Category: Campaigns+Elections

  • RED Alert!!

    I don’t know about you, but I’d rather not see Democrats in one of the bluest districts in Georgia, HD75, elect a self-described “pro-life, pro-NRA, constitutionalist” who just eight months ago ran for the same seat as a Republican, who misrepresented his employment on his website (but changed it since he and I chatted on…

  • Making Women’s Equality a Reality

    “Making Women’s Equality a Reality” is quite a process. While the doors to the voting booth opened to women nearly 90 years ago, women are still under-represented in elected office. In Georgia, fewer than 20% of those who serve in the legislature are women, and last session, only 8 women served in the Georgia senate.…

  • Deal With It

    Galloway points out this morning that discussion of abortion is likely to dominate the balance of the race for the Republican brawl for Governor. He’s probably right, but can someone please tell me how this “yes, I am, no you’re not” swearing match is going to create a single job in Georgia? Okay, well, maybe…

  • This Guy

    This gentleman seemed a bit uncomfortable and out of place at the Barnes rally in Enigma today. At first I thought it was just the gnats and the heat, but then a little bird told me that he’s apparently a Republican (RGA?) tracker assigned to follow Governor Barnes around. He was at the airport in…

  • Come Celebrate With Us!

    I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but lately there have been some folks, some from Georgia and a couple not from around here, who want us to believe that just because of their gender, they’re advocates for the issues that matter most to Georgia women and families. One of them even wants to be Governor. …

  • WIN Corps is Blogging!

    Whoever thought that Georgia’s WIN List would be blogging? We are, or I should say, our new WIN Corps staffers, Folana Houston, Rasti Hollingsworth and Ashley Robinson, are, and you can follow them here. Right now, Folana, Rasti, and Ashley are with our e.d. Anna Beck in Texas, participating in intensive, soup to nuts, training…