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With nearly a quarter of all U.S. military deaths in Iraq caused by roadside bomb explosions, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are stepping up to keep soldiers safer.Researchers have devised a new design for military combat vehicles that would make them incredibly resilient against bombings. The concept vehicle was produced from a [...]

This will only add to the speculation that Graves intends to resign from the Georgia House.

Republican state Rep. David Graves of Macon today announced that he is resigning his House committee chairmanship and giving up his fight to use legislative immunity as a defense in one of his two DUI cases.
Graves, a five-term state representative [...]

Is about to go the way of the Dodo Bird. From the Telegraph:
A top leader of the Georgia Senate predicted Thursday that lawmakers next year will look to repeal the little-known constitutional provision that Rep. David Graves of Macon says makes him immune from prosecution in a Cobb County DUI case.
“It’s clear that overwhelmingly [...]

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First of all, District 137 is as very, very strong Republican district. I don’t think you could intentionally draw up a better district for a Republican. Both Kerry and Gore only got 28% in the district in 2000 and 2004. Cleland got 30%, Barnes got 31% - while Taylor did a little [...]

AP, Drudgereport.com, and Roll Call are reporting that Majority Leader Tom DeLay has been indicted in Texas on criminal conspiracy charges tied to his use of illegal corporate funds in Texas state elections.
Personally, Bull Moose wants Tom DeLay and the ethics mess to exit stage right and go away… Our conservative agenda is [...]

James Salzer at the AJC is looking into the matter and has this very interesting report.

Secretary of State Cathy Cox is building her name in Georgia’s African-American community this fall, and it’s not costing her — or her campaign for governor — a dime.
Two weeks ago, Cox began a $500,000 advertising campaign on black radio [...]

He had the honor of making Brit Hume’s Special Report. That’s right — Brit Hume mocked Graves’s DUI during the “political grapevine” for Graves’s defense that his DUI should be thrown out under the Georgia Constitution because the legislature was in session.

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God forgive me for ever linking to the HuffPo, but they do have a rare non-Sheehan post. It’s about Cathy Cox and Georgia elections. Is this Secretary Cox’s achilles heel?
In the last week, Cox has made a surprising and entirely unanticipated volte-face on the question of adding a voter-verifiable paper audit trail to [...]

“[The gas tax] was a brilliant idea. Suspending school, not so much.

I did not go to the grassroots training in Athens, but I’ve talked to some who did. The word of the day is “worry.” Said one, “There is a palpable sense that we’re doing too little too late.”
Did any of you go? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.

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Having made numerous phone calls and had numerouse discussions with people, I have moved out of the “this was one step too far” camp on the Governor’s decision to shut down school.
It appears that, as reported by Insider Advantage, gasoline is not the reason for the school shutdown, diesel is. Apparently, as someone in [...]

Erick and I were in Washington, DC together Friday afternoon when I received a text message from my father about the cancellation of schools. At the time, we were detached from the news reports of Rita, and had no idea how to react to the news. It’s becoming a lot clearer now that he probably [...]

Casey Cagle’s campaign has started a new website called Read About Reed. While Cagle’s people have, in the past, attacked Reed, it has never been so directly and most often it has been through third parties.
Now, sensing vulnerability with Reed and smelling blood in the water, Cagle’s campaign is coming out in the open [...]

Don’t go looking for the Governor’s Press Release on Spence Pryor. It’s not there any more, but here is the Google cache.
Earlier this month, Spence was named Deputy Executive Counsel to the Governor, but he is not coming. Rumor has it the President has appointed Spence as a Deputy White House Political Director.
Good [...]