August 11, 2020 9:21 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, August 11, 2020 {Georgia Run-Off Election Day Edition}
Happy Run-Off Election Day! 2020 hasn’t produced too much that is super exciting to me, but Election Day is another version of Christmas for political nerds. If you need me, I’ll be sign waving and stalking poll locations to gauge turnout.
- Election day in Georgia: What you need to know for Tuesday
- ‘Everyone in the state of Georgia has gotten relaxed’: Dublin city leader talks red zone
- Georgia, SEC remain on track to play football
- Georgia not sure yet how it will roll out $400 unemployment benefit in Trump’s executive order
- Georgia man accused of falsely claiming drug would lower COVID-19 risk
- Georgia man indicted for bomb threat to IRS office
- Prices on Georgia’s insurance exchange shaping up to stay fairly stable
- Clear masks are helping Georgia kids on the autism spectrum
- Family, students speak out after viral photo of Georgia high school
- Georgia priest goes viral for ‘Hamilton’ parody
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It was interesting when I voted today. They scanned my id and I had to sign on the screen that it was me. That was a first. I always early vote. But they did let me keep the pen I used with the stylus. I am guessing to not cross contaminate. Only had 3 run offs on the ballot. The interesting race will be the swat doctor vs. the Qanon out of districter.
Don’t forget Dr. No and the out of district gun-shop owner in the 9th.
I went to a small town in GA, Thomson, GA on I-20. Half of the loacl restaurants were closed. The chains were still at the I-20 exchange.
Lots of salaries gone, a lot of evictions going to happen.
“Big companies are going bankrupt at a record pace, but that’s only part of the carnage. By some accounts, small businesses are disappearing by the thousands amid the Covid-19 pandemic, and the drag on the economy from these failures could be huge.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/on-small-business/small-businesses-are-dying-by-the-thousands–and-no-one-is-tracking-the-carnage/2020/08/11/660f9f52-dbda-11ea-b4f1-25b762cdbbf4_story.html
“Yelp Inc., the online reviewer, has data showing more than 80,000 permanently shuttered from March 1 to July 25. About 60,000 were local businesses, or firms with fewer than five locations. About 800 small businesses did indeed file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy from mid-February to July 31, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute, and the trade group expects the 2020 total could be up 36% from last year.”
Are you one of these? You have to be calmed down by your sons?
https://twitter.com/i/status/1292984224518209537
It looks like Majorie Green is going to be elected in Dade county.
Marjorie Greene
REP
33,733 votes
Dade county is truly stuck in the 1960’s. A Q-anon rep? really?