According to the Political Insider, the McCain campaign has named it’s Georgia Advisory Committee:
This morning, the campaign of U.S. Sen. John McCain named its state advisory committee: state Sen. Jeff Mullis of Chickamauga, state GOP chairman Alec Poitevint; Derrick Dickey, former aide to Gov. Sonny Perdue; Leigh Ann Wood Gillis, in charge of raising money [...]
Entries from March 2007
‘Straight Talk Express’ gains steam in Georgia.
March 29th, 2007 · 43 Comments
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I thought Atlanta was the city too busy to hate?
March 29th, 2007 · 28 Comments
I guess I’m wrong.
The display, a collection of 33 U.S. flags, includes two sentences with no punctuation: “Politically its OK to hate the white man” and, “Is it OK for me to hate if Ive been a victim”
The piece was approved by the curator of the gallery in a building that functions as a satellite [...]
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If you’re in the Athens-Clarke area…
March 28th, 2007 · 4 Comments
…I’ll be on Tim Bryant’s “Newsmakers” show tomorrow morning at 9:30 on AM 1340 talking Iraq.
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Giuliani radio ads running in Atlanta
March 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments
If you are a regular talk radio listener than you may have noticed that Rudy Giuliani has hit the airwaves here in Metro Atlanta, which you can download here.
Here is the text of the ad:
Hi, this is Rudy Giuliani. I’m running for President and I approve this message.
I would like to invite you to visit [...]
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Baghdad-bound
March 28th, 2007 · 5 Comments
As Erick previously mentioned, RedState and the Department of Defense have reached an agreement on a long-anticipated plan to send myself and a colleague on a trip to Baghdad, Iraq, in which we will be embedding with troops in the field and filing reports about the situation on the ground at this point, four years [...]
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Attention Wayne LaPierre: Your NRA Folks In Georgia Are Frigtards | Redstate
March 28th, 2007 · 11 Comments
Relating to S.B. 43, I put up this post at RedState.
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The drama that is SB 43
March 28th, 2007 · Comments Off
Why didn’t SB 43 come to the floor? The AJC Political Insider has the story:
[T]he final straw of the evening came when Senate Republican leaders found they had been out-maneuvered. NRA lobbyists revealed they had quickly begun approaching Democrats, and had made enough progress to assure passage of the bill.
(Democrats we talked to Wednesday said, [...]
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The 65% Budget Solution…
March 28th, 2007 · 7 Comments
…I know, this is very Republican of me, but I think that the members of the Georgia General Assembly should at least consider what I’m about to suggest.
65% of the surplus tax revenue should be used to either pay down any debt that the state owes, placed in a “rainy day” fund for emergencies, or [...]
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RedState to Iraq
March 28th, 2007 · 6 Comments
I’ll put this up here as I suspect some of you might be interested and want to help out. After much harassing of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense has extended an invite to Jeff Emanuel and a RedState cohort to go tour Iraq. Jeff, as most of you know, was in [...]
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Senate budget unveiled
March 28th, 2007 · 5 Comments
The Senate has unveiled their version of the 2007 supplemental budget:
That’s one day after House budget writers sent over their own version of the $19.4 billion budget - the latest major step in a standoff in which they’ve accused Senate leaders of grandstanding and the Senate has called House spending unnecessary pork-barrel politics.
[Senate Pro-Tem Eric] [...]
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State Memorial Registry
March 28th, 2007 · 9 Comments
I don’t think it is that odd.
One of the quirkiest bills filed this year passed the Senate with no opposition late Tuesday evening.
The original version of Senate Bill 191 would have barred the state from naming anything in honor of Senate Minority Leader Robert Brown (D-Macon), who introduced the legislation. Brown said serving his constituents [...]
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Expanding Hope
March 28th, 2007 · 3 Comments
From the AJC:
Bills that would make more high school students eligible for the lottery-funded HOPE Scholarship were approved separately in the state House and Senate today.
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The Whitehead Website
March 28th, 2007 · 16 Comments
Jim Whitehead has gone up with his pretty website, which you can view here.
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Bob Barr now a lobbyist…
March 28th, 2007 · 36 Comments
for the Marijuana Policy Project?!?
From the Politico:
“I, over the years, have taken a very strong stand on drug issues, but in light of the tremendous growth of government power since 9/11, it has forced me and other conservatives to go back and take a renewed look at how big and powerful we want the government [...]
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Unhappy hour
March 28th, 2007 · 4 Comments
From today’s Savannah Morning News:
“IT’S A shame when politicians’ fear of the democratic process stands in the way of giving responsible adults the ability to voice their own opinions on a matter of personal choice…
… the guiding light of representative government should be the will of the people.
This week, it shines a little dimmer…
…Georgia is [...]
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