I have no candidate in the special election for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, so the advice I’m offering is free, and that’s probably exactly what it’s worth. Even worthless, though, it’s still qualitatively better advice than whoever thought it would be smart to try to tag Jon Ossoff with some semi-embarrassing video footage of him
UPDATE:: Bernie Tokarz contacted me to say: “I am not running for Fulton County Chair.” So he’s out. SECOND UPDATE:: An alert reader has pointed out that the last Republican to sit in the Chairman’s chair was Karen Handel, who took a whopping 58% of the vote in a 4-way race in a special election
Joe Pettit has been active in Georgia Republican circles for years, and has a long view that’s been seasoned by years in the trenches. As GOP convention season gets underway, he’s offering some advice -and some unexpected praise -here it is: The odd compulsion to attend several boring Republican meetings is tugging at me again.
There’s not much to say about the so-called “ethics” case against Gwinnett Commissioner Tommy Hunter. The commissioner, in Facebook post, called beloved civil rights memorial and graphic novelist John Lewis a “racist pig,” after Lewis declared the presidency of Donald Trump illegitimate. Both men are wrong, of course, but Lewis’ comments at least rose above
As President Trump tries to distract the media kittens with a laser pointer aimed the leaks from the intelligence community, it’s important to keep a couple of facts in mind, and bring perspective on the debate. It’s not a question of the “leaks” story vs. the “Flynn” story -they’re both important stories, each deserving of
Georgia’s Senators Johnny Isakson and David Perdue have both voted to repeal a rule change from the Obama era requiring the Social Security Administration to search its records “…and report people receiving disability benefits or supplemental income payments and who had someone else managing their finances, deeming them a “mental defective…” In a statement, Sen.
If you had only one cent in your pocket but could double your money every day, you’d be a multimillionaire in a month, because little things add up to big things if you keep doing them. The same principle applies to local politics, as Atlanta City Council President Ceasar Mitchell is proving. Fox5 Atlanta’s Dale
UPDATE #2: Comes word now that the first to officially qualify for CD6 is now former State Senator Judson Hill, who walked the fine line between confidence and humility with the following statement: “We have a short period of time to enact the changes needed to put our country back on the right course. As we
The upcoming special election to fill Tom Price’s now vacated 6th Congressional seat can now begin in earnest. The free-for-all has been scheduled. Governor Deal has issued the call for an election, and qualifying will be Monday, Feb. 13 through Wednesday, Feb. 15. The Special Election will be Tuesday, April 18, with the runoff scheduled for
There’s a 1.3 million-page document dump scheduled today at Atlanta City Hall, and a second contractor has been charged with paying city officials to win city contracts, aka, bribery. “Charles P. Richards Jr., the owner of a Lithonia construction company, was led into federal court in handcuffs and leg irons to be arraigned in the
