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Entries from August 2007

159 Counties

August 29th, 2007 · 10 Comments

As PP readers are well aware, from Appling to Worth, from Dade

Tags: Politics

Stop Picking on Mississippi

August 29th, 2007 · 14 Comments

Target South Carolina instead.

Tags: Miscellaneous

It’s The Healthcare, Stupid

August 29th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Forty seven (47) million Americans are now without

Tags: Democrats · Healthcare Policy · Legislature · Miscellaneous · Politics · Republicans

AFLAC Bound

August 29th, 2007 · 3 Comments

See ya Malcolm.

House Majority Leader Jerry Keen (R-St. Simons) announced today that Deputy Chief of Staff Malcolm Smith will be leaving his office and will be replaced by Chase Daughtrey.

Tags: Legislature

10,488 Hour Plan Off to Rocky Start

August 29th, 2007 · 20 Comments

Methinks Rick Goddard should invest in a new Magic 8 ball, preferably one that gives out more answers than just “Go For It!” 437 days (10,488 hours) or so out from his 2008 matchup with Rep. Jim Marshall (D - 8th), Goddard should be backing away from his moronic criticism of Marshall’s fact finding [...]

Tags: Congressional Politics · Democrats · Politics · Republicans

Since Mitt Romney is coming back to Georgia…

August 28th, 2007 · 27 Comments

…Will one of his many supporters in the Peach State please remind him that there’s a big difference between pedophilia and consensual sex.
Today, in an interview with CNBC

Tags: 2008 Presidential

Congrats Bull Moose

August 28th, 2007 · 11 Comments

Even in Germany word swept across the Rhineland that Casey Cagle had endorsed Bull Moose for Savannah City Council.
Well done!

Tags: Local Politics · Republicans

Germany

August 28th, 2007 · 3 Comments

I’m in Germany for a conference. You can check out my pictures from Munich here.
I’m in Berlin now.

Tags: Miscellaneous

Who hired this guy?

August 28th, 2007 · 7 Comments

This, is just odd.
A man who serves as former U.S. Sen. Max Cleland

Tags: Democrats · Events · Miscellaneous · Politics

Earthlink to cut 900 jobs

August 28th, 2007 · 11 Comments

There is a bloodbath going on on Peachtree Street today. Earthlink (my former employer) is laying off almost 50% of its workforce. While I expect some of those jobs will be outsourced or offshored, or both (they are different), that is mostly irrelevant to my point.
Since 2000 when Earthlink and Mindspring merged, there was [...]

Tags: Business & Economy

Grady and Emory.

August 28th, 2007 · 11 Comments

I was forwarded an article in Insider Advantage regarding Grady (since it’s restricted content I can’t link to it) . The jist of the article is this: letters have been circulating among Senate leaders claiming much of the proposed $100 million bailout loan would actually go to Emory. In addition, an audit [...]

Tags: Business & Economy · Healthcare Policy · Legislature

Bobby Saxon announcement.

August 28th, 2007 · 10 Comments

SpaceyG sent me the link to the video you see below.

Will having actually lived in the 10th district allow Saxon to fair any better than James Marlow did in the Special Election? Perhaps, but barring some perfectly timed scandal, I can’t see Saxon beating Braun.

Tags: Congressional Politics · Democrats

Quick update from Baghdad

August 27th, 2007 · 30 Comments

Baghdad, Iraq — Quick update from Baghdad. I’ve been on the front lines here in Iraq for the last month, spending about three weeks in Salman Pak (just south of Baghdad) with the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division, from Ft. Benning, GA, and spending another several days near the Turkish/Syrian border with a [...]

Tags: Miscellaneous

Legislators looking into Doraville issue

August 27th, 2007 · 7 Comments

Senate Veterans and Military Affairs Committee will look into what is going on in Doraville concerning Police Chief John King and the city council.
Here is the e-mail sent out by John Douglas concerning the meeting:
The Senate Veterans and Military Affairs Committee with House members participating will meet in room 341 of the State [...]

Tags: Legislature · Metro Atlanta

More Importantly, What’s For Lunch?

August 27th, 2007 · 5 Comments

In what surely must be the shortest political press release ever written (and released), Democratic Party of Georgia Chairwoman Jane Kidd had this to say today about the Alberto Gonzales resignation: “It’s about time.”

Tags: Democrats · Humor · Judicial · Media · Miscellaneous · Politics