Tag: Congress
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US Senate is less Mint-y, Olives and Sleepy Fulton County Commissioners
First Chip Rogers, now Jim DeMint!? Who’s next? This guy? If only Jay-Z gets Unrecognized on the NYC Subway…oy how is this news? Olivia is still smokin, John…erm, not so much. Grammy nods are out….YAWN More beautiful stories pour out of Washington, must be a crazy-busy time for wedding planners? Are all Seattle weddings inside?…
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Hillary, Guns, MARTA changes and Monty Python – Your Morning Reads
FLOTUS outshines the stars at Kennedy Center this weekend, and is POTUS totally checking her out or what? Bob Costas goes off on guns during…Sunday Night Football? Yep… Better Georgia weighs in on Tax Cuts and the Fiscal Slip-N-Slide Atlanta City Council debates a pay raise for itself…Is it a full-time job or not? Mother…
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Chicken
What does Nathan Deal say would be his toughest job as governor? Creating jobs in a tough economy? Nope. Fixing transportation? No. Improving our schools? Not a chance. In August, in a moment of rare candor, Nathan Deal told the crowd at the Georgia Forward Forum in Macon: … the toughest thing about being governor…
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Too Corrupt for Congress
Barnes pops Deal in new commercial:
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Fighting Dems 2010?
Remember the “Fighting Dems“? Back in 2006, there was a movement spearheaded by Markos Moulitsas et al promoting military veterans (most of them OIF and OEF vets) running for Congress. Granted, only 5 of the House candidates won, but that cohort notably included folks like Joe Sestak, Tammy Duckworth, and Jim Webb, all of whom…
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Connie Stokes Still Wants to Go to Washington
Too bad she’ll have a bit of an uphill battle ahead of her as it so happens that the incumbent she’s challenging is an orthodox liberal in one of the most Democratic districts in the state. Commissioner Connie Stokes will announce later this month her campaign against U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson. Stokes declined to give…