I don’t think it would be constitutional to impose the death penalty on pedophiles and the like. Well, actually, I do think it is constitutional, but I think the Supreme Court would say it is not.
But after reading this I think Mark Taylor or Sonny Perdue ought to try it. Frankly, I take [...]
Entries from September 2006
Taylor & The Death Penalty
September 30th, 2006 · 22 Comments
Tags: Miscellaneous
Rugby Fan is Right
September 30th, 2006 · 1 Comment
That parody is better than the Levitra one.
Tags: Administrivia
Voter ID to be decided on the ballot instead of in the courts?
September 30th, 2006 · 6 Comments
Voter ID has been an up-and-down saga for the past two years in Georgia, with the legislature passing the measure, and courts striking it down, in repeated fashion.
The issue is headed to the Georgia Supreme Court, and, according to Macon.com, Voter ID “ultimately could be decided by the voters themselves.” From today’s Telegraph:
If the state’s [...]
Tags: Legislature · Politics
Taylor’s New Ad
September 30th, 2006 · 6 Comments
It’s on education.
Now, let me say something somewhat controversial to my Republican friends. I like Sonny’s ads — well, I like the “Sonny Do
Tags: Governor
DCCC goes after Burns
September 30th, 2006 · 11 Comments
The DCCC has started running their first attack ad against Max Burns.
The issue that they are attacking? The FairTax. Burns was a co-sponsor of the legislation when he was in Congress.
You can watch the ad here.
Tags: Congressional Politics · Politics
To Answer Erick’s Question
September 29th, 2006 · 9 Comments
In response:
I would say that for a moment, yes, the Taylor campaign, was taking something of a swan dive (or at least so it appeared to be).
However, with the recent attack comparison ads from both camps, I would say that no, Taylor &c. are not Cathy Cox Redux. What seperates MT from CC is that, [...]
Tags: Politics
Where are they now? Jared Thomas edition.
September 29th, 2006 · 13 Comments
Former Reed campaign manager Jared Thomas will head up a new Georgia Chapter of Americans for Prosperity:
“We are not an attack dog or a lap dog,” Thomas said of the new group. “We’re a watchdog.”
Founded just more than two years ago, Americans for Prosperity has worked to defeat proposed tax increases in Kansas and Oklahoma [...]
Tags: Politics
Since the question’s been asked…
September 29th, 2006 · 7 Comments
…I might as well answer it.
Yes, it’s true that Bobby Kahn isn’t going to seek another term as Chairman of the Democratic Party of Georgia (DPG). Initially, the DPG was supposed to elect new officers at the State Convention, but a consensus was reached and agreed upon that initiating a change in leadership eight [...]
Mell Traylor’s ‘neighbors’ say they’ve never seen him
September 29th, 2006 · 13 Comments
From the Savannah Morning News: People who live near the home where Senate candidate Mell Traylor says he lives say they’ve never seen him there. Several of them identified another man, who Traylor said is his first cousin, as the occupant.Six people who live on the street where Democratic state Senate candidate Mell Traylor [...]
Tags: Politics
Why even bother?
September 28th, 2006 · 10 Comments
As we all know, four years ago, there hadn’t been a Republican Governor of Georgia since Reconstruction. The similarity between that office, and Georgia 115? As the Athens Banner-Herald puts it:
As had happened every two years since the end of Reconstruction, a Democrat would swat away any Republican opposition and take his seat in Atlanta [...]
Tags: Disclosures · Local Politics · Politics · Republicans
Also . . .
September 28th, 2006 · 3 Comments
Is it just me or are you looking at the Taylor campaign right now and thinking that this is a facsimile of the Democratic primary, only now Taylor’s campaign is operating like the Cox campaign. i have never talked to a more frustrated group of Democrats than I did yesterday. They all were [...]
Tags: Politics
RE: What Happened to Peach Pundit
September 28th, 2006 · 18 Comments
Bull asks a good question — what happened? Here’s what I think.
Right now there is a lull. About October things will pick up again. The conventional wisdom right now is that the GOP is going to hold the Governor’s mansion, the House, the Senate, the Insurance Commissioner, and the School Super’s post. [...]
Tags: Politics
Sonny Did What?!
September 28th, 2006 · 17 Comments
Yikes. At least he didn’t say “macaca.
Tags: Governor
What’s happened to Peach Pundit?
September 28th, 2006 · 28 Comments
Have you noticed that Peach Pundit seems to be missing in action these days in terms of covering the goings on of what’s the “buzz” in terms of politics?
During the primaries, you could trust to turn to Peach Pundit for the underground current of political news… Now, it just kind of seems that we post [...]
Tags: Administrivia · Politics
Bill Simon and ASH, together at last.
September 28th, 2006 · 9 Comments
Our friend and Political Vine publishing magnate Bill Simon now has his very own Wikipedia entry. So does Cobb GOP Chair, and multi-media magnate in his own right, Anthony-Scott Hobbs.
The entry on Bill seems fixated on Bill’s “fixations” while the entry on Hobbs declares he is:
…widely considered (State GOP Chairman Alec) Poitevint’s likely successor [...]
Tags: Politics
