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Tag: Georgia

  • Unemployment Down Throughout Georgia

    Preliminary figures are good throughout the state. Atlanta did particularly well. From the GA Department of Labor: [T]he preliminary unadjusted unemployment rate in metro Atlanta declined to 9.8 percent in April, down six-tenths of a percentage point from a revised 10.4 percent in March. Meanwhile, the number of unemployed workers in the metro area decreased…

  • Rumors, Moving, Shaking and Fun

    O hai guise! Things will never be the same around here. Spoke with a top Democratic elected official the other day about the races that currently have gaping holes where Democrats need to be… Let’s go to the big one… Michael Thurmond is “looking at the Senate last I heard” my source said. So who…

  • What part of ‘no’ don’t you understand?

    The U.S. Justice Department told Georgia election officials this week that their program for verifying the citizenship of voters has been rejected because it violates the Voting Rights Act. You would think that our state’s officials would have gotten the message by now — this is at least the third time in nine months that…

  • How heavy is that water you are carrying?

    In the latest case of sock-puppetry, the bad Kathy Cox, made comments after Sonny did what the Georgia General Assembly needed him to do… You and I both know that the legislature did NOT do everything they needed to do. They could have come back. They could have cut corporate graft, er, tax cuts. They…

  • The Walkabout

    Situation… you are a candidate running for Governor of Georgia, a state with massive problems, your name recognition is low, and you live in a small rural section of the state, and the most votes you’ve ever gotten is 8400 and change. I get it, you desperately need to raise your name recognition, so instead…

  • The Voting Rights Act survives, for now

    In a decision that virtually no court watchers saw coming, the U.S. Supreme Court today dispensed with the constitutional challenge to the pre-clearance requirement of the Voting Rights Act by, in essence, creating a technicality. Back when this case was argued before SCOTUS, most readers of tea leaves believed that the Justices’ questions to counsel…