December 7, 2021 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, December 7
Meanwhile, if you’ve taken a few days off from Georgia politics, welcome back!
- A thorough article on the nascent FUBAR GAGOP gubernatorial primary, featuring some clever quotes from smart Georgians.
- Seriously, call Marie Kondo, because it is going to be a mess.
- Details on the monumental logistics and tens of millions of dollars spent (and reimbursed) to resettle Afghan refugees at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
- Georgia’s current Secretary of State (the one who is not endorsed by the former guy) continues to defend his record heading into that race’s very tough primary.
- Two Georgia election workers sued a conservative website that insisted the women committed election fraud for defamation.
- Why the DOJ is investigating Georgia’s prisons.
- Amidst a global logistics crunch, the Port of Savannah accelerates their expansion.
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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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Good NYT story on the players, plus a denim jacket sighting, but nothing about Perdue’s motivation in deciding to run. I can’t figure out what he thinks he’s doing. Say he believes Kemp can’t win, why would he care? He’ll turn 72 this week. His money and potential earnings will be safe even if Abrams romps to victory. If he pisses Trump off by not running, too bad, maybe he misses out on a few party invitations but he’d probably gain more. By deciding to run he’s committing himself to months of hard labor in the political arena after demonstrating to everyone that he’s not very good at politics. I can’t believe he’s running out of some sense of duty. So who convinced him this was a good idea?
I like him, but once you are in your 70’s I am thinking you shouldn’t be in the politics. We need young energetic conservatives running. We need to cultivate the Gen Zers who are tired of big government intervention in their lives. I am hearing they are very libertarian from all these mandates and disruption in their lives…..prom, dating, college….etc. They are tired of government telling them what to do. Perfect timing for recruitment and making them life long conservatives.
From this weekend, here’s a story about the Oklahoma Project, the successful effort to identify sailors who died 80 years ago when the USS Oklahoma was attacked and sunk by dive bombers.
In 1943 the ship was raised and the bodies of the men still trapped inside were removed and interred, still unidentified, in mass graves in two cemeteries in Hawaii.
They were disinterred in 1947 when a few were identified by dental records and dog tags. The remaining 391 unknowns were collectively reburied in 61 caskets in Hawaii. They lay there until 2003 when a single casket was exhumed. Thought to contain five bodies, it instead held DNA remains of 94 different men.
It took a tremendous logistic and scientific effort to locate surviving relatives and get samples of their DNA to compare with DNA from the remains so that the dead sailors could go home to their families.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/04/pearl-harbor-80-years-uss-oklahoma-523256
Unless and until there’s a full recounting of Perdue’s stock trades during the onset of Covid, I have zero respect for the candidate. Just another bottom feeding conservative looking to set the rules for the rest of us while avoiding accountability for his own misdeeds.
“WASHINGTON (AP) — As the ravages of the novel coronavirus forced millions of people out of work, shuttered businesses and shrank the value of retirement accounts, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged to a three-year low.
But for Sen. David Perdue, a Georgia Republican, the crisis last March signaled something else: a stock buying opportunity.
And for the second time in less than two months, Perdue’s timing was impeccable. He avoided a sharp loss and reaped a stunning gain by selling and then buying the same stock: Cardlytics, an Atlanta-based financial technology company on whose board of directors he once served.
On Jan. 23, as word spread through Congress that the coronavirus posed a major economic and public health threat, Perdue sold off $1 million to $5 million in Cardlytics stock at $86 a share, according to congressional disclosures.
Weeks later, in March, after the company’s stock plunged following an unexpected leadership shakeup and lower-than-forecast earnings, Perdue bought the stock back for $30 a share, investing between $200,000 and $500,000.
Those shares have now quadrupled in value, closing at $121 a share on Tuesday.”