Seriously, the only qualifications to be a U.S. senator are you must “have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and … when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State …” (U.S. Const., Art. I, §3). The Framers intentionally gave[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Georgia’
September 17th, 2021 - 10:36 pm § in Donald Trump
Still beating a dead horse
Read the story behind this silly letter here. Sorry, that’s as big as I can make it. Small mind, small type. Thoughts: Even if Trump could prove his claims, which he can’t because they’re untrue, there’s no “process” to decertify the election or other “legal[...]
Hostile takeover: Trumper in running to run Georgia’s universities
Sonny Perdue, ex-agriculture secretary under Trump (bio here), reportedly is a leading contender for chancellor of Georgia’s public university system, and students and faculty are mobilizing against him, Mother Jones reports. (Read story here.) Perdue has zero experience managing a university.[...]
Georgia’s GOP governor to voters: “Order Uber Eats”
“Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said Tuesday voters waiting in line in Georgia could order food from Grubhub or UberEats after a new state law criminalized offers of free food and water near polling stations,” Huffington Post reported on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. “They can order a pizza. They[...]
Georgia D.A. refuses to prosecute legislator who knocked on governor’s door
Republicans wanted to lock her up in prison for knocking on the governor’s door while he was signing a voting law everyone else thinks is racist voter suppression. Standing between the governor’s goons and state Rep. Park Cannon, door knocker, was Fani Willis, another black woman and Dem[...]
8 years in prison for a door knock?
Yes. It’s possible, if you’re talking about Georgia, the defendant is black, and the door knock was a protest against a racist voter suppression law. Read story here. After all, that state’s racists just made it a crime to hand a water bottle to a black voter waiting hours in line [...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Voting in Georgia
While white men in masks sign a Jim Crow law to keep blacks from voting, a black legislator is arrested (and later charged with a felony) for knocking on the governor’s door. (They’ll argue, “You can’t have it both ways. Either protesting is a crime or it isn’t. If the [...]
January 4th, 2021 - 5:34 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
GOP whiner about taping Trump’s criminal conduct says “I wasn’t raised that way”
David Perdue, who by the grace of Georgia’s voters hopefully will not be a U.S. senator after tomorrow, said he’s “disgusted” that a Georgia election official recorded President Trump committing a crime (election fraud, no less!), and says he “wasn’t raised that way.” (Read story here.[...]
January 2nd, 2021 - 9:34 pm § in Politics
Where the Georgia Senate races stand now
The 2020 election isn’t over yet; there’s still some unfinished business in Georgia. No, I’m not referring to Trump’s and much of the GOP’s concerted efforts to overthrow our elected government and turn America into a banana republic run by a corrupt, dishonest dictator[...]
December 26th, 2020 - 12:32 pm § in Politics
Where polling stands now in Georgia Senate election
About half a point separates the candidates in both races. The Republican is up in one, and down in the other. (Read story here.) Polls overestimated the Democratic advantage in the November election across the board — in the White House, Senate, and House races. If that repeats in GeorgiaR[...]