He did before the election. Will he intervene now that he’s not running again?

Georgia drivers already paying record-high prices at the pump will have to dig even deeper into their wallets beginning Friday when the state’s sales tax is set to rise 2.1 cents a gallon.The jump is driven by state law which automatically [...]

Senator Shafer has his own take about the budget vetos and re-prints part of a column by Dick Pettys.
Governor Perdue’s veto message:
“An appropriations consists of a recipient, a purpose and an amount,… Language added by the General Assembly in addition to these three criteria is not part of an appropriation and is non-binding. By [...]

His name is Andrew Speaker according to CNN. He’s an Atlanta plaintiff’s attorney.
UPDATE: Okay, it seems I have to retract my earlier comment because it *does* appear he was given the okay to travel.

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Interesting. While the NRA seems enamored with Whitehead, Gun Owners of America, a smaller group, but arguably a more staunchly 2nd Amendment group of purists, have endorsed Paul Broun.

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Hidden deep in the state budget was a provision to increase the reimbursement of the state’s portion for housing state prisoners in county jails.  This is a cost burden carried out on behalf of the state by local counties.  The actual cost for housing these state prisoners is $49 (in Chatham County).  The state currently reimburses [...]

That’s the question Larry Sabato asks in the latest edition of his Crystal Ball (courtesy of David Ballard). He writes:
The race to replace kicks off with an unusual free-for-all open primary on June 19th in which six Republicans and three Democrats will compete on the same ballot. A runoff will be held four weeks later [...]

(Yeah, the title was just too good to pass up. Thanks, Katie!)

Ouch. Paul Broun is not having a very good Thursday here on Peach Pundit. First the incoherent attack on Whitehead’s immigration views, then losing the NRA endorsement to the same, and now this extremely clever cartoon which highlights what seems to be a fairly [...]

Hat Tip to a reader. From yesterday’s “Political Diary” at OpinionJournal.com
An early indication of just how potent the immigration issue could be in the GOP presidential primaries will come on June 19, when voters in Georgia go to the polls to fill the Congressional seat vacated by the death of Rep. Charlie Norwood. Jim [...]

(Even though he isn’t Charlie Norwood, and didn’t serve in the military. I don’t know, ask Paul Broun.)
In a letter of endorsement sent to Whitehead yesterday (.pdf file), Executive Director Chris Cox said:
On behalf of our nearly four million members, the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) is proud to endorse your candidacy [...]

I get this weird feeling the Little Five Points shooting was a hate crime. Why else would anyone just gun down a Yacht Club patron? I’ve hung out at the EAYC for decades now. Lord knows a Yacht Club goer never has any money, and any money they do come across, they’d just spend on buying [...]

That’s what Paul Broun accuses 10th CD opponent (and frontrunner) Jim Whitehead of doing in the title of his latest press release.
Pretty harsh — but it doesn’t stop there. In the release, Broun also called Whitehead out for “‘double talk’ on the issue of amnesty,” and said that “Whitehead’s “damage control team” is resorting [...]

Pretty safe for work. Darn funny.

Sonny Perdue has been wielding his pen over the last few days:
Gov. Sonny Perdue used his veto pen Wednesday to slash about $141 million in spending and kill 41 bills passed during the legislative session.
Perdue signed the $20.2 billion budget for fiscal 2008, which begins July 1, into law. It includes 3 percent cost-of-living raises [...]

The Governor vetoed HB91 - this bill would have required all state agencies to disclose their consulting payments; expenditures exceeding $20,000; Board member expenses and payments; and payments to outside agencies and companies for services rendered.
Both House and Senate Appropriations committees were eagerly awaiting these reports so they could examine the continuations in the State [...]

Andisheh Nouraee’s profile of several Georgia bloggers is the cover article in this week’s Creative Loafing. Feel free to pick up the paper copy or help save the earth by reading it online. Among those profiled was PP’s uber-blogger Erick Erickson:
Blogger profile: Why did you quit being a lawyer to become a blogger?
“That’s [...]