Rand Knight has picked up the AFL-CIO’s endorsement over Jim Martin.
I still think Jim is the front runner and I don’t see union endorsements being as effective as they once were.
Nonetheless, of the unions out there, getting the AFL-CIO’s endorsement is a pretty big thing in some Democratic circles.
BTW, a couple of people [...]

This picture was sent along to me this evening:

It’s up.
I really like his new “M” logo. that’s well done, but I wonder how many people will see the stars on the left at the diagonal and think of the stars and bars.
I think he needs to make it clearer on the front page how to get in to the home page, but [...]

Riots may break out in Gainesville over their Superintendent driving the city schools into serious debt.
About 100 people complained loudly Thursday night about the Gainesville school system’s financial woes, with many saying they believed Steven Ballowe should go as superintendent.
“This man runs a bank,” said area resident Bill Morrison, standing next to and pointing at [...]

I think Cynthia Tucker just made a case for privatizing Social Security. I hope someone brought Satan a snow shovel.

No not Lithonia, not Clayton County, but Augusta:
Augusta, GA — Watchdog Woody Merry came came to bark at Augusta Coliseum Authority board members about not meeting, but Merry’s confrontation with member William Fennoy brought out a Richmond County Deputy, to take statements as Merry took a punch to the right side of his face.
William Fennoy, [...]

Steve Farrow, who served in the state Senate with now-Gov. Sonny Perdue, won election to the state Transportation Board Thursday.
Farrow on Thursday told his legislators he will report to them. “You are my boss, and that’s the way I will look on this job,” he said. In an interview afterward, he said that, [...]

Here is Karen Handel’s response to the DPG lawsuit on the voter ID. This was forwarded along to me this morning. I haven’t check to see if has appeared anywhere else.
On Friday, May 23, millions of Georgians were busy planning their Memorial Day weekends, writing letters and making phone calls to loved ones serving [...]

What a coward Scott McClellan is. He should have stood up and been a man and taken a stance against the thieves and liars in the White House when he was there witnessing to it all, not during the window of most profit opportunity for his new book sales.
As one commenteer to Jay Bookmans’ column [...]

12th District Republican Candidate for Congress Ray McKinney today formally announced his Contract with the Voters of the 12th District in Savannah, Rincon, Statesboro, and Augusta.  Tomorrow he will be in Milledgeville to make the same announcement.  Previously, the contract was shared with 12th District delegates and alternates at the GA GOP Convention in Columbus. 
The 12 [...]

Pro-Illegal Immigration activists (and those of similar ilk) are unfortunately receiving death threats from a bunch of thugs, as the Atlanta Latino newspaper reports. Of course, it’s all because of the Nazis Stalinists Fascists Satanists Conservatives:
The activist blames the recent threat received by Rich Pellegrino on the attitude that State Sen. Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock), [...]

Just in case you’re one of the four people who hasn’t seen this yet: an homage to OTP life in Atlanta.

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This has been sitting on my mail stack for over a month, but the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has assembled a detailed report which takes a close look at the University System of Georgia, focusing on four key areas of the public’s interest. They are: what students are learning (the curriculum), whether [...]

The Democrats are challenging Voter ID in Fulton County Superior Court, not federal court.

Lawyers who have just filed a new challenge to Georgia’s voter ID law say a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding an Indiana statute actually bolsters their most recent effort.
“Frankly, the U.S. Supreme Court decision favors us,” said Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore [...]

The Sports Hall of Fame event
is headed back to Macon.