Warning: rebar would dissolve in the vile, corrosively profane language of this video. Alternative warning: You may laugh so hard that you’ll need fresh underwear after. This is a faithful re-enactment by Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty, recreated from a court transcript of “State of Georgia vs. Denver Fenton Allen,” a pre-trial hearing in Rome’s Floyd
If you have been waiting for Georgia to turn blue, you have your wish: That’s the latest map from the political prognosticators at FiveThirtyEight. It gives Hillary a 50.2% chance of winning the Peach State to Donald Trump’s 49.8%. Of course, there are disclaimers. This is their Now-cast view, which assumes that the election is
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the snafu in North Georgia’s Appalachian Judicial Circuit. Under intense public pressure, Appalachian District Attorney Alison Sosebee had just dropped the fraud charges she had filed against Fannin Focus publisher Mark Thomason and his attorney Richard Stookey. The charges were related to an open-records-request Thomason and Stookey had made
Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s office announced a new app and a new voter registration service. The app, which is available for free on iPhone and Android, allows users to check their voter page, use business search, register businesses, and search the Certificate of Existence database. Perhaps most intriguing is the new voter registration service. Georgians can initiate
Rusty Kidd, who represents House District 145 in Milledgeville as Georgia’s only independent, told the Millegeville Union Recorder that he will abandon his bid for re-election to the state house this fall due to health concerns. He was first elected to the House in 2009. In his interview with the Union Recorder, Kidd said, A
The Georgia Court of Appeals’ newest judge is breathing new life into court opinion writing by breaking with tradition and using a prose style that is simpler to read and gets straight to the point. Judge Nels Peterson of Cobb County graduated from Kennesaw State University with a Bachelors in political science and a minor
On this date in 1735, Freedom of the press was established with an acquittal of John Peter Zenger. The writer of the New York Weekly Journal had been charged with seditious libel by the royal governor of New York. The jury said that “the truth is not libelous.” Peaches We’re losing our only Independent in the Georgia
Well, that didn’t last long. After Republican Party elector Baoky Vu announced that he would not vote for Donald Trump in the November election, and indicated he might not vote for Trump in the Electoral College, he reconsidered his position this afternoon, and has resigned from his position as a Presidential Elector in the Electoral
With the GOP nominee seemingly unable to get out of his own way, the unrest within the party is growing with some unusual declarations. The AJC’s Jim Galloway reported on a phone conversation he had with Baoky Vu one of the 16 Georgia members of the Electoral College. Vu has just put out a statement
Gov. Nathan Deal announced today that Voxpro will invest $4 million and create over 500 jobs in Athens-Clarke County by 2020. A press release explains VoxPro: “Voxpro provides of a range of business services, such as multilingual customer experience and technical support solutions, trust and safety monitoring, social media management and product insight. The company