And the Church wants the money back.
Lawyers for the Greater New Light Missionary Baptist Church said Monday night the church has fired former state Rep. Ron Sailor Jr. as pastor. Lawyers also said they are hopeful they will be able to recover the $250,000 Sailor obtained after secretly mortgaging the church early last month.
“There is [...]

Not really, but Robert Brown’s bill to create a list of people who don’t want anything named after them when they pass on was tabled:
A House committee voted 4-0 to table S.B. 191 after a representative for Secretary of State Karen Handel spoke against it.
In essence, Georgia is too good for the legislation. Too modest. [...]

I’ve got a question. I was at a conference of right of center online activists this weekend. I hope you won’t grow jaded on that point and ignore the idea that came out of the conference.
The folks there all discussed what could be some bipartisan issues and one was transparency of government.
So, [...]

I peeled this item from the AJC Political Insider and decided that it needs a little discussion here:
In the House, state Rep. Jill Chambers (R-Atlanta) is letting it be known that she’s tinkered with S.B. 300, which is up for a vote Tuesday.
Chambers said new language in the bill would requires all state authorities and [...]

Now that Sonny has gone to China, should he come back to Georgia?

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I doubt it.
Georgians would be able to order up to 12 cases of wine directly from wineries each year over the Internet or phone under legislation that won final approval Monday.
The measure now heads to Gov. Sonny Perdue, a Christian conservative who doesn’t drink, for his signature. Perdue has all but promised to veto other [...]

In light of China’s current slaughter of the Tibetan people, should Sonny have gone to China?

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I just hate stories like this. Talk about a betrayal of trust.
Police arrest a Northeast High School teacher on child molestation charges.
Victor Denson is an Army JROTC teacher.
Denson is charged with two counts of sexual assault against a person in custody.
This means the victims were under his supervision, which in this case, were students.
He’s [...]

If the county or MWA kill annexation it will by and large be because they think it will actually be successful.
Jones County officials are not the only ones allowed to carve the residents they serve out of Macon Mayor Robert Reichert’s annexation plan.
Bibb County commissioners and Macon Water Authority board members also have that option, [...]

Critical thinking about the role of race in politics (or the role of politics in race) is as rare as a unicorn in a rap video. Somehow Gary Reese of Florida Insider pulls a rational rabbit out of a complex hat today, in regards to slavery reparations so patronizingly flirted with by Florida’s Governor Crist:
Serious discussion by sincere [...]

James Salzer has a humorous article up on the back and forth budget cutting games now under way in the General Assembly.
Kudos, by the way, to Rep. Ben Harbin for cutting the budgets of the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and Georgia Sports Hall of Fame. While I support the museums and sat on [...]

I wonder if this will fly?

[Vance] Smith, chair of the House Transportation Committee, authored a resolution, SR 845, which calls for a constitutional amendment to allow Georgia counties to join together and implement a Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (T-SPLOST) on a regional basis to help relieve traffic congestion or make other road [...]

Good on Delta.
A Delta Air Lines 777 will make history early today when it touches down in Shanghai at 1:45 a.m. Atlanta time, more than 15 hours after taking off from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
It’s Delta’s first direct flight to China since the airline began boarding passengers 79 years ago and is the first direct flight [...]

Given the indictment, the loan, etc., if the church does not fire Rep. Sailor it will have really lost some major credibility.
The 200-member Greater New Light Missionary Baptist Church worshipped with a spirit of resolve and unity Sunday as it prepared to decide today whether to fire its pastor and former state lawmaker, Ron Sailor [...]

They want us to give them more water and now they want to take away some of our claims to fame. They want the Appalachian Trail terminus moved from Dawson County, Georgia to Cheaha Mountain, Alabama, and eventually Birmingham.
By the way, Cheaha Mountain has positively the worst restaurant of any state park in the [...]