5 Georgia women look to flip U.S. House seats

By Jonathan Grant @Brambleman Wow. This headline to this article is encouraging: “Women Line Up to Run for Office, Harnessing Their Outrage at Trump” In Georgia, there are, as of now, five Democratic women running for Congress. Follow them on social media and help amplify their voices. Three are running in Gwinnett, and Chalis Montgomery’s district includes fringe Metro Atlanta precicts in Dacula, Loganville, and McDonough, which is just 30 miles away from Decatur. Just saying.   1st District: Lisa Ring Lisa Ring @LisaRingGA 7th District Kathleen Allen @KathleenAllenGA 7th Disctrict Melissa Davis @DavisforGA 7th District Carolyn Bourdeaux @Carolyn4GA7 10th District Chalis Montgomery @Montgomery4Cong Here’s a list with contact links for Georgia Democratic Congressional candidates on Twitter, Facebook, web.

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Acworth, Georgia: Wedding at a car show

By Jonathan Grant @Brambleman Our daughter Laurel came by yesterday to show us her wedding album. There were 900 pictures on her slide show. An advantage over the age of print photos, to be sure, and yet— I think I made it to the 400 level, well into the people-eating-cake phase, when the SEC championship game came on (Woo-hoo! Go Dawgs!) and so, whatever happened after people ate cake, happened after people ate cake. I believe she pared down the album to 175 pics. Lovely wedding. We wish her and Michael the best. Here they are, dancing! There was something else going on that sunny September day: A vintage car show on Acworth’s Main Street. Sure it messed up traffic, but check  ’em…

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Reps. Scott Holcomb, Scot Turner: We need to upgrade vote machines

By Jonathan Grant @Brambleman Georgians should rally behind Reps. Scott Holcomb (D-Atlanta) and Scot Turner (R-Holly Springs) and their request for funding to upgrade the state’s voting systems. Read their letter to Governor Deal They state it will cost $21,000,000. I’d say that vote security in the age of Russian Influence would be a bargain at any price. What could possibly stand in their way? Oh yeah. Brian Kemp. Georgia’s Secretary of State thinks everything’s hunky-dory, except for the constant attacks by liberals on the sanctity of the vote. How did he not get Pants on Fire for that one? Well, I’m giving him one. A Secretary of State shouldn’t go around saying bombastic things about voters all the time, but that’s what…

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