Jewish.
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our politics are different, but much like the president he served under. vice president mondale appeared to be a decent man whole loved and wanted the best for his country