Category: Legislature
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Well someone had to say it.
From today’s MJD. DISTRICT 38 state Rep. David Wilkerson (D-Austell) has written interim Cobb school Superintendent Chris Ragsdale and the school board asking it to investigate one of its members, David Morgan, for violating the board’s Code of Ethics by lobbying at the state Capitol in favor of school vouchers. Morgan is a paid lobbyist…
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Honor Our Veterans with a Stable Economic Future
by Sandra Givens Scott, a state representative in Georgia and a member of the Women Legislators’ Lobby, a program of Women’s Action for New Directions (WAND). As a veteran, I have some particular worries about how our nation is meeting the needs of our men and women in uniform and their families. The political brinkmanship Congress…
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A Good Idea Rises Above Party
Our friends over at GAPundit.com featured a guest post written by Seth C. Clark, the Chief of Staff for State Representative Stacey Evans. He even got a Twitter shout out from Paul Begala. We are re-posting Mr. Clark’s guest post at GaPundit here, in a bi-partisan move that can only reflect the bi-partisanship behind the…
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Wilkerson & Alexander Sponsor Tax Accountability Act of 2013
My inbox this morning tells me that one of our favorite State Representatives and newly minted Democratic House Caucus Treasurer, David Wilkerson, along with freshmen State Rep. Kim Alexander, have introduced the “Tax Accountability Act of 2013.”
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Georgia Democrats Last Hope In State Senate Disappears
Trying to fight off a Republican supermajority in the State Senate, the Georgia Senate Democratic Caucus recruited Lisa Collins to run in Senate District 11 in the Southwestern area’s January 8th Special Election. Today those hopes were dashed as Collins withdrew from the State Senate race ensuring a GOP strangehold on the State Senate for…
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Senate Districts 21 & 11 & House District 21 – Democrats Get One Last Chance?
In case you’ve been under a rock or mauled while shopping, two GOP State Senators have resigned to “take other posts”…yeah right, and a seat has opened up in the state house, albeit in deep red Cherokee County. With Democrats facing a Republican supermajority in both chambers, there’s no choice for the House Caucus, Senate…