If the Ralph Reed campaign were a movie, that would be the name. 
Yes, I’m starting (late albeit) the daily Reed vs. Cagle post…
The session’s over and while Ralph has been releasing negative press releases faster than he can email Jack Abramoff, Casey Cagle’s posted a record of results for Georgia… 
I sure am glad that there [...]

Rep. Kingston is rumored to have called Cindy Sheehan a nutcase.
The Georgia boys (and girl) are in the news today.

Over at Clayton’s and my other project, RedState, the directors of the blog have named Lynn Westmoreland their hero of the week.

I’ve been told that State Senator Steen Miles (D-43) is jumping in the race for Lieutenant Governor. This was confirmed with Miles yesterday at the Capitol.

Details here.

Capitol Hill police plan to issue an arrest warrant today for Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.).The warrant is related to the incident Wednesday when McKinney allegedly slapped a Capitol Hill police officer.Charges could range from assault on a police officer, which is a felony carrying a possible five year prison term, to simple assault, which [...]

I’m sorry for posting another story about the Honorable Ms. McKinney, but this is too good to pass up. WSBTV has obtained what Congresswoman McKinney wanted to put on her website in response to the allegation she struck a Capital Police Officer. Here is an excerpt:
Throughout my tenure in Congress, I seem to evoke memory [...]

Was a blast. I am just getting home (5:51 AM) and I assume I will be hung over for a couple days. Thank you Raymond White.
Interesting enough I ran into a candidate for David Graves open seat, yes he announced he would not be running again, Becky Burgess. She is sweet and seems [...]

UPDATE: AJC: McKinney faces arrest over security incident
WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill police are expected to seek an arrest warrant next week for Rep. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia, who was involved in a physical confrontation with a Capitol police officer Wednesday, police and legal authorities said Thursday.
Officially, the investigation of the incident, in which the DeKalb [...]

Any idea what this means?

Gov. Sonny Perdue isn’t saying yet whether he will sign a sweeping immigration bill, which received final passage in the Georgia Legislature this week.
But the Republican governor said Wednesday he did not think the bill was “anti-immigrant.

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In today’s WSJ Opinion Journal Political Diary, John Fund highlights the fact that Martin Olasky, who is a well-known religious conservative leader, is blasting Ralph Reed. 
Ralph Reed, the former executive director of the Christian Coalition who is now running for lieutenant governor of Georgia, is being dogged by a fellow evangelical over his past ties to lobbyist Jack [...]

Thanks to a hit at the tip line, we found this article at the Red and Black about the GOP Agriculture commissioner forum held at UGA.
The most interesting thing I got out of it? I didn’t realize it was a four way race. I thought Greer and Strickland were running for something else.

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On Tuesday night, I attended Shyam Reddy’s SOS campaign launch party at Compound, which was very well attended by the business community, many supporters, and a good bit of elected officials. I would say there were over 200 people coming in and out on a Tuesday night.
I consider myself a moderate supporting people from [...]

I just received this from the Stephens campaign. Talk amongst yourselves.

100 Legislators Endorse Bill Stephens
Unprecedented percentage of General Assembly publicly support Stephens for Secretary of State

(ATLANTA) – State Senator and Republican Secretary of State candidate Bill Stephens announced today the endorsement of 100 state legislators. This remarkable number of elected officials represents the largest coalition of state legislator endorsements for any candidate in a primary race this election cycle.

These 100 state legislators join a rapidly growing and geographically diverse group of endorsers from around the state, including Republican Congressmen Nathan Deal and Charlie Norwood.

Bad.
Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) punched a U.S. Capitol Police officer today after he mistakenly pursued her for failing to pass through a metal detector.
Members are not required to pass through metal detectors and the officer, manning a position at Longworth House Office Building, apparently did not recognize McKinney and didn’t see her Member pin.
The officer [...]

The AJC has a cool photo of the House Chamber. Click here, then click on the link titled “See the Gold Dome as you’ve never seen it before” on the left hand side of the page under the picture of the House floor.

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