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Morning Reads — February 1st, 2016

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Happy February, everyone! Happy Black History Month, everyone! Happy Iowa Caucus, everyone! Happy second month of georgiapol.com, everyone!

Morning Riddle: A horse is on a 24 foot chain and wants an apple 26 feet away. How does the horse get the apple?

Jawja

  • The voter registration deadline for the March 1st primary is TODAY.
  • Caterpillar is closing its Thomasville plant and cutting 250 jobs.
  • Atlanta’s hottest neighborhoods are hot.
  • Forsyth County principal put on leave after anti-Muslim Facebook posts.
  • Why have one religious liberty bill when you can have seven?

‘Murica

Important

  • Trumplings is now a thing. Spend hours creating Donald Trump dumplings and having Sarah Palin endorse them.

Here’s to a great week! Go get ’em, tiger.

About Author

Will Kremer

Will is an active member of the Georgia Republican grassroots. He previously served as Chairman of the Georgia Association of College Republicans, 2nd Vice Chairman of the 7th District Republican Party, and Treasurer of the Forsyth County Republican Party. Promise Land = Forsyth County.

25 Comments
  1. xdog

    Microsoft donates software to tally Iowa vote. GOP hopes to ID correct winner this time, Sanders questions MS’s motivations. What could go wrong?

    Both Sanders and Clinton will trust but verify, running their own counts.

    http://thehill.com/policy/technology/267586-microsoft-on-the-hot-seat-in-iowa
    http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-01-27/microsoft-puts-name-on-line-with-iowa-caucuses-tabulation

  2. John Vestal

    The horse walks over to the apple and eats it.

    (You didn’t say the other end of the chain was attached to anything)

    • Will Kremer

      DING, DING DING! You’re the winner. Your prize? Knowing I am proud of you.

    • Saltycracker

      Depends on what you mean by “on a chain”.
      Kremer is picking up on poli-speak most excellently. ?

  3. Teri

    I’m glad you posted that NYT list of Trump insultees. Whenever I hear the press interview a Trump supporter who says that they like Trump because he says the kinds of things they also say, I think,”Oh, so you’re an a-hole, too? Good to know!”

  4. Noway2016

    Ok, predictions for today. Trump and Bernie win.

    • The Eiger

      I’ll revise my previous prediction to this.
      Trump – 28%
      Cruz – 23%
      Rubio – 20%
      No one else breaks 12%

      If this happens it would be a win for Rubio and somewhat of a failure for Cruz. Rubio still needs to have a strong second or win in New Hampshire to become the nominee.

      • Noway2016

        Who had you picked to win earlier?

        • The Eiger

          Cruz by a small margin then Trump and Rubio. I Think Cruz has the best ground game in Iowa I just don’t know if it’s going to be enough. I hope it is. I do think that the three of them are going to be bunched closer together than most people think.

    • Three Jack

      My prediction, Trump easily takes GOP. Lawyers dominate dem race with legal action taken by both sides due to the convoluted dem caucus calculations combined with the tightness of the race. Ultimately Sanders ekes out a small delegate advantage after a few weeks of lawyering up.

  5. gcp

    And how long do Republican “clutter” candidates hang around? Huckster likely leaves after Iowa, but how about Carson, Kasich and the others. The sooner they leave, the better it is for Republican Party.

    • The Eiger

      I would think that Santorum and Huckabee get out after Iowa and the rest get out after New Hampshire. People like Kasich and Christie have invested too much in NH to get out before the primary.

    • Noway2016

      After New Hampshire a big thinning of the herd.

  6. Saltycracker

    Rubio in third is fine in Iowa to the angry and fundamentalists but the fun is the demo run, will they pick a social democrat or an amoral pirate ? It matters like being the first born of 2016.

  7. chefdavid

    Say good bye to that electric surcharge?
    Electricity bills

    One of the legislators on Thursday’s panel discussion, Rep. Karla Drenner, D-Decatur, announced plans to reintroduce a bill to lower electricity bills for Georgia Power customers. Her measure would require the company to stop in March 2017 its collecting of a surcharge to cover some financing costs of the construction of two nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle. The General Assembly authorized the surcharge ahead of the new reactors’ planned operating date of March 2017, but now that construction is 39 months behind schedule, Drenner doesn’t think it’s appropriate to keep collecting what some experts predict would be more than $1 billion above what was originally planned.

    “At some point, we as consumers have to say, ‘Enough. We helped you. We want to help you. We need the plants.’ But we can’t continue to support the plant, from my perspective, without an end in sight,” she said.

    Sitting next to her was Rep. Don Parsons, R-Marietta, chairman of the House Energy, Utilities & Telecommunications Committee. Her bill would likely come before his committee. He didn’t say which way he would stand on her bill, but he did compliment Georgia Power’s employees.

    “They do a good job. It’s run by good people,” he said
    http://savannahnow.com/news/2016-01-31/lawmakers-weigh-several-consumer-related-bills

    • Dave Bearse

      Or flip things and have large electricity consumers replace small consumers in pre-paying for the reactors. Corporations are people too.

      We’re closing in on households each having pre-paid $500 to Southern Company. Some householders will be dead before the new reactors are on-line. Unlike for real people, death and taxes aren’t corporate certainties.

  8. Saltycracker

    It is time for the legislature to pass term limits and meet every other year.

    • Will Durant

      Term limits tend to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Better to go with a top two nonpartisan primary and a ballot that doesn’t identify the incumbent.

      • Saltycracker

        Old, silly arguments: Collateral damage of what 2 % ? And if they are worth it they can be elected to another office. How’s that approval rating working ?

        • Will Durant

          You really can’t use the numbers from the current system as it is a rigged game fully intent on reelecting incumbents. In Georgia you must be a part of one of the two parties (yeah it is possible for an independent to qualify and run much as it is for that proverbial camel to get through the eye of a needle). Well if you want to remain a member in good standing in that party then you cannot run against an incumbent of that same party in a primary unless they are considered damaged goods. Even if they are an embarrassment to their own party you better win or you will become a pariah anyway. Come general election time in our highly gerrymandered districts the vast majority of the voters vote their straight party tickets and voila, a person who shares an extremely low overall approval rating is going back to Atlanta and/or Washington. In the case of the US Congress to the tune of 96%.

          Open primaries are not a panacea but would at least give us a representative that knows they are almost guaranteed to be “primaried” each cycle. In the highly gerrymandered districts they may even face opposition from within their own party in the primary and the general. This is a good thing for the parties regardless of what party officials may think.

          Now as to more informed voters we will at least eliminate runoffs and thus rid ourselves of an office holder decided by a single digit percentage of the electorate. Voters would never have to go to the polls more than 2 times per cycle and thus might even be more apt to turn out. If I had my way there would be a 2 out of 3 civics test at the end with Leno’s “Jaywalking” level questions to determine if the vote counts but I realize that to be a pipe dream. As is the elimination of gerrymandering which I know from the past we agree on.

  9. TheManUndertheBridge

    WE have term limits, we need a more informed class of voters.

    If they meet every other year, Bills could take up to four years to pass, based on the current system of a Bill needing two years to become law. The cost of a ‘decision in process’ would be inexorably high.

    • Saltycracker

      Thanks for the chuckle.

  10. Saltycracker

    Flag issues aren’t all Southern: the Muslims are heating back up to get the cross removed from the Swiss flag……insensitive and christian signs must be separated from govt.

  11. Pete Gibbons

    Term limits only mean you will get someone else, not necessarily someone better.

    • Saltycracker

      ?Fair point if you are an apologist for a group with an approval rating approaching zero. Odds are we will be better for trying someone else.

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