“Special” Elections & Such

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7 responses to ““Special” Elections & Such”

1. 

   JMPrince

   January 15, 2013

   Lying as an art, the public policy advantages for the GOP, Part 999.51, here: http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/111900/georgia-obamacare-medicaid-expansion-uninsured-sharon-cooper-malpractice

   JMP

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   JMPrince

   January 11, 2013

   Things for which there are no election, and ought not to be:

   http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/dec/15/our-moloch/
   ‘Our Moloch’, NYRB, by Garry Wills

   I’ve said this many, many times, Guns have now become our god-head. We have suffered much for this hubristic blasphemy. Finally we have a great conservative and historian who recognizes this in it’s full and awful majesty of idiocy and harm. JMP

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   JMPrince

   January 11, 2013

   In still unhappier news, in honor of Natalie, we present a New series; How We become Russia/China: Here’s the real economics of getting to the USSC:

   “Even The Tragicomical Newly-Released Supreme Court ‘Cert. Grant’ Statistics Don’t Reveal The Worst Of It”
   Posted by Beverly Mann, Angry Bear
   http://www.angrybearblog.com/2013/01/even-tragicomical-newly-released.html

   Via: “Likelihood of a Petition Being Granted”
   http://dailywrit.com/2013/01/likelihood-of-a-petition-being-granted/

   Read it and weep once more for our country. JMP

4. 

   Juliana

   January 8, 2013

   So there you have it two run-offs and newly minted GOP Senator Brandon Beach.

   lesigh

   State Senator, District 11
   CONTEST DETAIL VOTE TYPE SUMMARY

   8 of 8 Counties Reporting
   Percent Votes
   MARSHALL BERMAN(R) 1.06% 132
   JEFFREY G. BIVINS(L) 6.47% 803
   DEAN BURKE (R) 42.59% 5,283
   BRAD HUGHES (R) 7.81% 969
   MIKE KEOWN (R) 37.37% 4,635
   EUGENE MCNEASE (R) 4.69% 582
   12,404
   State Senator, District 21
   CONTEST DETAIL VOTE TYPE SUMMARY

   2 of 2 Counties Reporting
   Percent Votes
   BRANDON BEACH (R) 57.57% 5,470
   SEAN JERGUSON (R) 42.43% 4,031
   9,501
   State Senator, District 30
   CONTEST DETAIL VOTE TYPE SUMMARY

   3 of 3 Counties Reporting
   Percent Votes
   MIKE DUGAN (R) 87.60% 3,299
   JAMES M. CAMP (L) 12.40% 467
   3,766
   State Representative, District 21
   CONTEST DETAIL VOTE TYPE SUMMARY

   1 of 1 Counties Reporting
   Percent Votes
   NATALIE BERGERON (D) 21.43% 691
   BRIAN LAURENS (R) 30.11% 971
   KENNETH A. MIMBS (R) 2.08% 67
   SCOT TURNER (R) 46.39% 1,496
   3,225

5. 

   Anita Moorecock

   January 8, 2013

   Thanks to a friend on FB I heard that the Re-Elect Charles Gregory (GOP-Cobb) is advocating GA start printing it’s own currency.

   http://www.mdjonline.com/view/full_story/21329722/article-Lawmakers–We-need-to-end-reliance-on-federal-dollars?instance=home_top_bullets

   I think that’s called forgery and the Treasury Department might frown upon it you idjit.

6. 

   Waldo

   January 8, 2013

   I think Andrew Jackson was the first politician I loved to hate. Used to have a rant involving the supreme court and native Americans. The Hermitage is beautiful though.

   Ditto on the AJC ethics piece. I think they had some similar article before the primary. I know the editorial page has been filled with it for months.

   A word of caution in this Ethics debate, if something does come out of the House on this it’s probably just window dressing. The Speaker has been dragged kicking and screaming into this. Neither the speaker nor the governor wants to restore the formerly Ethics Commission power. Can’t sweep things under the rug that way. The Senate will be the ones to watch.

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   Juliana

   January 8, 2013

   That ethics article is madding, enlightening and long over due.

   I hope that this means the AJC will be back on beat reporting all the Gold Dome fun/sport/nitwittery for the public. It’s high time they got back in this game. Maybe I’ll resubscribe.