Category: Only in Georgia
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RootsCamp this Weekend in Atlanta-CANCELED
{UPDATE} Hey all- Spoke with Trell about an hour ago, the Atlanta Roots Camp has been canceled. They can always reschedule another one if someone will step up and take the organizing/leadership role on. Other cities are hosting RootsCamps this weekend-go here for a list of those cities. The national debrief will be held in…
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Defections
ICYMI: Alan Powell switched parties and apparently, Bob Hanner did too. His Facebook page now lists him as a Republican. We had a good run in this state. 150 years of power isn’t too bad. Edit: So I decided to play journalist and put a call into Hanner’s office. His secretary couldn’t confirm so she…
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Predictions (Open Thread)
Roy heads to a runoff Thurmond loses in a landslide. Marshall goes bye-byes (probably epically too). Bishop wins. We win one Constitutional Office. It won’t be Moffett, Martin, or Powell. Legislature gets more Republican. Democrats retain both chambers. OPEN THREAD!!!!
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Ignorance is the new political capital
I can’t remember an election so full of people leveraging abject ignorance as viable political capital. It’s like watching the whole country watch an episode of “The Real Housewives of…” sitting on their couches with their hands in their pants like Al Bundy, but then voting. I could prove it with a link to endless…
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Just when you think you’ve heard it all…
This saturday in Augusta the Knights of the Ku-Klux-Klan will be rallying in support of Augusta State University Grad student Jennifer Keeton, who sued the University back in July because she said they were “forcing her to accept homosexuality”. Keeton is a a Christian who believes that being gay is a choice. How special, just…
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Tipping Point, or One of the Seven Signs?
Last evening I was hanging out on Facebook with my “friends” and noticed that Grayson had shared a blog post from Peach Pundit about seven of their front page posters, including Erick Erickson, endorsing Carol Porter for Lt. Gov. I’ll admit, I’d had couple glasses of wine and while I generally can hold my lick’r,…