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Georgia GOP candidate commits blasphemy by vowing to fight poverty

Georgia gubernatorial candidate Casey Cagle said in private conversation that he wanted to cut Georgia’s poverty rate in half. Apparently, conservatives think this is a bad thing, and runoff rival Brian Kemp’s allies are using a secret recording to smear him. Seriously. For the record, he is talking about decreasing poverty through economic growth and doesn’t mention new social programs. He actually sounded human and not horrible when he was talking about it, but the Kempites smell blood. (Former State Sen. Hunter Hill, who placed third in the GOP primary, has endorsed Kemp.) Here’s the covert audio, Here’s Cagle’s reaction, along with the piece 25% of Georgia’s kids live in poverty. 40 counties have 40% child poverty rates. I will NOT apologize for…

Mueller drops indictment naming 12 Russian military intelligence officers in conspiracy against U.S.

On the eve of Trump’s visit to Putin, Mueller drops a conspiracy indictment against a dozen Russian military officers (aka witches) for doing what they did in 2016. “Congressional candidate” mentioned, and someone who may be Roger Stone Read it: https://bit.ly/2ustufe Read more from Politico "…on or about July 27, 2016, the Conspirators attempted after hours to spearphish for the first time email accounts at a domain … used by Clinton's personal office." https://t.co/CVxOTdX6Vn Here's what Trump said on July 27, 2016. (h/t @KenDilanianNBC) pic.twitter.com/rVWc3jybpK — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 13, 2018 DNC: "This is not a witch hunt and it is certainly not a joke … It's long past time for him and his allies in the Republican Party to stop…

Sen. David Perdue gets owned on Twitter

Again, actually. Or usually. Because David Perdue is bad at twitter, which is to be expected, since his message stinks. Sure, it’s probably some clueless staff member pumping out the swamp bilge we’ve come to expect from the junior senator from Georgia’s account. They’re often horrible, hypocritical and sycophantic to President Trump, because, after all Perdue is POTUS’s favorite senator, and you’ve got to be excruciatingly bad to earn that title. Usually Perdue’s tweets are hard ratio’d because people really, really don’t like him and his tweets are stupid. While Sen. Johnny Isakson has earned a great deal of goodwill from people in his home state (he’s actually held town halls recently and takes live questions from voters in his tele-Town Halls),…

The Civil War and Reconstruction in Georgia, Part 1

Above: Sherman’s March to the Sea (Savannah Campaign), 1864 This post is excerpted from The Way It Was in the South: The Black Expericience in Georgia by Donald L. Grant and Jonathan Grant (University of Georgia Press, 2001). All rights reserved. Publishing to critical acclaim, The Way It Was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia was an American Heritage Editors’ Choice selection and also won Georgia’s “Author of the Year” honors for Dr. Grant. About the Author: Donald Grant (1919?88) received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Missouri and was professor of history at Fort Valley State College (now University) in Middle Georgia. He was also the author of The Anti?Lynching Movement: 1883-1932. And how this book came to be published after my…

July 4: Atlanta Police turn violent against ICE protesters

There were protests of the Trump Administrations cruel and inhumane immigration policies all over the U.S. on June 30, including this one in Atlanta that featured a march and rally with speeches by Congressmen Hank Johnson and John Lewis. Peaceful and well-organized–protesters were even nice to the Department of Homeland Security police car. Meanwhile, there was also a less-publicized, more contentious Occupy protest of ICE at the Atlanta Detention Center that weekend. That was marked by mutual animosity between protesters camping out and Atlanta police who wanted to break up the protest by removing fixtures and banners. According to one protester, officers stood by while several trans protesters were physically attacked by a transphobic passerby, ignoring him as he landed blows and…

Dismal Week One primary runoff vote totals for DeKalb County. Wonder why?

Jonathan Grant @Brambleman Above: Week One primary runoff vote totals for DeKalb County, which declined to open additional polling sites outside its Memorial Drive office. So no early voting inside Georgia’s Sixth District, home to 100,000 DeKalb voters. This was a terrible decision, and quite vote-suppressing, though the Board would never admit it. Here’s the background. DeKalb’s countywide turnout so far: 0.003 (3/10ths of 1 percent) Source: DeKalb Board of Elections If you’re a DeKalb voter and don’t want to drive to the Board of Elections offices, vote absentee. Check out the foolproof steps to voting absentee. Also, there’s other breaking DeKalb County voting news. Turns out Rep. Scott Holcomb‘s been getting robbed of hundreds of votes every election since 2012. Read…

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