November 8, 2017 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
Whether you won or lost last night, coffee is probably in order this morning.
Election News
- Atlanta will choose the next Madam Mayor on December 5th
- BOE results for the Metro area.
- Middle Georgia election results.
- South Georgia election results.
- Tybee Island results.
- Georgia election results from Fox 5 and the AJC.
- Results from the Blue Ridge mountains.
- Democrat Ralph Northam wins VA Governor’s race.
- New Jersey says “so long” to Christie.
- General election news across the country.
- New York keeps De Blasio.
Other News
- For the first time in 27 years, the deadline for the annual SOA protest has come and gone with no request from the organizers.
- President Trump is firm with North Korea and it’s actually pretty believable.
- Senate Tax Reform plan could cut property taxes.
- For all the foodies…
- Your traffic ticket by the numbers.
- Don’t hold your breath for the next season of House of Cards.
- Tell your teens and tweens to breathe easy…their streaks can live on.
- 140 to 280. Yay or nay?
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Theresa Garcia Robertson
Wife. Mama. Foodie. Political Junkie. Southern Enthusiast. Taco Lover.
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House special election results, mainly Oconee and Clarke with a little Jackson and Barrow. In short, Athens/Clarke carried the day for the donks.
http://www.oconeecountyobservations.org/2017/11/democrats-win-special-elections-in.html
Definitely Gonzalez. Gaines had the name, the connections, and $200K. Gonzalez was an unknown underfunded soft-spoken Latina whose business was dealing with those music types.
Gaines’ campaign ran on vague promises of good times ahead and offered no details that would help define him. At an Oconee forum he wouldn’t even say whether he voted for Trump or not. Come on. That’s just pissing off both sides.
For the donks, Gonzales had legitimate positions, she was smart enough to stay clear of the Denson flap, and the party got organized for a change.
Tsplost didn’t hurt, sure, but I don’t believe it was the determining factor.
That’s hilariously forward looking. Surely you are making a joke.
Dems had a great night. I’m now watching AL with more interest. Will the more Trumpian Moore get it done?
” I don’t think Virginians bought into the notion that a New Jersey-born former Enron lobbyist was really that stoked about Confederate statues.”
The funny thing is Virginia’s politicians are almost invariably ‘carpetbaggers’ or at least people born out of state. Northam is the first Virginia Governor since 1997 to actually be born in the state. T-Mac, Cuccinelli, Mark and John Warner, Kaine, Chuck Robb, even prototypical Appalachian Man Jim Webb and prototypical Country Club Good Ol’ Boy George Allen, all were born outside of the Old Dominion. By contrast, Georgia hasn’t had a non-native Georgian Governor since Arkansas-Born Eurith Rivers in the 1930s.
The AJC’s Matt Kempner today reported that Georgia Power’s CEO testified to the PSC that if the PSC tries to put any of the projected costs of Vogtle on the company instead of customers, Georgia Power wouldn’t continue the project.
Vogtle’s projected price and time to complete have more than doubled since construction began, and my understanding is that there’s no guarantee that’s the end of it. The half live experience to date is that it will require another 2-3 years and 25% more than Georgia Power says.
I advocate the PSC now make Georgia Power responsible for a at least $100M. If Georgia Power discontinues the project, so be it, since it’s clearly not worth continuing unless all the risk is public and all of the hefty profits are private.
I’m thinking about writing a book.
Rudderless & Leaderless: Being a republican in the time of Trump.
I didn’t vote for the guy. Twice. I was pretty open and clear on what I thought the man would do to our party. And it is happening.
Also, we got Trump because of the empty promises of people like Ted Cruz. Who always over promised and never delivered. That lead to the voter angst in my party that gave us Trump. I was also against Cruz and the ass hats that would rather be against everything than for something.
I’ve always been opposed to my party wanting everything now and if they don’t get what they want then they walk. That mindset has given us what we have now. Nothing to show for ourselves other than a few indictments for collusion.
I’m done.
Celebrate Andrew.
Sometimes to get rid of the weeds in the field you have to burn it to the ground and start over. If you simply cut the weeds they come back faster.
Unfortunately, we have to let our field burn and hope we can come back from this.
All I want to do right now is scream “ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!” to the weeds in my party who started this crap.
I’d say the key difference is the Bernie Wing may be all in on Twitter Wars, but on the ground they don’t have the money or the votes, whereas the GOP voters are all in on it, as are the money folks like the Mercers and the Kochs. You look at last night, and it was a good night for Dems, but they were mostly establishment types like Northam or Murphy (a Goldman Sachs executive, no less!) , while Bernie was sulking in his tent. It’s telling that the big Socialist Triumph of the day is a random VA House Delegate (a Vet and working stiff who, while he likes Sanders, mostly ran on being a vet for the working stiff), in a district that Obama and Clinton won, on a night when the Dems themselves won at least 15 seats and potentially control of the chamber. Imagine if in 09-10 the big story of the ‘Tea Party’ was… some nice Gainesville woman finally beating an old Yellow Dog.
I’d read that book but Dim & Deluded might be a better title. The idea that a powerful, well-connected, and well-financed candidate such as Ed Gillespie believed that running ‘Kill, Rape, Control’ ads offered the best path to the Virginia statehouse should be appalling to goper regulars. Thinking that once Trump leaves the stage goper candidates can revert to their usual right-of-center pro-business positions free of any taint is delusional. Trump is a crutch for too many republicans. Y’all want a party, you better start running campaigns designed to appeal to voters, not inflame their passions. There aren’t enough nativists to get you over the top.
Don’t disagree.
I’m almost done with “How the Right Lost It’s Mind”. by Sykes. You should take a look at it.
I saw a lot of people on Twitter, pundits and the like assuming Gillespie was all in on those ads so they must be working, when the more obvious answer was that he went all in because he was behind and nothing else had been.
Oh! Can I , as an evangelical who cringes every time I hear names such as Robert Jeffries, Jerry Falwell…etc, write the forward?
Blasphemy I say! How is it that you refuse to see that God is on the side of the man who has never felt the need to ask for forgiveness. He is perfect.
Yes, you can write the forward. I actually think that a chapter on how certain members of the religious-right sold their souls to Trump would be very fitting.
I think this officially makes you a heretic. Welcome to the club. 🙂
I’d read it. Right after I finish “50 Yards to the Outhouse”.
Walker TSPLOST passes. This after sole commisioner doubled property taxes becuase of the counties debt.
Dade TSPLOST fails big time. Hopefully this sends a message to the commision that your plan shouldn’t be just “this tax would be a good thing.”
Trenton LBD passes by 21 votes.
I’m coming up there for hang-gliding this weekend. Don’t shoot me!
So the city of Savannah plays “it’s my ball and I’m taking it home” with the county on the police merger -resulting in additional unplanned costs in the millions to cover new district locations, additional equipment,p ay increases to keep the folks they got; they accelerates a phase out on a business tax; screw up the water billing and lose millions there, buy roerty they then sell at at lose or breaking even, and HOW are they going to make up the lose of funds, mess around with how to fund the fire department. Based on past history, this will not end well.
http://savannahnow.com/news/2017-11-07/savannah-planning-fire-fee-cover-rising-costs
It didn’t take the making of a President Trump for me to want something beyond a binary political system in this country. Though my absolute declaration of being an Independent didn’t occur until Dick Cheney flew Bush 43’s first term into the ground.
Republicans need to step away from letting the entertainers, be they talking heads, radio, or bloggers, run their party.