Senator John Douglas just shot this over to me:
Doraville City Councilman Tom Hart who has led the anti John King faction resigned from the City Council this afternoon and qualified to run for Mayor. He has totally changed his tune now and is said to support King.
The Veterans and Military Affairs meeting scheduled for [...]

I got my hands on DuBose’s original editorial that appeared in today’s papers. Since the formatting wasn’t preserved, I thought I’d post it here in its original format. Enjoy.
From DuBose Porter, House Minority Leader, in response to Gov. Sonny Perdue on SAT Scores:
I think I may have hit a truth nerve. [...]

A recall effort has been launched against Doraville Councilmen Tom Hart and Bob Spangler.
Click here for information about the effort.

To Bob Kemper.
He turns Political Insider into a duumvirate.
Now if only the vain Jim Galloway could decide on a photo that he likes for the masthead, PI would be absolutely top hole. For the less observant, since Baxter left, Galloway has used three or four head shots.
NB: The two are reporting Obama will have another [...]

Quite literally!

For your blogging pleasure, here’s a open thread.

Here is the link to Senator Shafer’s response to Cynthia Tucker’s race baiting attack.
The blogosphere seems to have rallied to the defense of the conservative Republican…not just his fellow conservative Republicans but white liberals, black Democrats, independents and even a libertarian.
Here is a dose of Shafer’s thoughts:
Tucker has no objection to the bill on its [...]

Are there still people

From Bill Shipp’s Dick Pettys’ Georgia from InsiderAdvantage:

Fred will finally announce on the 6th of September. For all you Atlanta and Georgia FredHeds there will be an announcement party of some sort. More details as the become available.

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Check out the Off The Bus video here. Warning! Off The Bus is a new

State Rep. John Lunsford wrote about the GREAT plan today over at his blog:
Unfortunately, there has been some confusion about the details of the current plan to eliminate property taxes. We are not proposing to raise the sales tax or income tax rates. When HR 900 was originally written, it was intended simply [...]

From today’s AJC:
A word to state Sen. David Shafer: Please stop helping Grady. If Shafer offers any more of his brand of assistance, the hospital will be forced to shut down.
Earlier this month, in the middle of difficult, racially charged negotiations over changing the hospital’s governing structure, Shafer, a Republican legislator who represents portions of [...]

This is from today at the Reichstag as seen from the river.

I caught it perfectly with the sun behind it. I applied a filter to it to bring out the color of the walls in iPhoto because the building was darkened by the sun behind it. The result, I think, speaks for itself.
BTW, [...]

ESPN: Ex-security guard erroneously linked to ‘96 Olympic bombing dies
ATLANTA — Former security guard Richard Jewell, who was erroneously linked to the 1996 Olympic bombing, died Wednesday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.
Jewell, 44, was found dead in his west Georgia home, GBI spokesman John Bankhead said.
He died of natural causes, said Meriwether County [...]