Insider Advantage is live-blogging the GOP House caucus elections.
Tom Graves was nominated to run against Jerry Keen for Majority Leader.
UPDATE by Buzz: Richardson wins reelection 75-25. Votes being counted now for Majority Leader.
UPDATE by Buzz: Keen reelected, vote not yet revealed.
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Liked the question in the press gallery about Fulton County counting the votes.
A shame Graves came up short . . .
How can these idiots keep electing this moster (Richardson). Not only is he destroying the Republican party, he is also destroying Georgia.
Thanks to Erick, Allen Freeman, and all of the other halfwits who support this fool just because he is a Reupblican.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Like, for instance, blogging…
Did the Bank & Insurance Bailout just increase to $2.7 Trillion dollars? Please, someone near Speaker Richardson and State Republican Leaders get a quote from them on what is happening here:
“Fed Defies Transparency Aim in Refusal to Disclose (Update2) ”
By Mark Pittman, Bob Ivry and Alison Fitzgerald
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) –” The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral.
Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in September they would comply with congressional demands for transparency in a $700 billion bailout of the banking system. Two months later, as the Fed lends far more than that in separate rescue programs that didn’t require approval by Congress, Americans have no idea where their money is going or what securities the banks are pledging in return. ”
Full Story here:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aOngFPgq7r3M&refer=home
What does the Speaker have to do with the Fed bailout?
Vic,
Cut out the spam.
AM and Ic,
if you guys are going to be Masters of the Georgia Universe, you’re going to have to start keeping up with this stuff.
I’m master of my domain. That’s what I care most about.
I don’t care much for off topic cut and paste jobs.
Guess we won’t be seeing you with a toupee…
How can we see which 75 voted for him?
I didn’t think speaker elections were until January. Doesn’t make much sense to hold them now when you have yes men like Freeman and May who lost their elections still in office.
Please pardon my ignorance, but could someone explain how this works.
Do the Dems still have a chance to help the 25 decent Republicans defeat Richardson?
Slightly,
This was the GOP caucus meeting. Only Republicans and Saxby were allowed to attend. They voted on who they will nominate as Speaker, and in theory, everyone in the GOP caucus will vote for who they decided in today. Those who don’t will be banished to the moon.
“How can we see which 75 voted for him?”
Attend any session of the General Assembly, and sit in the gallery.
You won’t know which are the 75, because it was a secret ballot. But they’ll be there.
“How can we see which 75 voted for him?”
They are the ones who have offices at the new Stewart Avenue Legislative Office Building.
The newly elected folks vote in the caucus elections and Freeman and May don’t get a vote. The “official” vote for Speaker occurs with the entire House after the New Year, it’s just that the GOP has already determined, through the Caucus elections, who’ll they’ll be voting for in a block. So the “official” vote is a formality.
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